They desperately need voters to focus on who might have hacked the Democrats rather than the irresponsibility of a nominee and a political party that left the door wide open to hackers.
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The party also said Tom McMahon, a past DNC executive director, will lead the organization’s transition team “to help position the party for the general election and prepare for the permanent party chair”. Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, has made it clear there is more in store for the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party. Furthermore, the party’s convention, an occasion normally reserved for hearty self-congratulation was marred by protest from Bernie Sanders supporters.
Wasserman Schultz announced her resignation last week as the party’s convention was getting underway, and Brazile, who had been the committee’s vice chairwoman, has stepped in as its interim leader.
It is directly due to the leak of damaging emails about the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and her opponent Bernie Sanders. The DNC did not respond to requests for comment.
Both the Clinton campaign and the DNC did not realized they had been hacked until late March of this year.
And, as I wrote in my June 22 column, “Hack confirms DNC bias”, the DNC announced it was victim of a long-running, widespread data breach by hackers apparently working within the Russian government. She turned over 30,490 work-related emails out of a total of 62,320 held on the insecure, private server, although FBI Director James Comey’s investigation recovered several thousand additional work-related emails that she failed to provide to the State Department.
CNN, however, reported last week that “Federal investigators” did in fact attempt to alert the DNC about a possible intrusion in its computer networks. The people spoke on condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
The emails also showed party officials favoring Clinton for the nomination. Because of her position, she was in charge of the DNC’s day-to-day operations and came up in questionable emails about Senator Sanders.
“In order to make history, the Democratic Party depends on the tireless work of everyday drum majors for justice, fairness, and equality”, Brazile says in the release.
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Whether or not the actions were criminal, it’s hard to imagine that the Clinton campaign staff, and maybe even Clinton herself, did not have knowledge of the attempts to undermine Sanders.
