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> I just noticed these are government and not private > analysts making the claims, so my comment is now a bit > cynical for my own taste... Not for mine.
by Estragon 12y ago
> I just noticed these are government and not private
> analysts making the claims, so my comment is now a bit
> cynical for my own taste...
Not for mine... casting these issues as a threat to national sovereignty is a great way to raise defense funding.
- famousactress 12y agoYeah, I don't object to suspecting our intelligence agencies have a habit of using information to benefit their budgets in that way, especially when there are opportunities to be technically accurate but let the media fill in the blanks (ie: "We think the hackers were Russian" becomes headline: "Russia involved in hacks").