The Center for American Progress' Moscow Project Is Gunning for Trump - Eleanor Clift
The liberal think tank works to connect the dots at a rare moment when U.S. spooks have ‘their hair on fire way more than the political pundit class.’
ELEANOR CLIFT
06.05.17 1:00 AM ET
The ad caught my eye. Research analyst wanted for Moscow Project, proficiency in Russian preferred. The employer? CAP Action Fund, an arm of the liberal think tank, Center for American Progress.
Why is a think tank launching an investigative unit? “We live in unusual times,” says Adam Jentleson, CAP action fund’s senior strategic adviser. He has in his office a framed New York Times front page with the headline: “Putin led scheme to aid Trump, report says.”
It’s dated Jan. 7, 2017, and for Jentleson and his sidekick on the Moscow Project, Corey Ciorciari, who worked on the Clinton campaign, the report from the intelligence community was vindication after months of speculation that the FBI was investigating the Russia-Trump connection.
“Our opponents say this is sour grapes—the president says that with regularity. We would say Hillary and Harry Reid were right,” says Jentleson.
His boss at the time, Democratic leader Harry Reid, had fired off a letter to FBI Director James Comey on Oct. 31 basically accusing him of sitting on the Russia investigation, and demanding he make this “explosive information” public before the election on Nov. 8.
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