Imagine if the emails of the Trump campaign were leaked

US cyber intelligence experts have laid the blame for the email hacks of Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign squarely at the feet of “Fancy Bear”, a cyber espionage group within the Russian military intelligence agency, the GRU. However, the Clinton campaign email system is not the first to bear the paw prints of Fancy Bear. The Russian cyber intelligence operation has previously been involved in attacking IT systems of Eastern European governments and militaries, hacking the emails of European media personnel who wrote articles critical of Russia, and the computer systems of US defense contractors and NATO.

More recently Wikileaks has released the personal emails of John Podesta, the Chair of Hillary’s campaign, obviously also obtained from Fancy Bear, and they promise to release more batches of emails before the election. There have also been attempts by Fancy Bear to hack into the state election records. It is likely that there have been other cyber attacks by Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear (Fancy Bear’s s counterpart in the Russian spy agency the FSB - formally the KGB) which haven’t yet been detected.

Our intelligence agencies appear to believe that the Russians are trying to discredit our entire election process in the eyes of the world with their releases of those hacked emails. If that is their purpose, I think it is likely that they have also hacked into the emails systems of the RNC and the Trump campaign. If one of those targets was Donald Trump’s organization, Wikileaks has yet to release any of the emails of Trump campaign staffers, I think for obvious reasons. However, if the public were to be given access to the emails of the Trump staff members, one can only imagine what they might be saying to one another in their emails.

The following is how I imagine an email from Kellyannne Conway to a fellow campaign staffer might read:

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