Putin on the Potomac

[TygrBright]

Source: The Atlantic

Washington is Turning Into Moscow

Something strange was happening. Offline, living in a Whole Foods–eating, Netflix-watching bubble off Dupont Circle, Washington felt like one of the softest places in the world. Moscow, goodbye. But online, and on TV, it was quite another matter.

I had to pinch myself watching Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson on Fox News. These men, railing furiously against plots and traitors, were eerily reminiscent of the propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov on Channel One Russia.

But that was not all. The mounting hysteria about foreign influence. The professional trolls and Twitter accounts laying blame on MI6. I felt like I had seen it all before. But nothing more so than the fact that smart people kept telling me power was measured here by proximity to the president, not by the office you held.

So I wasn’t surprised when my computer was hacked in a custom-made attack launched from a Russian-speaking country. Nor was I shocked when Microsoft revealed that, once I had finished my research into how kleptocrats move around their money, my project had been targeted by hackers run by Russian intelligence who cloned a website in order to phish the accounts of anyone interested in our work.

Well, what did anyone expect?

The whole piece is worth reading.

And chilling.

disgustedly,
Bright

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[saidsimplesimon]

2. We have a Russian mole in our WH.

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[octoberlib]

3. Great article!. I will never understand why The US and UK are practically the only countries

that allow people to buy property anonymously, with their names obscured by shell companies. We're practically rolling out a welcome mat for money launderers. All of Trump's properties are a cesspool of organized crime trying to launder their money through his real estate.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Reaganism and Thatcherism are hell of drugs.

[uponit7771]

5. A good read, maybe people aught to be scared of Moscow's influence. There have been few if any dems

... directly involved with Russia