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Cha

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4. It's huge.. I saw it starting at the
Wed Jul 27, 2016, 07:22 AM
Jul 2016

beginning when wikileaks was warning Joy Reid they would be "monitoring" her.

I said it was the tip of the iceberg.

One last thing: if you’re only looking at this story as an internal DNC scandal, you’re missing the despotic forest for the trees. We can’t emphasize enough: this story is bigger than Bernie or Hillary. It’s bigger than Trump. It speaks directly to the sovereignty of our electoral process. The sooner it’s treated this way, the better off we’ll be.

Yes, it's bigger than Watergate.. It's espionage by a foreign country.

Yes, I get it. Some of the content contained in a handful of the emails (out of a 19,000 email tranche) was fishy in terms of DNC officials expressing dissatisfaction with Bernie Sanders and his campaign. (Bernie’s religious beliefs should never have been discussed, for example.) We’ll circle back to the veracity of the emails momentarily. However, what we know so far greatly outpaces anything damning about the DNC officials themselves. What we know, and what’s rapidly developing by the day, is that it’s becoming increasingly obvious that Putin’s intelligence apparatus broke into the DNC’s network, stole the emails, set up a front account, and handed over the emails to Julian Assange’s Wikileaks organization via that account. We also know that Putin and various Russian oligarchs have been giving money to Donald Trump. And we know that Trump’s foreign policy closely aligns with Putin’s, especially when it comes to the Balkans and NATO, which Trump has repeatedly stated will be allowed to fall to Russian aggression on Trump’s watch.

http://www.salon.com/2016/07/27/bigger_than_watergate_the_russian_orchestrated_dnc_email_hack_places_our_national

Thank you for this.

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