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For two years, the Russia-Trump conspiracy theorists have been saying, “Donald Trump entered into a conspiracy with the Russians to defeat our candidate Hillary Clinton. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, ex-director of the FBI, will bust the conspiracy wide open. You just wait! You’ll see.”
Every week for the last year, hopes were renewed that this would be the week, the one in which Mueller would finally issue his report, which would prove beyond any doubt whatsoever that Trump had become a “Manchurian Candidate,” one who was doing the bidding of his communist, or at least Russian, masters. Congress would follow up and save us from going Red, or least Russian, by quickly removing Trump through impeachment.
Mueller, has finally — finally! — issued his report. Unfortunately, however, after two years of trying his best to do so, he has failed to find sufficient evidence to support the existence of the purported Russia-Trump conspiracy. ...
A recent article in the New York Times about Russia’s “intelligence state,” authored by John Sipher, a former chief of station for the CIA, provides a valuable mirror for the American people. The problem is that American statists cannot see it as a mirror. While Sipher’s article clearly demonstrates that American statists, especially conservative ones, can see the wrongdoing of foreign totalitarian or authoritarian regimes with great clarity, they have a moral blindness when it comes to recognizing wrongdoing by their own government. Even worse, they defend wrongdoing by their own regime (which they can’t see as wrongdoing) as a way to combat foreign wrongdoing. In fact, they come to view their own wrongdoing as something good when it is being used to oppose wrongdoing by a foreign regime.
Sipher labels Russia’s (and, before that, the Soviet) governmental system an “intelligence state.” He’s critical of it, and rightly so. It is a type of governmental system that engages in ...
