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17 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This piece is written by a former adviser to both Bush & Trump who sells "network security services to governments and private companies." Maybe we could take his evidence-free claims about the extreme Russian hacking threat with a grain of salt? nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opi…
This is literally the only explanation the author provides for alleging that "the Russians" have probably infiltrated everything: a certain type of hack is "almost always" committed by a nation-state & we should just take his word for it that there's evidence implicating Russia.
Trump will soon be gone but Russiagate will likely continue to poison our political and media landscape for years to come. A reminder about why this conspiratorial & dangerous narrative exists: 34justice.com/2018/07/24/a-p…
In the case of Tom Bossert, there's also a lot of money to be made off of Russiagate!

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