This comment posted an hour ago never showed up with the other entries and comments (206items as of this moment) on this page, so I'm putting it up again. Someone asked how 15,000 emails could possibly be falsified. Someone SHOULD ALSO have asked, how could so much hypothetical traffic be made to look authentically boring and routine and relevant to known real events so as to appear authentic. Here is a possible way : 1. Start with REAL emails from the targeted time period that you wish to spoof (they ARE your emails, so what could be easier than to have what you already do, indeed, possess?). 2. Make minor changes to sender, receiver, dates and times so that they are different and not literally duplicates. 3. Remove evidence of any actual and serious crimes. 4. LEAVE a little bit of really minor "acceptable" malfeasance to lend it an air of reality. 5. INSERT innuendo or outright mention of salacious or outrageous crime . . . which you are prepared to PROVE AS FALSE when called upon. 6. Have the entire 15,000 emails (most of which contain less than a couple of dozen words each ) reviewed by the people who will be identified as their authors. In other words, Have Podesta and Hillary and a few inner-circle DNC staff dirt bags read the damn things. 7. Correct inconsistencies and errors that might have entered in. Simple stuff like "wrong job title" or "wrong time stamp because nobody works that early on Sunday morning" or "Don't call him Michael, no body calls him Michael. he goes by the nickname Mikey" . That kind of shit. 8. It's a moderately big job, might take a couple of weeks, but not enormously so. There are computers, ya know? And the grunt work is all done by underlings.

All of the commonly known key players (Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Anthony Weiner and Human Abedin) were missing, whereabouts unknown and incommunicado for about 5 weeks. Safe to assume they did not spend that time doing anything that wasn't directly related to their own survival and self interest. When Podesta and Hillary suddenly reappear there is no explanation of why they had disappeared in the first place, nor what they had worked on for such an extended period during a national crisis. They reappear at about the same time. Neither of them fully engages with the usual or expected channels of communication available to politicians of their stature. Instead they deliver brief messages from strictly controlled pulpits and then again disappear. The short simple messages they deliver are : Russia has hacked into our emails and the election itself in order to defeat Hillary and elect Trump and our CIA needs to do something about it. A day later up pops the ever-so-enigmatic "findingassange" website which promises to deliver the Holy Grail to Podesta's and Hillary's opponents, including 15,000 "never before suspected" Podesta emails. There is no explanation offered on how these newly postulated emails could have escaped earlier leak/breach hacks , or how they could be shuffled in to what heretofore seems to be a pretty unbroken timeline of Hillary/DNC/Podesta email work product. This doesn't just fail the sniff test. The reek blasts the nose from my face