I think I implicitly acknowledged that (in parentheses) in my post. My point is that the content is not the most relevant / important issue here; the important point is that people (Russians?) continue to try to hack selected election candidates in hope of finding politically embarrassing material that may influence an election in whichever way they appear to favour.
If this is what ‘foreign policy’ and ‘international diplomacy’ have / will become then western democracy, however you define it or whatever you think it is (or whatever one thinks of its merits) is under a bigger threat than ever before.
Well, this and Cambridge Analytica, etc.
