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Here’s the latest from the New York Times correspondent in Moscow:

U.S. government might have deliberately orchestrated cyberattacks to make it look as though they were coming from Russia, Carter Page says. — Ivan Nechepurenko (@INechepurenko) December 12, 2016

Carter Page, you may recall, was the guy who was a Trump advisor, and then he wasn’t, and then maybe he was. Or maybe not. It all seemed to depend on whether he was in Trump’s good graces at the time. In any case, he’s now the second Trump supporter to suggest that the hacks of Democratic Party emails were actually part of a false flag operation. And he goes even further than John Bolton, suggesting that the CIA orchestrated the whole thing.

So…is this about to become a standard talking point on the right? Is “false flag operation” going to be the new Benghazi? Stay tuned.