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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
I have seen this claim, but do not find it to be a convincing explanation. When Russian intelligence hacked the Clinton campaign in 2016 they gave the raw data to Wikileaks which they knew would have no compunction about publishing it in full. A foreign state and especially Iran would be very unlikely to give such data to Politico or a similar DC Beltway news outlet as they do not publish raw intel and would also be highly likely to suppress the story anyways. My assessment is that this is likely a pressure campaign to ensure that the data is not published by characterizing it as emanating from a foreign state. That is separate question from whether it is newsworthy in general but I favor transparency and would like to see it and evaluate.
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Mantej Rajpal 🇺🇸
@mantej.eth
That makes a lot of sense, appreciate your analysis! Curious to see if their campaign will cite any evidence aside from the single Microsoft report
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