Clinton Foundation Hacked
Is this the October Surprise? According to Reuters, The Clinton Foundation may have been hacked. (Details below video)
#ClintonFoundation took US$26 million from Swedish gov while unlawfully detaining Assange without charge for 6 years https://t.co/sshHJKRf1b
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 18, 2016
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s charitable foundation hired the security firm FireEye to examine its data systems after seeing indications they might have been hacked, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
So far, no message or document clearly hacked from the New York-based Clinton Foundation has surfaced in public, the sources said.
The attacks have left some Democrats and Clinton campaign officials worried that the hackers might have obtained emails and voice messages that could be used to reinforce Republican charges that donors to the Clinton Foundation were rewarded with access to Clinton and her aides while she was secretary of state, or to her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
For many weeks, news organizations and bloggers have suspected that this information may already be in the hands of WikiLeaks. This is from National Review:
Assange strongly hinted that other e-mail releases were coming, and sources close to him say they will go beyond the DNC e-mails. Assange himself says he wants to stop Hillary because she is, in his view, a liberal “war hawk” He claims that “a vote today for Hillary Clinton is a vote for endless, stupid war.” He then followed up by saying: “Hillary didn’t just vote for Iraq. She made her own Iraq. Libya is Hillary’s Iraq and if she becomes president, she will make more.”
NOTE: There is a big difference between the identity of hackers and the ethics of publishing information. A good synopsis of this point is made here and in the terrible NPR interview referenced.
NPR host demands that Assange do something its own reporters are told never to do https://t.co/oWeHVAJgMr by @lachancenaomi
— The Intercept (@theintercept) August 17, 2016