Letter to the editor: Where's evidence on Russian interference?

I am a bit skeptical about all of the news of Russian interference in this year’s presidential election. I hear and read about these allegations coming from sources that made these same claims about President Trump’s election in 2016. Do not tell me to believe these accusations without showing unbridled evidence to support the accusation.

I know individuals who were old-school intelligence operatives with the CIA, and many of them believe the agency, along with the NSA and Homeland Security, have become and are an arm of the Democratic Party. The consensus in my discussions with them is that they are used for propaganda purposes by certain Democratic politicians in order to confuse people into believing a lie in order to con them into voting Democrat. We discussed when this was set up, and the conclusion was that when the agency began the procedure of contracting with private concerns, the quality of intelligence decreased and became unreliable at best.

The professionalism the agencies used to have is no longer there. The news media gobble up this propaganda as a starving wolf would devour a road-kill carcass.

Show me the evidence. An accusation without evidence is worthless. If people are foolish enough to believe this story again, then shame on them. The Mueller investigation came up practically empty, and this is more of the same. The deep-state operatives cannot come up with anything new. It is the age-old adage of tell a lie often enough, and the people will eventually believe it.

John T. Watson

North Huntingdon