Russian email hackers

the list of possible responses to your question is boundless- I guess we just get to wait until the next set of emails is dropped on the NY Times or Washington Post...

Something tells me that if Hillary Clinton's private service had been hacked that someone would have already had a complete field day with it.  

I've got enough trouble answering my email rather than worrying about someone else's.

If it is a hostile foreign government it would make sense for them to sit on the destroyed 33,000 emails (against a Congressional subpoena ) until after former Secretary of State Clinton wins the election and then blackmail her to avoid releasing the emails. 

If it is a foreign power and their leaders do have those destroyed and subpoenaed emails, could the release of the DNC and Podesta emails, which may be embarrassing but not damaging, be a warning of what could be done after Secretary Clinton becomes president if she does not decide to "play ball"?

One of the least reported sidelights of the investigation into President Bill Clinton's misconduct with an intern concerned the interception of President Clinton's steamy cell phone conversations with Monica Lewinsky.  We foolishly granted the Soviet Union permission to build a new embassy on one of the highest points in Washington DC and the Soviets(later Russians) took full advantage of the excellent reception to eavesdrop on unsecured cell phone conversations from the White House, Capitol, and Pentagon.  The British and Israelis also recorded President Clinton's conversations ( in some cases phone sex) with Monica Lewinsky and we do know that the Prime Minister of Israel attempted to blackmail President Clinton into releasing an Israeli spy imprisoned by the US.  President Clinton did act on this but CIA Director George Tenant refused and the president backed off.   This has happened folks!

When the FBI recently began their investigation on former Speaker of the House Dennis Hassert withdrawing large sums of money from many banks under the $10,000 limit, the first question they asked him on their UNANNOUNCED visit was if his family was alright, or if he was being blackmailed by a foreign power.  (interesting to note the FBI interviewed him at the very start  of the investigation unannounced  and they secretly recorded  the entire conversation unlike the FBI's  investigation of Secretary Clinton.)