I think that the DNC is plain inept, particularly when it comes to IT services. There is nothing at all surprising about this. Surely, operatives of the United States would take similar actions to influence, even derail foreign governments!

Oh Wait! Hillary was SoS! Surely she knows something about the State Dept. and the CIA and Mossad, etc. and all sorts of nifty techniques for derailing governments!

Hillary's campaign is just desperately pulling the victim card. Again.

"Vote for Me and World War Three!"

She is absolutely shameless. Even if someone affiliated with Putin did do the hack and assisted the leak, it still doesn't excuse the behavior of her surrogates at the DNC. Clinton's efforts to deflect attention away from people working with her campaign, speaks volumes about her. Zero integrity.

Nothing personal The Jerry. It has been a popular description that makes no god damn sense. Did Putin coat the wikileaks release with sarin gas? Were they coated with depleted uranium? Stupid.

I completely agree that it makes no difference who released the emails that should have been voluntarily turned over by SoS Hillary or the State Dept.

What is that good for? What's your motivation?

I assume nothing. I am grateful for any non-manipulated email that is released. And I don't care, who and why those were released, and why those, who released them, did so.

As long as one can for sure distinguish that the material released is the original and not some excerpt or otherwise manipulated image of them, it's ok.

My only assumption at this point is that the material presents the original emails. If that should be proven not to be the case in the future, I want to know.

comment at TOP and was bringing it over here to make a post, but now thing I'll just pop it in as a comment.

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Team Clinton may wish to be more cautious about playing up the Russian angel on the DNC emails, otherwise they may accidentally lend credence to a persistent RWTP of the last year: ‘that because the Russians and Chinese are likely to have her personal emails prior to her erasing the 31,000 ‘private emails’ they may have evidence they could use to blackmail her or the U.S. government.

We are aware that the DNC emails and HRC’s personal server emails are two entirely distinct sets, however, should we not be careful after expending efforts over the last year to deny that the Russians might have any of her emails?

If we highlight how aggressive, involved, pervasive, competent, and successful Russian government backed hackers are, and how much interest Putin et. al. have in using these capabilities to interfere with U.S. elections we may open a whole new can of worms.

Former CIA Director Gates and several others are on record saying it is highly likely that the Russians and other foreign government intelligence orgs have the original full set of HRC emails. This is often cited has a reason on right-wing blogs that she should never again have a security clearance. And, that no one other than her, could in this circumstance obtain a security clearance. Putin may use threats of further embarrassing revelations as leverage.

Others are already bringing up the "What did she know and when did she know it?" question. Which if applied to the original server emails leads one to conclude that HRC knowingly lied to the Democratic voters in order to win the primaries. Another topic with lots of implications that the media has curiously not delved into.