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...so much easier for you to believe than the contents of actual DNC emails.

You mean the e-mails that were hacked by Russian intelligence and given to wikileaks? I don't see how the content of the DNC e-mails negates or disproves Russian meddling. And remember, we're discussing meddling not wholesale ballot manipulation.

I'm very sure she is a woman, but that's the sort of insult Linda Sarsour (another self-declared feminist) used against Ayaan Hirsi Ali when she tweeted

Having met Lash, there's no way I could disagree.

Very funny.

Actually, there are a lot of liberal views I've held from very early here, but dyed in the wool partisans elect to gloss over those and use Bush support as their sole criteria--which is their prerogative, but a flawed assessment of a 180 degree recalculation.

Lash has provided her evidence as laid out by The Nation.

Maybe you have provided yours, in the same specificity, in which case I missed it.

The crux of the whole thing — the opening argument — rests on the fact that, according to “metadata,” the data was transferred at about 22 megabytes per second, which Lawrence and Forensicator claim is much too fast to have been undertaken over an internet connection. (Most connection speeds are measured at megabits per second, not megabytes; 22 megabytes per second is 176 megabits per second.) Most households don’t get internet speeds that high, but enterprise operations, like the DNC — or, uh, the FSB — would have access to a higher but certainly not unattainable speed like that.

The current centrist "Democratic Establishment" grew out of the party's need for:

1. success at the ballot box
2. money (lots of it)

And the two are very closely connected. Advanced liberalism (they like to call themselves "progressives" these days) doesn't tend to attract either no. 1 or no. 2. Those who are sick of Clintonism or the "Third Way" have few choices on the national stage. But most of us can agree that Mr. Trump's reign so far has been appalling if not disastrous. The trouble is, too much attention is payed to his gaffes and buffoonery while his appointees are busy deregulating and rule-changing behind the scenes.

...there are a lot of liberal views I've held since early here...dyed into the wool partisans elect to gloss over those and use Bush support as the sole criteria...

You know, I do think Hill does have more to her than dirty bits. I think she is probably a courageous woman, who has pushed like mad to get to a position of power--and I do think she has a vision for this country that means alot to her. I just think her vision is a lot like Socialism, so I disagree with her vision.

Lash has provided her evidence as laid out by The Nation.

...Subsequently, Nation editors themselves raised questions about the editorial process that preceded the publication of the article. The article was indeed fact-checked to ensure that Patrick Lawrence, a regular Nation contributor, accurately reported the VIPS analysis and conclusions, which he did. As part of the editing process, however, we should have made certain that several of the article’s conclusions were presented as possibilities, not as certainties. And given the technical complexity of the material, we would have benefited from bringing on an independent expert to conduct a rigorous review of the VIPS technical claims.

We have obtained such a review in the last week from Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project. He has evaluated both the VIPS memo and Lawrence’s article. Freitas lays out several scenarios in which the DNC could have been hacked from the outside, although he does not rule out a leak. Freitas concludes that all parties “must exercise much greater care in separating out statements backed by available digital metadata from thoughtful insights and educated guesses.” His findings are published here.

We have also learned since publication, from longtime VIPS member Thomas Drake, that there is a dispute among VIPS members themselves about the July 24 memo. This is not the first time a VIPS report has been internally disputed, but it is the first time one has been released over the substantive objections of several VIPS members. With that in mind, we asked Drake and those VIPS members who agree with him to present their dissenting view. We also asked VIPS members who stand by their report to respond...

The centrist Democrat Party that Bill Clinton helped engineer...

Thing is, while I don't consider myself a big fan of the US Intelligence community I do find them more trustworthy than NewsMax, Fox News, and Kim DotCom.