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By MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press, San Antonio Express-News: World
Tue, 10/25/2016 - 12:41pm

A Washington ritual: Reading John Podesta's stolen emails

The hacked emails — some mundane, others laced with intrigue about election strategy, snarky barbs, whining about salaries or perceived slights — provide an inside, real-time view of the insecurities, sniping and self-promotion that churn beneath the surface of a heated presidential campaign. Despite Trump's bombast, no bombshell revelation has emerged to significantly alter the presidential race or prompt calls for the Democratic nominee to drop out — as happened with Trump following the leak of a decade-old video of him vulgarly bragging about groping women. Rather than the well-oiled, octopus-tentacled cartel of international conspiracy painted by Trump, the Clinton Foundation in Podesta's emails is riven by rumors, funding woes and internal feuds — among them a bitter rift between the candidate's daughter, Chelsea Clinton, and a former aide of her father, former President Bill Clinton. While the leaks do underscore the coziness between the Clintons and well-heeled donors, Trump's reliance on the hacked emails has given even some in his own party pause, especially as he has continued to express admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin. In a 2015 exchange with Podesta, liberal operative Neera Tanden wrote of Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig, I f(asterisk)(asterisk)king hate that guy, calling him a smug, ''pompous, loathsome man whom a reasonable person might wish to kick the s(asterisk)(asterisk)t out of on Twitter. Lessig, an advocate of campaign finance reform who launched a modest protest campaign for president, wrote on his blog that he got off an airliner after a flight to visit his father to find his email inbox flooded with messages about the hacked exchange.

 

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