NOT PYNCHON AT ALL: Was: "Is this, um, IT?" Or "Seeing what is in front of your nose is often the hardest thing"--Orwell

[Mark Kohut]

Wow. I'm old enough to remember when The Intercept was half-toothless and
many of its readers *savagely* disbelieved any fact-based reporters on
Russia vs The US election and derided all?--most?-- of the mainstream
newspaper reporting such as the NYT's, that lying rag:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/the-nyts-
crazy-russian-spy-story-explained-by-its-author.html

Welcome back.

"The Times obtained four of the documents that the Russian in Germany tried
to pass to American intelligence (The Times did not pay for the material).
All are purported to be Russian intelligence reports, and each focuses on
associates of Mr. Trump. Carter Page, the former campaign adviser who has
been the focus of F.B.I. investigators, features in one; Robert and Rebekah
Mercer, the billionaire Republican donors, in another.

Yet all four appear to be drawn almost entirely from news reports, not
secret intelligence. They all also contain stylistic and grammatical usages
not typically seen in Russian intelligence reports, said Yuri Shvets, a
former K.G.B. officer who spent years as a spy in Washington before
immigrating to the United States after the end of the Cold War."

----from a long(er) NYT article on the whole thing--so far--which few would

read but you can find-- or ask and I'll send.
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