This lays waste to the IC’s “assessments” that Russia hacked the DNC and passed its information on to Wikileaks. That claim was already on thin ice because the source materials for those assessments were never disclosed. Even if they were, the quoted passage makes clear that the CIA, and by implication any other intelligence agency with the same capability, could have committed the hack and left behind Russian hackers’ “fingerprints,” a not unlikely possibility given the IC’s hostility towards Trump.

This is the smallest victory Wikileaks has handed to Trump. Whether he realizes larger victories depends on whether he and his team study the Wikileaks press release and disclosures and realize their implications. As Commander in Chief, Trump is duty bound to ask questions and investigate. How did the CIA lose “control of the majority of it’s hacking arsenal” and documentation? How did Wikileaks obtain so many of the nuclear warheads of the US’s cyber-warfare armory?

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