Background to 'Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections'

TL;DR — The declassified ICA on Russian interference in 2016, plus its account of how attribution was actually done.

⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. US federal government work (17 USC §105).

6 January 2017, declassified. The Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian activity in the 2016 election, published with a companion section on the analytic process and cyber incident attribution — how confidence levels were assigned and what attribution rests on technically.

The methodological half is the durable part. It is one of the few public documents in which the US intelligence community explains its own epistemics: what ‘high confidence’ means, and why attribution of a cyber operation is an inference rather than a measurement.

Where this came from

• Brendan Sheehan’s public are.na channel

25 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.