Originally posted by Stop the hate
Taken from another forum but Salient:David Shedd, former chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Daily Beast.
World powers spy on each other; it’s what they do. The U.S. engages in this sort of unsavory stuff all the time, so there’s no moral higher ground to stand on while finger-wagging at Russia. Clinton’s emails may well contain damning information of the sort that often comes to light when we get a look at how the political sausage is made. All that said, the departure from the everyday to be witnessed here is that Russia is the prime suspect in a cybercrime undertaken to manipulate an American presidential election on behalf of a dangerous, anti-democracy demagogue.
That same demagogue, the Republican Party’s candidate of choice, has now publicly requested that our geopolitical frenemy muck with the U.S. democratic process so he can gather the spoils. On paper, the DNC hack seems like a poorly conceived remake of a 1980s Cold War film, the details tweaked for digital age relevance, with Kremlin-backed hackers, a Watergate-style cyberattack and theft of embarrassing secrets from a major U.S. political party. Were it unfolding on a multiplex screen, the story would undoubtedly seem hokey and even hamfisted. The real-life situation playing out on a global stage is far more risky for much of the world.
I just love this, it's okay when WE do it because hey..all countries do. But Russia totally departed from that, and that is bad.
Christ almighty. Is the reason you are constantly pasting stuff from other forums..that when dumb bullshit is spewed you can say "well hey, those aren't MY words" ? But no, that doesn't absolve you of the stupidity of the statements you post.
The reality is it's not like our intelligence agencies haven't done stuff like this, and the fact anyone would try to just wave this off as part of the regular stuff nations do while at the same time still whining about Russia doing it..is fascinating.
Truly the USA can do no wrong and Russia can do nothing right. Man in hindsight this is just what Nixon said(it's not illegal when a president does) just on a larger scale, because we've adopted a similar attitude in this country: it's not a negative thing when it's the USA that does it.
Also has everyone forgotten one of the wikileaks contained a lament over not interfering in an election to make sure the person they wanted to win..would win? Oh sorry I forgot, we're ignoring what is contained in the emails to whine about Russia. Carry on my wayward (red) son.