2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDrip, drip, drip
Immediately after the elections, a local commentator - not necessarily a Democrat - said how all the hacked emails from Podesta released every day just added to questions about the campaign. It was like a drip, drip, drip she said.
Last week, on Smerconish, Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig used the same term.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)campaign,ran into this e-mail business as a issue in our get out to vote.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,299 posts)The drip, drip, drip were the hacked emails that Wikileaks released. The Clinton campaign wanted the emails under investigation released. Two different sets of emails.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)had the exact same tactics, and used the exact same methods for disseminating their ill-gotten information.
So, logically, that means they had nothing to do with one another.
It'd un-fucking-believable the lengths some will go to lay blame on the victim.
Ace Rothstein
(3,299 posts)Issue #1 was the private email server. This was not hacked but was investigated by the FBI.
Issue #2 was the DNC email hack. These are the emails that were released.
You've been confused about this for a few weeks but refuse to listen to what people are telling you.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)I guess it'll never change for people that have grown used to a steady diet of RW propaganda. The rest of us realized a long time ago they were just serving nothing but re-warmed horseshit.
But, sure. You keep eating that RW horseshit.
Ace Rothstein
(3,299 posts)I'll never understand why people want to remain ignorant. It is very Republican-like.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)That the RW has been pushing for for decades. Convenient that the Russians were able to pick up on it just about the same time you did.
Ace Rothstein
(3,299 posts)All I'm doing is telling you that you keep conflating two separate items.
Amishman
(5,812 posts)The right enjoyed trying to intertwine this issue to suggest that Hillary's server was not secure.
Hillary's private server was never hacked. Period.