Originally Posted By: jchuzi
It's noteworthy that the Republicans were hacked also, but only emails from the Democrats were leaked.

And that's what makes me now wonder about Russia's intention with the hacking. They didn't need to hack the Republicans to get anti-Hillary smear material as they got plenty from going into the Democrat Party's mail. And, if there was any reason they might want to smear Trump, a hack wasn't necessary. The Democrats were already doing a good enough job. However a Republican headquarters hack might yield other important information about Republican Party thinking.

So, were the two hacking events just testing to see how far they could go in light of a broader goal….disrupting important American institutions? I'm neither a conspiracy theorist nor an expert in geo-political matters but it seems to me that a person such as Putin likely has much longer-range goals than affecting the election outcome.

Last edited by ryck; 12/14/16 10:11 AM.

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