What is most amazing about Hillary's leaked campaign emails.

[pnwmom]

http://europe.newsweek.com/neil-buchanan-wikileaks-clinton-emails-are-damp-squib-513519

Imagine that someone has hacked into your email account and is about to publish everything that has passed between you and your friends and business associates for the past few years. Are you panicked?

You should be, even if you are completely honest and well meaning. Nearly everyone uses less guarded language among friends, with inside jokes and shorthand references to common experiences. Taken out of context, and spun by a person disinclined to give you the benefit of the doubt, it would seem that everyone’s emails could yield one or two nuggets that at least require a bit of explanation.

What is most amazing about the WikiLeaks dump of Hillary Clinton’s campaign emails, therefore, is that there have barely even been moments when the campaign would wince at reading the unpolished tone of what is being published, much less worry about big revelations regarding matters of substance.

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After discussing the ways in which news organizations can cast even innocent statements in a negative light, I will also note that the content of the WikiLeaks documents shows that Clinton’s speeches to bankers were actually quite admirable—even to a fierce critic of Wall Street like me.

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If Vladimir Putin and/or Julian Assange thought that they could bring down Clinton’s candidacy by hacking into her campaign’s emails, they must have been counting on the credulity of the American press to turn a lot of nothing into a wave of damaging innuendos. And there certainly is a lot of evidence of anti-Clintonism in the press to support such hopes.

On both substance and strategy, however, Clinton comes off looking better and better.

Neil H. Buchanan is an economist and legal scholar, a professor of law at George Washington University and a senior fellow at the Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches tax law, tax policy, contracts and law, and economics. His research addresses the long-term tax and spending patterns of the federal government, focusing on budget deficits, the national debt, health care costs and Social Security.

[Cakes488]

1. Everyone should be pissed about this regardless of what party you are affiliated with.

I'm certain I would be just as disgusted if they....the Russians....were doing this to Republicans. This is not whistle blowing...it's just flat out blowing. As in that's what Assange is doing to Putin.

Again this am on Good Morning America Trumpass said yet again that he has no idea who's doing it and he called denying it "diplomacy"???
This guy is nothing but an ass cork.

[Cha]

3. I know.. Russians thought they were being so sneaky, too..

hacking the DNC's emails.. hoping to get dirt on Hillary so putin's puppet, drumpf, can get into the White House.

[Cha]

2. Stop the Presses!

To give a sense of how little is going on, consider this headline from ABC News’s website: “Clinton Team Ran Highly Scripted Campaign, WikiLeaks Emails Indicate.” That certainly is big news, right? In a media and political environment where every little decision that Clinton makes is criticized from every angle, Clinton’s people take extra care not to make mistakes. Stop the presses!

Thank you, pnwmom!

[Blanks]

12. Compare that to Trump's completely...

Unscripted campaign. I'll go with a scripted campaign every time.

[Cha]

13. "Unscripted".. "throwing shite against the wall hoping

it will stick" campaign.

[JBoy]

18. Scripted = Disciplined.

Looking forward to her bringing this trait to the White House.

[BSdetect]

4. Whatever they spin divide by 100

[meadowlark5]

5. I would be horrified

There are snarky things I've said about my siblings to my other siblings. Discussions about the in laws with my spouse and not always in a glowing manner

Worse would be having my texts exposed

[Cakes488]

24. hahahhahh yes so true....worse yet...secret recordings

[apcalc]

6. I am thinking the same.....there is amazingly very little there there.

[progressoid]

7. Rec!

[JSup]

8. I've been thinking this as well

It's less than I would expect from one group competing with another group. Can you imagine the RNC and Trump emails? I bet they'd be more 'interesting' than these.

[treestar]

22. This ^^^^

Where are the hackers for that?

Julian makes it obvious. He should at least make a show of hacking the RNC.

[Madam45for2923]

9. On both substance and strategy, however, Clinton comes off looking better and better.

On both substance and strategy, however, Clinton comes off looking better and better.

[4lbs]

10. WikiLeaks' email hacks have been a big yawner. Only the M$M is trying to make something from

nothing.

Even Bernie Sanders said that most of it was really nothing, and if one were to show the emails from his campaign regarding the Clinton campaign, many of them would say mostly the same things about Hillary.

[StevieM]

11. I am scared that this latest email will help them contrive a fake scandal better than the other

email leaks have.

[uponit7771]

15. +1

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. I'm afraid I'd bore the shit out of a hacker

The vast majority of my emails have to do with what's for dinner and which parent is picking up which kid from which sport or music activity.

Totally agree. This email dump has been a pile of nothing at all special....but leave it to the spin doctors.

[uponit7771]

16. +1, that's the real scandal with the Clinton's after a trillion emails hacked on their computers

... the world now knows they're fairly boring... they have a kid and a grand daughter and a son in law and they're do gooders ... I was expecting something juicier like ... them stopping the world from blowing up or something...

OK... they've taken a lot of money from rich people and given it to a lot of poor people... and saved lives ... who hasn't done that / sarcasm

[DemInND]

17. I think people don't give a hoot about the e-mails...

They're a speck of dust compared to Trump's actions, which would be a mountain of dirt.

[pnwmom]

21. Many people regard her as untrustworthy because of what they've heard

in the media about the emails.

[Jeff Murdoch]

26. Then the press gets in a tizzy

when Hillary acts "guarded " I wonder why that would be?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. In Right Wing World the Clintons are crooks....

....while Dick Cheney is innocent.

[Lucinda]

20. KNR Thank you!

[mopinko]

23. my sister shared an email w the rest of the family that

touched off a nearly 10 year rift w another sister.
i had made a completely true observation about her son the war hero, and my hope for a smooth return from afghanistan.

so, yeah, i would not want mine shared. so far her's show she is a good person running a tight ship. i like her more and more.

[LAS14]

25. This is right! As Biden said, "There's no there there."

The MSM has improved a little bit, usually including a clause explaining the inconsequentiality (word?) of the reported quote.