Yeah, but when the sources are government officials peddling the government line, in an environment where they have every motive to exaggerate, why would you assign them any credibility at all?
How has the WaPo not got this message yet? Government officials talking about Russia are probably lying
What's the basis that officials have a "blame Russia" policy? Why does this seem to be official policy only since this year?
It's not like anti-Russian saber rattling was a thing even 12 months ago, despite the Ukraine situation.
The DNC hacks are a thing that happened, and a lot of people outside the government seem to agree that evidence points to it happening from Russia, by actors who seem to have worked with the Russian government.
If you accept the DNC hack analysis, it's not absurd to imagine that closer scrutiny reveals more infrastructure that Russian state actors have penetrated. Especially given that we know infrastructure is more vulnerable that we might like.
Considering that Republicans are not peddling the anti-Russia line, what's the angle here? in the last 6 months of an 8 year term, Obama decides to activate the anti-Russian propaganda machine? Only for it to be dismantled in 2 weeks anyways with the new administration? What sequence of events causes that?
Threatconnect did a decent amount of research into the attacks[0] for trying to figure out who did the attacks. There are other security researchers out there who come to similar conclusions.
So either the government is bribing a bunch of security researchers (who doesn't want the scoop that the consensus is wrong?), the government executed a perfect false flag to blame Russia on something (why do this? It's not like having Russia as an enemy is useful for us), the analyses by these researchers are right, or something else.
My money is on a decent amount of smart people all arriving somewhere near the truth.
How has the WaPo not got this message yet? Government officials talking about Russia are probably lying