Reply to post: "MIght appear to be unprecedented?"

Cyber-spying, leaking to meddle in foreign politics is the New Normal

h4rm0ny

"MIght appear to be unprecedented?"

Well, only if you've never followed the entire history of the CIA and their repeated interference in foreign governments - not infrequently democratically elected ones as well. THEN you might see quite a lot of precedent.

Also, doesn't this assume rather a lot in the first place in taking as a given that this did occur as the CIA (sans proof) say it did? I mean Wikileaks claim it was given them by an insider in the DNC (the one that was shot several times in the back in a "robbery" near their home, by any chance?) and to my knowledge, Wikileaks have never lied about this. Whereas the CIA lied to their own government about torturing people and ran an entire profit-making drugs business to fund operations that Congress hadn't? So isn't it more likely that it was a leak and not "Russian hacking the election". Which is a funny way of putting informing the electorate about what their candidate actually did and said, anyway.

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