The United States has accused the head of Russia’s state-owned RT television network of being a key player in Russian “malign influence operations.”

       And she’s proud of it.

       Margarita Simonyan says she takes her orders directly from the Kremlin in what she describes as a covert “guerrilla” information operation against the United States. Speaking on state television on Sunday night, she taunted Washington over its efforts to shut down RT’s campaign and contradicted previous Kremlin denials of foreign influence operations.