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Sun Feb 12, 2017, 05:58 PM Feb 2017

John Podesta Says Forces Within The FBI Wanted Hillary Clinton To Lose [View all]

Source: Huffington Post

Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta criticized the FBI on Wednesday for how it responded to the Democratic National Committee’s hacked emails, which U.S. intelligence agencies say Russia stole and gave to WikiLeaks in order to tip the election to President Donald Trump.

“I think to this day it’s inexplicable that they were so casual about the investigation of the Russian penetration of the DNC emails,” Podesta said during a cybersecurity panel at the NewCo Shift Forum in San Francisco, according to TechCrunch. Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias and CrowdStrike president Shawn Henry, whose firm investigated the DNC hacks, were also on the panel.

“They didn’t even bother to send an agent to the DNC,” Podesta said. “They left a couple of messages at the IT help desk saying, ‘You might want to be careful.’”

“There are at least forces within the FBI that wanted her to lose,” he added.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/podesta-clinton-emails_us_58a07fdce4b0ab2d2b15d75e?

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