Renee DiResta4d ago
🧵In 2018 the Senate Intelligence Committee asked me to field a team and analyze a data set that social media platforms had turned over: several hundred gigs of data chronicling a multi-year effort to divide American society *and* interfere in an American election www.lawfaremedia.org/article/retc...
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The committee's inquiry was bipartisan. My report was part of a blinded process; others also investigated the data. The reason for the blinding was bc of the political sensitivity. Each of the 2 teams found, unequivocally, that the data showed interference. Efforts to boost Trump's candidacy.
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Show threadRenee DiResta4d ago
Interference is not collusion. We used to be able to keep these concepts separate in our head. But as the years went on, partisan hacks & Substack cranks began retconning "Russiagate" -- and an intelligence committee assessment released in Jan 2017 -- to imply that even interference was a "hoax".
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That effort has now reached the office of the Director of the CIA. A Tradecraft Review released last week reassessed a confidence level of their Jan 2017 opinion. That's fine; it's important to review things. But Ratcliffe's spin on a procedural review ignores all the findings that came out after.
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So I wrote this as a reminder. Political appointees shouldn't be rewriting history. Intelligence shouldn't be politicized. The 5-volume Senate Report - partly issued under the chairmanship of Sec State Marco Rubio! - stands as an authoritative read. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/retc...

Retconning ‘Russiagate’
Retconning ‘Russiagate’

The CIA director encourages the rewriting of history.

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