NEWSLINK: “How the Russia Spin Got So Much Torque” – Common Dreams/ Norman Solomon

“… Soon after #Clinton’s defeat, top strategists decided where to place the blame. ‘Within 24 hours of her concession speech,’ the authors report, campaign manager Robby Mook and campaign chair John Podesta ‘assembled her communications team at the Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up-and-up. For a couple of hours, with Shake Shack containers littering the room, they went over the script they would pitch to the press and the public. Already, #Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.’ Six months later, that centerpiece of the argument is rampant—with claims often lurching from unsubstantiated overreach to outright demagoguery. ….”

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