RUMINT (Rumor Intelligence) is rife with reports that Russian intelligence agencies are preparing to release emails "hacked" from Hillary Clinton's rogue Internet email server.Agreed, this sounds a bit like a blackmail plot in a 1940s radio detective thriller or a soap opera. Except it isn't. We live in a world where blood gets spilled.
I've read through several reports about the possible Russian information release, ranging from the staid, professional analysis to the wild Hollywood excitement--breathless. One of the more interesting analyses appeared a few days ago on oilprice.com, a site devoted to analyzing the global oil industry and forecasting trends:
"Reliable intelligence sources in the West have indicated that warnings had been received that the Russian Government could in the near future release the text of email messages intercepted from U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server from the time she was U.S. Secretary of State. The release would, the messaging indicated, prove that Secretary Clinton had, in fact, laid open U.S. secrets to foreign interception by putting highly-classified Government reports onto a private server in violation of U.S. law, and that, as suspected, the server had been targeted and hacked by foreign intelligence services."
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