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US has meddled in election of 80 nations since World War ll: Analyst

Monday, 17 February 2020 7:30 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 17 February 2020 7:37 PM ]

Stephen Lendman

Despite US accusations that Russia meddled in America’s 2016 presidential election, US intelligence agencies attempted to influence the elections of 80 nations since the end of World War ll in 1945, says an author and political commentator in Chicago.

The CIA and the NSA [National Security Agency] have meddled in elections both in the US and abroad,” Stephen Lendman told Press TV on Monday.

“It may do it together with Israel, but it certainly does it on its own,” Lendman said.

“As far as Russia is concerned, there isn’t any evidence whatever that Russia had ever meddled in US elections,” he added.

As the US heads into the 2020 presidential election, about six in 10 Americans are not confident in the honesty of US elections, one of the worst ratings across the world's wealthiest democracies, a bew Gallup poll released on Thursday found.

Nearly 60 percent of Americans say they lack faith in the honesty of American elections, while 40 percent say they have faith, according to the poll.

Of 32 countries included in the Gallup poll, the US ranked 29 when it comes to distrust in elections. Only the citizens of Chile and Mexico had less confidence.

US intelligence agencies have claimed Russia meddled in the 2016 election with a campaign of email hacking and online propaganda aimed at sowing discord in the United States and helping Donald Trump win the US presidential election.

A former American counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the CIA says Israel has for long been interfering in American politics and elections, but US officials prefer to remain silent and incriminate Russia.

Philip Giraldi made the remarks in a recent article, headlined Is Pete Buttigieg the Israel Lobby Choice?, where he looked into an allegedly cyber warfare that recently hit Iowa and delayed the voting results of the primary caucus in the Midwestern state.

The results were published nearly 21 hours after Iowans cast their ballots, with officials blaming inconsistencies related to a new mobile app used for vote counting.

“Israel has been involved in American politics before, even if it is predictably never held accountable, and it has been suggested that Russiagate was really Israelgate based on what actually took place when shortly after the 2016 election,” Giraldi said.

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