As The Susan Rice Scandal Explodes, The Russia Election Hacking Story Gets Murkier
4/03/2017
Scandal: While the momentum behind the Russia-election-meddling story chugs along, the claim that sparked the entire drama — that Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee — appears to have suffered a big blow. Does anybody care?
The Russia connection was first made by a private cybersecurity firm whose work has been treated as unassailable — until last week, when it had to rewrite and retract statements made to support that claim.
http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/did-the-claim-that-russia-hacked-the-dnc-just-fall-apart/To understand what happened and why it is significant requires going through a brief timeline of events.
