Indeed. Much better for America to slip ever closer to the panopticon without any of the filthy plebs knowing about it. After all, saying the wrong thing here and there might inconvenience the hyper rich and the preposterously powerful and that, ah, that would be a tragedy.
Well fact of the matter is that we don’t know how much hay is the correct amount of hay. And the only thing connecting Russia to those DNC hacks is forensics. Whose credibility just took a serious hit. Of course the CIA could be as pure as the driven snow here but much in the same way it is possible to be carrying lockpicks in a bank after midnight for perfectly innocent reasons and still people will be, ah, profoundly suspicious of your motives.
