Eyes rolled. To anyone who had heard the rumors of a Russian intrusion, this reeked of a cover story. The real issue was obviously not maintenance, though the creaky system that connected the nation’s diplomats together seemed at times little better than two paper cups and a string. This sounded more like standard operating procedure for damage control: to conduct a digital exorcism and flush out intruders, the first thing you had to do was bring the system down.
