According to the FBI, Hillary Clinton may have lost the presidential election due to a simple typo made by a contractor working for the DNC. According to The New York Times, FBI officials were desperate to warn the DNC and Hillary about supposed Russian hackers attempting to hack the DNC computers in order to influence the outcome of the election. “What started as an information-gathering operation, intelligence officials believe, ultimately morphed into an effort to harm one candidate, Hillary Clinton, and tip the election to her opponent, Donald J. Trump,” The Times wrote. Theweek.com reports: The FBI was aware as early as September 2015 that at least one computer system belonging to the DNC had been compromised. But when FBI agent Adrian Hawkins called the committee’s tech-support contractor, Yared Tamene, to inform him of the situation, Tamene did not return Hawkins’ calls because “I had no way of differentiating the call I just received from a prank call,” he wrote in a memo. In the spring, a similar communication failure allowed the Russians access to all of John Podesta’s emails. Podesta, who was serving as the chairman of the Clinton campaign at the time, received a classic phishing email allegedly [...]
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