Russians dismiss U.S. report accusing Putin as 'one more giant fake'
Source: The Washington Post
MOSCOW — Russian commentators on Saturday dismissed, with no small amount of derision, the conclusion by U.S. intelligence agencies that President Vladimir Putin personally ordered a campaign to sabotage the American presidential election.
Few in Russia have ever accepted the notion that the Kremlin intervened to hurt Hillary Clinton and help President-elect Donald Trump, but the 14-page declassified report, lacking as it was in details, drew instant contempt from Moscow’s chattering classes.“This is one more giant fake,” tweeted Alexei Pushkov, a senior Russian legislator and erstwhile pundit.
The intelligence agencies’ report, released Friday, may have come off as a blunt assessment of the Kremlin’s role in orchestrating a coordinated campaign of cyberattacks and propaganda dumps to an audience in the United States.
But in Russia, the view was that the report revealed nothing that Russians hadn’t already heard from the Clinton campaign and the White House, which formally accused Russia of interfering in the election in October and later directly accused Putin. And because President Obama already delivered on a promise to punish Russia for the hacks in a set of sanctions at the end of December, some were scratching their heads about the validity of the report.
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