Frontline takes another step to defend against active measures in the 21st Century’s strategy of tension. It reminds us of the power of editing and how some idiots use Twitter to edit away context and nuance.
... "Frontline" will give consumers not just a story via a two-part documentary on Vladimir Putin, "Putin's Revenge," which begins tonight and looks at the evolution of his thinking about, and animus toward, the United States.
At 10 p.m., it will post online virtually every bit of all its interviews, or 70 hours of 56 interviews.
They're with figures big and small, ranging from former big-time U.S. intelligence officials such as James Clapper and John Brennan to Putin confidantes, journalists, policy experts and others whom you don't know but have a lot to say on this important and ambiguous topic.
Both the video and transcripts will be easily searchable and annotated right here.
Want to know what certain people said just about the topic of Russian hacking? Bingo. And insightful people who won't show in the actual documentary due to time constrictions? Well, all those interviews will be posted, too, with the only editing being as a result of normal and totally understandable legal considerations, like somebody going off the record (which didn't happen much) or spewing total b.s. of no factual basis.
Bartiromo is an extraordinarily soft interviewer who doesn’t ask Trump any difficult questions or press him on any subject. That makes the extent to which he manages to flub the interview all the more striking. He’s simply incapable of discussing any topic at any length in anything remotely resembling an informed or coherent way. He says the Federal Reserve is “important psychotically” and it’s part of one of his better answers, since one can at least tell that he meant to say “psychologically.”