Hopefully the last, anyway.
If the report had explained how the Russians convinced Hillary Clinton not to campaign in Wisconsin (yes, that's Speaker Ryan with the sickest of burns), that they brainwashed her staff to order those buses of SEIU ground troops headed for Michigan to turn around and go back to Iowa, or show proof that Fancy Bear or Cozy Bear put DNC emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop (which prompted James Comey's letter), then I can be convinced.
But I couldn't find that in the report. Did I just miss it?
As I blogged on December 13, the Russians did something. But whatever they did had an indeterminable effect on the 2016 election, because the US intelligence officers who compiled the report did not go there. The report does say that.
If you don't want to accept that Clinton did it to herself, if you can't blame the polling that missed the mark, and if you think Comey was not at fault with his reopening and reclosing le' affaire email, then maybe you should just fall back to that old reliable, time-tested yet threadbare excuse: blaming the Green Party and Jill Stein.
House Democrats are calling for an independent investigation into the matter. I support that. "The Russians did it" is trying on the wardrobe of the JFK assassination conspiracy, so why not?
If the report had explained how the Russians convinced Hillary Clinton not to campaign in Wisconsin (yes, that's Speaker Ryan with the sickest of burns), that they brainwashed her staff to order those buses of SEIU ground troops headed for Michigan to turn around and go back to Iowa, or show proof that Fancy Bear or Cozy Bear put DNC emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop (which prompted James Comey's letter), then I can be convinced.
But I couldn't find that in the report. Did I just miss it?
As I blogged on December 13, the Russians did something. But whatever they did had an indeterminable effect on the 2016 election, because the US intelligence officers who compiled the report did not go there. The report does say that.
“We did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election,” the report stated.
If you don't want to accept that Clinton did it to herself, if you can't blame the polling that missed the mark, and if you think Comey was not at fault with his reopening and reclosing le' affaire email, then maybe you should just fall back to that old reliable, time-tested yet threadbare excuse: blaming the Green Party and Jill Stein.
House Democrats are calling for an independent investigation into the matter. I support that. "The Russians did it" is trying on the wardrobe of the JFK assassination conspiracy, so why not?
