"Essentially, they were synthetically tainted with Russian fingerprints," he said, adding that such tainting was done to make it appear as if Russian operatives had been involved in the hack.
DNC hack theories considered extreme and fringe now entering mainstream →
"This is an extraordinary person. He's made his peace with what he did. He's convinced that what he did was right; he has no regrets and is willing to face whatever the future holds for him," said former CIA official Ray McGovern, a member of the whistleblower group Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence.