Quoting David Turk (davemarkturk@me.com):
Opinion: Wikileaks has lost my respect, as they backing Julian Assange's revenge attack on the USA. Not that I favour either candidate.
Just a side-comment: The Russian criminal elements who've been mass-gathering e-mails from various places (elements alleged to have state backing) haven't actually been doing any frightfully elaborate and impressive computer break-ins. According to all reports I've seen, they've just been doing the same low-grade taking advantage of desktop-user stupidity that is the stock in trade of malware/spammer people. For example, large numbers of e-mails relevant to the Hillary Clinton campaign were sucked down from Clinton Campaign head John Podesta -- but not in any clever or surprising fashion _at all_. Instead, it turns out that Podesta was relying on GMail(!), and got suckered into clicking on a phishing link that gave his GMail access credentials to the computer criminals. I mention this because many people think the recent blow-ups resulted from a Putin state-intelligence plot to break into major USA political institutions' sensitive computer networks. The truth appears to be rather less dramatic and rather more pathetic.