Do you feel the same way about how certain people speak of your Jewish background, Israel, and neoconservative foreign policy, together or separately?
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Replying to @joelw_762
You seem to follow everything I write and post on social media with a keen attention, so let me ask you: Do you really need me to answer this question or can you figure it out yourself?
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Replying to @michaeldweiss @joelw_762
It's a rhetorical question, Weiss, designed to further an understanding of his perspective on the broader social witch hunt which inevitably emerges when dealing w/ foreign enemy or major foreign natsec concern. It happened to Jews. It happened to Germans in the US during WWI.
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Wasserman isn't discounting any realized concerns about Russian influence in the United States. He's applying a degree of nuance to highlight a potential concern in shifting outlooks from those who read the news but aren't as privy to its full context.
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Replying to @JettGoldsmith @joelw_762
And yet, anyone who might seize upon these docs to engage in some Russophobic campaign has not read these docs at all. (Russians in particular were most interested in them.) You cannot stop idiots from distorting facts to their advantage.
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Seriously? James Clapper said Russians are "genetically predisposed" to "penetrate". And "Russian descent" is now the official criterion for becoming a potential target of the Senate Intel Committee. You don't think this has the potential to become a witch hunt?pic.twitter.com/dwaL5VRLJn
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I don't think you're right on this one. The criteria in this particular inquiry are "people who Johnson has associated with" AND "Russian nationals/people with close ties to Russia." Which is different from "Russians" and in the context of a counterintel inquiry, is reasonable.
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on this point you are right
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I definitely understand that there's some ugly Russophobia going on, but I don't think it's worth relying on
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Replying to @joelw_762 @SevaUT and
No need to "rely on my reporting." I produced the primary source email, which clearly states that "Russian descent" is now an investigatory criterion for the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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The letter Johnson received requests all records in his possession relating to "Russian persons" who engaged in "activities that related in any way to the political election process in the US." Not merely his "associates."
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