If your private company gets hacked it’s doubtful our
nation’s intelligence agencies will launch an all-out investigation, nor will
our government retaliate against the culprits.
The Chinese hack our companies all the time. So do a wide
range of other countries, including some of our staunchest allies. Does our
government do much about it? Nope.
So why is it such a big deal when the Democrat National
Committee gets hacked and someone releases e-mails between DNC staffers and
supporters?
This has baffled me from the beginning when the first leaked
e-mails went public. It’s not as if
someone hacked the Department of Defense or hacked the personnel files of
millions of government employees – both of which happened. Those are serious
and certainly worthy of intense investigation by our intelligence community.
But the DNC is not a Federal agency or department. Something
the DNC and the Feds forget.
There were no state secrets revealed with the DNC hack. Just a bunch of ill-advised e-mails showing
how Democrat Party officials connived to ensure Hillary got the nomination.
Sure, it exposed some nasty, petty backbiting and backstabbing, yet was anyone
surprised?
More importantly, the released e-mails were true. These weren’t fabricated or falsified. Nobody
at the DNC ever denied the veracity of the leaked e-mails.
Again, why do hacks of a political party’s e-mails warrant a
government threat of retaliation against the supposed culprits – the
Russians? That seems way out of
proportion to what happened, in my opinion, assuming the Russians were somehow
involved anyway.
Is the DNC a
de facto branch of the Federal government? Granted, Democrats have long felt entitled to run our government any way
they wish, whether they have the Constitutional standing to do so or not. They don’t care if they are in the minority
in the House or Senate, if Federal law is against them, or what – they feel
they have the right to the reins of government, whether they are a career
bureaucrat or actually elected.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that government service
employee unions are big supporters of Democrats; most of their members depend
on Democrats continuing to build the size and scope of government while
preserving and enriching if possible their pay and benefits.
Another thing the hacked e-mails showed was the contempt
Democrat Party leaders have for the public at large, not just Trump supporters,
and even those who supported Bernie in the primaries. Once again, nobody at the DNC has denied the
truthfulness of the leaked e-mails.
Maybe that’s why I’m having such a difficult time
understanding the outrage by Obama and the Democrats over the DNC hack. If the
e-mails weren’t true – and just made up to embarrass Democrats in the middle of
an election – then the outrage would make sense.
But the emails were true. It seems ironic that showing exactly what party officials and supporters actually
wrote to each other is an attack on our values. Doesn’t the truth set you free?
Did the e-mails cause Hillary to lose the election? I don’t think so; at worst it may have made
some Bernie supporters stay home or vote for Gary Johnson or Jill Stein instead
of Hillary – but the Democrat Party only has itself to blame for that. The
Democrat Party poohbahs wanted Hillary. She single-handedly lost the election
all on her own.
The popular Democrat myth right now it that the Russians
interfered in our election and must be punished. How dare a foreign government
interfere in our elections?
That’s rich.
Especially since the Obama Administration funneled hundreds of thousands
of dollars to Netanyahu opponents in hopes of defeating him in the Israeli
elections. And anyone who thinks our government has not tried to tamper with
foreign elections – including the Russian election of Putin – is frankly too
naïve at best, and disingenuous at worst, to be taken seriously.
Through the DNC hacks Democrats got caught in a web of
truths. They ignored the first rule of e-mail – never put anything in an e-mail
you wouldn’t want to see on a billboard.
BTW, during the campaign hackers tried to penetrate
the Republican National Committee servers as well, but failed. Just an interesting side note.
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