i don t think it makes much sense to try to punish an entire country for the actions of a small group of unelected people in the kremlin, but targeted sanctions against them personally. that s very important. when we talk about russia-gate, we talk about russia in general. it isn t russia. it is the small oligarchy that sits on top of it. you think of vladimir putin, this guy who was a kgb agent, this guy who s got this background in doing the sort of disinformation campaigns we ve seen. this was particularly ham handed. the proffers of information were essentially given away in e-mails to donald trump jr., replies, great, if you ve got dirt. natalia veselnitskaya goes on tv and says, no, this was about adoptions. why so ham handed? i think we re overstating the