http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-leak-reince-priebus-russia-226115Priebus on DNC leak: 'The Russians didn't write the emails'
By Nick Gass
07/25/16 10:07 AM EDT
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus wants to be clear who he blames for the massive leak of Democratic National Committee email correspondence that showed favoritism of Hillary Clinton at the expense of Bernie Sanders.
While Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook has suggested that Russia is behind the DNC email publication by WikiLeaks, Priebus told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday that he does not know "if we can definitively say who has them and who’s taken them."
"But the point is, the Russians didn’t write the emails and neither did whoever else. The WikiLeaks people didn’t write the emails," Priebus said. "The DNC wrote those emails. So they have to answer for what those emails say and why paid staff and donors to the DNC were adding an arm to the Hillary Clinton campaign during the primary season.”
Asked whether he expected some of Clinton's personal emails to leak from her server, Priebus said, "Boy, I don't know."
“Certainly it seems like we hear these rumors that they have these emails," he said, referring to hackers. "Quite frankly if it’s national security you don’t want to see that happening. Hillary Clinton put our country at grave risk, and hopefully we don’t get to the point where those are released. But her sloppiness could lead to something very bad.”
