collect information to provide policy makers information to make policy. the russians focus on subversion, of going after your weaknesses. this is the deception, the disinformation, the fake news, the media manipulation, yes, the assassination. all of these things together are what they do. but the one thing you have to remember underlying all of this and it s been this way in their doctrine since the soviet union is they have human sources helping them direct the stuff. the knowledge that they have of our elections and how to play off our parties and all that stuff, that doesn t just come from good guesses. that comes from having sources inside that tell them where to go and what to do. and that s the shoe that s going to have to drop here. hopefully. now, it s an intelligence service so their job is to keep this stuff secret. but we re seeing the outlines through the indictments, the stuff on cyber, the troll farms. let s hope also we start to see what are some of the people behind t