{"id":361890,"date":"2018-05-19T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/making-excuses-for-russiagate-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-05-19T08:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T07:00:41","slug":"making-excuses-for-russiagate-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/making-excuses-for-russiagate-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Excuses for Russiagate \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As months turn into nearly two years and no solid evidence emerges to nail Russia for nabbing Election 2016, some big Russia-gate cheerleaders are starting to cover their tracks, as Daniel Lazare explains. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By Daniel Lazare<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Washington Post<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>, second to none when it comes to painting Putin as a real-life Lord Voldemort, now\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>says<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Special counsel Robert Mueller \u201cfaces a particular challenge maintaining the confidence of the citizenry\u201d as his investigation enters its second year \u2013 although it\u2019s sticking to its guns that the problem is not the inquiry itself, but \u201cthe regular attacks he faces from President Trump, who has decried the probe as a \u2018witch hunt.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s <\/span><\/span><\/span>The New York Times<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>, which this week devoted a 3,600-word\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>front-page article<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0to explain why the FBI had no choice but to launch an investigation into Trump\u2019s alleged Russian links and how, if anything, the inquiry wasn\u2019t aggressive enough.\u00a0\u00a0As the article puts it, \u201cIn<\/span><\/span><\/span>terviews with a dozen current and former government officials and a review of documents show that the FBI was even more circumspect in that case than has been previously known.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Nobody\u2019s Fault<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The result is a late-breaking media chorus to the effect that it\u2019s not the fault of the FBI that the investigation has dragged on with so little to show for it; it\u2019s not the fault of Mueller either, and, most of all, it\u2019s not the fault of the corporate press, even though it\u2019s done little over the last two years than scream about Russia.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not anyone\u2019s fault, evidently, but simply how the system works.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is nonsense, and the gaping holes in the Times<\/i> article…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As months turn into nearly two years and no solid evidence emerges to nail Russia for nabbing Election 2016, some big Russia-gate cheerleaders are starting to cover their tracks, as Daniel Lazare explains. By Daniel Lazare The best evidence that Russia-gate is sinking beneath the waves is the way those pushing the pseudo-scandal are now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361890","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\/361890","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\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}