Sir, – Were Russian intelligence to publish a report accusing the United States of malfeasance, with no evidence whatsoever bar innuendo and speculation, it would rightly be dismissed as a joke.
It would be wise then if the western media would adopt the same attitude to the recent report on Russia, which divulged not a scrap of evidence, yet has been widely reported as if it were fact. Better still if anyone who pointed this out was not immediately accused of being a Putin lackey.
Liberals should not forget where blind faith in US intelligence agencies has led us before. – Yours, etc,
COLM O’MAHONY,
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Co Wicklow.