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Fighting over the rival intel assessments re Covid origins-lab leak v natural-is inverting factional interpretations of the fact that CIA/NCTC had moderate & NSA/DIA had low confidence in their shared assessment that 🇷🇺 offered bounties to kill US troops. nytimes.com/2021/05/07/us/politics/russian-bounties-nsc.html
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Commentators trying to aggrieve & monetize audiences reduce everything to fodder they can use to proclaim that it all shows once again that We are good or They are bad. The real world--complexity, tradeoffs, uncertainty stemming from imperfect available info--is more interesting.