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Agents of Chaos: The Terrifying Story Behind the 2016 Election

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary


In this age of social collapse and modern plague it’s easy to forget that the 2016 Presidential Election was a clusterfuck of gargantuan proportions. Never before (then) had an election campaign for the highest office in the country become not only a drama, but a media spectacle with a shocking finale.


Russian spies. Secret payoffs. Wikileaks. Guccifer 2.0. War in Ukraine. Election interference. All spelling (maybe?), the first chapter in the ending to the American Experiment?


HBO has released a great new two-part documentary deep diving this entire, historical ordeal. Co-directed by film great Alex Gibney and Javier Botero, Agents of Chaos parses exactly what happened to America during what’s become the most insane election ever (at least so far). 


Botero is on the show this week to talk about the doc, the chaos of 2016 and what legacy it has left America.


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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:07.0

It's a Unix system. I know this.

0:14.0

It's all the files of the whole park. It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus. The Eagle One. The package is being delivered. You know, in this age of everything. Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

You know, in this age of social collapse and plague, it's easy to forget that the 2016

0:28.3

presidential election was a cluster fuck of gargantuan proportions.

0:33.6

Russian spies, WikiLeaks, war in Ukraine, Mueller Report, election interference, all spelling

0:39.4

maybe the first chapter in the end of the American experiment?

0:43.8

Well, HBO has a great new doc deep diving this entire ordeal, co-directed by film great Alex Gibney

0:50.0

and Javier Alberto Botero.

0:53.2

Agents of Chaos is a doc that parses exactly what happened to America

0:56.4

during what's become the most insane election ever, at least so far.

1:01.5

Botero is on the show to tell me more.

1:04.1

I'm Ben Maku, and this is Cyber.

1:09.0

All right, so Javier, I covered this pretty closely in Russia as well.

1:13.0

I was there for a bit, the D&C hack and all of the sort of espionage intrigues surrounding it.

1:17.6

I felt like it was a massive rabbit hole.

1:19.5

You spent three and a half years doing this.

1:21.5

How do you feel?

1:23.5

So I'm curious.

1:26.9

I can't deny there are many rabbit halls. You know, there's a, there's a

1:31.2

warrant in here. What part to you, as someone who covered it, feels like the rabbit hole? Is it the

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