[Steve_Seattle]

I don't know if Russia had anything to do with the DNC emails, but it is likely that they were meddling in our affairs and continue to do so. This does NOT necessarily mean that they colluded with the Trump campaign, or even that they wanted Trump to win.

A Trump win was considered so unlikely that - unless Russia has far better intelligence than we do - they wouldn't have wasted their time on a losing effort.

But if they did try to circulate embarrassing stuff about Clinton, it would be to hinder her presidency, not to help Trump to win. When Trump won, they could have just shifted gears and started releasing stuff to hinder the Trump presidency.

Take, for example, yesterday's claim that Sessions had an undisclosed meeting with Kyslyak to discuss policy. There was no intercept of such a conversation, but only of Kyslyak's reported claim that such a meeting had taken place. This sounds like Russian disinformation; they made it up to hurt Trump, knowing that it would be leaked by our intelligence agencies.

[RummyChick]

Ambassador was a suspected spy. It is quite possible his phone was a hot mic..and some intelligence agency picked up the convo. How probable I dont know..but possible.

[boycott]

That makes sense but it seems Russia would want to try to work with Trump — especially in Syria. I can understand why they wouldn’t want Hillary to win. Her middle east policy was a disaster. obama, Hillary, McCain, etc., wanted to overthrow Egypt, Libya, Syria, etc.