Putin has a personal dislike of Hillary Clinton, and Russian intelligence had been gathering information about her since late summer 2015. “Officials and state agencies in the United States are behind all this,” he charged in April 2016. Horn prints?”The day before, Putin had said that “patriotically minded” Russian private hackers might have been involved in the operation. As the investigation of Russian hacking rolls forward, we shouldn’t lose perspective: Russia isn’t a demonic, all-powerful presence. But it’s also the rare nation run by a former intelligence officer, who sees the world through a very particular lens.

Source: Washington Post June 06, 2017 23:48 UTC