White House stated pretty clearly why the Grizzly Steppe report went out: "to better help network defenders in the United States and abroad identify, detect, a

White House stated pretty clearly why the Grizzly Steppe report went out: "to better help network defenders in the United States and abroad identify, detect, and disrupt Russia’s global campaign of malicious cyber activities." https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/29/fact-sheet-actions-response-russian-malicious-cyber-activity-and https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/29/fact-... Attribution is sexy and the media likes to talk about it. I don't believe the confusion was intentional. The White House is pretty bad at PR and 'never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence'