WaPo has done a very good job of claiming Mitch McConnell was evil for not making a statement that preceded IC attribution last fall.
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Replying to @emptywheel
Most people who spout WaPo's story (mindlessly) don't think that through. Why should McConnell's attribution PRECEDE the IC's?
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Replying to @emptywheel
Until October 7 McConnell had, at the very least, cover for not making a statement, bc neither had the IC.
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Replying to @emptywheel
Do you REALLY want Congress to be in the business of making attributions that the IC will not yet make? Really?
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Replying to @emptywheel
As I understand timeline, McConnell disagreed with the intelligence well after the IC had reached this conclusion. Why do you choose 7 Oct?
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Replying to @derrelldurrett
Because that's when IC issued a statement? Nope. All the WaPo details on public statement are September. September is b4 October, right?
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Replying to @emptywheel
Not interested in when they issued statement. Interested in when they told McConnell "the Russians what did it." He seems hard to persuade.
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Ok. Well, again, I'm actually affirmatively uncomfortable with expecting MoCs to get ahead of public IC attribution. They're not cutouts.
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Replying to @emptywheel
That gives him (and others) an enormous amount of cover for behaving tribally when in their short term interests.
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