Exonerated и Vindicated!
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yakov_a_jerkovProsecutors drop all charges against Smollett
Всем, кто сомневался в невиновности Смоллетта, срочно извиниться и покаяться.
P.S. "Дебилы, блядь."
Всем, кто сомневался в невиновности Смоллетта, срочно извиниться и покаяться.
P.S. "Дебилы, блядь."
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Date: 2019-03-27 05:11 pm (UTC)But that is exactly my point!
Вы (левые) считали (и наверное продолжаете считать) Трампа виновным и до окончания расследования
Нет, я склонен думать, что если Мюллер не нашел достаточных доказательств criminal conspiracy, то ее и не было. Хотя, конечно, хотелось бы увидеть сам доклад.
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Date: 2019-03-27 11:23 pm (UTC)U.S. journalists tend to report about Russia as if it is a western country where rule-of-law reigns. We try to verify and question every allegation before we accept the worst. We assume things are on the up-and-up unless we can prove otherwise – innocent until proven guilty.
Russia benefits from our naivete. What we need to do first is open eyes to the consistent, decades-long pattern of Russian attacks. Corruption, espionage, lies, disinformation and deception are the routine tools of Putin and the Kremlin, and will continue to be so into the indefinite future. We would be better served to assume ill-intent, and not feel obligated to uncover conclusive evidence of wrong-doing in every case. Totally uncorrupted business is an aberration in Russia, and we have decades of experience with their use of disinformation and deception to push any agenda that damages U.S. and western cohesion. While we may not find incontrovertible proof every time, the cumulative and historical effect is that Americans should preserve a very healthy skepticism when evaluating the motivations of the Russian government – guilty until proven innocent.
https://www.justsecurity.org/46663/public-lesson-russian-strategic-deception-its-hear/
Чем занимались десятки российских шпионов, которых Обама выслал из США после выборов? Они сидели, сложа руки, и никаким боком не участвовали в спецоперации по вмешательству в американские выборы, которая велась по личному указанию Путина?
Джеймс Клеппер рассказывал, как принималось решение о высылке. В администрации Обамы не знали, что, по договоренности с Флинном, "very smart" Путин не ответит симметричной высылкой из Москвы.
"We had a lot of, obviously, a lot of discussion about taking the action we ultimately took, which was PNG'ing 35 of the top intelligence operatives of the Russians. Make no mistake, that’s what they were. They were not diplomats. And, of course, closing the two dachas and sanctioning individual people, I don’t know that there was a conscious discussion so much about whether to do it before or after the election, but just getting a consensus among the interagency about what to do. <...> I, as others did, found that strange that they didn’t retaliate. In fact, that’s one of the factors that bore on the discussion: Well, how many Russian operatives should we PNG? We could have PNG’d a lot more. They had many more than 35 intelligence operatives in this country. The Russians probably have more spies present in our country than any other country, to include China. So that was a tempering factor, because we were figuring that, for every one that we PNG’d, there would be a reciprocal action on the part of the Russians."
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/james-clapper/
Если такую шпионскую деятельность, как кражу государственных секретов, легко преследовать по американским законам, то деятельность, связанная с "активными меропритиями" и "агентами влияния" часто не дотягивает до криминальной. Это не значит, что ее не было.