Someone hacked into some 20,000 e-mails from members of the Democratic National Committee, and they have been posted on Wikileaks. They reveal embarrassing details about how the party officials were trying to rig the primaries for Hillary Clinton. This included a plan to use Bernie Sander’s religion–he is a Jewish agnostic–against him. (See the article excerpted and linked after the jump.)
The Wikileaks searchable DNC site is here.
Here is a list of some of the more embarrassing e-mails.
Wikileak’s Julian Assange, who also posted Clinton’s State Department e-mails, is promising more damaging leaks, part of a “Hillary Clinton project.”
UPDATE: DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was supposed to have a big role at the convention, has resigned over the revelations. The Democratic leadership is said to be in “disarray” over the e-mail leaks.
From Top DNC staffer apologizes for email on Sanders’ religion – POLITICO:
A top staffer at the Democratic National Committee has apologized after suggesting that the organization use Bernie Sanders’ religious beliefs against him in the Democratic primary.
One email among the thousands of internal DNC messages released this week by Wikileaks showed DNC CFO Brad Marshall questioning Sanders’ Jewish faith, and suggested that painting the candidate as an atheist “could make several points difference” in several late primary contests.
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“It might may (sic) no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist,” Marshall wrote in a message to several DNC communications directors.
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