| Consultant-for-hire: "the propaganda is true; i found evidence" The claims are not believable on their face, given that it's a security firm hired by the DNC. They describe evidence, but it's hard to independently evaluate that evidence as a neutral third party. And even if they are true, and Russia did hack the DNC in order to influence the election? Then the american people had more evidence upon which to base their vote. I am incredibly unhappy with Trump, but the "russian manipulation" cry is meaningless without 1) evidence that the information they propagated was untrue (indeed: it seems most damning precisely because it is true) or 2) that the russians somehow manipulated the actual mechanics of the vote, so that the tallies ended up being counted incorrectly. Because if it's just an antagonistic despot publicizing true facts and having the american public weigh those facts? That's called democracy. Let me reiterate: I'm extremely unhappy with how it played out, but you can't credibly criticize it. Having said that: somebody (maybe a russian) did hack a computer system. Prosecute them criminally (the same way you would the watergate burglars). |