... after James Clapper lied to Congress.

Sorry, I mean "simply forgot" to mention it as his lawyer puts it. "Oh, you Congressmen were asking questions about that surveillance program? I thought you meant another one."

It was so nice of Edward Snowden to remind him about it. And what thanks does he get?

"That he actively colluded with Russia to screw with US election [has] been pretty well documented."

Has it? Where?

I mean there are lots of people expressing their opinion or those of "anonymous sources". But that's not the same thing as being well documented.

Nowhere near.

Similar experience: a technically illiterate boss blocked us fron using Git for months because 'git' is a childish insult in British English. He couldn't believe a polished piece of software would have a name like that. Explaining that Apache software did not derive its name from Native Americans but was a play on words of "a patch" for buggy software didn't help.

Well documented propaganda, I'm afraid.

Fake news ain't new.

"Experts confirm that Iran's president did not call for Israel to be 'wiped off the map''" The Guardian, 14 June 2006.

There are many reasons to criticize Iran but a constantly quoted mistranslation is not one of them.

My wife is a lawyer and more clever than me (she says) but loves hippy-dippy, tree-hugging, unscientific "medicine". She gave birth to both our children with no drugs but lavendar oil. OK, it's only two data points but child birth is excruciatingly painful so do it twice is evidence to me there may be some merit to these claims.

... after Obama wiretapped the German leader's 'phone.

You do know that the BBC receives £254 million (approximately $400 million) directly from the UK government, right? (See their own report here, p19).

Now, the BBC is not bad compared to all the other media outlets but almost half a billion dollars directly from the British Foreign Office compromises its claim to impartiality.

I believe Oracle does this with every JDK as they approach End of Life. ("Want us to continue patching JDK 8 rather than you upgrading to JDK 9? Fine, then pay us"). The story here is just the pricing model has changed AFAIK.

" it was learned that Guccifer 2.0 did in fact slip up and failed to activate his VPN client and exposed himself as being ... in Moscow. This is a fact that is now accepted across the political spectrum."

That's far from the consensus (see “Why would diabolically skilled Russian operatives operate so sloppily?”).

The evidence of Russian hacking is either circumstantial (for example that hackers kept Moscow office hours because as we all know, hackers are famous for their 9-to-5 routine). Or the smoking gun has not been released by the consultancies the DNC is paying and government agencies who told us they had proof there are WMDs in Iraq.

Of the two links you post, the second refers to the first and both confuse Guccifer (Marcel Lazr Lehel who is currently in a Romanian jail) and Guccifer 2.0, the alleged Russian spy.

Now, obviously, there are going to be howls of "Russian Shill!" from ACs (see below) because I have deviated from the narrative. So, let me make it clear: it might be that the Russians did indeed hack the DNC. But the evidence that has currently been released is so weak there is at least the possibility that the whole story is an attempt to undermine the validity of the 2016 election.

Yes, indeed, he is a professor of marketing and this is great marketing for his career! (Expect a forthcoming book by Fall).

Meanwhile, the rest of the world will leave such matters to the professors of law where they belong.

"Breach of bail conditions is a crime."

Not necessarily. If I have good reason to believe that my right to life, my right to a fair trial etc will be violated, human rights law can potentially override criminal law.

(IANAL but I have chatted to an English lawyer about this).

"What do you call someone that has sex with a woman outside of her consenting terms?

A rapist."

So, a man who cheats on his wife is a rapist?

I'm genuinely curious about this analysis. Iran had an election in 2013 where the moderate candidate won with just over 50% of the votes with the US and UK reacting relatively positively and neither denouncing the election as unfair.

This makes Iran one of the most democratic countries in the Middle East (admittedly, it's not up against stiff competition for that title). Certainly, when you compare it to our "ally" Saudi Arabia who promote terrorism in Europe, fight alongside al Qaeda in their brutal war in Yemen and has an appalling record of human rights abuses, Iran does not appear to be the greatest threat.

Could it be because "the Obama administration has offered to sell $115bn worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia over its eight years in office, more than any previous US administration"? (Note that Trump is no better).

If Iran pumped billions into the US and UK economy, they might not be quite so high on our shit list.

If you don't like it done to you then don't do it to others.

Aside from all the elections America has interfered in, the US recently targeted its allies and hacked the phone of the German leader.