The story seemed so neatly self-contained: Someone hacked the Democratic National Convention. Those hackers were connected to the Russian government, according to U.S. intelligence and outside experts alike. And then someone leaked a tranche of DNC emails just as the Democrats were gathering for their convention in Philadelphia—an optimally damaging time. It didn’t take Holmesian deduction why some people concluded that Russian agents were trying to influence the election by hurting Hillary Clinton. A spree of comments from Donald Trump praising Vladimir Putin, waving off the annexation of Crimea, and semi-jokingly calling for Russia to release Hillary Clinton’s State …read more
Source: The Atlantic
