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Originally Posted by whell

I think we've let the genie out of the bottle with making this all very public - likely made public for politic's sake - and we're going to have a very difficult time conducting an objective examination of the facts in this case.

... so let's not bother trying. Let's give Russia free hand to intervene in democratic elections in the USA, Germany, Italy and elsewhere because intelligence is never absolutely perfect.

Per Michael Hayden (former CIA and NSA Chief), Trump's appropriate response to this should have been along the lines of:

An administration-in-waiting more confident in itself, in its own legitimacy, in U.S. institutions and in the people it will soon govern might have said, “These are serious issues. We intend to hear them out. Nothing is more precious than our democratic process. We have asked the Obama administration for details.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...0ae_story.html

I'm afraid der Trumpenfuhrer didn't meet this standard of statesmanship.