How significant is the indictment of the 13 Russians?

Howard Laitin Wall Street Journal February 17, 2018

 The WSJ published an article  Russians Charged With Interfering in U.S. Election but they have a pay wall .  So I goggled to see who else wrote on the story. The Independant and the Guardian did but the headlines chosen in The Guardian ranked as fake news.

Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in US election to help Trump
It is a total lie to say it was done to help Trump.

Howard Laitin (credentials are below the comment) commented on the WSJ article.

The Soviet Union and now Russia under Putin seeks to disrupt the American public’s faith in the US government. NOTHING IS NEW HERE AND WE CAN EXPECT THAT IT WILL GET WORSE IN THE FUTURE.


 Given the remarks and actions of Representative Adam Schiff , Putin has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams in creating doubt and discord among the American public.

 I am much more concerned about the Russian capability to disrupt  Americans various essential grids such as electric  distribution, water distribution, transportation, communications etc.   United States is extremely vulnerable and the Russians are devoting considerable resources to identifying vulnerabilities and developing capabilities to  “blackout” much of the United States. If they do so ,extreme chaos will  result.

 Unfortunately, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations  …although  aware of US vulnerabilities… have done very little to  protect the United States against such an  attack.    THIS IS THE TRUE CRIME.

  Now turning to the DOJ meddling indictments

 The most documented and most effective foreign  meddling in the US election 2016 was  implemented by Sidney Blumenthal [who was on the payroll of the Clinton foundation which had received foreign money ]; Jonathan Winer; Marc Elias [who laundered the funds and may be guilty of campaign-finance irregularities]; Glenn Simpson  [whose testimony was elusive and misleading];  Bruce Ohr ;  Nellie Ohr; Christopher Steele; and the unnamed Russians who Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson claimed provided the information and most likely were, if such information was actually given, agents of the Kremlin.

 Another aspect is the numerical  analysis  data. Concerning budgets, the amount cited is extremely small. The amount of foreign funding intended to influence US policy coming into the Brookings Institution [an establishment that has treated me very kindly]  is far larger and so much more effective than is the funding that reputedly financed the Russian meddling. Tthe Saudi Arabian funding is even more extensive and much more troubling. [I was on the inside of  Saudi Arabian operations. They have infiltrated most of our research institution most of our foreign study departments.]

 When you look at the number of postings at the Washington Post and the New York Times in comments to articles, the numbers far exceed the total number attributed to all the efforts of the Russian trolls. When you look at the  number of viewers, etc. and relate them to the totals you determine that the totals  by any category of evaluation are less than one half of one  percent  of traffic. I URGE YOU TO CONDUCT SUCH AN IMPACT ANALYSIS.

 I also urge you to re-examine the Ben Rhodes echo chamber operation where  millions of dollars were expended to influence US organizations and thus influence the US media by the production  and planting of false information in order to create a public acceptance for the Obama Iranian nuclear deal and the furnishing  to Iran  of billions of dollars [to enable  Iran’s  support of Hezbollah,  Hamas ,their Syrian operations,  terror operations throughout Central and South America, Africa, etc. ] As some of your homework, you might want to review the materials furnished by Amir Hossein Motaghi.

Howard Laitin Torrance : California : United States

Harvard, Ph.D.(Economics; Public Health). National Defense University Graduate Program; U.S. Army Command and General Staff College;  Career Officer Course; Lt. Col. USA (Retired).

Chief Scientist, Hughes Aircraft Company & Raytheon  Corporation (Retired). Adjunct Professor of Engineering, USC. Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health, UCLA. Registered Professional Engineer (California).

US Military Advisory Groups to: Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia; Iranian Nuclear Program: Review of technology and sustainable development. Iraqi Intervention: Review of alternatives and probable outcomes.

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