Clinton defenders slam Wikileaks as Trump, Russian dirty work

Published October 12, 2016 4:01am ET



A third day of Wikileaks releases has raised questions about how the media should treat emails obtained illegally from the inbox of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair.

The provocative website’s decision to release more than 5,000 emails in three separate batches dropped on Friday, Monday and Tuesday prompted some of Clinton’s allies to lash out at Russia and its alleged involvement in hacking Podesta’s account. Others simply focused on the sinister nature of the stolen correspondence.

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