In your imagination.

I wonder—if someone from the MSM had broken into the systems and published the information, would there have been any repercussions?

I don’t get this. Since the Pentagon Papers, the distinction has been breaking / leaking = crime but disseminating not so much. I can’t recall an instance where the MSM did the actual hacking, but that only makes the case that there is no doubt they’d be prosecuted…that’s why there are no examples.

So, for example, Putin committed a crime by breaking into the DNC servers…but in order to convict Julian Assange you have to tie him to actual hacking part of the conspiracy.

Ditto for Roger Stone and Trump Campaign. Meuller could tie them to the latter, but that might not be enough to produce a conviction, even if they knew about the former.

I take this, the Oberlin damages, the ongoing reversals of Title IX star chamber verdicts against young men, the upcoming Covington lawsuits, the campus freedom of speech efforts and AG William Barr’s investigation of the Mueller investigators as a likely tipping point.

Things had turn around sometime and it looks like that time has come. Fingers crossed.

I’m afraid that any prosecutions and jail time for people involved in the whole range of illegal anti-Trump attacks, and Democrat scandals are going to be targeted against a few low level chumps and fall guys, but not against any major players.