McConnell providing cover for Russian interference
By Dana Milbank
The Washington Post
No, Mitch McConnell, it isn’t “case closed.”
No, Mr. Leader, it’s not “finally over.”
No, we’re not going to “end this.” Neither will we “move on.”
We, as a nation, won’t move on — we can’t move on — because Vladimir Putin hasn’t moved on.
The majority leader took to the Senate floor Tuesday morning to declare his findings nearly three weeks after the release of the Mueller report. In summary: Nothing to see here. Move along.
But even as the Kentucky Republican made that case, FBI Director Christopher Wray was nearby in the Capitol complex testifying to a Senate panel that “the malign foreign influence threat … is something that continues pretty much 365 days a year.”
Russia seeks to disrupt our elections again in 2020, with hacking and social media attacks and techniques unknown. Yet McConnell has the chutzpah to pronounce it “case closed;” when he has been the leading obstacle to defending the U.S. election system against cyberattack by the Russians. Intelligence experts have been beating the drums to build defenses against a repeat of 2016. Every step of the way, McConnell has resisted. Perhaps he figures that because Putin helped his guy in 2016, he’ll do the same again in 2020?
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