I think actually it kind of stretched its logic to suggest that it didn't have some impact on some voter decisions, when you consider the election was settled by less than 80,000 votes in three states which the Russians targeted.
Clapper expresses disagreement with the notion that Russian interference had no impact on the election outcome.
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I think, though, that what has been in the past considered an annoyance or an irritation, has now risen to the level of a genuine national security threat.
I think he's trying to erase any vestiges of as much as he can of culpability that people that were caught up in this investigation.
This has devolved into an ad hoc - ad hocing, at this point, this bizarre news conference, from Ministry of Defense, which trying to sort of rationalize, and explain, the Russian Military predicament, really, in Ukraine.
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