the average american is not going to read this and think that america needs to unite against the russians. they're going to read this and think that she's so incompetent on national security that she can't even keep the russians out of her campaign communications.
this will backfire. dramatically. it's the only narrative that trump could possibly win on, and they're handing it to him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/us/politics/clinton-campaign-hacked-russians.html?_r=0
ok, let's think carefully.
did the russians steal the information? it's not unlikely. the russians are in and out of american servers all day long. so are the chinese. and, the amercians are in and out of russian and chinese servers all the time, too.
at any given moment, any of the major governments can hack into just about anything. that's the reality.
the fbi knows that....
voters don't know that.
so, blowing up the story like this has to be political in some way or another. it's really not actually a story.
the question is what the political purpose is.
i was talking a while back about the deep state trying to take her down on fears of her being compromised, herself. i guess i can't rule that out.
more likely to me is that this is clinton playing out her neo-con fantasies in building up an enemy to unite against. but, again that's just not what people are going to think.
they're just going to see the russians walking all over her: weak leadership, weak on national security....weak. weak. weak.
stephen cohen's a smart guy, and he's right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4StqO_HulQo
https://www.thenation.com/article/neo-mccarthyism-and-olympic-politics-as-more-evidence-of-a-new-cold-war/
https://www.thenation.com/article/against-neo-mccarthyism/