Foreign Election Interference

Last week, the United States formally accused the Russian government of stealing and disclosing emails from the Democratic National Committee and the individual accounts of prominent Washington insiders.

The hacks, in part leaked by Wikileaks, have led to loud declarations that Moscow is eager for the victory of Republican nominee Donald Trump, whose rhetoric has unsettled Washington's traditional European allies and even thrown the future of NATO — Russia's bete noire — into doubt.

Leading Russian officials have balked at the claim.

  WaPo

It's the game. It's how it's played.

While the days of its worst behavior are long behind it, the United States does have a long history of interfering and sometimes interrupting the workings of democracies elsewhere.

"Long behind it"? Really? Ukraine 2014, anybody? Afghanistan 2014? Honduras 2009?  Haiti 2004?  Venezuela 2002?  Those all involved democratic elections, all of which we threw our wrench into.

I guess it depends on what you mean by "worst behavior", but it doesn't get a whole lot worse than our treatment of Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.  (See also past treatment of the country in  Haiti: Hideous Dream: A Soldier's Memoir of the U.S. Invasion of Haiti by Stan Goff.)

This article does pick up many egregious government interferences in political affairs of the world's countries that have been well-documented. Author William Blum may have written the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the subject: Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

For something a good deal shorter, but with a good sampling of our election interference, WaPo has another article discussing it from July this year.  Check that out.

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