Colin Powell's Private Email Account Has Been Hacked (theverge.com)

According to The New York Times, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has been hacked and a password-protected archive of his personal emails has been published by DC Leaks. The Verge reports: DC Leaks is the same site that first published emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee, which many took as an explicit effort to influence the U.S. election process. Many experts in the U.S. intelligence apparatus have attributed that attack to the Russian government, although no public attribution has been made. Thus far, there's no evidence tying Powell's hack to Russia, and similar hacks have been carried out by mischievous teens without government affiliation. The immediate result of the hack has been political fallout for Powell himself. Last night, BuzzFeed News reported on an email in which Powell called Republican nominee Donald Trump a "national disgrace," and another in which he said the candidate was "in the process of destroying himself."

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Re:They're boring in a good way

[RobotRunAmok]

He refers to Hillary as "unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still dicking bimbos at home." That didn't bore me at all!

Re:Saddam and WMDs

[Boronx]

They did produce evidence. The UN inspectors had free run of the country for several months prior to the war. In their own words, the US evidence was "shit". Of course they found no evidence of an ongoing weapons program, because there was none.

In any case, the US never has produced any real evidence, before or after for their WMD claims.

They had cryptic radio intercepts.
They had satellite pictures of trucks leaving buildings.
They had unknown chemical processing trucks (turned out to be hydrogen production. The design was known, but not by Powell.).
They had aluminum tubes.

For hard evidence, that's all they had.