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... was wondering too. The screenshots in the NYT article look like "teaser-advertisements", while the actual sources are a big taboo. Keep in mind that Guccifer2 isn't a lone hacker as initially portrayed. Guccifer2 is a cover for APT-28/APT-29 (GRU). So if anything then this leak has to be considered for what it was: A foreign nation meddling in the elections of another. Current Russian meddling fits seamlessly int…
So if anything then this leak has to be considered for what it was: A foreign nation meddling in the elections of another. Let's put that into context tho': it happens all the time and no-one bats an eyelid. When Obama came over and said we should vote Bremain, lots of people were annoyed at his presumption, but no-one considered it that big a deal.
US meddling in foreign politics goes back decades (and the same message enforced using different umbrellas, e.g.: in Latin America it was the War on Drugs. In the Arab world the message is the same only the strategy was slightly redefined to another more plausible (if only perceived) threat (radical Islamism).