Putin vs Hillary - The email leaks
 

I think this deserves its own thread.

Cyber security experts and U.S. officials said on Monday there was evidence that Russia engineered the release of sensitive Democratic Party emails in order to influence the U.S. presidential election.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKCN1051TD

It'll be interesting to see the impact upon the campaign as this fleshes out. I can imagine a brutally effective Democratic add campaign aimed at Putin orchestrating email leaks to damage HRC while cozying up to der Trumpster - a non-agression pact, as it were.

Enough If and but and maybe so to conclude that it is NOISE to give cover to Hillary right hand girl's shenanigans.

The hackers did the public a favor.

Putin/Trump 2016! :rolleyes:

What really gives this legs is the immediately-preceding out-of-the-blue Trump statement that aid against aggression under the NATO treaty will be 'optional' on our part.

Makes it plausible that the leaks on convention eve happened because Trump paid a specified price....

And of course the Clintonista Kool Aid Drinkers ignore the 900 lbs Gorilla in the room which is:

Why the FUCK does Putin have Clinton's sensitive emails?

Even if the Dems were able to join Trump and Putin at the hip for the rest of the campaign, I'm afraid that there are too many who would find that pairing attractive - two strong guys who get things done.

They're DNC emails, not Hillary emails (for the moment, anyway). The same guys hacked into State and several other government agencies as well as the German Bundestag (parliament).

They are the DNC's emails. Now go have another sip of Trumpaide.

Oh!

Well excuse me!

That would make it only an 899 lbs Gorilla in the room.

My bad.

For a long time Trump has been hammering NATO and other such groups for not helping themselves. He pointed out that only five out of the 28 NATO countries meet the required 2% GDP requirement.

That as to Europe Germany, France and England should lead and give US a rest.

He also mentioned Japan and Korea in their area and about the burden of bases.

The US should not be naive. A number of countries are calling for US troops/bases to supplement their economy.