On the wikileak-ed emails from Tanden on Lessig

Re:On the wikileak-ed emails from Tanden on Lessig by aub3bhat on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @01:50AM (#12741392)

I agree its very gracious of Lessig and completely agree that individuals deserve privacy. But lets be honest, even in this case the forgiveness originates in fact that all individuals involved are on the same side in this election. Further the justification about her being engaged with public / public-sector is hollow. Had it been Karl Rove saying the same thing, would the anger be justified?

If we are at all going to judge people by the private communication then lets at least be consistent.

E.g. Here is the the women who had a left-wing blogger fired:

"Progressive blogger fired for calling Hillary Clinton ally a 'scumbag'"

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Re:On the wikileak-ed emails from Tanden on Lessig by slantedview on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @01:55AM (#12741412)

I would not say that Lessig is on the same side as these folks. Tanden is a party loyalist, which basically means, policy opinions aside, she supports taking any and all money from anyone in order to score party victories. Lessig wants to break the system of money in politics. Therefore their vision of America is fundamentally opposed.

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Re:On the wikileak-ed emails from Tanden on Lessig by aaron695 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:46AM (#12741619)

> Journalist Glenn Greenwald also jumped into the conversation to suggest that Tanden had influenced Demos' decision to part ways with Bruenig

I see no real proof here?

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Re:On the wikileak-ed emails from Tanden on Lessig by tanderson92 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @04:02AM (#12741948)

There is no public proof; at this point it is a he-said she-said over what happened behind the scenes. I acknowledge the benefit of the doubt in this situation goes to Tanden. Though I do not have good experiences with her truthfulness and tend to disbelieve her on this point, I acknowledge others don't share the background and will likely (fairly) conclude otherwise.

I am hopeful that future Wikileaks releases shed some light on this affair.

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