Links to reports from Public and Racket News about “Russiagate.” NOTE: Many readers may find their contents abstruse, harder to follow than the other three entries for this date, GAZA, UKRAINE, and HERSH. ALSO: The first item linked below is accessible beyond opening paragraphs only to paid subscribers. Other reports from the two Substack accounts are accessible by clicking on their names below. — MCM 

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CIA ‘cooked the intelligence’ to hide that Russia favored Clinton, not Trump, in 2016, sources say, by Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag | Public  It was all a lie. The Trump-Russia scandal made its formal launch on Jan. 6, 2017, when the office of the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper published what’s called an “Intelligence Community Assessment.” Its release dominated headlines, fixed Donald Trump in the minds of millions of Americans as a Manchurian candidate controlled by Vladamir Putin, and upended his in-coming administration. READ MORE . . .

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Many reporters paid for covering the Russiagate story, by Matt Taibbi | Racket News  Three years ago, on Feb. 25, 2021, Aaron Maté at RealClearInvestigations ran “In Final Days, Trump Gave Up on Forcing Release of Russiagate Files, Nunes Prober Says.” Extensively quoting former Principal Deputy to the Acting Director of National Intelligence Kash Patel, Aaron wrote a section on “Assessing the ‘Intelligence Community Assessment,” detailing . . . READ MORE . . .