Spartanmack
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I cannot sign that it's ok for Russia to hack and slash a presidential candidate's e-mails sourced from the DNC and call it "all's-fair" in politics.
From the article: "Russian hackers working for the Kremlin cyber-pilfered the DNC then passed the purloined data, including thousands of unflattering emails, to Wikileaks, which has shown them to the world."
This is foreign interference at the highest level, with an agenda to put the other guy in office.
I'm not saying "all's fair" in politics. My point is, regardless of the source, the truth in those emails is what cost Hillary the election, not the fact that they were hacked. I think it should be investigated from the standpoint of national security and protecting the privacy of American citizens. The idea that this may delegitimize Trump's win is nonsense - people found out the truth about Hillary and decided they'd had enough. If the Russians spent millions on an anti-hillary propaganda campaign pushing lies about her, that's one thing but if it was indeed Russian hackers, all they did was show people things they deserved to see.
I don't mean to imply it's your opinion that the Russians swayed the election - that seems to be the conventional line of thinking and I didn't feel like writing a separate post about it.