For its advocates, the questionable veracity of the Russiagate story seems much less important than what has become its real purpose-elite virtue-signaling.
Chen's article serves to explain why Russiagate is so vital to The New Yorker, despite the many headaches that each new weekly iteration of the story must be causing for the magazine's fact-checkers.
The New Yorker has produced tons of Russiagate stories, including a small anthology of takes on the Mueller indictments alone.
Not surprisingly, concerns over the role of the intelligence community and its increasingly intrusive methods motivate other Russiagate critics on the left, like Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept, historian Jackson Lears writing at the London Review of Books, and Stephen Cohen at The Nation.
Their understanding is shared by writers on the right, like Andrew McCarthy, a former lawyer at the Department of Justice, who has unfolded the Russiagate affair over the last year in the pages of National Review, where he has carefully explained how the DOJ and FBI misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in order to spy on Carter Page and violate the privacy of an American citizen.
The story of how the Russiagate collusion myth was made and marketed is much easier to understand-it's social.
The story of how spies and journalists came to collaborate on a disinformation campaign is also, as the left may not be surprised to find, partly explained by economics.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/256899/left-right-russiagate
Chen's article serves to explain why Russiagate is so vital to The New Yorker, despite the many headaches that each new weekly iteration of the story must be causing for the magazine's fact-checkers.
The New Yorker has produced tons of Russiagate stories, including a small anthology of takes on the Mueller indictments alone.
Not surprisingly, concerns over the role of the intelligence community and its increasingly intrusive methods motivate other Russiagate critics on the left, like Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept, historian Jackson Lears writing at the London Review of Books, and Stephen Cohen at The Nation.
Their understanding is shared by writers on the right, like Andrew McCarthy, a former lawyer at the Department of Justice, who has unfolded the Russiagate affair over the last year in the pages of National Review, where he has carefully explained how the DOJ and FBI misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in order to spy on Carter Page and violate the privacy of an American citizen.
The story of how the Russiagate collusion myth was made and marketed is much easier to understand-it's social.
The story of how spies and journalists came to collaborate on a disinformation campaign is also, as the left may not be surprised to find, partly explained by economics.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/256899/left-right-russiagate
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