PBC News & Comment: CIA-Russia Caper to Recover Cyberweapons Bombed

--In fresh, leak-based report, NY Times says CIA offered $1 million to Russian who said he possessed stolen NSA cyberweapons, Trump dirt….--late Friday, Trump declined to release Democrats’ rebuttal to Nunes memo
--at The Nation, Aaron Maté uses Nunes memo to launch recap of evidence-free Trump/Russia claims over the past year
--at Consortium News, Philip Giraldi comments on the Nunes memo
--at the conservative National Interest, some interesting comments on Democrats’ obsession with Russia from Ted Galen Carpenter
--Steven Rosenfeld at Alternet examines the claims of Russian hacking of election sites in 2016
--Glenn Greenwald nails Laurence Tribe as “deranged Russia conspiracist” on same day Prof Tribe co-authors NY Times op-ed
--in our latest in-depth interview, journalist Reese Erlich updates the claims that US diplomats were sickened by sonic weapons in Havana
--Trump’s budget plan, neutered by last week’s vote, offers dark view of GOP plans, including privatization of airports and highways
--in Syria’s shooting gallery, Israel enters the fray and one of its F-16’s is shot down
--and Turkey resumes airstrikes against Kurds, as Reese Erlich comments
--Trump made comments to Israeli newspaper owned by Sheldon Adelson that would've gotten Obama impeached