my understanding is that only the (conservative populist) trump supporters are fond of putin. how would one expect othewise? it's not like they live in talllinn.

Republican John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on Friday that Russia must face a penalty for the cyber attacks... "When you attack a country, it's an act of war," McCain said in an interview with the Ukrainian TV channel "1+1" while on a visit to Kiev.

Or, at least, Blix published two reports stating he had been allowed to conduct inspections unfettered and at times unannounced without interference and had found no WMD.

Blix stated he would need perhaps a few more weeks or months but not a year to complete his inspection regime.

Rather, fault lies with those individuals in the Bush / Cheney administration who chose to first cherry-pick selective bits of available data, and then present such deliberately exaggerated "findings" to Congress and the general public with an intent to mislead both. They had already determined well prior to the 9-11 tragedy that they wanted a war with Iraq, and were fishing for an excuse to invade that country.

if it was purely political why not before the election?

We can also ask Assange for some proof on this

I mean you do want the truth, don't you?

And shades of Watergate...Craig Murray, ...that he was given a package near American University, in a wooded area, that was the source of some of the Clinton emails.

Could it not be that we haa two sources feeding Wiki?

Obama is belatedly punishing one. Why  not the other one?? Is it inconvenient to know the Demos were also bleeding internally from the "Super Delegate" disease?????

I mean if the Democrat's concern is truly about hacking and trying to influence the election, shouldn't we punish them all?

And finally, let's have the emails reproduced and introduced.

It appears that we have had a crime committed but we can't have a description of what was stolen.

And were the emails truthful? And if so, wasn't it best that American people knew what the Democrats thought of each other? I mean, being honest and transparent and all that stuff.

Heaven knows we saw the Repubs dirty laundry ad nasueam courtesy of the media and willing Repubs and Demos....And the Republic has survived.

Let's face facts. No Demo "leader" wanted the emails in front of the public. They were willing to sacrifice national security in an attempt to let the furor die away after Hillary was elected. They didn't want to admit how poor their security was.

22 million personnel records, with security clearances , including the security background checks. Lots of secrets there, with personnel throughout our government.  

Now that deserved a stronger response than the Russian hack of private e mails.

Yes, Russian hacking, Chinese hacking, North Korean hacking is serious, and it appears our government has not taken it as seriously as it should have, until it became a political issue.