While he confirmed that his email account has been hacked, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta pointed out that those might have been edited with the aim of political damage against his candidate.
The reaction came after WikiLeaks posted emails of Podesta that included supposed transcripts of closed-door speeches that Clinton gave to Wall Street companies after leaving the State Department.
WikiLeaks’ latest release was said to be the years of messages from accounts of Podesta on deals involving Clinton campaign.
Podesta is an associate of the Clintons. He was Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff from 1998 to 2001. He controls the Podesta Group, which is a major lobbying firm. He is the Chair of a Washington DC-based think tank Centre for American Progress (CAP).
WikiLeaks released the emails after the expose of a video of Republican presidential bet Donald Trump making sexually predatory comments against women. The video has deeply damaged Trump’s campaign prompting several Republican allies to revoke their support.
According to WikiLeaks, Part 1 of the Podesta Emails contents 2,060 emails with 170 attachments. The emails focus on Podesta’s conversations relating to nuclear energy and media handling over donations to the Clinton Foundation.
The emails also have mining and nuclear interests as 1,244 of those mentioned nuclear energy.
They likewise revealed that the contacts between Podesta and Jose Fernandez also concern about the then-forthcoming book and movie “Clinton Cash.”
The messages from Podesta’s account described how Clinton’s closest advisers responded to the key events during the campaign. That includes the detection of her email server and her congressional testimony over the deadly 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
According to New York Times, Podesta said that Russian intelligence officials want to sway the election to Donald J. Trump, and they are responsible for the illegal hacking into his account.
