Anne Applebaum: How Russia benefits from the DNC email leak
Delegates display a banner of protest on Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 25.
The emails of Sony employees. Top-secret diplomatic cables. The addresses of married people who used a confidential dating service. Every time “secret” information is made public, the focus of attention is always, immediately, on the sensational details. The motives of the hacker, the leaker or the person in possession of the secret tapes are rarely examined. But what to do when that person has an ulterior motive quite far from “the public’s right to know”? And what if that person’s motive is to help throw an American election?
