Most of you have heard of Devin Nunes, the whipping boy for every news outlet in Washington D.C. and Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, though you would never find that information in any of the press reports about him. They don't mention it.
Nunes said, in what I saw as a kind of off-hand remark, that some of the press were getting paid by the Russians. I stopped doing what I was working on and listened for the follow-up. There wasn't any.
He might have meant RT and a few of the other Russian news outlets are being paid by Russia, but that is not likely. Everyone knows the Russian press is controlled by the Intelligence Services and the senior leaders in the Kremlin. That would not be news. What would be more likely is that some of the press corps in the U.S. is being paid for by the Russians. Given the vitriol by the press on a daily basis, aimed directly at the Trump White House and anyone supporting them, that would make more sense. It is something the Chinese do, so it would not be too surprising if the Russians did too. We certainly would like to hear more about this Congressman.
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