"Breaking

Another problem the US spy agencies have with RT is that it reports on the surveillance state created by those same spy agencies. The Report states, "RT's reports often characterize the United

States as a 'surveillance state' and allege

widespread infringeme nts of civil liberties." So

Some of RT's hosts have compared the United States to





Imperial Rome." Is this really such a shock to the delicate American viewer? According to a recent survey conducted by the Charles Koch Institute, most Americans oppose Washington's interventionist foreign policy. Are the Kochs also on the Kremlin payroll?

RT is a leading media voice opposing

Western intervention in the Syrian conflict."

US government's declassified 'Russian hacking' report has the curious disclaimer that it is based on watching TV and reading Tweets."





Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations" -- an assessment that would surprise no one, as these are the exact same activities carried on by intelligence agencies throughout the world.





the Set" and "Truthseeker" for undermining Americans' confidence in US electoral processes. One problem: these programs have not been on television for more than a year.RT is guilty of undermining US democracy, found the report, because an RT reporter traveled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London to interview Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, who has received asylum there since 2012. Presumably this report was prepared before conservative Fox News personality Sean Hannity did the exact same thing this past week...or Hannity is going to have some explaining to do.The Kremlin funds RT to the tune of $190 million per year, states the report, and its audience keeps growing. The report does not mention that the US government spends vastly more -- $780 million for 2017 -- on its worldwide propaganda effort through the government-funded Broadcasting Board of Governors. Do what we say but not what we do. But then again, as National Intelligence Director James Clapper told the Senate yesterday, pointing out US government hypocrisy is itself indicative of a Russian influence operation in action.RT is guilty of being a Kremlin plot to undermine our freedom because it points out that the US government has already undermined our freedom?RT is on the US Intelligence Community's bad list because, "And RT is evil because it points out that the neocon project to import jihadists into Syria to overthrow that secular government was not such a great idea. Writes the Intelligence Report: "And how did the $80 billion dollar US spy industry come up with all this brilliant insight into the evils of Russia in general and RT in particular? As Wikileaks Tweets , the "The classified version of this Intelligence Community Assessment must have been just as unconvincing as the version released to the rest of us, as after his special intelligence briefing today President-elect Donald Trump issued a statement that made no mention of a successful Russian hack of the US election. The furthest Trump would go was to say that "Is the "Russia hacked our election" story finally dead and buried, then? Don't count on it.