By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI warned the Illinois Republican Party in June that hackers may have targeted GOP political email accounts.
But party officials said the FBI never mentioned potential links to the investigation of Russia trying to hack America’s political system, the Chicago Triune reports, citing the state GOP’s executive director.
Nick Klitzing said the party found of its 18 emails on DCLeaks.com, which appears to be connected to a unit controlled by Russia’s military intelligence agency, GRU.
But the emails in question largely belong to inactive or rarely used accounts andante back to 2015.
Republicans are trying to distance themselves from the hacking controversy after the CIA said there’s substantial evidence that Russia was involved in targeting the emails of the Democratic National Committee.
