Why am I to read an indictment of foreign military intelligence agents doing their jobs? This makes no sense.
The foreign agents are doing what they have always been doing. The difference now is that our Silicon Valley tech giants have enabled them to do their jobs on a synergistic basis. What they did this past couple of elections used to be impossible. If you want to hold someone responsible, you don’t look at foreign agencies doing their jobs. You look at your own institutions and their failures. Perhaps you even bring up FaceBook on charges of treason. That would make a lot more sense than telling me to read about how we finally tracked digital signatures back to Russian operatives.
Besides, you totally ignored my point with HRC and the way the DNC worked in the past election. They are the reason we have the stupendous mess we have now. They gave us Trump and yet I should find fault with the Russians. Terrific.
The reason we have a stupendous mess is because a few million voters shy of the majority voted for Donald Trump. The DNC didn't make him the Republican party's candidate. The DNC establishment put their fat fingers on the scale and nominated Clinton rather than Sanders. How Sanders would have fared against Trump and his Russian handlers we'll never know.
Maybe if you read part of the indictment you might understand that Russian agents 'doing their job' don't get a pass on violating U.S. laws and interfere with our democratic elections. DNC actions in the primary were serious and should never be allowed to happen again, but comparing what they did in the primaries to what the Russians and their collaborators in the Trump campaign did is ludicrous. One purpose of the indictments was to prove beyond any shadow of doubt that Russia acted to swing the election and elect Trump.
"Special counsel Robert Mueller just indicted
12 Russian intelligence officers, accusing them of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election.In total, the indictment charges 11 spies with conspiracy to commit computer crimes, eight counts of aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to launder money. Two of the defendants are charged with a separate conspiracy to commit computer crimes."
From text of the indictment:
2. Defendants VIKTOR BORISOVICH [etc.] and
ALEKSEY ALEKSANDROVICH POTENIKIN were GRU officers who knowingly and
intentionally conspired with each other, and with persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury
(collectively the ?Conspirators?), to gain unauthorized access (to ?hack?) into the computers of
U.S. persons and entities involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, steal documents from
these computers, and stage releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 U.S.
presidential election.
