About Those Leaked Podesta Emails

The Clinton team has been using several methods for casting the Podesta email leaks as, if not false, at least questionable, although none of them has challenged any single reported leak as untrue. 

Politico writer Jack Shafer analyzes the situation:

One indicator that the hacked Podesta emails are legit is that they are so boring. One of my Politico colleagues who has plowed through hundreds of them looking for news calls them “The Big Yawn.” The characters in the Podesta emails come off less like Machiavellian schemers than harried politicians responding on the fly with a mixture of bravado, strategy and improvisation to unfolding events. They’re not in control. Like most everybody else in Washington, they’re reacting.

This is not to say that the emails contain no news value. From them we gain a sense of how the Clinton team works together, what Clinton said in her Wall Street speeches and more on the political sabotaging of Bernie Sanders. We learn that Clinton aide Doug Band was feuding with Chelsea Clinton at the Clinton Foundation. That Hillary Clinton has made herself expert in taking both sides of an issue. That Donna Brazile leaked CNN Town Hall questions to the Clinton campaign. That Podesta was courting Martin O’Malley in February, hoping to win his endorsement for Clinton, of petty squabbles involving Lanny Davis and Robby Mook, and that Podesta was phone buddies with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Future emails leaks may contain stronger meat. For my sake, and for the journalists assigned to wallow in them, I hope so. But so far, there is less journalistic significance in the confidential emails Team Clinton is zipping around than in the wild, prolific and quite public tweets that Donald Trump issues nearly every hour.

  Politico

However, they're only yawn material because the anti-Trump crowd wants them to be.  Yes, Trump is a dangerous man, and not someone you want as president, but that doesn't mean Hillary's not dangerous and someone you do want.  The leaked emails from Hillary's, Powell's and now Podesta's accounts are enlightening looks into how scheming, dirty and dishonest these people are.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.