Opinion: How to avoid a repeat of 2016 and the Ukraine extortion plot
In December, Sen. Richard Burr , who was chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time, privately told Johnson that his inquiry could aid Russia, according to two congressional sources familiar with the meeting. And Sen. Lindsey Graham warned in February that any derogatory information coming out of Ukraine about any American should be vetted by intelligence agencies because “Russia is playing us all like a fiddle.
If the Biden campaign feels hamstrung, perhaps Democrats in Congress need to be less guarded. Democrats should consider any of the following:Pressure Johnson to disavow any efforts to cooperate with a Kremlin-backed stooge. If Johnson attempts to hold hearings or otherwise air the smears, demand he explain any and all contacts between his office and Russian-backed individuals.
Introduce legislation reaffirming that it is a crime to solicit or receive foreign assistance, including foreign information, for use in a federal election. This is also a test for the media, which in 2016 seized upon the WikiLeaks email dump and wound up doing the Kremlin’s work for it, spreading the contents without aggressively pursuing how they were obtained and what connections existed between the campaign and the Russian cutout operation, WikiLeaks.have to date appropriately focused not on the content of the discredited smears but on the potential connection between the Kremlin’s favorite Ukrainian and both Johnson and the Trump campaign.
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