
John Bolton enjoys a photo op with his favorite villain. From the book.
Hardly a surprise, but John Bolton buys into the Browder-Magnitsky hoax promoted by convicted tax fraudster William Browder.
The place where it happens in
The Room Where it Happened is the July 2018 Helsinki meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Here Bolton is shaking hands with "the villain." Well, it was a photo op.
The U.S. Justice Department had just
indicted agents of the GRU, the foreign military-intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. It charged them with hacking into the Democratic National Committee computers and releasing the information to influence the 2016 election. The emails showed how the DNC, which was supposed to be neutral, helped Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders in the primary.
It is relevant that the U.S. intelligence
assessment written in January 2017
said in effect "we have no proof." See the very last page, Annex B. That's called
burying the lede. No matter. The Justice Department dropped the case, folded, when the Russians contested it and demanded discovery! Actual proof!
Comment: The panic in the halls of US "intelligence" is palpable, as support for Julian Assange builds around the world. Even Australia's 60 Minutes has aired a sympathetic piece on his persecution.