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"However, officials said those attempts could not be directly linked to the Russian government." Clearly this article is a hit job. But why?

grandalf 10y ago
It's very bizarre. My take so far is: - Russia's actual "state sponsored" capability would allow it to have hacked the server without being traced. - Thus if Russia did it, the trail was left intentionally. - Only if the "missing" emails contain a major smoking gun would it make sense for the HRC campaign to use this finger pointing as misdirection. - Only if some PR aim was beneficial would HRC's campaign have turned the hack's alleged origin into a campaign rallying cry, rather than letting the officials currently in office handle it through official channels. This point is strengthened by HRC's status as a former sec-of-state. Hypothesis 1: The HRC team is fully expecting an email to surface containing a smoking gun, and this is part of a preemptive misdirection strategy. Hypothesis 2: This is part of an ongoing misdirection strategy with the full knowledge that no smoking gun will emerge from any of the hacked/leaked information, intended to keep everyone occupied with intrigue and speculation to avoid settling on any other focal point that might harm the campaign. Hypothesis 3: Russia is doing a low-sophistication mischief campaign and has ineptly made itself a scapegoat and fomented outrage over this hacking which has become a rallying cry for HRC's campaign.
adventured 10y ago
They're upping the accusations now for at least two reasons that are convenient. The growing conflict between the US and Russia in Syria and the embarrassingly weak, flailing campaign of Hillary Clinton.
- empath75 10y ago
  I'm not remotely a fan of hillary clinton, but she's currently blowing out Donald Trump in the polls (538 currently has her as a 4-1 favorite to win)
  - dmix 10y ago
    Considering how much of a disaster Trump and his campaign has been, this is still pretty underwhelming that he was close to matching her 50-50 as much as 1-2 weeks ago.
    - happytrails 10y ago
      Even if Trump is not being funded, influenced etc by Russia he's amateur at best. I almost compare Trump to a Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. Not a great statesman and would create a terrible political environment and make major mistakes. :( It only takes one weak president and combined with a horrible congress and we're gonna have a bad 4-8 years.
    - empath75 10y ago
      > Considering how much of a disaster Trump and his campaign has been, this is still pretty underwhelming that he was close to matching her 50-50 as much as 1-2 weeks ago. The best he has gotten has been a tie, when he had a really good week and she had a really bad few weeks. The normal state of the race has been a commanding lead for Clinton.
fail2fail2ban 10y ago
I think mbfg got it right.

grandalf 10y ago

It's very bizarre. My take so far is: - Russia's actual "state sponsored" capability would allow it to have hacked the server without being traced. - Thus if Russia did it, the trail was left intentionally. - Only if the "missing" emails contain a major smoking gun would it make sense for the HRC campaign to use this finger pointing as misdirection. - Only if some PR aim was beneficial would HRC's campaign have turned the hack's alleged origin into a campaign rallying cry, rather than letting the officials currently in office handle it through official channels. This point is strengthened by HRC's status as a former sec-of-state. Hypothesis 1: The HRC team is fully expecting an email to surface containing a smoking gun, and this is part of a preemptive misdirection strategy. Hypothesis 2: This is part of an ongoing misdirection strategy with the full knowledge that no smoking gun will emerge from any of the hacked/leaked information, intended to keep everyone occupied with intrigue and speculation to avoid settling on any other focal point that might harm the campaign. Hypothesis 3: Russia is doing a low-sophistication mischief campaign and has ineptly made itself a scapegoat and fomented outrage over this hacking which has become a rallying cry for HRC's campaign.

adventured 10y ago

They're upping the accusations now for at least two reasons that are convenient. The growing conflict between the US and Russia in Syria and the embarrassingly weak, flailing campaign of Hillary Clinton.

empath75 10y ago
I'm not remotely a fan of hillary clinton, but she's currently blowing out Donald Trump in the polls (538 currently has her as a 4-1 favorite to win)
- dmix 10y ago
  Considering how much of a disaster Trump and his campaign has been, this is still pretty underwhelming that he was close to matching her 50-50 as much as 1-2 weeks ago.
  - happytrails 10y ago
    Even if Trump is not being funded, influenced etc by Russia he's amateur at best. I almost compare Trump to a Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. Not a great statesman and would create a terrible political environment and make major mistakes. :( It only takes one weak president and combined with a horrible congress and we're gonna have a bad 4-8 years.
  - empath75 10y ago
    > Considering how much of a disaster Trump and his campaign has been, this is still pretty underwhelming that he was close to matching her 50-50 as much as 1-2 weeks ago. The best he has gotten has been a tie, when he had a really good week and she had a really bad few weeks. The normal state of the race has been a commanding lead for Clinton.

fail2fail2ban 10y ago

I think mbfg got it right.