Day 769

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity

Whatever quid pro quo arrangement was reached in 2021 with the mob squad in Moscow to stop zapping American public servants has obvi blown up in Team USA’s face. Not pretty. The kurfuffle leaves leaves Avril waiving around the NIH report on AHIs, and the State Department’s bureau for intelligence and research (INR) agreeing awkwardly with the assessment in public.

State Department Daily Briefing (April 1, 2024)

That might, er, change, or maybe not, if Bill keeps mum.

Team USA over the past decade has been amazingly timid and inept when it comes to Russia.

The Insider’s report conspicuously leaves out the Wagnergate op.

Unraveling Havana Syndrome: New evidence links the GRU's assassination Unit 29155 to mysterious attacks on U.S. officials and their families (The Insider, April 1, 2024)

This all — and more — transpired when Bill was president of the pro-Russia Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2014-2021).

Eight months after being tagged to head the CIA and three months before Russia attempted to decapitate Kyiv, Bill “raised the issue” [of zapping Team USA members in the head using high-powered directional microwaves] with his partners in Moscow.

CIA director warns Russian spies of ‘consequences’ if they are behind ‘Havana Syndrome’ incidents (The Washington Post, November 24, 2021)

The beano followed a spate of ear aches reported by US embassy personnel in Vienna.

Vienna Is the New Havana Syndrome Hot Spot.Roughly two dozen possible new cases have been reported by U.S. spies and diplomats in the Austrian capital, more than in any other city except Havana itself (The New Yorker, July 16, 2021)

Team USA’s unwillingness to confront Vova is well documented, even without Trump.

No US administration wants to have a response to Russian aggression, so they decide not to recognize it for what it is. Which leaves Americans undefended in crucial aspects, and our policy on Russia fundamentally nonsensical. — Molly McKew

Yep.