I had of course heard of those documents, but I’d never taken the time to go through them. Since you were kind enough to provide links, I did take a look at the first one, which is quite long, as you know, but I felt after making through about the first third that I had caught the essence of it, or, to put it another way, decided that if there were anything of substance I would have seen it by then.

Perhaps there were things of substance hidden behind the many redacted paragraphs and pages, but the only verifiable fact I found was the report of the German girl who falsely claimed to have been attacked by Muslims, the retraction of which story the Russian press failed to note.

In this regard, the Russian media would seem to be acting exactly like the U.S. media, which regularly pushes false narratives dreamed up by CIA press releases, only to fail to retract them (or bury the retraction to near invisibility) when such things are found to be unsubstantiated at best, or deliberate lies, more probably. The story about the Russian bounty on the corpses of U.S. troops being a recent example. Even after the story was disavowed by the intelligence community, it continues to be cited as fact by the vast majority who never got the second memo because it was either buried or non-existent.

But to continue with the Senate report, everything else seemed to be layered on top of testimony provided by those whose own credibility is subject to question and whose sources were not made available.

Somewhat disturbingly also, was the attempt to conflate modern Russia with the USSR, the two of which are clearly not the same entity. What’s a good analogy here? Attributing faults of modern South Africa to the apartheid regime? Tainting modern Germany with Hitler’s faults? These analogies are far from perfect, but they seem close enough to illustrate the point.

But onward. Since your point is that these documents contain a trove of verifiable facts to sustain the claim of Russian interference with the U.S. electoral system, I respectfully request that you pull those facts out for examination on their own, obviating the need to wade through voluminous documents loaded with fluff.