If the Russian government is behind the theft and release of embarrassing emails from the Democratic Party, as U.S. officials have suggested, it may reflect less a love of Donald Trump or enmity for Hillary Clinton than a desire to discredit the U.S. political system.
A U.S. official who is taking part in the investigation said that intelligence collected on the hacking of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails released by Wikileaks on Friday "indicates beyond a reasonable doubt that it originated in Russia."
The timing on the eve of Clinton's formal nomination this week for the Nov. 8 presidential election has raised questions about whether Russia may have been trying to hurt her, to help Trump, her Republican rival, or to fan populist sentiment against establishment politicians as it has sought to do across Europe in recent years.
"Certainly Russia has become a master at manipulating information for their strategic goals: Witness the information bubble they have created for their threatening behavior in the Crimea, the Ukraine and elsewhere," said former CIA and National Security Agency director Michael Hayden. "A step like this, however, would be really upping their game."
The emails showed that DNC officials explored ways to undermine U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign against Clinton and raised questions about whether Sanders, who is Jewish, was really an atheist.
The disclosures confirmed Sanders' frequent charge that the party played favorites against him and clouded a party convention Clinton hoped would signal unity, not division.
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apparently these are not bogus e-mails, so who cares where the information came from. We should thank them for showing us what a crook killary is!
ReplyDeleteSo how did Russia get copies of all those emails? Where they cleaned off of Hillary server? Gosh darn!
ReplyDeleteThe pious and inclusive Democrats tell whomever they are in front of at the time that they will fight discrimination, bigotry, and racism more strongly than ever before!!
ReplyDeleteThen , privately, these stupid hypocites send each other e-mails about "taco bowls" and what it will take to manipulate them.
And the democrat crowds go wild!!!
hillary could beat a black woman to death on the stage and they would STILL cheer.
her integrity is nonexistent. her greatest skill? A toss up between having her enemies killed and lying with the greatest of ease.
And 40% or more think she is absolutely the greatest thing since indoor plumbing.
We are in serious, serious trouble.
Buy guns and ammo. No joke.
Keep cheering!
ReplyDeleteWait just a minute... Maybe, just maybe the Dems were showing a DNA strand's worth of patriotism by trying to keep Socialist Communist Progressive Liberal sometime Democrat Bernie on the ropes?
Nah, just DNC daily corruption at work.
She is a compromised individual who should have been eliminated from the race months ago.
ReplyDeleteMission Accomplished!
ReplyDeleteEven IF that were true, so what? To use killarys words, what difference at this point does it make? Dems and DNC did wrong. That is the point, not who first exposed their criminal acts. Dems are toast. But they insist on going down spinning.
ReplyDeleteI am old enough to remember that when I did my taxes in the 1960's and early 1970's I was able to deduct the following from my income taxes:
ReplyDeleteA) ANY AND ALL CREDIT CARD INTEREST
B) VEHICLE LOAN INTEREST
C) SALES TAX ON A VEHICLE OR A BOAT
D) PERSONAL LOAN INTEREST
ALSO, SOCIAL SECURITY INCOME WAS NOT TAXABLE.
ALL OF THE DEDUCTIONS WERE REMOVED BY DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATIONS (CARTER).
SOCIAL SECURITY INCOME BECAME TAXABLE DURING BILL CLINTON'S ADMINISTRATION.
THE DEMOCRATS SAY THEY ARE FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS, BUT THEIR ACTIONS SPEAK OTHERWISE.
Discrediting the American political system doesn't need any help from Putin. It's embarrassing itself and all of us well enough on its own.
ReplyDelete134AM: I was not aware that Social Security was taxable. Thanks for letting me know.
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