In case anyone forgot: the “hacked emails” contained multitudes of revelatory information about powerful political actors that otherwise would have been concealed from voters medium.com/mtracey/russia…
The retrospective characterization of what happened focuses almost exclusively on how it was an Attack On America, while ignoring what that “attack” plainly yielded: information that exposed the corruption and deceit of some of the country’s most powerful political figures
This gets to why the hyperventilation about “Russian interference” has always irked: if the fruits of that “interference” was clearly revelatory & newsworthy information being provided to voters, it might have been the most benevolent instance of “foreign interference” in history
