Nancy Pelosi Urges Paul Ryan to Ban Republicans From Using Hacked Documents

There should be a 'gentleman's agreement" -gentleperson's?--for both parties NOT to use hacked material. I know that is pie in the sky to expect this but I will say it anyway.
And good for Nancy for taking the high ground and trying to insert some ethics into this campaign.



Nancy Pelosi Urges Paul Ryan to Ban Republicans From Using Hacked Documents

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/us/politics/nancy-pelosi-urges-paul-ryan-to-ban-republicans-from-using-hacked-documents.html

By JONATHAN MARTINSEPT. 6, 2016





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Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, speaking at a news conference on Capitol Hill last month. In a letter on Tuesday, she called the apparent Russian hack into Democratic servers “an unprecedented assault on the sanctity of our democratic process.” Credit Al Drago/The New York Times



WASHINGTON — Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, sent a letter on Tuesday to Speaker Paul D. Ryan urging him to bar Republicans from using hacked documents in the campaign, arguing that “defending our democracy is more important than any advantage or disadvantage in this election.”

Ms. Pelosi, calling the hack into Democratic servers, apparently by Russians, “an unprecedented assault on the sanctity of our democratic process,” said Mr. Ryan should not condone either party using materials originating from the cybercrime.

“Democrats and Republicans must present a united front in the face of Russia’s attempts to tamper with the will of the American people,” Ms. Pelosi wrote.

Government officials have concluded that two Russian intelligence agencies, the F.S.B. and the G.R.U., are responsible for the hacking into the Democratic National Committee and the House Democratic campaign arm. Emails and other internal documents have been published by a hacker calling himself Guccifer 2.0, who is believed to be tied to the Russian intelligence agencies.

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