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A federal grand jury in Washington, DC has indicted 13 Russian nationals and a Kremlin-linked internet firm on charges that they had meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
The US government said Russian entities began interfering in US political processes, including the 2016 presidential election, as early as 2014, according to a court document.
[...] The charges – which include conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft – are the most direct allegations to date of illegal Russian meddling in the election.
Link to the Indictment: https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download
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Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Tuesday February 20 2018, @02:45AM
And the environment in which this was done was already pretty well poisoned by hyper-partisanship and polarization by those who want you to think of your fellow Americans are enemies and traitors if they don't toe a particular ideological line.
That pre-existing environment gave the Russians a boost in creating more chaos and distrust of our countrymen and our social institutions.
This has been discussed, in detail, by R-style and D-style folks.
R-Style analysis: https://www.c-span.org/video/?439822-1/after-words-david-frum [c-span.org]
D-Style analysis: https://www.c-span.org/video/?440037-1/how-democracies-die [c-span.org]
While you D-style folks may cringe at R-style folks who wish to control women's bodies against their will, or impose their ideas about who and how you can love, they are *not* your enemies. They are your fellow countrymen whose views differ from yours.
And you R-style may bristle at the ideas of having a living wage, quality public education for all and other things, those folks who support such ideas are also your countrymen, not your enemies, not commie pigs and they don't hate America. They just disagree with you.
Politics has been described as "the art of the possible" where people who disagree can set those things aside to accomplish *other* things that help us all.
Calling your fellow citizens who disagree with you "enemies" who "want to destroy the country" is both untrue and quite unhelpful.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr