NYT - quite a read "The Plot to Subvert an Election - Unraveling the Russia Story So Far"

[NRaleighLiberal]

For two years, Americans have tried to absorb the details of the 2016 attack — hacked emails, social media fraud, suspected spies — and President Trump’s claims that it’s all a hoax. The Times explores what we know and what it means.

By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/20/us/politics/russia-interference-election-trump-clinton.html

Very very long and complex. Sorry about the paywall - well worth reading. Just pasting four paragraphs is kind of useless - so those who can, go to the link.

[Hortensis]

1. Timeline, names, lots of data. Here are last 2 paragraphs,

which I see as a challenge to make them very sorry, which is well within our power. An pissant, underdeveloped nation with an authoritarian pretend democracy run by a coalition of extremely untrustworthy kleptocrats isn't half as strong as ours is proving to be.

Experts say many of Putin's fellow kleptocrats have become increasingly nervous about overreach and what it could bring down on them. Our nation is hardly alone in this, either. They do love their travel and homes in more advanced, sophisticated nations.

Nina L. Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs at the New School and the great-granddaughter of the Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, said that what Russia pulled off, through creativity and sheer luck, would have been the envy of Mr. Putin’s predecessors: puncturing the American sense of superiority and insisting on Russia’s power and place in the world.

“This operation was to show the Americans — that you bastards are just as screwed up as the rest of us,” Professor Khrushcheva said. “Putin fulfilled the dream of every Soviet leader — to stick it to the United States. I think this will be studied by the K.G.B.’s successors for a very long time.”

[dalton99a]

2. It is an important article

[triron]

3. Nicole Wallace talked about it on her show.

[Hekate]

4. The press is working overtime to inform our citizens & save our country

So many Paul Reveres --

[dalton99a]

5. We're fighting against a party of traitors

whose allegiance is not to America, but to a foreign enemy

[Achilleaze]

6. republicans are working overtime to betray America with their evil empire* cronies

* per ronald freaking reagan

[Scurrilous]

7. K&R