This also seems relevant: >According to the New York Times, on 1 July, the National Intelligence Council, which reports to the director of national intelligenc

This also seems relevant: >According to the New York Times, on 1 July, the National Intelligence Council, which reports to the director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, produced a two-and-a-half page document in which various intelligence agencies assessed the credibility of the existence of a bounty program based on the available evidence. Anonymous officials who had seen the memo said that the "C.I.A. and the National Counterterrorism Center had assessed with medium confidence—meaning credibly sourced and plausible, but falling short of near certainty"—that the GRU had offered bounties. It takes evidence to get to a medium confidence assessment, it is not purely "speculative bullshit."