Disinformation, Espionage and Collaboration

The latest questionable document from Wikileaks hits an uncritical and credulous “media”:

Here Are Hillary Clinton’s Three Speeches To Goldman Sachs For Which She Was Paid $675,000
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com

—  As has been widely reported, in 2013 Hillary Clinton was paid $675,000 for three speeches to Goldman Sachs.  One was delivered on June 4, 2013 at the 2013 IBD CEO Annual Conference at The Inn …

As foreign entities openly attempt alter the outcome of a US presidential election, the outrage has been, to be kind, muted. Alas, within my unreconstructed citizen’s soul — from cub scouts to boy scouts, from a page at the Wyoming Republican Convention to a delegate from Oregon at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles — there burns a red-hot rage at those who would so casually dismiss treason and threats to our true “national sovereignty” and, worse, those whose committment to America is lukewarm at best, and who believe in the convenient trope “the US Government” and its subliterate twin, “the gum’mint.”

How the Democrats can Exploit the Rout

Here’s an interesting bit of news that hasn’t been seen since Teddy Roosevelt seceded from the GOP and ended up electing Woodrow Wilson, the Republican party is in utter disarray:

Carson defends Ryan from Trump’s attacks
Jonathan Easley / The Hill

—  adviser Ben Carson came to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s defense on Tuesday and criticized the Republican presidential nominee [Donald Trump] for exacerbating an intraparty feud less than a month before the election…

This is the moment in human conflict where a huge disparity arises and a rare opportunity presents itself.

Putin’s Valentine Falls Flat

What an interesting five minutes!

Take a gander:

And then, five minutes later …

Not a slow news day. But the hackers ought to have known that this was a dumb day to try to break their “exposé.”

Zowie! This was what I was blogging about ….