By JOHN SICILIANO • 1/6/17 6:53 PM
Russia engaged in an anti-fracking campaign to hurt the U.S. energy industry, which has become a huge competitor for Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, according to a declassified U.S. intelligence report released Friday.
The U.S. intelligence community showed that the Russian government made extensive use of its government-controlled media, primarily the cable news channel RT, to broadcast “support for other Russian interests in areas such as foreign and energy policy.”
The report showed that RT ran “anti-fracking programming, highlighting environmental issues and the impacts on public health,” which is “likely reflective of the Russian government’s concern about the impact of fracking and U.S. natural gas production on the global energy market and the potential challenges to Gazprom’s profitability.”
And the lefties swallowed hard…hook, line and sinker!
Progressive are ripe for the picking.
Morons…
12:31 Your response in not insightful or informed.
Russia Today (RT) broadcast negative news about HRC and favorable “news” items about DT. RT is controlled by the Russian Government. Julian Assange has a talk show on the RT network. https://www.rt.com/tags/the-julian-assange-show/
The appendix to the hacking report points out that RT also criticized the US, ran reports about election fraud in the US, aired a favorable documentary about Occupy Wall Street, criticized US economic system and had an anti-fracking campaign.
RT is broadcast to a mainly Russian audience.
10:26
You want an insightful response?
Liberal progressive types are sheep who believe and regurgitate anything the mainstream media including the RussianToday broadcast tell them.
They are unable to formulate ideas based on their own original thought.
They are haters who are intolerant of anyone who does not agree with their socialistic leaning politics.
They take the bait and swallow hard.
God Blessed America!
Listen, I know I am a hard liner when it comes to foreign policy and maybe I need to change my thinking, but why is it exactly that some people think its ok for the Communists / Dictator of Russia to try and hack our systems? Embracing conservatism has never meant closing one’s eyes to the enemy. I am really alarmed at the fact that there is a trend towards excusing the Russians because we may not like the targets they chose. Rationality is going out the window when anyone condones or tries to excuse attacks on our soil