[heartwood]

So the Deep State prebunked NPR via the Aspen Institute?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yes, the setup worked that way:

“Edit” (or claim editing) on a few of the files in some unknown way to add (or subtract) “something” from a file.

Issue a leak that the “file was edited”

Then claim publicly in one source that “at least one of the files was edited”.

Then immediately (less than 4 hours), use a second and third and (rapidly) fifth, sixth and seventh sources to claim “the files were edited, this cannot be trusted.

Then continue to emphasize Russian disinformation, because the State massed media has spent 5 years linking Trump to Putin, and associating Putin with corruption and putting Trump in power in the first election.