Neera Tanden, focus of 2016 hack, rips 'double standard' in coverage of Trump campaign's hacked materials [View all]
Source: The Hill
08/13/24 7:35 PM ET
Neera Tanden, a top official in the Biden White House, expressed outrage over what she called a “double standard” in the media’s response to a hack of the Trump campaign after her communications were extensively covered following a 2016 hack of the Clinton campaign.
Tanden, who leads the White House Domestic Policy Council, aired her frustration with the general lack of coverage of the hacked materials from the Trump campaign, given the focus on hacked materials published by WikiLeaks in 2016.
“Seriously the double standard here is incredible,” Tanden posted Tuesday on the social platform X. “For all the yapping on interviews, it would be great for people making these decisions to be accountable to the public. Do they now admit they were wrong in 2016 or is the rule hacked materials are only used when it hurts Dems? There’s no in between.”
Tanden said The New York Times used hacked emails published by WikiLeaks in 2019 stories but has not used hacked materials from the Trump campaign in recent days. In a subsequent post, Tanden pushed back on the suggestion that the WikiLeaks materials were covered more extensively because they were published in the public domain. “The manner of the hacking made them cover a Russian psyop? That is not a justification. That’s a rationalization,” Tanden wrote.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4826683-neera-tanden-trump-campaign-hacked-materials/
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