:::::::''"The piece I wrote on this, based on extensive reporting over many weeks, appeared in ''[[The Nation]]'' on Aug. 9, 2017. Among much else, it showed that a cybersecurity firm called [[CrowdStrike]], which appeared to have extensive connections with [[U.S. intelligence]], had to be [[lying]] when it asserted it had all the metadata necessary to prove a [[Russian hack]] [of the [[DNC]] ]. Parenthetically and no more, ''The Nation'' fired me for reporting and writing that piece, such was the frenzied pitch [[Russophobia]] had reached by this time."'' | :::::::''"The piece I wrote on this, based on extensive reporting over many weeks, appeared in ''[[The Nation]]'' on Aug. 9, 2017. Among much else, it showed that a cybersecurity firm called [[CrowdStrike]], which appeared to have extensive connections with [[U.S. intelligence]], had to be [[lying]] when it asserted it had all the metadata necessary to prove a [[Russian hack]] [of the [[DNC]] ]. Parenthetically and no more, ''The Nation'' fired me for reporting and writing that piece, such was the frenzied pitch [[Russophobia]] had reached by this time."'' |