Hacking into someone's servers is not, by any stretch of the definition, whistleblowing. A DNC staffer copying some emails and coming forward to say 'hey, my bosses are engaged in unethical favoritism' would be whistleblowing. This case is espionage by a foreign power with the intent to deliberately influence the internal political deliberations of a sovereign state. While such moves are hardly uncommon - the CIA pulls this kind of crap too - it's still disturbing.SlyJohnny wrote:and now you're blaming any dissent on the intervention of foreign intelligence agencies and their clever plan to destroy truth and democracy by whistleblowing.
The most important take away from this hacking-based info dump is not that the DNC wasn't quite as impartial with regards to the Sanders campaign as they ought to have been - that has claimed the scalp of Wasserman-Schultz, which ought to be plenty of culpability - but that Putin really, really wants Donald Trump to be present, a fact that ought to weigh heavily on the minds of all voters.