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Personally I do not have enough knowledge on the circumstances to credibly argue one way or another with regards to the alleged meddling. > My read of it was t
by willstrafach 10y ago
Personally I do not have enough knowledge on the circumstances to credibly argue one way or another with regards to the alleged meddling.
> My read of it was that there was not any human or signals intelligence, only that the idea that Russia meddled in the US election fit with an established notion of what Russia might wish to do, so there was not really any need for evidence.
This is not the case. The declassified version only had open source evidence. In combination with the fact that the general public is not going to know how exactly to read an ICA or read between the lines, the release was not very helpful, as it understandably lead many to think that they were presenting their full case, rather than the reality of "evidence is too sensitive so here is some analysis of RT!" being what they put in the ICA. Definitely not a good strategy, as I said, this would have been far better for critical discussion if they figured out a way to declassify actual evidence.
- grandalf 10y ago> this would have been far better for critical discussion if they figured out a way to declassify actual evidence. True. I think it's very important in situations like this to recall how the alleged evidence for the Iraq war turned out not to exist. The methods used by intelligence agencies are far from infallible.