Courtesy of The Hill:#Russia's state TV mocks American intelligence services:— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) September 11, 2017
MP Vyacheslav Nikonov says U.S. spies slept while Russia elected a U.S. President. http://pic.twitter.com/BmMNBTr41R
On a Sunday panel show, a Russian politician said U.S. “intelligence missed it when Russian intelligence stole the president of the United States.”
Vyacheslav Nikonov, a member of the Russian parliamentary body, the Duma, made the remarks on the panel show “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov.”
The focus of the episode was the decline of U.S. power in the world. In that context, said University of Virginia professor Allen Lynch via email, Nikonov was less stating the extent of Russia's involvement in the 2016 election, and more mocking the resulting chaos as emblematic of U.S. weakness.
“His point in making the remark was that if the U.S. can’t protect the integrity of its own electoral system, then how powerful can it really be?” wrote Lynch.
It should be noted that this is NOT he same Russian politician who earlier this month suggested that Russia should release the "kompromat" they have on Donald Trump.
Which means that these are two different Russian politicians, both on government controlled TV, essentially admitting that the Russians did exactly what Vladimir Putin has denied they did all of this time.
And now they get to brag about it to their constituents while we are left trying to fix the damage that they caused.
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