Steadfast unwillingness to entertain alternate theories about 'Russian hacking' is a severe collective media failurehttps://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-10/why-some-u-s-ex-spies-don-t-buy-the-russia-story …
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After more than a year, no dispositive evidence has been presented for the provenance of the DNC hack. Alternate theories should be *sought*
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Instead, any attempt to proffer alternate theories gets immediately cast as conspiratorial, pro-Russia, or whatever other smear is in vogue.
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And it's true that there is a conspiratorial tint to some of these theories. But a responsible, diligent media could sort through the junk.
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Instead they're content spout Intelligence Community-backed conventional wisdom and stigmatize any dissenting opinion.
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#Resistance types have been quickest to stigmatize because they can immediately cast skepticism as somehow Defending Trump™ -
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@Bershidsky notes in his column, this could well be an "an Iraq-sized mistake." And the media will once again be to blame. - 1 more reply
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No there isn't, not in this report. It's been picked apart to the core. Try again hot shot.
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Yes! Like substantive proof for one.
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on narrow Guccifer2 issue: if document pointlessly re-saved to show metadata "J.Edgar Hoover", does it prove FBI? key IC attribn arg equiv
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As a tech guy I tell you it's a little more than that. Sound.
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