The Russia Investigations: So Many Pieces Of The Puzzle Are Missing
The Russia imbroglio is a tale told out of order about a puzzle with pieces missing. Without knowing what goes in the blank spaces, it's impossible to know what to make of the whole thing.
The broadest outline has become clear: Russian President Vladimir Putin sought vengeance against the United States and the West after what he perceived as an outrageous overstep by Washington, D.C., into his own front yard in 2014 following his invasion of Ukraine.
Putin ordered a historic spike in Russia's decades-old "active measures," a broad wave of both overt and clandestine actions aimed at sowing chaos, undercutting public confidence and, eventually, hurting or helping specific political actors.
That strategy persists to this day, U.S. intelligence officials warn, and through the
