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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and especially Iran would be very unlikely to give such data to Politico or a similar DC Beltway news outlet as they do not publish raw intel and would also be highly likely to suppress the story anyways.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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vrypan |--o--|
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> Cheung declined to say whether the campaign had been in contact with Microsoft or law enforcement about the breach, saying it would not discuss such conversations. What do you make of this? The obvious response (to me) would be "yes, we notified the FBI as soon as we received the report from Microsoft", which would make a strong argument that the documents source is a hacker.
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
I think highly likely it came from a hack. But could also be domestic and I think it’s more likely given Politico choice to leak it to
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