Why the House Hearings Revealed More About America Than Russia
Daniel McCarthy
Hours into his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, FBI director James Comey got to the heart of the matter. Russians and others had interfered in U.S. elections before. What was unusual about the meddling in last year’s election was not just the role that hacking played or the public dissemination of stolen information, it was how “noisy” the intrusions were, as if the Russians “didn’t care that we knew.” Comey elaborated in response to a question from Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. “I think in part their number one mission is to undermine the credibility of our entire democracy enterprise of this nation,” he said. He added that they might have hoped that the U.S. would “amplify…what we saw” and that they were intent on “freaking people out about how the Russians might be undermining our elections successfully.”
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