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With how close the election was, it's a very short jump to conclude that hacking the emails of both the party and campaign of one side successfully directed the
by koube 7y ago
With how close the election was, it's a very short jump to conclude that hacking the emails of both the party and campaign of one side successfully directed the narrative enough to flip the election. You can easily see here that Russian cyberattacks were effective in washing out any message by the target candidate: https://news.gallup.com/poll/195596/email-dominates-americans-heard-clinton.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/195596/email-dominates-american...
- kikoreis 7y agoTo me, the point of any close election is to warn society that a massive proportion of the population is very unhappy with the status quo. In some ways, it's irrelevant if there is meddling to influence single digit percentages -- the real problem is that those unhappy people need to be understood and policies built to support them.
- fuzz4lyfe 7y agoThe key to the Clinton email server is that the purpose of it was to avoid FOIA requests. Any hacking in regards to it is closer to the law than the alternative.
- sanderjd 7y agoThe hacking thing wasn't related to Clinton's emails, it was the DNC's emails, which are not subject to FOIA. That these things are conflated in many peoples' minds is ... kinda the point.
- fuzz4lyfe 7y agoHow was it unrelated to the Russian hacking narrative? From Wikipedia: "According to security researchers at Secureworks the email leak was caused by Threat Group-4127, later attributed to Fancy Bear, a unit that targets governments, military, and international non-governmental organizations. The researchers report moderate confidence that the unit gathers intelligence on behalf of the Russian government." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controversy#Hacking_attempts https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_contro...
- giardini 7y agoThe truth is that we don't really know what the "purpose" of the Clinton email server was. Being human we cannot help but seek explanations. I know of no explanation for what Clinton did that would not taint her permanently.
- giardini 7y agokoube says>"You can easily see here that Russian cyberattacks were effective in washing out any message by the target candidate..." There is nothing about "Russian cyberattacks" in the link you provide. And while there is evidence that the Russian tried to influence the election there is no evidence that they succeeded. Clinton's egregious conduct in handling her e-mail servers speaks for itself. People tend to classify such activity as either stupid or an attempt to hide information from the government or public. She was her own worst enemy in that regard - no Russians required.