One of the voicemails was from an agitated donor who voiced her contempt for Bernie Sanders.
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The hacker who claimed to compromise the DNC swore he was Romanian. The last two USA presidential cycles in 2008 and 2012 witnessed a barrage of cyber attacks from a range of adversaries targeting President Barack Obama’s campaign and the campaigns of his Republican foes, officials have said.
Is Wikileaks choice to not release more than this 14 minutes of emails because they are waiting for Hillary Clinton’s nomination acceptance speech tomorrow night? The emails create a picture of a DNC that plotted against Bernie Sanders in a bid to anoint Clinton as the nominee, and their release forced the resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz days ago. Bernie Sanders had won a say in the drafting of the party’s platform. A lot of them aren’t gonna vote for Hillary anyway.
“I’m furious about what you’re doing for Bernie Sanders”.
Lewis added that an Federal Bureau of Investigation probe of the hack could slow down WikiLeaks, but dropping more emails to influence the news cycle before Clinton’s acceptance speech could be too tempting a target.
Another was angry that Sanders supporter Cornel West, who once referred to US President Barack Obama as “a mascot of Wall Street oligarchs”, had been given a role with the committee.
‘You guys are acquiescing to him on things at the convention. I don’t understand it – you guys are losing me’.
“I am getting fed up with the Democratic Party because I’m so exhausted, especially this campaign, of seeing the Democrats just lay back and say ‘okay Bernie, you can do whatever you wanna do, whatever you want, we’ll give it to you, we’ll give it to you, we promise.’ And you know what he’s saying?”
A selection of the audio recordings are pretty mundane-some are simply requests for call backs, others detail the specifics for meetings or gatherings, and one 16-second recording even appears to be a pocket dial (one can hear a father and his young daughter talk about elephants and zookeepers).
In a Skype interview Monday with NBC News, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange rejected suggestions that the Russians were behind the DNC hack, saying the party’s server security was so weak, it could have been hacked by various groups.
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A caller identified as a representative of Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley says she received a White House invitation.
