- Sputnik International
World
Get the latest news from around the world, live coverage, off-beat stories, features and analysis.

WikiLeaks Legally Obtained Clinton Emails From US State Dept.

© REUTERS / Kevin LamarqueFormer US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton checks her PDA upon her departure in a military C-17 plane from Malta bound for Tripoli, Libya, in this October 18, 2011, file photo
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton checks her PDA upon her departure in a military C-17 plane from Malta bound for Tripoli, Libya, in this October 18, 2011, file photo - Sputnik International
Subscribe
Julian Assange announced that "thousands of Clinton emails" published by WikiLeaks were obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The emails of former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, published by the WikiLeaks whistleblowing platform in 2016, were not hacked but legally obtained from the US State Department, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said.

"The 'thousands of Clinton emails' WikiLeaks published were not hacked but obtained from the U.S. State Department via the Freedom of Information Act ion 3 March 2016," Assange wrote on Twitter.

​In March 2016, WikiLeaks released an archive of more than 30,000 emails that have been sent to and from Clinton’s private email server during her term as the US Secretary of State in 2009-2013.

Later in 2016, the website also published nearly 20,000 emails apparently hacked from the US Democratic National Committee, as well as emails hacked from the account of Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta.

Several US intelligence agencies said they suspected Russia to be behind the leaks, but provided no evidence to support the claims. Moscow has called the claims of the election interference absurd and a distraction from actual election fraud.

Newsfeed
0
To participate in the discussion
log in or register
loader
Chats
Заголовок открываемого материала