Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence

The Washington Post late Friday night published an explosive storythat, in many ways, is classic American journalism of the worst sort: The key claims arebased exclusively on the unverified assertionsof anonymous officials, who in turn are disseminating their own claims about what the CIA purportedly believes, all based on evidence that remains completely secret.

These unnamed sourcestold the Post that “the CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election t...