Hacked emails include DNC staffer researching Trump campaign manager's Russian ties

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Michael Isikoff @Isikoff
Hackers of DNC also targeted personal email of DNC staffer who was probing Manafort's business dealings. https://t.co/uOe48gHswr

Presumptive Brauer ?@allanbrauer 11m11 minutes ago
Oops. @wikileaks DNC dump includes evidence Russia protecting @paulmanafort

Just weeks after she started preparing opposition research files on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort last spring, Democratic National Committee consultant Alexandra Chalupa got an alarming message when she logged into her personal Yahoo email account.

“Important action required,” read a pop-up box from a Yahoo security team that is informally known as “the Paranoids.” “We strongly suspect that your account has been the target of state-sponsored actors.”

Chalupa — who had been drafting memos and writing emails about Manafort’s connection to pro-Russian political leaders in Ukraine — quickly alerted top DNC officials. “Since I started digging into Manafort, these messages have been a daily oc­­­­currence on my Yahoo account despite changing my p­­a­ssword often,” she wrote in a May 3 email to Luis Miranda, the DNC’s communications director, which included an attached screengrab of the image of the Yahoo security warning.

“I was freaked out,” Chalupa, who serves as director of “ethnic engagement” for the DNC, told Yahoo News in an interview, noting that she had been in close touch with sources in Kiev, Ukraine, including a number of investigative journalists, who had been providing her with information about Manafort’s political and business dealings in that country and Russia.

“This is really scary,” she said.

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Gabriel Debenedetti ?@gdebenedetti 52m52 minutes ago
Statement from @AdamSchiffCA leans hard into the Trump/Putin theory on the DNC email leak:

[Hekate]

1. Kick

[joeybee12]

2. Hey Repukes, the refrain should be, Lock HIM up...knr

[Exilednight]

3. Ineptness at its finest. someone says something and instead of

Getting ahead of it they bury their head in the sand.

[Wounded Bear]

4. K & R ......for visibility..nt

[Dawson Leery]

5. kick

[Scuba]

6. At least they were doing something useful.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. Agreed. You're on fire today! nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. K&R

[bucolic_frolic]

9. You know what they'll eventually say

Trump knew nothing about what his staffers were doing.

They were agents without portfolio.

Yet the damage is done already

[Javaman]

10. Now, I have a reason to vote for Hillary.

I have been on the fence for long time. I have my own issues with Hillary, and as a Bernie supporter, I really didn't want to vote for her. I was part of the whole Bernie or bust thing. I was leaning toward Jill Stein.

However, in light of this new information, it appears to me that tRump would be nothing more than doing the bidding of Moscow.

that is where I draw a massively thick line.

Hillary, as much as I do not care for her, I can say without a doubt, she wouldn't do something so fucking treasonous as to work in conjunction with a foreign nation to usurp her political opponent.

that is just absolutely disgraceful.

I hate tRump with a passion, but I will be damned to be party to a movement that looks the other way when something like this is revealed.

My vote for Hillary, isn't in support for her per say, but against that worthless piece of shit traitor, tRump.

fuck him.

[bigbrother05]

13. Stinks of Iran/Reagan in 1980 leading to Iran/Contra

If this is on the surface now, what's coming if the orange one sneaks into office?

[spanone]

11. K&R...

[misterbee]

12. Wait. She was using a freaking *Yahoo* account?

Sure. Work on a massive political campaign, where secrecy is paramount. And then use one of the most insecure email systems on the planet. What could possibly go wrong?

[Skittles]

14. I'm pretty sure no email system would satisfy you

[RapSoDee]

15. Paranoid

of Russian-Republican skullduggery

for good reason