Mueller Report Fails to Prove Russian Govt Interference - Here's Why
John Kiriakou, Brian Becker
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by Aaron Maté, a journalist with Grayzone Project and The Nation, whose most recent piece is on Real Clear Investigations, "CrowdStrikeOut: Mueller's Own Report Undercuts Its Core Russia-Meddling Claims."
The report by special counsel Robert Mueller essentially cleared the Trump 2016 campaign of collusion or conspiracy with Russia but Mueller's report asserts that Russian interference in the campaign was "sweeping and systematic." Investigative journalist Aaron Maté has written a major article that carefully and comprehensively analyzes the 448-page Mueller Report and comes to the dramatic conclusion that Mueller's report clearly fails to prove that Russia carried out a "sweeping and systematic" interference campaign in the 2016 presidential election campaign. Read, listen and assess for yourself.
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