FLASHBACK: Remember When the Russians Hacked the White House’s Computers? “While we pounded away at the story, the White House refused to respond to our inquiries. The Washington press corps, which must have known that the White House’s computers were out of action, maintained a discreet silence, declining to write about the Russian hack, even though many D.C. reporters no doubt followed the story on Power Line. Why the coy silence? Because it was October 2014, weeks before the midterm elections, and the story reflected poorly on the Obama administration, which didn’t even discover the intrusion itself. It turned out that American officials were alerted to the Russian hack of the White House and State Department by an unidentified ally (I’m guessing Israel).”

Likewise, the extremely serious Chinese personnel-records hack got very little attention. But that’s because neither of these events was connected with Democrats losing power. That’s what it takes to get the press upset.