[CharlesColeman]

Also, the CIA may prefer other techniques than spamming social media. There's no good reason to think they're following the same playbook as the FSB.

[techntoke]

With what we learned about the NYC FBI and from the recent IG report, why would we not assume that there are political factions within the intelligence agencies abusing their training and tools to try to help a particular candidates?

[CharlesColeman]

> why would we not assume that there are political factions within the intelligence agencies abusing their training and tools to try to help a particular candidates?

That has nothing to do with what I said, and is in fact completely orthogonal to it.