{"id":23027,"date":"2017-07-11T21:46:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23027"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:46:49","slug":"what-do-we-fear-from-a-deep-probe-into-russian-meddling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23027","title":{"rendered":"What do we fear from a deep probe into Russian meddling?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thF56XQZ01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22460\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thF56XQZ01-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thF56XQZ01-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thF56XQZ01.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Timothy Snyder is a brilliant young historian who has consented to an interview on a podcast to which I&#8217;ve been listening.<\/p>\n<p>He is an admitted anti-Trumpkin. He thinks badly of the president of the United States, as does the interviewer, Sam Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Snyder has written a book, &#8220;The Road to Tyranny,&#8221; which is the subject of the podcast interview.<\/p>\n<p>His interview is quite lengthy. If you have a good bit of time, I encourage you to listen to it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.samharris.org\/podcast\/item\/the-road-to-tyranny?utm_source=Sam+Harris+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=6af56b4c26-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_30&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_f1c2a2c9db-6af56b4c26-207247633&amp;mc_cid=6af56b4c26&amp;mc_eid=c4ba1e52ff\">here.<\/a> I doubt those of you who support the president would <em>want<\/em> to hear what this fellow has to say. Still, take a listen anyway.<\/p>\n<p>He offers up a lot of theories about current trends and how they relate to where we&#8217;ve gone as a nation and what has happened in other places around the world. And, yes, there are plenty of Hitler references.<\/p>\n<p>For this blog post, I want to focus on a tiny snippet of what Snyder said about the investigation into &#8220;the Russia thing&#8221; by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is examining whether the Trump presidential campaign &#8220;colluded&#8221; with Russian government spooks seeking to undermine the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Snyder doesn&#8217;t quite get why the pro-Trump crowd opposes the probe Mueller is leading. Indeed, why do they? As Snyder points out, if Mueller&#8217;s investigation reveals nothing illegal occurred, if it produces a clean bill of political health for Donald Trump, then all that&#8217;s left is that &#8220;we have an <em>intelligence<\/em> problem.&#8221; The Russians hacked into our democratic process and our intelligence community was unable to detect it and prevent it.<\/p>\n<p>The flip side, of course, is that Mueller&#8217;s legal team might uncover something else.<\/p>\n<p>Wherever it goes, the special counsel&#8217;s investigation should proceed.\u00a0We are bound to learn something from it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Snyder is a brilliant young historian who has consented to an interview on a podcast to which I&#8217;ve been listening. He is an admitted anti-Trumpkin. He thinks badly of the president of the United States, as does the interviewer, Sam Harris. Snyder has written a book, &#8220;The Road to Tyranny,&#8221; which is the subject &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23027\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What do we fear from a deep probe into Russian meddling?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,13],"tags":[74,1424,2145,3983,7093],"class_list":["post-23027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-legal-news","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-hitler","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23029,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23027\/revisions\/23029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}