July 21, 2020 

London — British lawmakers released the findings a long-delayed and much anticipated report into Russian interference in UK politics on Tuesday.  The report from the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee did not produce a smoking gun, because, the committee said, nobody looked for one. 

The report found that Russian interference in Western politics was the new normal, but that the U.K. government only started to really consider the threat after Moscow's hack and leak operation against the Democratic National Committee in Washington became public.

Still, the report was kept under wraps by Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government for almost a year — until the committee outmaneuvered him to release it on Tuesday. 

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