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Intel source alleges Russian hackers planted fake Hillary Clinton emails to help Donald Trump
Updated: 1:51 am EDT Mon Apr 24, 2017

The U.S. intelligence community has thoroughly established that Russian government hackers and bots were working to sabotage Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump during the course of the 2016 election, through the use of everything from real stolen emails to fake pro-Trump news. But now an intel community source is alleging that the Russian hackers went further by planting fake emails on Hillary’s server – and some of the emails subsequently released by WikiLeaks lend credence to this.

“A new [intelligence community] source is telling me that Russian Intelligence planted phony emails on Hillary’s server designed to torpedo her campaign,” asserted this evening Claude Taylor, a political operative who worked in the Bill Clinton White House. During the course of the long running Trump-Russia scandal, his sources have had a history of ultimately being proven right. But you don’t have to wait to see at least some circumstantial evidence to support this assertion.

After the Russian government hackers stole emails from the Democratic National Committee and other sources close to Hillary Clinton, it gave them to WikiLeaks for release. And yet some of those emails appear to have been outright falsified. For instance WikiLeaks posted one batch of supposed emails from Hillary that turned out to have instead been text lifted from a 2012 news article. In another instance WikiLeaks published emails supposedly from top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, but it bizarrely displayed her email address as the nonsensical “AbedinH©state.goy” – which used a copyright symbol instead of an @ symbol (link). This looks like a sloppy attempt at a counterfeit email by someone who doesn’t understand the significance of “.gov” in politics, or the absurdity of substituting it with “.goy” instead.

This is of course a single-sourced story. But most of the publicly known details of the Trump-Russia scandal to date have originated from single sources or intel community leaks, and much of it has subsequently been verified. So take this latest claim about the Russians and Hillary Clinton for what you think it’s worth. But these are the kinds of well sourced allegations that the media should be digging deeper into, not dismissing outright, particularly when outside circumstantial evidence lends credence to the claims.

http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/fake-emails-hillary-clinton-russia-trump/2431/