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The Power of Willful Denial
Below is an incomplete list of Americans who were confirmed by the Venona Project to have both spied for the Soviets and worked for the FDR administration. Okay, it’s an incomplete list for two reasons: 1) Only a small percentage of the messages intercepted by the Army Signal Intelligence Service could be successfully decoded and 2) The list was so long that I got tired of adding new names. But you can parse the rest of the list of Venona-Americans, which is available here. This list includes people who had personal access to FDR himself. In fact, FDR’s closest aide Harry Hopkins was a Soviet spy.
This post is not about whataboutism. It’s about perspective. Democrats’ hands are far from clean when it comes to Russia. The next time you hear a liberal call Trump Putin’s puppet, ask them what they think about FDR’s record on Soviet espionage. There is overwhelming evidence that FDR hired scores of Soviet spies, and many liberals to this day either don’t know about it or know but refuse to accept it. Don’t let them lecture you about willful denial.
John Abt
Solomon Adler
Joel Barr
Alice Barrows
Joseph Milton Bernstein
Frank Coe
Judith Coplon
Lauchlin Currie
William Dawson
Samuel Dickstein
Martha Dodd
Laurence Duggan
William E. Dodd Jr.
Jack Fahy
Edward Fitzgerald
Charles Flato
Jane Foster Zlatovski
Harold Glasser
Gerald Graze
David Greenglass
Theodore Hall
Maurice Halperin
Alger Hiss
Donald Hiss
Harry Hopkins
Bella Joseph
Helen Grace Scott Keenan
Mary Jane Keeney
Charles Kramer
Christina Krotkova
Duncan Lee
Harry Magdoff
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As usual, Jamie puts it very well.
I would also add that if Trump can’t trust the man he put in charge of our Intelligence, over a murderous thug, it not only shows a lack of perspective and loyalty, but it calls into question, yet again, the fitness the man has for holding the office he holds.
Consistency.
So then what did I say, assuming you are directing your remark to me, that is incorrect? BTW, I never made the comparison nor did I say he should trust Putin. To my knowledge, Trump did not say that either. He was asked a question by typical and impertinent journalist at a very bad time. Trump stated Putin’s response when previously asked. A speechwriter with an hour of spare time would probably have come up with a more nuanced answer. Yet here we are, parsing a statement because the left has decided this is another impeachable offense…RIDICULOUS.
The murderous dictator of a hostile country over the KGB of a hostile state? That’s a tough choice. How about giving us an easier one.
I think the article in the Sun conflates two information packets retrieved from New Mexico by courier Harry Gold. The detailed stuff about bomb design came from Klaus Fuchs, a top physicist and German refugee who was part of the British delegation. His handlers made a mistake that would cost them all dearly: they asked Gold to pick up documents from a different “chain” of agents he didn’t know, Julius Rosenberg’s brother-in-law David Greenglass, who was–yep–a low ranking tech who could describe the buildings and some of the personnel, and unlike high-ranking Fuchs, had access to samples of the metal.
Just finished watching the news conference. As with the other straw men arguments you construct, this is simply ludicrous. He never said anything of the sort. What he said was that without presenting the evidence and the DNC would not allow their servers to be searched, there was no basis for the claim.
That claim is ludicrous. An image of the server was examined. That is all that is required for a forensic analysis of what sort of intrusion occurred. A physical examination of the hardware is not necessary. He also said: “I have no reason to believe that they did” meaning he has no reason to believe that Russia hacked our election.
I’m no IT guy, but why just an image and how can an image be as good as the actual, physical server? Today Trump corrected the second part of your comment, saying he had misspoken:
By Crowd Strike, not the FBI. James Comey accepted Crowd Strike’s report as sufficient before he was fired and the DNC subsequently destroyed the server itself.
That prevented access to any physical evidence, such as the serial number of the hard drive. IIUC it is possible to alter any electronic version of the serial number and a skilled technician with clean room access can swap the platters on a hard drive as well.
“Hacked our election?” Is that another one of those shape-shifting phrases like, “on the backs of social media?”
But wait, there’s more:
After providing an exhaustive timeline of the 2015 and 2016 hacks: