Obama White House Knew of Russian Election Hacking, but Delayed Telling

[BruceWane]

20. To us this inaction may just seem idiotic, incompetent, etc....

.... but I think to many of the people in the security and intelligence community, the USA is not nearly as far away from falling apart as the general population tends to think.

I think this quote -
“We were concerned that by making the statement we might, in and of itself, be challenging the integrity of the election process itself.”
- kind of tells what I thought of the Obama administration's apparent reluctance to publicly give a strong acknowledgement of the extent of meddling.

The average american citizen sees the USA as this permanent, everlasting thing. People in the business of national security and intelligence, people who have seen - and even seen to - the collapse of other governments and nations understand that the USA is not really so different from places where things have fallen apart.

The average american sees the instability in many parts of the world as a problem with "those people", as if being born in the upper part of North America somehow imparts some kind of "stable democracy gene" into the occupants of the area.

We had a distinct violent mob mentality emerging from far-right origins, spreading like wildfire through white middle America in a way that few had foreseen or even really thought possible. From the perspective of people who have spent their lives involved in worldwide geopolitics, I can see where caution would be taken before stoking those flames with reports that invite people to question the validity of the election process itself. If the process by which a government is elected is invalid, then isn't the government itself illegitimate?