The media reaction-for-distraction is to shoot alleged Russian messengers over what is an important disclosure about WADA's conduct and what should be an urgent public debate over how the Rio Olympic games appear to have been hijacked by geopolitical interests to demonize Russia. Even though, there is no substantive evidence presented that Russian "messengers" were indeed behind the WADA leaks.
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This same absurd reaction is observed over the earlier leak of data from the Democrat National Committee (DNC). Those published files showed how the DNC had committed to fix the US primaries in order to give Hillary Clinton the presidential nomination over her rival, self-declared socialist candidate Bernie Sanders. DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz even had to resign over the scandal, but the scandal's full implications of how democratic principles were violated were stifled by high-flown claims that Russia was responsible for the hack. Moscow was and continues to be accused of "interfering in US elections" -- despite repeated denials by the Kremlin.
A self-proclaimed US citizen group, DC Leaks, has made the claim of disseminating the Democrat party shenanigans.
Similarly, this week saw another embarrassing email hack, in the case of former US Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell. Powell, who served in the George W Bush administration, was scathing of Hillary Clinton, as well as Republican candidate Donald Trump. He labelled Clinton "greedy" and full of incompetent "hubris," while her husband Bill is having trysts with "bimbos" when she's away from home. On Trump, Powell dismissed him as an international "disgrace" and "pariah."
(Powell also had choice deprecatory words for former cabinet colleagues Dick Cheney ("idiot") and Paul Wolfowitz ("liar") over the Iraq War debacle.)
These are damning insights from a senior US political figure on the lackluster quality of the two presidential candidates which American voters will decide on in a matter of weeks. Yet, here is the Washington Post headline: "Powell emails were leaked on a site linked to the Russian government."
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