Embarrassing: hacked emails show Democratic Party efforts to undermine Hillary Clinton’s rivals
As Hillary Clinton prepares to accept her party’s nomination for president, the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks has released nearly 20,000 hacked emails that offer an embarrassing look inside the workings of the Democratic Party as it prepares for its convention in Philadelphia.
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Some of the emails from the Democratic National Committee include discussions about how to undermine Clinton’s chief rival for the presidential nomination, Senator Bernie Sanders; details of perks provided to party donors attending the convention; and email exchanges among party officials, journalists and others.
The emails were released on Friday on Twitter by WikiLeaks, which linked readers to a Web page inviting them to search the DNC email database. A search box sits beneath a one paragraph introduction:
“Today, Friday 22 July 2016 at 10.30am EDT, WikiLeaks releases 19,252 emails and 8,034 attachments from the top of the US Democratic National Committee – part one of our new Hillary Leaks series,” the introduction says. “The leaks come from the accounts of seven key figures in the DNC,” including Communications Director Luis Miranda (10770 emails), National Finance Director Jordon Kaplan (3797 emails), Finance Chief of Staff Scott Comer ...” and others. The newly released emails cover the period from January 2015 to May 25, 2016.
Friday’s document dump follows a report last month by The Washington Post that Russian government hackers had penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee, gaining access to an entire database of opposition research, among other material.
DNC and Clinton campaign officials did not respond to requests for comment on Friday as reporters and unnerved campaign staff tried to assess the damage caused by the release, which comes just as the party holds a nominating convention in Philadelphia designed to project unity after a bitter primary season. Some of the emails could open some old wounds and impede that process.