• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    I mean, what exactly would an email dump accomplish? Hard to embarrass these guys in any way that matters. They just keep plugging on, doing crimes and ruining lives, while sending their goon squads to rough up any news reporter who asks a difficult question at a press briefing.

    The fact that this is “Iran” implicated in the data dump only gives the bigger media outlets one more excuse to ignore the release and freeze out anyone involved in its distribution.

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      It’s one step. It’s incremental. He does have a cult of personality, which complicates things.

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              By specifically targeting only Hillary Clinton for then2016 election, in collaboration with Russia having worked for RT before going to the Ecuadorian embassy, corroborated by the Ecuadorian president…

              But if you want to pretend none of this happened, go for it.

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                By specifically targeting only Hillary Clinton

                That’s categorically untrue.

                The 2015/2016 leaks indicated dozens of elected and appointed officials, apparatchiks, and major donors across parties both in the US and UK.

                That’s not even including the reporting done in combat zones and torture blacksites released during the same time.

                The fact that Hillary repeated defended her corrupt fellow partisans and criminal state-level co-conspirators was what dragged her into the center of the shit storm.

                in collaboration with Russia having worked for RT

                CIA agent calmly explaining why you should never trust information you get from a spook.