September 15, 2016

Why WikiLeaks hates Hillary Clinton

Source: Vox

Journalist: Zack Beauchamp

One of the weirdest sub-dramas of the 2016 US presidential election has been WikiLeaks, an organization nominally dedicated to “radical transparency,” serving as a de facto Donald Trump Super PAC.

In March, the group dumped a trove of emails from Clinton’s private email server. On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, it released embarrassing private emails from the Democratic National Committee obtained by a Russia-linked hacker. The group’s Twitter account has hyped Clinton’s health problems and suggested she broke the law.

 

To read the full article, visit the Vox website.

 

Author

  • Ben FitzGerald

    Adjunct Senior Fellow, Defense Program

    Ben FitzGerald is a partner at Lupa, a private investment firm, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). At Lupa he leads the firm’s inve...