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In reply to the discussion: I know many will disagree with me, but I stand by Ms. Winner [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)I suspect most people haven't actually looked hard at what she leaked.
It didn't actually expose any manipulation of the election. Only attempts to gain access to to voter registration rolls. With no findings that they had any success.
But if you were paying attention you already knew this. The Obama administration was warning every county election office that this was happening and to be vigilant well before the election.
So we didn't learn anything new other than a few specific details of the how. Because we already knew they were doing this, the Obama Administration first warned the targets and later they put punitive measures in place against Russia for what they did.
So what, really, did we learn from this leaked document that was new? If you have been paying attention very little other than some specific details of the how.
And do those details change anything?
All that makes me think this was a foolish choice of a leak to destroy her future and sacrifice her freedoms over. There wasn't any whistleblower value here in reality because it didn't tell us anything new.
And as someone who works in a field requiring a security clearance my personal standard is that when you accept the position of trust to have access you don't violate that trust unless it's really something that is earth shattering the people need to know and no other means are available to deal with it.
This isn't that. Not even close.
To further cement that this isn't worthy of a leak and what she did, this wasn't a Trump Administration secrete. This all happened and was dealt with under President Obama. So the people who need to know on our side already know, and President Obama knew all this when he took his actions against Russia. He did not feel the need to release this information then because he either felt it would dmamage further investigation or would harm ongoing attempts to monitor Russian hackers by exposing how we do it. I trusted his judgement then and still do now.