Russia is targeting UK, warns Clinton
British elections may fall prey to ‘covert warfare’, her memoir says Putin the terrible manspreader Hillary: I felt like Carrie in Homeland
RUSSIA has targeted democracy in Britain in a similar way to the “largescale covert warfare” waged during the US presidential election, according to Hillary Clinton.
She claims Moscow would seek to interfere in future elections to “undermine — perhaps even destroy” Western democracy. In her memoir What Happened, published today, Ms Clinton argues that there was “overwhelming” evidence Russia sought to influence the US election in Donald Trump’s favour, a claim denied by the Kremlin.
“What’s more, we know now that the Russians have mounted similar operations in other Western democracies,” she writes. “After the US election, Facebook found and removed tens of thousands of fake accounts in France and the United Kingdom.”
MPs were hacked in Germany while “Denmark and Norway say the Russians breached key ministries”.
The former Democratic presidential candidate argues that the alleged Russian interference in the US election and “fake news” threat are more serious than the Watergate scandal that led to the downfall of Richard Nixon in 1974.
She suggests the US needs to respond to them with resolve equal to that shown against Nazi Germany: “In 1940 ... the writer John Buchan wrote, ‘We have been shaken out of our smugness and warned of a great peril, and in that warning lies our salvation.
‘The dictators have done us a marvelous service to remind us of the true values of life.’ Americans today need to be similarly alert and determined.”
In the 494-page book, published by Simon & Schuster, she accuses Moscow of trying to “game the internet” by creating a “vast network” of fake Twitter and Facebook accounts and community pages. Backing a tougher approach VLADIMIR PUTIN is a “manspreader” who had a vendetta against Hillary Clinton, according to her memoirs.
She says Barack Obama compared the Russian president to a “bored kid at the back of the classroom” who has “got that kind of slouch”.
However, the former secretary of state writes: “When I sat with Putin in meetings, he looked more like one of those guys on the subway who
on Syria and Ukraine, the former secretary of state says the US should “declare a new doctrine that states that a cyberattack on our vital national infrastructure will be treated as an act of war and met with a proportionate imperiously spread their legs wide, encroaching on everyone else’s space, as if to say, ‘I take what I want’, and ‘I have so little respect for you that I’m going to act as if I’m lounging at home in my bathrobe’. They call it ‘manspreading’.
That was Putin.”
response.” She advocates “getting tough” with Vladimir Putin: “He responds only to strength.”
She criticises former FBI director James Comey for not going public earlier with concerns over alleged links HILLARY CLINTON “felt like
CIA agent Carrie Mathison” in hit TV show Homeland as she sought to learn more about the alleged Russian cyber-warfare against her presidential campaign.
“The voluminous file of clippings on
between the Trump campaign and Moscow. Ms Clinton says that as soon as a woman stands for public office there is analysis of “her face, her body, her voice, her demeanour, the diminishment of her stature, her ideas, her my desk grew thicker and thicker,” she writes. “To keep it all straight, I started making lists of everything we knew.
“At times, I felt like CIA agent Carrie Mathison [left, played by Claire Danes] on the TV show Homeland, desperately trying to get her arms around a sinister conspiracy and appearing more than a little frantic in the process ...
“That’s not a good look for anyone, let alone a former secretary of state.”
accomplishments, her integrity ... It can be unbelievably cruel”. She tells how Downton Abbey reminded her of staying at Buckingham Palace in 2011 during Barack Obama’s visit — it “was like stepping into a fairytale”.