WMAL Interview - SARAH WESTWOOD - 10.11.16

INTERVIEW – SARAH WESTWOOD – Investigative Reporter, Washington Examiner

14 things we learned from WikiLeaks’ new Clinton-related emails. (Washington Examiner/ By Sarah Westwood)  — A second batch of emails obtained illegally from the inbox of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, offered fresh insight Monday into her team’s handling of the biggest liabilities facing her campaign. The 2,086 emails, released Monday by WikiLeaks, brought the total number of records published through the hack to more than 4,000. Emails posted Friday by the same site contained 77 pages of excerpts from Clinton’s most controversial paid speeches. Clinton dodged a question Sunday evening about the inconsistencies in her political positions that were revealed late last week when WikiLeaks published its first trove of Podesta emails. During the second presidential debate, Clinton focused mainly on the alleged hackers who infiltrated Podesta’s inbox, rather than the contents of the emails within it. “Our intelligence community just came out and said, in the last few days that the Kremlin … are directing the attacks, the hacking, on American accounts to influence our election,” she said. “The Russians hack information, we don’t even know if it’s accurate,” Clinton added. “Believe me, they’re not doing it to get me elected.” WikiLeaks claims to have taken as many as 50,000 emails from Podesta’s inbox, dating back to the 2008 campaign. The insight provided by his emails was largely eclipsed by the firestorm of criticism that followed the release, just hours earlier, of footage capturing lewd comments Donald Trump made to an NBC host in 2005.