Madeleine Albright apologizes to Mitt Romney for underestimating Putin: “We forget we’re dealing with a KGB agent”

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Madeleine Albright apologizes to Mitt Romney for underestimating Putin: “We forget we’re dealing with a KGB agent”
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During a House Intelligence Committee hearing on the rise of authoritarianism around the world, Albright noted that she would like to apologize to Romney because she was wrong about Russia’s capabilities.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright apologized to Mitt Romney on Tuesday for having underestimated Russia when the now-senator was being mocked for claiming during his 2012 presidential election campaign that Moscow was Washington's greatest adversary.

But the experts speaking in Congress on Tuesday widely agreed that Russia is currently one of the biggest adversaries of both the U.S. and democratic values."Russia does not only invade its neighbors and poison its suspected adversaries, it also seeks to poison our democracies and media," Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former NATO Secretary-General and former Prime Minister of Denmark, told the House Intelligence Committee.

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