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The leaks serve several good purposes: - They help remove questionable public officials. - They show government officials what it's like to have no private conversation (strong encryption). - They show both the public and government officials that government cannot be trusted to keep secrets. (Even the President is unable to prevent his own government from revealing detrimental secrets.)

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There is some truth to this. However, instead of talking about the disturbing content in the leaked DNC and Podesta documents, the media only wishes to report on how this authentic content came to light. The deflection and bias is staggering. The lesson may be you can get away with anything if you have the media in your pocket.

Yeah, how's this situation for the 9/11 truther movement? Even a nagging suspicion that a high level government official could be vulnerable in a way that could hurt the country, and some anonymous person with clearance goes to the press. What's that put the odds of a massive government conspiracy resulting in the deaths of thousands of Americans at?

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