Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile tried desperately to discredit the Wikileaks hack that showed her sending a question to Hillary Clinton before a CNN Town Hall by saying the e-mails were doctored. However, tech bloggers scoured the document and discovered that’s not the case at all.
Brazile was so frazzled by the revelation that she told a prodding Megyn Kelly she felt just like a persecuted Christian. In her mind, her e-mail must’ve been falsified by the Russians.
"I have seen so many doctored emails,” Brazile protested. “I have seen things that come from me at 2 in the morning that I don't even send. There are several email addresses that I once used. This has not been verified. This is under investigation.”
She’s right about it being under investigation. Using a simple verification program common to many e-mail programs, tech blog Errata Security was able to verify the authenticity of Brazile’s e-mail.
From Fox News:
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a system employed by many email servers, including HillaryClinton.com, to verify emails to recipients and avoid spam filters. The system sends a DKIM “key” to the receiver to verify the sender and confirm the email hasn’t been tampered with.
Consequently, bloggers ran the DKIM keys included in this and other emails through verification software, which in turn validated the Palmieri email as both real and undoctored. The Daily Caller also ran a similar test and got the same result.
In a blog post for Errata Security, cybersecurity expert Robert Graham presented his results, and showed that if the emails had been altered in any way, the software would have declared the email unverified.
“It took less than five minutes,” Graham told FoxNews.com, noting that such software is common and widely available. “It took me longer to document what I had found.”
But could WikiLeaks have hacked and altered the DKIM key also?
Graham says this is unlikely, since to do so they would have needed to access the HillaryClinton.com server.
For his tests, Graham threw a bit of humor into the mix by adding “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” to the text of the e-mail and received an “invalid” response showing the document had been amended after the fact.
He is so sure of his findings that he has offered a $600 BitCoin to anyone who can alter an e-mail and have it come through verified through the DKIM software.
As Legal Insurrection noted, Clinton’s VP pick Tim Kaine has also accused Wikileaks of doctoring the documents posted online but offered no evidence to support his claim. Meanwhile, Graham’s evidence has proven two things: the e-mails haven’t been doctored, and the Democrats are lying.
