Mike Ritland

When the Russiagate predicate came out about social media interference, everyone can trace the timeline of this and look up the contemporaneous news reporting. When the CIA came out and said there was Russian interference on U.S.

When the Russiagate predicate came out about social media interference, everyone can trace the timeline of this and look up the contemporaneous news reporting. When the CIA came out and said there was Russian interference on U.S.

When the Russiagate predicate came out about social media interference, everyone can trace the timeline of this and look up the contemporaneous news reporting. When the CIA came out and said there was Russian interference on U.S.

social media and there were Russian bots and trolls and RT and Sputnik were supporting Trump, they tried to get Congress to not certify the election result on the basis of Russian interference in the election. And to my recollection, they got, I believe, somewhere between a dozen and two dozen or almost a dozen U.S. congressmen to agree not to certify that vote. Now, it's not nearly enough.

social media and there were Russian bots and trolls and RT and Sputnik were supporting Trump, they tried to get Congress to not certify the election result on the basis of Russian interference in the election. And to my recollection, they got, I believe, somewhere between a dozen and two dozen or almost a dozen U.S. congressmen to agree not to certify that vote. Now, it's not nearly enough.

social media and there were Russian bots and trolls and RT and Sputnik were supporting Trump, they tried to get Congress to not certify the election result on the basis of Russian interference in the election. And to my recollection, they got, I believe, somewhere between a dozen and two dozen or almost a dozen U.S. congressmen to agree not to certify that vote. Now, it's not nearly enough.

There's over 500 people in the House and 100 in the Senate. But if you can get that ball rolling and poach sitting members of Congress here in the U.S. eight years ago before they even built up this apparatus to be juiced and as powerful as it's become, Think of how much easier that task is and how far a little bit of money goes a long way in order to juice those networks in Romania.

There's over 500 people in the House and 100 in the Senate. But if you can get that ball rolling and poach sitting members of Congress here in the U.S. eight years ago before they even built up this apparatus to be juiced and as powerful as it's become, Think of how much easier that task is and how far a little bit of money goes a long way in order to juice those networks in Romania.

There's over 500 people in the House and 100 in the Senate. But if you can get that ball rolling and poach sitting members of Congress here in the U.S. eight years ago before they even built up this apparatus to be juiced and as powerful as it's become, Think of how much easier that task is and how far a little bit of money goes a long way in order to juice those networks in Romania.

Yeah. No, absolutely. That's what USAID does. They create the surround sound. This is part of the reason I call it the USAID Truman Show. USAID goes after every single category of institution in the country they're targeting. The media, control over social media speech, the unions, the workers' groups, the judiciaries, the parliamentarians, the arts and music and culture groups.

Yeah. No, absolutely. That's what USAID does. They create the surround sound. This is part of the reason I call it the USAID Truman Show. USAID goes after every single category of institution in the country they're targeting. The media, control over social media speech, the unions, the workers' groups, the judiciaries, the parliamentarians, the arts and music and culture groups.

Yeah. No, absolutely. That's what USAID does. They create the surround sound. This is part of the reason I call it the USAID Truman Show. USAID goes after every single category of institution in the country they're targeting. The media, control over social media speech, the unions, the workers' groups, the judiciaries, the parliamentarians, the arts and music and culture groups.

the universities and the academic institutions, everything, even folks in the commercial for-profit sector side. What USAID does is it does what it calls capacity building. It does a baseline assessment or strategic assessment of all the assets they have in the region, and then they look at the gap between what they have and what they need in order to accomplish a particular goal.

the universities and the academic institutions, everything, even folks in the commercial for-profit sector side. What USAID does is it does what it calls capacity building. It does a baseline assessment or strategic assessment of all the assets they have in the region, and then they look at the gap between what they have and what they need in order to accomplish a particular goal.

the universities and the academic institutions, everything, even folks in the commercial for-profit sector side. What USAID does is it does what it calls capacity building. It does a baseline assessment or strategic assessment of all the assets they have in the region, and then they look at the gap between what they have and what they need in order to accomplish a particular goal.

State Department foreign policy goal or a, you know, interagency-approved foreign policy goal. And then they close that gap by funding everything they need.

State Department foreign policy goal or a, you know, interagency-approved foreign policy goal. And then they close that gap by funding everything they need.

State Department foreign policy goal or a, you know, interagency-approved foreign policy goal. And then they close that gap by funding everything they need.

So, for example, if Georgia SKU is overwhelmingly popular with unions, they will bring in, they will fund the NED's Solidarity Center or other sort of, you know, CIA, you know, back channels or NED is, you know, this sort of squishy in-between between state and CIA. You know, there are non- nonprofit NGO that gets its funding from the U.S. government. It was created by the U.S. government.

So, for example, if Georgia SKU is overwhelmingly popular with unions, they will bring in, they will fund the NED's Solidarity Center or other sort of, you know, CIA, you know, back channels or NED is, you know, this sort of squishy in-between between state and CIA. You know, there are non- nonprofit NGO that gets its funding from the U.S. government. It was created by the U.S. government.