The Senate investigation into Jill Stein reveals the xenophobic, anti-democratic direction of Russiagate
The
Senate Intelligence Committee has demanded all of Jill Stein’s
campaign communications with “Russian persons.”
By
Max Blumenthal
Part
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Former
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has turned over a large
tranche of emails and documents to the bipartisan Senate Intelligence
Committee, which is investigating unfounded rumors that Stein was
part of a Russian plot to subvert the 2016 US presidential election.
However,
she has refused to oblige a series of demand that that the Green
Party hand over “all communications with Russian media
organizations, their employees, or associates, from February 6,
2015.” The committee also insisted it turn over “all
communications related to the campaign’s policy discussions related
to Russia” and “all communications with Russian persons.”
These
requests provide one of the most revealing examples to date of the
government’s exploitation of Russia hysteria to suppress
independent politics and alternative media in the US.
In its
demand for communications with “Russian persons,” the Senate
committee has weaponized xenophobia to implicate Stein and intimidate
other public figures against associating with anyone of Russian
origin.
With
a few notable exceptions, this escalation of the Russiagate
investigation has gone largely without notice by American media.
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