When we said that the DNC was favouring [against its own charter] one primary candidate over another this was deemed to be a conspiracy theory.

It was blatant with respect to the debates and their scheduling and a concerted internet campaign biased against one candidate.

Now that it has been proved to be true the same line of attack as always is being used, blame the messenger.

Nobody has claimed that any of the emails have been tampered with so basically what follows at best is irrelevant.

There reply to the fact of the matter can until it can be proved otherwise is a conspiracy theory based solely on the timing of the release. It goes along the lines of

The Russians [because the wiki hacker may be Russian] did this to undermine American democracy.

Trump is working with the Russians, hence Putin.

I will say it once more, nobody from the DNC has indicated tampering with the emails.

It's funny how whistle blowers are treated by those that label themselves "liberals" if they dare to release data that implicates the Party/Party leaders of playing dirty. Manning, Greewald and Snowden for example. Their willingness to pardon torture and accept lame excuses of war crimes another example. They have driven them out, yet hail Hillary as integrity personified when she put State Department security at risk.

Now we have the ostrich manoeuvre and then followed by screams of "It's A Plot"!

Now they may well be correct, but where is the proof? Even if they are correct, the Russians did not write the emails themselves.

There is a big difference between the two cases above, the DNC episode was based on actualities without blaming anyone else but the DNC.The Russian Conspiracy is based upon trying to find something to deflect what was proved to be correct, then throw a Trump+ Putin plot for good measure.

Now the actual threat to our democracy is the one where are elections are manipulated by a supposedly neutral organisation. The shouts about loyalty and unity mean very little when the system is obviously rigged. Now start throwing around foreign intervention in the process without a shred of proof is dangerous in itself, far more so than just confining the shouting match to within the Democratic Party.

DWS has been slapped on the wrist then lauded, then again it was not her fault, it is how the DNC is meant to function, unfairly. That's their business, but they should drop the pretence of a fair democratic process.

Personally I don't care how the DNC runs their Party's primary elections [there are many closed party elections around the world], what I do care about is the transparency of the process, I can always chose to/not to vote for them at any time I feel like. If I had known beforehand I would have not voted in the VT primary, I have better things to waste my time doing.

If you want a coronation process for "Grand Poobah"; fine, but don't pretend it is anything else.

Just a thought.

I notice H R Clinton is the chief cheerleader in "It's a Russian Plot" and probably a vast one at that.

Quelle surprise.

Not.

Wikileaks themselves say

WikiLeaks:@wikileaks

@JoyAnnReid You are pushing a discredited conspiracy theory. There is no affinity, whatsoever. Our lawyers will monitor your program.