{"id":349524,"date":"2018-02-23T14:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T13:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/when-will-congress-investigate-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-02-23T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T13:51:19","slug":"when-will-congress-investigate-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/when-will-congress-investigate-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"When Will Congress Investigate &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere in the United States regarding possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is something like hysteria, with a real danger that bilateral relations might break down completely as a result. Indeed, a number of politicians and senior government officials have described the allegations that Moscow sought to influence the election results as an \u201cact of war\u201d with Congressman Jerold Nadler\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/greenwald\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/greenwald\/\">even declaring<\/a>\u00a0that it was similar to Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming that the indictment against 13 Russians and 3 Russian companies filed last week by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is accurate, the reported activity of the Internet Research Agency could indeed have been part of an intelligence operation seeking to influence developments in the US, but the organization\u2019s employees also displayed considerable amateur behavior, suggesting that they were not professional spies, supporting the stronger argument that it was not a Russian government-run operation at all.<\/p>\n<p>And the United States is hardly innocent when it comes to interfering in the domestic politics of both friends and enemies. That is very often what intelligence agencies are designed to do, and\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/17\/sunday-review\/russia-isnt-the-only-one-meddling-in-elections-we-do-it-too.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/17\/sunday-review\/russia-isnt-the-only-one-meddling-in-elections-we-do-it-too.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/17\/sunday-review\/russia-isnt-the-only-one-meddling-in-elections-we-do-it-too.html\">no one is more active in interfering<\/a>\u00a0in foreign governments and elections than the United States of America. The Russian election featuring Boris Yeltsin in 1996 was arranged by Washington working with the International Monetary Fund, and more recently there was the $5 billion invested in bringing \u201cdemocracy\u201d to Ukraine in 2014. The US was also involved in many of the elections in post-war Europe, most particularly in countries whose own democratic systems were still evolving. The CIA worked to keep communists out of the government in Italy\u2019s 1976 national election&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/phil-giraldi\/when-will-congress-investigate-all-interference-in-elections\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The atmosphere in the United States regarding possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is something like hysteria, with a real danger that bilateral relations might break down completely as a result. Indeed, a number of politicians and senior government officials have described the allegations that Moscow sought to influence the election results as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}