Other Clinton-related email messages reveal her deceptive way of managing her "unconditional" support for Israel during her 2015-16 presidential campaign. In one, campaign manager Robby Mook, concerned about anti-Israeli activists, counsels that Clinton "shouldn't have Israel at public events."
In another, Dan Schwerin, a speechwriter, proposes writing a campaign-trail speech that does not mention Israel. "Then she can drop in Israel when she's with donors," Schwerin explains. This email thread, which derives from "The Podesta Emails," a 2016 WikiLeaks release, can be found here .
"Syria Files"
WikiLeaks began releasing "Syria Files," a trove of more than 2.4 million email messages obtained in 2012 from the Damascus government's computer servers and from those transacting with it.
The releases began in batches on July 6, 2012. They were comprised of 2.43 million emails downloaded from 680 separate domains used by the Syrian government, including the ministries of presidential affairs, foreign affairs, finance, information, transport, and culture. The email traffic of assorted political figures, including President Bashar Assad and his wife, Asma al-Assad, as well as a variety of foreign companies, was also exposed.
Some 400,000 messages in "Syria Files" are in Arabic , and nearly 70,000 others are in Russian. The documents span the period from August 2006 to March 2012, by which date the Assad government was a year into its war with Western and Gulf-armed jihadist militias masquerading as "moderate rebels."
A computer-hacking group split off from Anonymous calling itself LulzSec took credit for breaking into the government's servers, downloading the immense inventory of documents, and conveying them to WikiLeaks.
According to last month's superseding indictment -- against Assange and a 2014 article -- in Rolling Stone magazine, the release took place with the knowledge of the FBI during an apparent sting operation against Assange.
"The range of information extends from the intimate correspondence of the most senior figures in the governing Ba'ath party to records of financial transfers sent from Syrian ministries to other nations," Sarah Harrison, a longtime WikiLeaks associate, said at a London press conference announcing publication of "Syria Files."
She quoted Assange, then taking asylum in Ecuador's London embassy, as saying the publication "helps us not merely to criticize one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions, and thoughts. It is only through understanding this conflict that we can hope to resolve it." Assange also said the "Syria Files" documents casts light on "how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another."
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