The question I kept asking was: how did Russians suddenly get so smart on the intricacies of the American political system, which they were so ignorant of just a couple years prior? Yesterday's redaction error in the Manafort case answers part of that.

And this is a good thread. https://t.co/UZ6YwjeHtw

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) January 9, 2019