Russiagate

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Russia’s Back!

Oh, Wait: It never went away…

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Russiagate story ‘will not die,’ journalist Matt Taibbi says: ‘How much meat is on the bone?’

DOJ indicted two Russia-based employees, seized internet domains in effort to crack down on alleged election interference

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RAY McGOVERN: Decay, Decrepitude, Deceit in Journalism

Journalism is not like war: In war the victors get to write the history; in today’s journalism, the losers write it.

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Russiagate or Intelgate?

The publication of the Republican House Committee memo and reports of other documents increasingly suggest not only a “Russiagate” without Russia but also something darker: The “collusion” may not have been in the White House or the Kremlin.

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Many Reporters Paid for Covering the Russiagate Story

Media figures who exposed illegal surveillance, manufactured intelligence, and other abuses in the Trump-Russia investigation almost always paid a price

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Cast Down from Media Olympus

With rare exceptions, this headline could be applied to all the mainstream media in the U.S. today. But here I’ll concentrate on only the New York Times and the Washington Post, since these two papers have long been considered America’s journalistic icons, ably representing the professionalism and integrity of their calling, and deserving their places on the Olympic peak.

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Confessions of a Russiagate survivor

During the febrile peak, now two special counsels ago, I was the one facing a chance of getting locked up

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Donald Trump: The Real Victim of the Russiagate Hoax Wasn’t Me. It Was the American People | Opinion

The report by Special Counsel John Durham makes clear beyond a shred of doubt that the Russia Hoax was the most atrocious weaponization of our government in American history. It was a crime like no other.

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Patrick Lawrence: John Durham & Burying History

Witness the obliteration of a highly significant passage in U.S. history. To be deprived in this way of the past — of the facts of our time — is a kind of condemnation.

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Chris Hedges: Why the Conspiracy Theory About Trump and Russia Won’t Go Away

The latest investigation into the charges that Donald Trump’s campaign worked in concert with the Russian government exposes a cynical collaboration between Trump opponents and the FBI.