10-24-2016, 07:23 PM
(10-24-2016, 05:16 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(10-24-2016, 05:08 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Assange and Snowden are "Kremlin tools"?
All they're doing is what the free press is supposed to do, but abandoned a decade or so ago.
But it appears that the wikileaks against Clinton are supported and encouraged by Putin and the Kremlin, who are hacking the emails, and they also protect Snowden. I don't think they were Kremlin tools originally, and they did good work to bring out suppressed information like the press is supposed to do. But Assange is now working Putin's will, and is motivated by personal revenge and fear of Hillary Clinton and what she might do to him.
Putin took Snowden in to score a public relations coup against the U.S. But if the U.S. weren't moving toward a Soviet style police state in the first place, Snowden wouldn't have had anything to reveal. While Putin certainly doesn't permit any similar press freedom in Russia, I certainly don't mind if he ends up promoting it in the U.S., even if he's under the misimpression that freedom of the press weakens us.
The DNC has such poor computer security - let's not forget giving Sanders Clinton's information even when Sanders didn't ask about it - that I doubt it takes the Kremlin to hack them. That said, revelations about the corruption of Clinton in particular and our entire political system in general are in the public interest, even if Putin is helping. It's not like today's Democrats would have objected to the Watergate revelations had the Kremlin been "deep throat".