Evan Gershkovich US Spy or Simply Naive Russia News Now

U.S. officials, the Wall Street Journal, and the rest of the mainstream press are up in arms over the arrest by Russian officials of 31-year-old WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich. The Russians are charging Gershkovich with spying, a charge that the Journal and the U.S. government are vehemently denying. U.S. officials and the U.S. mainstream press are saying that Gershkovich is nothing more than a “political hostage.” Of course, the denials that Gershkovich is a spy are meaningless. If Gershkovich was recruited by the CIA while in journalism school as part of an updated Operation Mockingbird, the last thing he would…