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How is this an issue of partisanship? This is the CIA hacking the Senate. It's not GOP vs Democrat or even Executive vs Judiciary vs Legislative. Besides, I t
by scott_karana 12y ago
How is this an issue of partisanship?
This is the CIA hacking the Senate. It's not GOP vs Democrat or even Executive vs Judiciary vs Legislative.
Besides, I think it can be entirely fair for newspapers to pose the question of "Is this tantamount to treason?", and let people decide for themselves.
- knodi123 12y agoIt's the CIA looking at activity logs on CIA servers, to monitor what Senate users were doing, so they could interfere with the things the Senate found. It's shady, and likely illegal, but it's not quite hacking, and it's definitely not hacking the senate.
- scott_karana 12y agoWell, yes. It was an imprecise paraphrase because it wasn't the relevant point I was making: "How is this issue partisan?"
- krapp 12y agoThe issue itself may not be partisan, but it will still be interpreted that way. The media has been a political strawman for both parties for a long time. Each accuses the other of essentially controlling it to further their agenda. Once accusations of 'treason' are made from a media source, then inevitably at least half of the country will dismiss it as propaganda. If a media outlet did, I think they would probably have to do so carefully.
- scott_karana 12y agoAh, fair enough. I see your point. Thanks! :-)