>For a start, there are 2 separate hacks: there's the prolonged hack of the DNC and there's the lifting of Podesta's emails.
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>Apparently the lifting of Podesta's emails was achieved by phishing, meaning any script kiddie could have done it. IOW there's no logical reason to blame the dirty Ruskies for the Podesta leaks, or to justify the current tower of blaming and grievance built on it. So unless proper evidence is produced soon, people are entitled to conclude that this is just another of the deceptions shown by Wikileaks, this time trying to shroud incompetent personal email hygiene by blending with a totally different DNC hack from a proper black hat who needed to sneak software onto the server and hide it over months. It's very possible that a Russian group did that, but apparently the exploit was in place for a very long time rather than a discrete recent event aiming to destabilize the election.

And again, why blame the whistleblower? Whoever brought the dirty laundry out, wasn't it more important to decide the DNA of the originator of the fecal matter in the laundry? As if the whole issue would have been all fine and dandy if it wasn't aired.