The Hill:
Guccifer 2.0, the hacker who breached the Democratic National Committee, has released a cache of purported DNC documents to The Hill in an effort to refocus attention on the hack.
The documents include more than 11,000 names matched with some identifying information, files related to two controversial donors and a research file on Sarah Palin.
“The press [is] gradually forget[ing] about me, [W]ikileaks is playing for time and [I] have some more docs,” he said in electronic chat explaining his rationale.
The documents provide some insight into how the DNC handled high-profile donation scandals. But the choice of documents revealed to The Hill also provides insight into the enigmatic Guccifer 2.0.
The hacker provided a series of spreadsheets related to Norman Hsu, a Democratic donor jailed in 2009 for running a Ponzi scheme and arranging illegal campaign contributions. The DNC responded by assembling files to gauge the exposure from Hsu to its slate of candidates.
Similar files on Paul J. Magliocchetti, a lobbyist closely associated with former Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), provide a quick reference document outlining Magliocchetti’s donations to Republicans. Magliocchetti pleaded guilty in 2010 to involvement in a pay-for-play campaign finance scheme.
Guccifer 2.0 has claimed to be a Romanian hacker with no strong political leanings. Guccifer 2.0’s choice to release documents from Magliocchetti and Hsu, whose cases are now six and seven years old, shows a detailed knowledge of American politics seemingly at odds with the backstory provided by the hacker.
Experts have questioned whether Guccifer 2.0 is Romanian or even a single person. Tools used in the attack were matched to Russian intelligence agencies and, when tested, Guccifer 2.0 has struggled to speak in Romanian.
A popular theory explaining the attack is that the DNC hack is a Russian attempt to embarrass the DNC and influence the election. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has speculated that the hack was actually a false flag operation performed by the DNC to cast aspersions on his campaign.
Guccifer 2.0 was an unknown quantity until after the DNC announced it had been breached. He has since leaked a variety of documents, including counter-Trump strategies and donor databases.
The Guccifer 2.0 name, the hacker has said, is an homage to Marcel Lazăr Lehel, who called himself Guccifer. Lehel broke into the email accounts of former President George W. Bush’s aides and family, Clinton family confidant Sidney Blumenthal and “Sex in the City” author Candace Bushnell. Lehel, now imprisoned, recently claimed he had also hacked Hillary Clinton’s private email server. FBI Director James Comey later testified before Congress that Lehel later admitted he lied when he said he hacked the former secretary of State’s server.
I wonder if the hacker will surprisingly reveal any integrity in the DNC?
Hacker posts personal info of House Democrats and staff
What were seeing is undeniably a very one-sided attack directed against the Democratic Party.
That’s an odd sort of statement, given that Assange almost certainly knows who’s providing him with a steady stream of illegally obtained information.
WikiLeaks Is Getting Scarier Than the NSA
@Greg: I don’t like Wikileaks and I don’t like Assange. I find it very curious that the hackers are attacking Democrats in such a one-sided manner. I also find it amusing, since the left has been a huge cheerleader for Assange and Wikileaks, depending on what he was attacking.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2010/11/29/praise-wikileaks
First, they wasted their efforts. Everyone already KNEW Schultz and the DNC were cheering on Hillary. We also know they are racist; anyone that uses race as a political weapon and intentionally stirs up racial tension for a political end is racist. We know they lie, manipulate and alter data. No surprises there.
Snowden turned on his nation because he believed what Obama was saying and was disillusioned when he found out what a liar Obama turned out to be. Perhaps Assagne had a similar epiphany.