> you may have clocked that Tuesday's dump was engineered to help the President pin the hacking of his political opponents' email server on the CIA

Why does everything have to be about politics nowadays? I want an unbiased analysis. It is plausible, but not certain. There is a bunch of assumptions here that I'd rather keep as hypotheses.

This is a story about the government, do you think that shouldn't be political?

There is a difference between politics and policy.

it doesn't need to be partisan.

Hacking appears to be net negative. I've yet to hear a leak of how hacking worked out well? Or are such leaks of success so uninteresting they don't get leaked?

If you're going to risk life in prison / execution, why not include a good story or two.