When the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was hacked in 2016, who was responsible?
If you ask any Democrat, the standard answer is that it was “the Russians!”
But according to an new report, it now looks more likely that it was an inside job, and President Trump’s former campaign advisor Roger Stone concurs with that assessment. Stone recently spoke to reporters outside Congressional chambers where he was testifying in a closed-door hearing in the probe being conducted into alleged Russian collusion and influence in the 2016 election campaign.
According to Stone, British diplomat Craig Murray received DNC data on a computer USB thumb drive and passed it along to whistleblower organization WikiLeaks, which, in turn, published it online and allowed American voters to see the shenanigans that Democrats like Hillary Clinton and John Podesta were up to in and prior to the 2016 race.
The fact that the data was physically given to Murray versus transferred electronically suggests that it was originally taken from a DNC computer or server by someone working within the DNC offices. This means it was a “leak” — as opposed to a “hack.”
Whether that initial person was murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich isn’t known, but it would seem that previously postulated theories of Russians “hacking into” DNC computers are appearing to be more and more remote by the day.
With Rich dead and the DNC reluctant to give its servers to the FBI, we may never know how the data got out in the first place — unless former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s IT consultant Imran Awan had anything to do with it (Stone has said Seth Rich was “partying” with Awan on the night of the former’s murder, and a photo exists of the pair together in a bar that night). But even then, the full story will likely not be known for some time.
What we do know is that the mystery in this story is starting to be pieced together, and Democratic tall tales about Russians appear to be falling by the wayside.
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