re: If Putin's Big Goal is to Damage Our Democratic System...

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If Putin's Big Goal is to Damage Our Democratic System... ....by planting seeds of uncertainty into our election process

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That's somebody's goal in all this, but I don't think it's Putin.

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His actions may have been directed at the Dem Party, but ultimately, it was directed at the country as a whole. If it turns out to be true that the Russians did this, the useful idiots are the Americans who are letting Putin off the hook. As long as Putin's actions result in division or dissention, he is winning.

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If Russia did what? Serious question here, because the IC claims Russia hacked the DNC, and claim that they can connect Russian hackers to the emails, which connects Assanges source to Russia either directly or indirectly. that's the only part of this that I dispute right now. I dispute that on the basis that there is no indisputable proof that this is true.

Here is my issue with that claim: The russian state has every reason to have done it, but the USG has every reason blame it on Russia to discredit Assange. the DNC has every reason to make that claim because it softens the email scandal by discrediting Assange.

Too much political interest in this for me to buy in on the facts we have now.