The New Yorker: Assigning Blame for Russia’s Election Meddling

Last Friday’s indictment of thirteen Russian nationals by Robert Mueller, the special counsel in the investigation into Russian tampering with the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, showed that, while Obama’s advisers were wrestling with the pros and cons of launching a covert campaign against Moscow, the Russians had already embarked on an ambitious influence operation of their own in the United States.The indictment handed down last week has renewed a debate about whether Obama did enough to counter the Kremlin when he was in office. President Trump weighed in over the weekend with a series of tweets, including one that charged, “Obama was President, knew of the threat, and did nothing.”