@revelette1,
revelette1 wrote:
Not only that, but it seems to me the effect is almost beside the point. Do we want another nation to be able to get that kind of information willy nilly? It wasn't only Podesta's, it was the DNC and earlier in the year, Pentagon and other important data information was hacked.
It is really troubling Trump ignores intelligence, he doesn't even think it is important to attend intelligence briefings. I am afraid for our country in the coming years with him at the head.
Most of the stuff released on the DNC and from Hillary's e mails was already old news when it came out. Certainly the issues of collusion between the DNC and Hillary's campaign and the pay-to-play stuff for the Clinton Foundation were already well-know. The Russian?wiki stuff merely provided added detail.
I believe the damage to Hillary & the DNC came from the actions themselves which had been in the press for a long time when the Wiki leaks came out.
Far more extensive possibly Russian/Chinese hacks of various government databases occurred six months ago and were widely reported then. They are indeed a danger that we need to correct or limit, but the argument that this stuff changed the election results in a meaningful way appears ludicrous. The damage was already done, and it seems a bit much for the perpetrators to complain now that they were caught. If there was no pay-to play and if the DNC was impartial and if it was not engaged in under the table dialogue with sympathetic media figures on debate questions, there would have been no harm.
