Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II wasted no time in castigating the “crypto industry” for its role in the DNC hack. The fact that Russians had apparently used bitcoin to cover their tracks was of more concern than the numerous other failings that the indictment revealed, like the inability of Democrats to detect basic phishing attempts, or of DNC admins to detect the X-Agent malware that was installed. No, the biggest takeaway from all this was that bitcoin had facilitated one of the gravest nation state-orchestrated crimes in years.
This reminds me of the Congressional calls to ban Bitcoin back in 2013 because of it association with the Silk Road. What better boogeyman could there be than the evil freedom-hating Russians?
Never mind that the DNC's information security apparatus was completely pathetic, and that it had high-level employees getting phished... sure, that's all Bitcoin's fault.