One of the recent WikiLeaks email dumps revealed some interesting things about hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. (This enhanced drilling technology is a big part of America's new era of energy abundance.)

First, they add to the growing question about what Hillary Clinton really believes: her public comments, or her private positions?

Regarding fracking, the leaked emails offer a glimpse into speeches she made to closed groups that we've previously been unable to access. One such speech was given to the troubled Deutsche Bank on April 24, 2013. There, she praised fracking as a tool to "make even more countries more energy self-sufficient." She told the audience: "I've promoted fracking in other places around the world." She bragged about "the advantages that are going to come to us, especially in manufacturing, because we're now going to produce more oil and gas."

Yet, everything she's said in the campaign, paints a different picture.

Her stated energy policies are decidedly anti-fossil fuel. The party platform calls for "a goal of producing 100 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2050." In addition to promoting "enough clean renewable energy to power every home in America within ten years," Hillary's website outlines her desire to "reduce the amount of oil consumed in the United States and around the world." She's declared that banning fossil fuel extraction on public lands is: "a done deal." While she won't come out and clearly state that she'd ban fracking, at a March 6 CNN debate with Bernie Sanders in Flint, Michigan, she proudly stated: "By the time we get through all of my conditions, I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place." And, she has pledged to "stop fossil fuels."

Then there's her comment about green-group funding, as coming from Russia. It's long been suspected that Russia is protecting its national oil-and-gas interests by funding anti-fracking activism'while not a new idea, the current attention makes it worth revisiting.

To the best of my knowledge, Russia's reported involvement in shaping public opinion came to light in 2010, when different WikiLeaks revelations made public private intelligence from Stratfor'which had previously published a background brief on Shale Gas Activism'that speculated on Russian funding for the anti-fracking movie Gasland.

In 2013, filmmaker Phelim McAleer, in his film FrackNation, pointed out Russia's "disingenuous objections" to fracking. In it, British journalist James Delingpole said: "Russia is screwed if it can't export its gas, so it is really important for Russia that the shale gas revolution does not happen. It is also in Russia's best interest to fund those environmental groups which are committed to campaigning against fracking."

Then in June 2014, while serving as NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Prime Minister of Denmark, stated that he'd "met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organisations'environmental organisations working against shale gas'to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas." According to The Guardian, "He declined to give details of those operations, saying: G