Next, Somebody Revives SMERSH

And this is precisely how tribes operate: all the members, especially those with any kind of public voice (or with ambitions for same), are exceedingly familiar with the major talking points, all of which they obediently apply to whatever story comes along. You can do it, too, if you want to make yourself superstupid. It's remarkably simple, and simpleminded.

Arthur Silber on the alleged Russian spies, noting that the radio blatherers seem to have gotten their info from the Kremlin Wingnut Central, wherever that is.