Donna Brazile has been claiming that the “Russians” tampered with the email that showed her passing question to the Clinton campaign. When I first heard her say it, I remembered Carlos Danger, AKA Anthony Weiner insisting someone hacked his account. Brazile is obviously ignorant about Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM). It’s a safety device that can show you if an email has been tampered with. HillaryClinton.com uses Gmail, which employs DKIM. DKIM can’t prevent someone tampering with an email but if they do you can easily check out whether an email has been tampered with, which the Daily Caller did.
You enter the following code:
import email
import dkim
data = open(‘00021071.eml’,’r’).read()
msg = email.message_from_string(data)
obj = dkim.DKIM(data)
obj.verify()
Here are the test results:
At the bottom it says True which signifies the email has not been tampered with. The email showed Brazile tipping off the Clinton campaign about a question that was going to be asked about the death penalty and Brazile’s concern that Clinton would answer incorrectly. The question was asked by Roland martin during the debate.
Brazile was asked about the email by Megyn Kelly of Fox News and Brazile claimed she was being “persecuted”. Brazile called The Daily Caller “so unprofessional” for asking for proof that the email was tampered with as she claimed.
The email from Brazile had a subject line of “From time to time I get the questions in advance” and said “Here’s one that worries me about HRC,” followed by the full text of a question about the death penalty.
Clinton was indeed asked the question at a debate by moderator Roland Martin.
Brazile claimed the emails were “doctored” by “Russian sources” and that she wouldn’t share debate questions with candidates ahead of time. Brazile became Democratic National Committee Chairman after her predecessor, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned amid accusations that she was helping Clinton over rival Sen. Bernie Sanders in the primaries.