Testimony about Russia’s influence on US sounds like 1940s

What former acting US attorney general, Sally Yates, told Congress about the Kremlin’s possible infiltration of the Oval Office is shockingly reminiscent of the Hoover era, says Tim Weiner

IT HAS been 70 years since the US Congress has heard testimony akin to Sally Yates’s about the Kremlin’s influence on America. The former acting US attorney general testified this week.

You’d have to go back to March, 1947, when J Edgar Hoover charged that Moscow was burrowing into the pillars of the US government, and that the president, Harry Truman, was failing to take the threat seriously.