The Russia watchA Russian-American fraud; Russia goal: Unraveling U.S. democracy; disinformation & military readiness, and more
· Reading the Mueller indictment: A Russian-American fraud
· Mueller’s indictment ends Trump’s myth of the Russia “hoax”
· Russian influence campaign: What’s in the latest Mueller indictment
· Did Russia affect the 2016 election? It’s now undeniable
· “Something was weird”: Inside the Russian effort to bamboozle Florida
· What Mueller’s new Russia indictments mean — and what they don’t
· Mueller’s indictment of Russian hackers highlights the stakes of the Microsoft case
· For Russia, unraveling U.S. democracy was just another day job
· The campaign finance loophole that could make the next Russian attack perfectly legal
· Lessons about Russian social media meddling from Mueller’s indictment
· White House objects to Russian hacking that doesn’t benefit Trump
· How Russia turned the internet against America
· Mueller’s message to America
· Foreign disinformation is a threat to military readiness, too
Reading the Mueller indictment: A Russian-American fraud (Evan Osnos, New Yorker)
In his first indictments for Russian interference in the 2016 election, the special counsel, Robert Mueller, has revealed the inner workings of a shadow campaign—conceived in Moscow and deployed in the United States—that was far more disciplined than Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign. Focussed, creative, and persuasive, the Russian operation was a campaign to envy. Mueller has also given the American public a cautionary tale of contemporary American democracy—a story of deception, influence, and technology.
Mueller’s indictment ends Trump’s myth of the Russia “hoax” (David Remnick, New Yorker)
For well over a year, Donald Trump has dodged the subject of Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential charges of collusion and obstruction of justice. It’s all “phony,” a “hoax,” “fake news,” a “witch hunt.” Last year, during a multilateral summit in Vietnam, Trump met briefly with Vladimir Putin and then told reporters that he had asked the Russian President about election meddling. Not to worry, he told reporters: “Every time he sees me, he says, ‘I didn’t do that.’ And I believe, I really believe, that when he tells me that, he means it.” Mueller’s indictment is in synch with the findings of the intelligence community—a collection of immense bureaucracies that Trump and his supporters have routinely denounced as a conspiratorial and establishmentarian “deep state” intent on undermining his Presidency. As [Director of National Intelligence Dan] Coats told the senators [on Tuesday], “There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations.”
