More important, it would further fuel Putin’s paranoia toward the United States in general, and Hillary Clinton in particular, a paranoia that would help spark an ambitious attack on the US presidential election beginning the following year.
By the end of 2018, Russia’s invasion had caused more than ten thousand deaths in Ukraine,
General James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, told me US intelligence agencies were not fooled. They had hard evidence of a connection between WikiLeaks and Russia.
While Hillary Clinton was raising the alarm about a foreign adversary’s intrusion into the US electoral process, Donald Trump gleefully egged them on. “WikiLeaks. I love WikiLeaks!” he proclaimed
the degree of political division in the United States today exacerbates the country’s vulnerability to information operations by making portions
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