Podesta has not verified the authenticity of the thousands of illegally obtained documents, which can be seen at the Wikileaks website.
The New York Times reported that on Tuesday Podesta accused Russian intelligence officials of being behind the hack, saying they are trying to help elect Republican nominee Donald Trump. Trump campaign has responded that they have no connection to the Russians.
President Barack Obama’s administration says Russians hacked Democratic National Committee emails earlier this year.
The leaked Podesta emails that mention the Dayton Daily News are collections of news clippings, giving updates on stories about the 2008 Obama campaign or Clinton’s current campaign. The emails are written by or sent to people in the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Clinton, the Democratic super PAC American Bridge, Progressive Media, which is a pro-Obama communications group affiliated with Podesta, and a liberal group called Progressive Accountability.
Stories cited are:
- June 2008 story by Lynn Hulsey about a visit to Dayton by a group opposing Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, the Republican candidate for president.
- Another June 2008 story by former Columbus bureau chief William Hershey about a McCain campaign event.
- Former reporter John Nolan’s 2008 story about McCain being urged to help save jobs in Wilmington.
- A 2008 story about voter registration by former reporter Ken McCall.
- Reporter Jessica Wehrman reporting in December 2014 that Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, had decided to not run for president.
- Mention in a 2015 email of a story by former reporter Jackie Borchardt about Tea Party opposition to expanding Medicaid.
- A February 2015 story by reporter Laura A. Bischoff about polling on the Clinton and Jeb Bush presidential campaigns.
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