Those who claim to have been shocked the Russians might have meddled in the 2016 election are either playing for the cameras or not paying attention. They, and the Soviets before them have employed “active measures”- a technical term that applies to all kinds of espionage - in the United States and the West practically from the moment the Czar was overthrown.For those who came in late, this kind of stuff is not new. And the U.S. does it, too.