RUSSIA INVESTIGATION CLOSES IN ON TRUMP AIDES AM JOY

[Ernest Partridge]

6. Chief Petty Officer (ret.) Nance wins the exaggeration prize.

The Russian hack "is the most successful intelligence operation in the history of the world." Malcolm Nance.

Yea, sure! More successful than the Bletchley Park geniuses breaking the Enigma codes, which led to victory against German submarines in The Battle of the Atlantic, and which led the Allies to convince Hitler that the invasion would take place in Calais, not Normandy?

More successful than the breaking of the Japanese navel codes, which allowed the US fleet to set up an ambush at Midway, just six months after the Pearl Harbor attack? The battle of Midway, from which the Japanese navy never recovered, reversed the course of the Pacific war.

If there are any superlatives here, they fall on Chief Petty Officer (ret.) Nance. "Most successful operation in history?" Hardly.

Maybe "the most shameless exaggeration about intelligence in the history of the world."

Joy Reid's response to Nance: "Wow!"

Maybe Harvard grad Joy Reid should take a refresher course in world history.