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Comment by shp0ngle | Hacker News Reader

Some things are really toxic to touch, like the democratic emails leaked (probably) by Russian state agents.

Craig Murray, who I trust, claims to have collected the information from a DNC insider in the United States. Conveniently, the claims of “Russian hackers” was never actually investigated (although the claim was repeated again in the Mueller report), it was just an assertion from CrowdStrike.

There is no evidence of collusion with 'Russian hackers'.

There is MASSIVE evidence of corruption and war crimes, crimes against humanity, in the Wikileaks' materials.

Cowards choose the 'easy path' - adopt the "but ma' Russia!" narrative, and ignore the heinously evil crimes against humanity committed in every Americans' name ..

Maybe you shouldn’t trust Craig Murray then, because the cut-out theory is the only plausible one now.

WikiLeaks published these leaks in two batches. My guess is that one of the batches was from the DNC insider and the other one from Russian hackers.

There was no DNC insider and there never was.

well, it was interesting stuff, proving how the primaries were heavy biased against Sanders https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/02/ex...

I think, that overall, it was an interesting and meaningful leak. Not just "toxic".

It was "toxic to touch" in that it was hacked material of an American political party, which you might not want to be redistributing publicly (such as hosting on a server) if you can't afford lawyers.

In the US, once a secret is leaked, it becomes public knowledge. The DNC could try to assert copyrights over the emails, but that would be admitting they are genuine, and unlikely to actually work.

What do the politicians have to hide? Why does it matter who the leak comes from?

I could give a shit less if X foreign govt leaks the info, the politicians are the ones we should really be concerned about

So? The leak has happened. All interested parties have already seen these. Now they are just an academic dataset, like Enron emails.

Like the biden laptop story. We must hide information that can be used by far right republicans to prevent Trump from being elected and starting WWIII with say, Russia. Did I get it right this time hn ? :)

WW3 started in 2003 with the illegal and criminal invasion of Iraq by the USA and its coalition of willing criminal partners.

I was personally never concerned that Trump would start WW3, more that he’d help the wrong side in it (he tried already and was impeached for it).

The laptop is a shibboleth, voters don’t actually care because the right already poisoned their own wells.

You weren't, but the medias were driving opinions towards that.

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