Russia and the Democratic National Committee

There is a great deal of speculation about the possibility that Russia is trying to influence the US elections by stealing information and publishing it on the Internet.   In most newspapers and press reports the inference is this is a bad thing being done by a foreign government bent on keeping the Democrats from getting into the Presidency for another term.  This is said with a straight face and seriously, by people who should know better.

First, there is some really damning information in those documents which has so far gotten the head of the Democratic National Committee to step down - and be immediately hired by the campaign of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate.  The White House, Clinton campaign, and Clinton Foundations have been able to keep most of the dealings between them a secret.  While the head of the State Department, Mrs. Clinton kept her e-mails on a private server to avoid any of this being discovered.  That was naive at best, since servers run by technicians are not very secure ever when handling e-mail.  This is why we have Google.  Running this little side operation certainly left her open to state-sponsored attacks, as indicated by the Director of the FBI.  But that wasn't all.

At the same time, the State Department was hacked, supposedly by the Russians.  They were still trying to resolve all the issues with being hacked almost two years later.  The Russian government knew more about the goings on of Hillary Clinton than even the most dedicated of her supporters.  They probably hacked the Clinton Foundation, the State Department and her own e-mail server.  We heard nothing about any of this information ever being leaked, though typically that isn't the way they work.  They would want to use this data to influence the people involved and not expose them.  Exposure does away with the ability to influence.   Who does benefit from this exposure has yet to be determined.  One day we will find out, but you can bet it won't be until after the election in November.   The real reasons are tied up with the influence of foreign contributions to US elections, as I pointed out in https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9033304048882784982#editor/target=post;postID=7105271090170975562;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=15;src=postname