In December of 2016, officials were confident that Russia’s interference in that year’s election — if it existed at all — was minimal. By January of 2017, the outgoing Obama administration was panicking like mad.

And, thanks to a document drop from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, we can now see just how felicitous this about-face was.

Firstly, the background, which Gabbard dropped on social media Friday.

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