The Internet is not a safe place. It is very easy to be hacked. It is also very easy to have something foolish posted ten years ago follow you into a job interview.\u00a0 Travel the information highway at your own risk.<\/p>\n
Yesterday Investor’s Business Daily<\/a> posted an article about the leaked DNC<\/a> email scandal. The pointed out some things that may be overlooked in the uproar.<\/p>\n The article reports:<\/p>\n It’s a general rule of thumb that when a leak hurts Republicans, the media focus on the leak. But when the leak hurts a Democrat, the media focus on the nefarious motives of the leaker. This bias has on bold display in the wake of the release of hacked DNC emails last Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n As everyone now knows, the nearly 20,000 e-mails so far released contain revelations about how the party — which was publicly claiming to be neutral in the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders<\/a> — was actively trying to torpedo Sanders’ bid.<\/strong><\/p>\n Almost immediately, the Clinton campaign tried to suggest that this was somehow part of a conspiracy on the part of Vladimir Putin<\/a> to help Donald Trump<\/a> get elected.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article also reminds us that much of the hacking took place before Donald Trump was the Republican candidate. Somehow that is being left out in the news coverage.<\/p>\n The article includes a wonderful quote:<\/p>\n The story\u00a0went on to quote Rook Security CEO J.J. Thompson, who said that “just because you find an AK-47\u00a0at a crime scene doesn’t mean a Russian pulled the trigger.”<\/strong><\/p>\n A few more random facts from the article:<\/p>\n For one thing, the hackers broke into the DNC servers long before anyone, including the Russians,\u00a0had any reason to think Trump would be the nominee. For another, the emails themselves are an embarrassment for the Democratic Party<\/a>, not Clinton herself, and have managed mainly\u00a0to aggravate an existing wound between the party establishment and Bernie Sanders supporters.<\/strong><\/p>\n For another, the decision to release the emails on the eve of the Democratic Convention was the decision of WikiLeaks<\/a>‘ Julian Assange<\/a>, who up until now has been a hero of the left.<\/strong><\/p>\n There’s also the rather unbelievable supposition underlying this conspiracy — namely that Clinton would be some sort of superhawk when it comes to Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n …What’s more, it was Clinton who signed off on a deal that gave Russia control of a fifth of all the uranium production capacity in the U.S., while Uranium One was making fat donations to the Clinton Foundation<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n When the deal was finished, Pravda boasted that “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”<\/strong><\/p>\n So what, exactly, is the basis of the claim that Putin has any reason to be fearful of a Clinton presidency<\/a>? None. So why are reporters pushing this story? To give\u00a0Clinton a helping hand.<\/strong><\/p>\n If nothing else, the slant of the reporting on the leaked emails illustrates exactly what the emails stated–the collusion between the Democratic Party and the news media. It is my hope that the American people are paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Internet is not a safe place. It is very easy to be hacked. It is also very easy to have something foolish posted ten years ago follow you into a job interview.\u00a0 Travel the information highway at your own … Continue reading