I think the point about foreign actors is disinformation campaigns. One of the things that are really hard work for the security intelligence community is to sort out information that's collected and decide what's reliable and what's corroborated. There is a possibility that it is disinformation. Mr. Johnston wrote about some of these.
I'm aware of incidents where the media ran with stories that were generated by foreign intelligence agencies. I'm not blaming them for that, but that's the information they had. That's one of the reasons that I think it's important that a wider community of people have the security clearances to look at information and to be more skeptical and wonder about whether this is authentic and corroborated or whether this is spin and disinformation by a malign actor.