[itchyjunk]

Asking a president to do x,y or z by making this type of public statement probably implies it's geared towards the immediate readers and not some leader that might read it.

The security agencies might have made a lot of enemy over the years so it's not clear who benefits from this. Either financially or as ego boost.

The internet is definitely bigger that what most people might have predicted 20 years ago. So its not really a big surprising to see as much or even more power struggle than in real world battle fields.

Since every side has a propaganda to peddle, I, personally can draw no reasonable or coherent conclusions on what type of decisions are shaping the world I live in. But I am nonetheless curious to see how this all plays out in the coming years.

There is a related post on HN about this. [0]

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14066596

[kbenson]

The cynical and conspiracy theory believing person might suspect that regardless of all the reasons stated for the release the last one, namely the attack in Syria, is the only one that actually prompted this.

I don't necessarily subscribe to the whole "Russia is controlling everything" line (there still so much that's unknown for sure), but it sure is easy to see a connection between Trump launching missiles against Syria which is supported by Russia, and with an embarrassing and costly release of secret information belonging to the security apparatus in the U.S. by what many people say is a front for the Russian security apparatus. Whether that connection is really there is another thing, but that narrative sure is easy to follow.

[suls]

> [..] with an embarrassing and costly release of secret information belonging to the security apparatus in the U.S. by what many people say is a front for the Russian security apparatus.

I have difficulties interpreting your statement. Are you implying US security services are "a front for the rudsian security apparatus"?

[kbenson]

No, I'm stating that some people have accused the shadow brokers and other hackers that have released U.S. assets of actually being fronts for Russia.