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DallasNE

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9. False Equivalency

Reply to uawchild (Original post)

Sat Jul 30, 2016, 11:20 AM

Jul 2016

Yes, all countries spy on one another. Even friendly governments spy on one another. Even China spying on both Obama and McCain in 2008 falls into this category.

What is going on here is Russia is attempting to influence the outcome of the American election. They may even be sharing the data with one candidate - Trump. This is a thousand times more serious than the other kind of spying.

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Russia says spyware found in state computer networks [View all] uawchild Jul 2016 OP

Spying is different than making it public to influence elections MattP Jul 2016 #1

You are correct, interfering in a country's politics is bad -- should we also stop doing that? uawchild Jul 2016 #2

It's different when the CIA does it Cayenne Jul 2016 #8

Should we stop doing that..... reACTIONary Jul 2016 #14

Post removed Post removed Jul 2016 #4

The cold war continues randr Jul 2016 #3

The DNC and the Clinton campaign were warned to take action by the FBI and external avaistheone1 Jul 2016 #5

Please provide a source for this information randr Jul 2016 #6

You bet. avaistheone1 Jul 2016 #7

False Equivalency DallasNE Jul 2016 #9

10. This isn't the first time a foreign country interfered with our elections How quickly we forget NWCorona Jul 2016 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author NWCorona Jul 2016 #10

That's because the Nigerian Prince ISN'T their BFF and doesn't have millions of rubles for them Paula Sims Jul 2016 #12

guess russia has to start to invent their own software or upgrade from win95 Sunlei Jul 2016 #13

Hmm... jmowreader Jul 2016 #15

Sure it is possible: Just as our own spy agency spies on congress newthinking Jul 2016 #16