Bloody Hell. I find it very frustrating that intelligent people don't seem to follow through their thought process here. The intelligence community will never be able to release enough information to satisfy people. The information will either be so non-specific as to be useless ("we had spies who told us" - would anyone here believe that anymore than they do now?), or so specific it will damage ongoing interests ("W…
This is as far as my personal intelligence takes me:
* US officials and departments like the NSA have a history of lying to the public
* professional hackers are impossible to track down, therefore any evidence suggesting that they know exactly who it was will be met with great scepticism
* the information they released actually confirms that it could have been any hacker, because they used tools that are easily accessible
* the US seems to have a political agenda here
Knowing these facts I am just unable to believe the narrative. You could argue that they cannot release actual evidence, however that just makes me question the act of the DHS getting into this mess in the first place.