What? Blackmail doesn’t reveal itself as some news report saying “CIA reports that Congressman X did blah blah blah, therefore the CIA recommends that you shoul

What? Blackmail doesn’t reveal itself as some news report saying “CIA reports that Congressman X did blah blah blah, therefore the CIA recommends that you should not vote for him in the next election and other Congressmen should not work with him”. It appears as something like “Leaked photographs reveal scandalous behavior by Congressman X. This scandal destroyed his reputation in Congress leading to him being ineffective in Congress, and made him deeply unpopular with voters, which will lead to him losing his next election”. Blackmail works on anybody.