{"id":356249,"date":"2018-04-11T15:53:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T14:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-smoking-gun-six-key-flaws\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T15:53:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T14:53:01","slug":"no-smoking-gun-six-key-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-smoking-gun-six-key-flaws\/","title":{"rendered":"No Smoking Gun, Six Key Flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-101223\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-10-at-5.47.16-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"444\"  \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nMichael Isikoff and David Corn, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1538728753\/counterpunchmaga\">Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin\u2019s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0(New York\u201d Twelve, March 13, 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you like complicated mystery novels that make you keep a list of names and dates so as not to get overwhelmed by clues and complex chronologies (unless you have a super-strong memory)? Are you prone to conspiratorialism? Do you blame Donald Trump\u2019s presence in the White House on Russia and particularly on Vladimir Putin?\u00a0Do you like to jump to conclusions before all the facts are in? Do you like to get mad at other countries for the nasty things they do (or may have done) while turning a blind eye to the nasty things the United States does? \u00a0Are you a \u201cprogressive\u201d fan of the U.S. \u201cintelligence community\u201d \u2013 the FBI, the CIA, NSA and the rest?<\/p>\n<p>If you answered yes to all these questions, then boy, do I have a book for you: Democratic Party journalists Michael Isikoff (<em>Yahoo News<\/em>) and David Corn\u2019s (<em>The Nation<\/em>) new volume <em>Russian Roulette<\/em>: <em>The Inside Story of Putin\u2019s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong. <em>Russian Roulette<\/em>should be read by anyone interested in the peculiar and fascinating story of Donald Trump\u2019s weird and disturbing relationship with Russia. It\u2019s a riveting account. It\u2019s the best treatment yet in book form of numerous knotty and bizarre chapters in the strange Trump-Russia saga, including:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>+ Trump and top Trump associates\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/04\/11\/russian-roulette-no-smoking-gun-six-key-flaws\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin\u2019s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump\u00a0(New York\u201d Twelve, March 13, 2018) Do you like complicated mystery novels that make you keep a list of names and dates so as not to get overwhelmed by clues and complex chronologies (unless you [&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-356249","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\/356249","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=356249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}