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The government cannot expect the public to take its DNC hack attribution seriously if every time someone finds suspected malware multiple anonymous sources leak that to the WaPo.

The most interesting aspect of today's sanctions is that the White House sanctioned FSB, along with GRU. Does that mean they were working more closely together than previously known? Or the US is sanctioning activities it engages in?

Some of the details in a big new insider trading indictment may suggest more about US-Chinese hacking.

After several notable Friday night news dumps about what the CIA thinks or plans to do in response to Russia's hack of our election, John Brennan did an NPR interview -- which largely aired on Friday -- that said some remarkable things about CIA's commitment to the principles of democracy.

HPSCI's claim that Snowden fabricated his high school degree is based off inaccurate quotes of secondary documents.

The most recent Shadow Brokers release intersects very closely with questions about how to respond to Russia's hacking.

Monday night, NBC reported details of a first-ever Red Phone cyber exchange between President Obama and Vladimir Putin. This morning, Russian news reports are claiming (inaccurately) that almost all channels of communication between the US and Russia have been froze.

I've gotten beat up in the past for pointing to the documented, problematic means that former NSA General Counsel Matt Olsen expanded the dragnet. Last week, Olsen admitted that the possibility someone like Trump would come along was, "beyond [his] ability to imagine."