{"id":179195,"date":"2018-04-20T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/20\/squirrel\/"},"modified":"2018-04-20T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T23:43:00","slug":"squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/20\/squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>It appears that in their quest to hide the fact that the incompetents who lost to a human inverted traffic cone still work there, the DCCC has filed suit against Russia and WikiLeaks for exposing their actual internal discussions to the public<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I can’t imagine that a judge won’t dismiss this before the ink is dry, because publishing information that your target does not want published is the very epitome of journalism. <\/p>\n

That being said, if it DOES<\/b> go to trial, WikiLeaks, and Russia, get to do discovery, which means putting people like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, John Podesta, Donna Brazile, etc. under oath and asking them questions. This will not end well:<\/p>\n

The Democratic National Committee filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Friday against the Russian government, the Trump campaign and the WikiLeaks organization alleging a far-reaching conspiracy to disrupt the 2016 campaign and tilt the election to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

The complaint, filed in federal district court in Manhattan, alleges that top Trump campaign officials conspired with the Russian government and its military spy agency to hurt Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and help Trump by hacking the computer networks of the Democratic Party and disseminating stolen material found there.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump\u2019s campaign,\u201d DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis constituted an act of unprecedented treachery: the campaign of a nominee for President of the United States in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The case asserts that the Russian hacking campaign \u2014 combined with Trump associates\u2019 contacts with Russia and the campaign\u2019s public cheerleading of the hacks \u2014 amounted to an illegal conspiracy to interfere in the election that caused serious damage to the Democratic Party.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Props to keeping the Congressional Democrats in the dark about this until the last minute.<\/p>\n

Instead of hunting Russian spies, which I have been told is a difficult thing, how about searching for incompetents in the organization, and looters among your consultants and contractors.<\/p>\n

It’s an easier job, with a much larger payoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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