The FBI said Monday it is investigating how thousands of Democratic National Committee emails were hacked, a breach that Hillary Clinton’s campaign maintains was committed by Russia to benefit Donald Trump.
A statement from the FBI confirmed that it is “investigating a cyber intrusion involving the DNC,” adding that “a compromise of this nature is something we take very seriously.”
Wikileaks posted emails Friday that suggested the DNC was favoring Clinton over her rival Sen. Bernie Sanders during the primary season, prompting Clinton’s campaign to point to a massive hacking of DNC computers in June that cybersecurity firms linked to the Russian government.
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta added fuel to the debate Monday, saying there was “a kind of bromance going on” between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump. The Clinton campaign says Russia favors Trump’s views, especially on NATO.
Donald Trump on Monday dismissed as a “joke” claims by Hillary Clinton’s campaign that Russia is trying to help Trump by leaking thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee.
“The new joke in town is that Russia leaked the disastrous DNC e-mails, which should have never been written (stupid), because Putin likes me,” Trump wrote as part of a series of Tweets. “Hillary was involved in the e-mail scandal because she is the only one with judgement (sic) so bad that such a thing could have happened.”
The hacking enraged die-hard Sanders supporters who have long claimed that the DNC had its finger on the scale throughout the primaries. The disclosures prompted the resignation of DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on the eve of the party’s convention in Philadelphia, where Clinton is expected to officially accept the nomination for president.
It wasn’t immediately clear how WikiLeaks received copies of the internal Democratic emails.
Democratic Party officials learned in late April that their systems had been attacked after they discovered malicious software on their computers. A cybersecurity firm they employed found traces of at least two sophisticated hacking groups on the Democrats’ network — both of which have ties to the Russian government. Those hackers took at least one year’s worth of detailed chats, emails and research on Donald Trump, according to a person knowledgeable of the breach who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
(AP)
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Hey, FBI do not waste your time.
“No reasonable persecutor will take this case” and “There was no criminal intent involved”.
What is good for Hillary is good for Putin too.
Interesting. The FBI is apparently not investigating whether or not Hillary is guilty of collusion and whether or not she bears any guilt for the DNC’s unfair actions on her behalf. They’re investigating only whether or not the Russian government was involved in the hacking.
No matter what the FBI pretends to find, this incidents proves that Hillary and her supporters, and apparently the entire Democratic Party, cannot be trusted to keep our secrets securely.
I know that facts often get in the way of what people want to believe, the fact is government email systems have been hacked, example the Pentagon. Admittedly this is a terrible thing, however one must consider if there would have been any significant difference in the number of votes that each candidate received.
Also the democrats are addressing the issue properly, with the resignation of Wasserman Schultz. Trump wouldn’t even accept the resignation of the person who plagiarized his wife’s speech, besides denying it for a couple of days. We are witnessing the falshkeit of politics on all sides.
rt, nice try. Please spare us reading DNC talking points. Are you being paid by Democrats for your trolling here or you work for free?