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Nuland became special envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and then became [[State Department]] spokesperson in summer 2011.[6]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/05/16/victoria_nuland_to_be_state_department_spokesman|title=Victoria Nuland to be State Department spokesman|date=May 16, 2011|work=Foreign Policy}}</ref>
Nuland became special envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and then became [[State Department]] spokesperson in summer 2011.[6]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/05/16/victoria_nuland_to_be_state_department_spokesman|title=Victoria Nuland to be State Department spokesman|date=May 16, 2011|work=Foreign Policy}}</ref>
Nuland was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, covering former Soviet satalite Republics and the [[Russian Federation]], in May 2013 and sworn in to fill that role in September 2013.
Nuland was involved in crafting the bogus talking points in the cover up of the [[Benghazi massacre''']], although the extent of her involvement was not fully revealed to Congressional investigators. Questions did come up when Nuland was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, covering former Soviet satalite Republics and the [[Russian Federation]] in May 2013. She was sworn in to fill the office in September 2013.
===Arms smuggling to ISIS===
Gen. [[Michael Flynn]] as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) oversaw an analysis in 2012 that foresaw that [[Obama administration]] support for Syrian and foreign jihadis would rise to “a declared or undeclared [[Salafi]]st principality in eastern Syria [ISIS].”
The partially declassified report embarrassed the advocates for an escalation of the war in [[Syria]] and the ouster of secular President [[Bashar al-Assad]]. Flynn went further in a 2015 interview when he said the intelligence was “very clear” that the '''Obama administration made a [[Libyan Islamic Fighting Group|“willful decision” to back these jihad]]ists in league with Middle East allies, a choice that looked particularly stupid when Islamic State militants started beheading American hostages''' and capturing cities in [[Iraq]].
Key neoconservatives, such as Victoria Nuland and Sen. [[John McCain]], then began pushing for the violent right-wing coup that – in February 2014 – ousted [[Ukraine]]’s elected President Viktor Yanukovych and touched off the new Cold War with Russia.
Amid these heightened tensions, the mainstream media in the United States and Europe joined in the full-scale Russia/Putin-bashing, holding Russia at fault for everything. A new McCarthyism emerged, deeming anyone who dared disagree a “Moscow surrogate” or a “Russian propagandist.”
The ugliness penetrated into the U.S. presidential campaign because Democrat [[Hillary Clinton]] took a belligerent line toward Russia while Donald Trump broke with the Republican establishment and called for improved ties between Washington and Moscow.
This hysteria over Russia gained added strength because Democrats were so angry over Trump’s election that [[liberal]] and [[progressive]] operatives saw a chance to build a movement and raise lots of money by pushing the Trump-Putin accusations.
This opportunism has turned much of the liberal/progressive community into a pro-New Cold War constituency willing to engage in a new breed of [[McCarthyism]] by demanding intensive investigations into alleged connections between Americans and Russians.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/14/trump-caves-on-flynns-resignation/ </ref>
==Post government==
==Post government==