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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
I have seen this claim, but do not find it to be a convincing explanation. When Russian intelligence hacked the Clinton campaign in 2016 they gave the raw data to Wikileaks which they knew would have no compunction about publishing it in full. A foreign state and especially Iran would be very unlikely to give such data to Politico or a similar DC Beltway news outlet as they do not publish raw intel and would also be highly likely to suppress the story anyways. My assessment is that this is likely a pressure campaign to ensure that the data is not published by characterizing it as emanating from a foreign state. That is separate question from whether it is newsworthy in general but I favor transparency and would like to see it and evaluate.
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Mike | Abundance
@abundance
The conspiracy theorist in me thinks there is a good chance the Trump campaign knew of some breach and decided to leak the data themselves relatively early to avoid an Oct/Nov surprise dump.
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Plausible imo
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