So in your opinion the hacking of the DNC and Hillary emails and releasing those hacks publicly was not designed to affect the outcome of the election?
Dream On! Hillary screwed Bernie and a Bernie Bro fought back.
Do you still need a vowel?
No flame, just asking, but who determined the DNC was hacked? I thought Podesta's password was "password" or something equally as dopey? Also Comey's FIB never examined the DNCs servers, the Ds hired Crowdstrike, whoever they are.
Eff Magoo for not doing his job.
I'm with odawg on this. (1) What does this have to do with Russian business dealings. and (2) Who has implicated Trump in anything to do with Hillary emails.
Hillary keeping her government emails exposed on a private server was HER doing.
Neither of those were "hacked".
Nothing was hacked. That is why the DMV wouldn’t let the FBI look at their servers. There was no back of anything, unless you count Hillary circumventing all government security procedures a hack.
Releasing information about how the DNC and Clinton's campaign functioned is no different than what news reporters have done for many years - investigate and report on political organizations. The press doesn't hold back from reporting about Republicans do they? Even when the sources for their information are far less reliable than copies of emails.
There is a long tradition in this nation of examining private communications to get at the truth. That is why the discovery process in lawsuits, as one example, requires participants to hand over emails.
"Hacking", or gaining access to a computer without permission is of course wrong, and a crime. But if the emails were actually leaked, as many suggest, then the DNC and Hillary are in no different position than anyone else where a whistleblower, or leaker, has released internal information that is embarrassing.
If the DNC and Hillary were honest, above board, patriotic leaders, then their internal emails would have shown them in a good light, and ensured their victory. But their internal emails showed them to be be shallow, corrupt, and power hungry scheming politicians.
The voters evaluated the DNC and Hillary's true character as shown by their private communications. The negative effects were their own fault.
“So in your opinion the hacking of the DNC and Hillary emails and releasing those hacks publicly was not designed to affect the outcome of the election?”
That may have been the design, but they had nothing to do with Trump winning the election.
I like to keep up with things more more than the average voter, but I certainly did not have the time or the inclination to wade through the Podesta emails.
The Podesta emails (released by Assange) were not hacked (were phished); a high school student could have gotten those, and the Hillary emails (and DNC emails as far as I know) have never been released.
The DNC never allowed an objective investigator to look at their server and the experts said it was an inside job.
But just because the emails were released certainly does not mean Trump or his campaign had anything to do with it.
And the attempts of the Obama administration, the DOJ, and the Intelligence apparatus to use the assets of the Federal government as weapons to stop Trump is an offense of an incalculable greater magnitude than the emails.