Ronald Reagan made a famous speech about the “Evil Empire”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Empire_speech?wprov=sfti1

I’ll remind you that Putins Chef, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has not only admitted to interfering with the 2016 presidential election but also actively interfering with the mid terms.

So you really shouldn't really be surprised the DHS and FBI hare having these meetings under the auspices of CISA. They are literally just doing their job.

What do you think was happening during the Cold War?

A more apt title might be "This is the Biggest Beat up of the Year".

BTW from the WaPo article you referenced >>>

Twitter in 2020 restricted distribution of stories about the drive’s contents out of concern that the revelations might have resulted from a nefarious hacking campaign intended to upend the election, much as Russian hacks of sensitive Democratic Party emails shaped the trajectory of the 2016 election.

The Post struggled to reach definitive conclusions about the contents as a whole, including whether all of it originated from a single computer or could have been assembled from files from multiple computers and put on the portable drive.