NEVER interfere in other countries’ internal affairs, Vladimir Putin has insisted—except by invading them, bankrolling their nastiest politicians and, perhaps, conspiring to embarrass America’s Democratic Party and its presidential candidate.
The Kremlin’s precise role and purpose in the scandal over the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC’s) e-mails, and whom it will harm most, remain to be seen. The known facts of the story are that, on July 22nd, WikiLeaks published over 19,000 e-mails hacked from the DNC’s accounts. (Five days later it followed up with a clutch of purloined voicemails.) Some confirmed the conviction of supporters of Bernie Sanders that party apparatchiks favoured Hillary Clinton in its primaries. In one of the grubbiest messages, an official seemed to float the idea of insinuating that the senator was an atheist. Disgruntled Sandernistas were already intending to disrupt the convention in Philadelphia; Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Floridian congresswoman, duly resigned as the committee’s chairman on July 24th.
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