9. Some quotes from Oleg Kalugin a retired KGB general living in the US who wrote two books about Soviet spying and with William Colby, former director of the CIA, created a computer game Spycraft. He said Russia tries to take advantage of American weaknesses. No doubt and vice versa.
10. James Clapper, director of national intelligence, released a report in early January claiming Putin ordered an operation to support Trump, undermine HRC, and cast doubt on the US democratic process. The authors admit the report is "more assertion than evidence."
11. This paragraph informs us that re the Iraq War the US intelligence agencies put forth assertions that were untrue but they argued over the extent of the untruth. This time they all agreed with the same assertion. This is supposed to make it more credible but it's still, so far, just an assertion.
12. Clapper makes his assertions to Congress about Putin and adds that WikiLeaks was in on it spreading "fake news" [i.e., willfully spreading known falsehoods in order to deceive] and pro Trump "messages.'' [ No proof of any of this was given, nor any information on WikiLeaks shown to be false. The authors fail to draw the obvious conclusion that publishing the truth about the DNC and HRC does not amount to being pro Trump!]
13. A long paragraph revealing that Trump first rejected Clappers' unfounded assertions but later "grudgingly accepted " them adding that the Russians had no effect on the election's outcome. Then quotes are offered by an anti-Putin Russian journalist (Yevgenia Albats) about what Putin "probably" does or doesn't believe, what he's interested in and what he "wanted." Such telepathic transmissions, are, however, even less evidentiary than Clapper's assertions.
This is the end of part one. From reading part one of The New Yorker Article you will not have learned anything at all about whether or not the Russian government or Putin had anything to do with the "hacking" of the DNC or if they interfered with our elections. Maybe we will learn something in part two.
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