overwhelm

Of course not, but it's not what he was charged with and it has nothing to do with the Russiagate narrative. Presumably that's why he wasn't charged with that.

That's a surprisingly strong data point in favour of pg's tweet. Not only was time wasted, it sounds like money was lost too.

Congratulations on sticking it through!

It's highly disputed. We just don't hear about that outside alternative sources. Taibbi alludes to this in the OP:

I didn’t really address the case that Russia hacked the DNC, content to stipulate it for now. I was told early on that this piece of the story seemed “solid,” but even that assertion has remained un-bolstered since then, still based on an “assessment” by the intelligence services that always had issues, including the use of things like RT’s “anti-American” coverage of fracking as part of its case. The government didn’t even examine the DNC’s server, the kind of detail that used to make reporters nervous.

Words like "wingnuttery" and "moon landing" weaken your case. If you get enough publications to print something, you can make a terrifically long list of citations, but what does that prove? Quality matters, not quantity, and the quality of journalism devoted to this case has been astonishingly low, as Taibbi shows. As he says:

We won’t know how much of any of this to take seriously until the press gets out of bed with the security services and looks at this whole series of events all over again with fresh eyes, as journalists, not political actors.

"Collusion" was so central to Russiagaters that the buffoonish Luke Harding even named his silly book that: https://www.amazon.com/Collusion-Secret-Meetings-Russia-Help.... (To see how buffoonish, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ikf1uZli4g.)

The length of an article proves nothing about the truth of its contents.

Taibbi has mellowed, alas, but at least he can still do this:

"Imagine how tone-deaf you’d have to be to not realize it makes you look bad, when news does not match audience expectations you raised. To be unaware of this is mind-boggling, the journalistic equivalent of walking outside without pants."

The click reasons, ideological reasons, and hate/fear reasons (of Trump as an interloper in the political class) fused into an alloy. It's impossible to separate these.

Another recent article is about Benjamin in Ibiza in the 30s:

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03/20/walter-benjam...

That's part of what mirceal just said.