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Even if the Russians did hack a private computer, so what? The level of outrage needs to be proportional to the crime and of similar crimes. The principle of equality, that great tradition of Anglo-American civilization, applies itself in the criminal law not only in a defendant's defense but also in his prosecution and punishment. The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution proscribes equal protection under the law to every citizen of the United States. It's in this very spirit that a certain amount of equality is proscribed in the prosecution of like crimes, even when individual justice and common sense might suggest otherwise.

When 20 million personal files of secrete clearances were hacked by the Chinese, from a GOVERMENNT server, nothing was done about it by Obama. But now a couple of private servers are hacked, and almost starting a war with Russia is the remedy?

In addition regardless of how the news was obtained of the information from the leaks, western society since colonial times have always embraced the public right to know information from anonymous news sources. Journalist right to keep their sources confidant is a staple of a Free press. Watergate for example, leaks from Deep Throat were printed in the Washington Post and swayed public opinion to accept the impeachment of Nixon. The left had no problem with leaks and anonymous source for water gate...

The level of outrage for violations perpetrated on a couple of careless private citizens compared to real hacking of government data of 20 million workers who trusted their government for safety and the disregard of the free press for the right to inform the public without disclosing sources is not how a civil society works... more like how a communist or banana republic dictatorship works !

Germans are still mad about the American hacking of Merkel.

But yeah,all the hackers did was expose the political truth, in this case.

When 20 million personal files of secrete clearances were hacked by the Chinese, from a GOVERMENNT server, nothing was done about it by Obama. But now a couple of private servers are hacked, and almost starting a war with Russia is the remedy?

Nope. A war with Russia is the 'remedy' for the 'Russians' assassinating Trump on January 19th.

Pray for our country and world.