Aaron Mate: Russiagate Architects Suppressed Doubts to Peddle False Claims

This is all consistent with things we already had good reason to believe, IMO. It does seem to give us some additional reason to think that Obama was involved in pushing the IC to exaggerate their confidence level. That's significant, but not, so far as I can tell, treasonous.

   Of course I still oppose throwing around the 't' word in such cases.

   This seems to me to be analogous to the Bush '43 administration's push to exaggerate evidence of WMDs--utterly indefensible...but not treasonous.

   That is, assuming that I understand what treason is--though I only understand the ordinary concept, not the legal concept.

   Of course exaggerating the strength of your own evidence, like exaggerating the weakness of your opponents' evidence, is one of the most common errors in reasoning people make. So in that sense there's nothing really astounding here.

   What's shocking, I think, is how easily IC safeguards against this sort of thing are circumvented.

[Obviously: Mate has known biases, but he's pretty good, so I'm provisionally accepting his word for it with respect to the content of the new documents.]