This is what happens when you get 'backdoors' into software. Someone leaks it and it all goes tits up...Remember this attack next time the Tories tell us they need backdoors. It puts us all at risk.

Quite simply, a manufactured crisis using the old 'red scare' tactic was deployed to try and distract the entire worlds attention away from WHY those leaked emails were so damaging that they could 'swing' an election. That was just the ones we saw as well. This narrative was grafted onto the DNC leaks and the press (major players of which we now know, from those emails, were in cahoots with the DNC) have been more than happy to run with it.

If you want to know a bit more I can get back to you later but a good thing to concentrate on is - How could those emails being leaked have swung an election? What was in them?

If you want to see American democracy being tampered with then Donna Brazile giving Clinton the heads up about questions from the public, thus creating the illusion that Clinton was informed, on the ball and cared about the issues in question, is a brilliant example.

Also Googling 'Clinton took money from Saudis' and 'Chelsea Clinton asked inconvenient questions' tells you a bit more about why there was such a massive push to silence Wikileaks and Assange.

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