WikiLeaks grabs election spotlight

The anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks is making its presence felt in the presidential election, leaking a trove of stolen Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails last week that rocked the political world.

The emails released by WikiLeaks created a political storm for the Democratic Party, seemingly validating suspicions of Bernie Sanders and his supporters that the DNC worked against his candidacy. DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (R-Fla.) was forced to resign.

The furor has put the national spotlight on WikiLeaks, a site that claims to be “a giant library of the world’s most persecuted documents,” specializing in “the publication of large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying and corruption.”

The leader of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has promised that the group plans to publish “a lot more material” on the elections in the coming months.

“This is having so much political impact in the United States,” Assange told CNN.

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/289858-wikileaks-grabs-election-spotlight

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