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As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin said in their Helsinki press conference, the coming together of the leaders of the world’s two most powerful nuclear armed countries is too important an opportunity to let pass.
There are a number of elements in the recent release of an indictment of
twelve named alleged Russian military intelligence GRU officers by
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein looking into possible ties
between Moscow and the Trump Administration that I find either
implausible or even incoherent. But before considering that, it is
necessary to consider the context of the announcement.
The
Department of Justice, which had, based on evidence already revealed,
actually interfered in the 2016 election more that Moscow could possibly
have done, continued in that proud tradition by releasing the
indictment three days before President Donald Trump was due to meet with
Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Helsinki Summit between the two
leaders was critically important to anyone interested in preserving the
planet Earth as we know it and there was no reason at all to release a
non-time sensitive document that was clearly intended to cast a shadow
over the proceedings. In fact, the surfacing of the indictment might
easily be explained as a deliberate attempt by a politicized Justice
Department and Special Counsel Robert Mueller to torpedo President Trump
over concerns that he might actually come to some understanding with
Putin.
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