Picture this: Russian hackers are reading emails exchanged between members of think tanks, Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff, and Democratic leadership.
https://twitter.com/realjusthuman/status/1951060234149175540
These hackers must translate the emails into Russian, analyze them, and produce reports for the SVR/Moscow.
When drafting their analytical memoranda, they attach only the key emails that support their findings, avoiding the inclusion of dozens of emails or detailed explanations of who sent what to whom or each person’s role.
Their superiors, who will read the reports, don’t have time for excessive detail. They need a concise appraisal of the intelligence gathered.
To achieve this, the hackers create composites of the most critical email exchanges they’ve analyzed.
This composite material, termed “Sensitive Intelligence” by Durham, was intercepted by Dutch intelligence and shared with U.S. intelligence.
The content of the emails, the substance, is real.
But the emails themselves are composites. They are elements of real emails repackaged into one for ease of reporting.
But the emails themselves are composites. They are elements of real emails repackaged into one for ease of reporting.
And since Durham matched their content with emails and text messages he recovered from individuals who were victims of the Russian hackers email intrusions… that means the information in the composite emails AND the memoranda is credible.
And when you add in all the other stuff we now know they become extremely credible and compelling intelligence.
Intelligence that ought to have been pursued.
Intelligence that ought to have been pursued.
*the composite emails + the memoranda or reports are what Durham calls the “Sensitive Intelligence”
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