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on Saturday July 23 2016, @08:20PM
from the because-information-wants-to-be-freed dept.
from the because-information-wants-to-be-freed dept.
DNC [Democratic National Committee] top dogs can't seem to wrap their brains around GPG encryption, and so now we have the chance to peruse their emails. Which is nice, but still sort of shocking that the people who want to run the country can't secure their communications. It will probably take a while before anything of great interest is found in the archive because it was just released , but if you want to help in the search, have fun.
Here is one amusing excerpt:
NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @09:46PM
Your interpretations seem much more extreme than what I've actually read.
For example:
- The Democratic Party definitely did not want Bernie Sanders to win, and were actively putting their thumb on the scales to prevent that from happening. For example, organizing a plant of somebody to ask Sanders about religion to reveal that he was an atheist
One guy sent one email suggesting it. No actual "organizing" happened and there was no "plant."
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Sunday July 24 2016, @03:29AM
Except that there's not insignificant evidence that the Clinton campaign had already planted a question in the Michigan debate back in March (Clinton announced in her answer to the same question that she had attended services in the very church that the woman who had asked it attended). And her campaign apparently did the same thing to Obama back in 2008. So the idea that they would have done it again in May of 2016, especially with top DNC officials putting the idea out there in email (and these emails indicate that an awful lot is going on that wasn't in the emails, and one guy got in trouble for emailing something they didn't want in writing) is not far-fetched.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @01:43PM
> (Clinton announced in her answer to the same question that she had attended services in the very church that the woman who had asked it attended)
You see that and think conspiracy. I see that and think most inept conspirators ever. Shades of republican accusations against obama - he's totally inept and also a grand-master of evil.
> So the idea that they would have done it again in May of 2016, especially with top DNC officials putting the idea out there in email is not far-fetched.
So they are getting the blame for something they did not actually do. This is witch-hunt logic. One guy said something dumb and nothing came of it. People talk shit all the time.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday July 24 2016, @08:42PM
The exchange in the March "debate" happened just as you say it did. The New York Times [nytimes.com] has a transcript (search in it for "Denise Ghattas") and the Inquistr [inquisitr.com] has an article speculating that one reason the Clinton wanted questions about religion to be asked was to highlight the fact that Sanders is Jewish. The article goes on to observe that