The thing is, people are trying to lighten Tulsi being a Russian asset which weakens what the Russian story. Hillary is telling us what we need to know.
Tulsi is a Russian Asset. That's the correct terminology. Hillary as Sc. of State is well aware of the fine grain meaning. Tulsi is a disingenuous politician who is either letting herself be manipulated or exploiting the oxygen it gives her for personal political gain. She supports Russia and Syria in direct and indirect ways, is a cult member - an avowed homophobe and an extremely odd person who demonstrates almost no liberal qualities or ideas and is at best a carpetbagger. I would not be surprised to discover she's knowingly taking help from foreign or domestic bad-actors, but it's irrelevant to the term "asset" and the term is appropriately applied, albeit unhelpfully in this climate. The irony of the asset accusation being used to activate and amplify the asset is not lost on me and won't be on Putin and the agencies he's applying to this. It's not paranoid. it's well documented and I can shelve that information and carry on encouraging people to vote and encouraging candidates to not play into this trash.