This make no sense. If Russia has the emails, they will be more valuable as extortion tools. Setting them free means they lose leverage (as if they need it when Hillary! takes cash and credit cards).
See post #9
It makes perfect sense if you're Vladimir Putin and your goal is to create strife, civil unrest and a complete collapse of confidence in your primary foe's government.
If everyone has them they arent so good for extortion as Putin cant deliver his end of the deal. Not a long term asset. Use it or lose it, because they will likely be released by someone else eventually.
He can however use them to influence US politics once at least, in the short term, if he moves first.
Thats assuming there is anything interesting in them.
However, the grifter's wife is not afraid of US law, as it does not apply to her, nor is she afraid of the electorate, as every dem will support her, especially other dem elected officials, therefore, what value would it be to release it later, after she is the Prez, mirely to irritate her?
Maybe, maybe not.
The game changes if more than one party has the emails. Suppose Russia, China and Israel all have the emails. After the election, they are good for blackmail and extortion, but if all 3 parties have differing objectives the value becomes less.
We only need one party who prefers Donald Trump over Hillary and knows that others also have them, to decide that the way to tilt the election in their favor is to release part of the emails. A part that damages Hillary as a candidate, but they retain the ones that would lead to impeachment for future use if she withstands the release and is elected anyway. Just about half of the voters in the US see no need for classified information and would vote for her anyway.
Now, when is the best time to release them? Not until after the Dem convention, when it is too late to slip in a new candidate. I think about a month before the election. Long enough to let the analysts understand the damage and pontificate on it every night, but short enough to prevent another candidate from making real progress.
But if other countries, and other non-government players (hackers) have them and can also release them at any time, they lose their worth as leverage. As soon as one of the parties lets slip the emails, they all will.
This make no sense. If Russia has the emails, they will be more valuable as extortion tools. Setting them free means they lose leverage (as if they need it when Hillary! takes cash and credit cards).
Not if they know that Hillary will start a war with them to please her masters. She’s proved she’s blackmail proof and will be even more so as POTUS.