The adjective mystikos suggests a hidden thing. A postulate is a theory from which a further idea is developed.
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
El supreemoe stupido! (moe, as in Larry, Moe and Curley)
Last week, America saw detailed evidence that Putin’s military engaged in day-to-day, sophisticated efforts to manipulate the 2016 election. (You can read the indictment HERE)
But on Monday, standing next to Putin, Trump not only avoided the Justice Department’s indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence officers, but he questioned the conclusion that Russia was behind the hacking.
Deflecting the issue, Trump raised a series of irrelevant conspiracy theories — none of which were related to Russian hacking.
He questioned why the F.B.I. never took custody of a DNC server.
He asked about a Pakistan-born Capitol Hill aide, who pleaded guilty on unrelated fraud charges after conservatives questioned whether he was linked to the DNC. (no evidence was found that Mr. Awan illegally manipulated computer systems.)
And Trump demanded to know why thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails had disappeared, another question unrelated to Russia’s activities.
It was the old smoke-and-mirrors ploy. While Mr. Trump repeatedly returns to the question of the DNC server, which still sits in the committee’s basement, investigators familiar with the case said the server itself is of little investigative value.
The F.B.I. has received a full “forensic copy” of the DNC server hard drives. That is standard practice and is “the best thing to use in an investigation so that your exploration of the server does not change the evidence.”
How the emails made their way into the G.R.U., Mr. Putin’s military intelligence unit, is a matter for the Mueller and congressional investigations. So, the question is who ordered that hacked emails be made public at critical moment in the 2016 campaign?
Trump’s effort at deflection is not new.
Trump must either understand that American, British and Dutch intelligence all intercepted Russian messages and DNC documents, or he is incredibly stupid!
I, for one, give Trump the benefit of doubt and say: “Trump is incredibly stupid.”
The Milanda Panna is a famous work of Buddhist literature, probably compiled in the 1st century B.C. It presents Buddhist doctrine in a dialogue between a Bactrian Greek,Menander I, who plays the 'Devil's Advocate' and a Buddhist sage, Nagasena. The introduction outlines the historical background against which the dialogues took place, indicating the meeting of two great cultures that of ancient Greece and the Buddhism of the Indus valley, which was the legacy of the great Emperor Asoka.
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