When WikiLeaks started dropping files stolen from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, it didn’t do so in one big dump. This happened among conspiracy theorists, yes, but also among more mainstream critics of the Clinton campaign. As a result, nearly every day saw revelations about the Clinton campaign — though not necessarily any that were informative or instructive. It’s newsworthy, certainly, but it is not a smoking gun about a link between Russia and the Trump campaign. The result is that stories may be overhyped as important, just as happened with the Clinton emails and the WikiLeaks revelations.

Source: Washington Post October 27, 2017 15:45 UTC