What do you call working with a foreign government to hack Democratic email accounts?

[Kingofalldems]

Would that be treason?

Something else?

[Rex]

1. Espionage, political sabotage, treason.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Russians are interfering with our elections and Trump is gleeful.

[Rex]

5. Trump is a criminal.

And evidently a traitor.

[beachbumbob]

2. Depends if it's national security or not...otherwise it's labeled as

Unamerican...and deserves the shame of all Americans

[DisgustipatedinCA]

3. Who is working with foreign governments to hack email accounts?

And if you're referring to DNC emails, then no, you wouldn't call it treason; you'd call it hacking.

[angstlessk]

6. If they were trying to effect the outcome of an election

it should be more than hacking...stealing my credit card number is hacking...getting trump elected is TREASON!

[Kingofalldems]

7. A: Possibly Trump.

B. So by your logic, Watergate was just a burglary.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

16. No. Go learn more about logic before you draw more conclusions.

Not all crimes are treason. In fact, very, very few crimes can be categorized as treason.

If you mean to state a declarative, do so. If, on the other hand, you mean to ask a question as you did in your OP, be ready for some answers, and don't employ so much snark when you receive an answer to your question.

[Kingofalldems]

20. Dude I asked a question. Please reread the OP before you throw insults.

And again by your reasoning--Watergate was just a burglary.

[Warren Stupidity]

22. Nixon was president at the time.

Can you spot the difference regarding Trumo?

[Kingofalldems]

23. Trump isn't president, is that what you mean?

He is however a powerful wealthy republican--the same party that orchestrated Watergate.

[scscholar]

30. Good analogy

The last break-in resulted in a Republican president resigning in disgrace. This break-in should result in worse.

[enid602]

29. nixon

Nixon was also dealing with the North and Soutu Vietnamese Governments PRIOR to the election to ensure LBJ could not get the treaty he'd spent months on.

[Kingofalldems]

31. Even worse.

[Warren Stupidity]

32. Ok. But that was not what was asserted.

The poster brought up watergate.

[etherealtruth]

8. Its despicable ... but, the DNC isn't "the government"

I am astounded at the lack of outrage related to the hack

[OKNancy]

9. just read this

Exclusive: Suspected Russian hack of DNC widens — includes personal email of staffer researching Manafort

https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-hacked-emails-of-dnc-oppo-researcher-point-to-russians-and-wider-penetration-154121061.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma

[Kingofalldems]

10. And did not Manafort work for the Russians in some capacity?

[emulatorloo]

17. For a pro-Putin Ukranian politician, if my memory is correct.

FBI is on the case:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512290411

[Kingofalldems]

19. Excellent.

Repubs don't have an AG running interference for them this time ala Watergate.

[emulatorloo]

24. See also: FBI Suspects Russia Hacked DNC; U.S. Officials Say It Was to Elect Donald Trump

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028046838

[drray23]

27. oh yes. even worse.

He was an advisor to the pro putin ukrainian dictator yanukovysch for severa years.

[etherealtruth]

13. For whatever reason this aspect seems to not bother many DUers as much as the fact that sanders was

... not beloved (and admittedly smack talked).

For the love of "god" .... foreign actors seem to have inserted themselves into the US political process. This is the story

[emulatorloo]

14. Holy cow!

[David__77]

11. I would want more facts to make a characterization.

Is anyone doing this?

[etherealtruth]

33. Here's a place to start

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/25/487356470/why-would-vladimir-putin-want-to-leak-the-dnc-emails

The emails were lifted earlier this year in a hacking breach that security experts have linked to Russian espionage groups.

As part of their pushback against the emails' damning details, many Democrats accuse Putin of trying to help Trump's campaign. They point to mutually admiring comments between the two men, as well as Trump policy proposals that many experts say would weaken NATO and cause the United States to retreat from the world stage.

"Experts are now saying that the Russians are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump," Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook, told CNN on Sunday.

[msongs]

12. everybody loves Anonymous et al until they are the victim of them nt

[Kingofalldems]

15. It's not Anonymous. It's a foreign government.

[LanternWaste]

28. "everybody loves Moscow's apparatchik until they are the victim of them"

More accurately, "everybody loves Moscow's apparatchik until they are the victim of them"

[TreasonousBastard]

18. "High crimes and misdemeanors" would do.

[safeinOhio]

21. We need to waterboard him to get

to the truth.

[emulatorloo]

26. Aren't you cute!

[Kingofalldems]

25. Investigation has widened:

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/757641218310438912