On a related note, Snowden revealed that the US has been hacking and intercepting the electronic communications of world leaders and governments on a massive scale. We intercepted Merkel’s cell phone calls. So I don’t know where we get the moral authority to condemn Russia for doing (if they did do it) what we’ve been doing routinely.
Exactly. This is what we’ve been doing for many decades. In fact, it is very minor and fairly insignificant compared to what we’ve been doing.