That...doesn't really answer the concern. Certain of my friends have already had to deal with the abuses of the Putin government. Others haven't. But that's little help when they're personally and professionally stigmatized by Americans who lack our nuanced views of RU intel.https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/946831253654921219 …
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Replying to @joelw_762
Denying or ignoring verifiable facts is no consolation to anyone. History isn't about 'feelings'. Those who think it is are only doomed to suffer further. (And this queasiness you have, I would argue, only helps the bad guys get away with more.)
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Replying to @michaeldweiss
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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No, he's wrong. The criteria in this particular inquiry has expanded to now *explicitly* include people of "Russian descent" AND people who engaged in any "activities that related in any way to the political election process in the US." Extraordinarily broad.
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