In a Washington Post opinion piece, John Podesta, former chair of the Clinton campaign, lambasted the FBI for discovering the Russian attack in September 2015, as the New York Times has reported, yet failing to send an agent to warn DNC officials.
"This is about the integrity of our democracy and the security of our nation.”
“We are well beyond normal political concerns here," she said. The former secretary of state said that Russian president Vladimir Putin had targeted her campaign and the DNC for hacking because he had “a personal beef” with her for Clinton's 2011 claim that Russia’s parliamentary elections were rigged. But in doing so they continue to exhibit the same blind spot that made it possible for Donald Trump to scale the once formidable blue wall in places like Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to claim the presidency.Ĭlinton surrogates have asserted that her loss was the result of two “unprecedented factors”: Russian hacking of her campaign and the Democratic National Committee as well as FBI director James Comey’s announcement, just a few days before the election, that his agency had more materials to review on Clinton’s supposed email scandal.Ĭlinton’s assertions came at a "thank you" event in New York for major donors. In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s upset victory in the presidential election, Hillary Clinton and her aides have done their best to get control of the post-election narrative.
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