The campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has framed the hacking of its emails as a criminal theft similar to the infamous Watergate scandal of the 1970s.
In an essay obtained by POLITICO, the Clinton campaign suggests Republican rival Donald Trump and his advisers are directly connected to the hack of campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails, which are being released by WikiLeaks on a daily basis.
“What did Trump know, and when did he know it?” the campaign asks in an apparent play on the famous line from the Senate Watergate investigation.
Watergate scandal refers to the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office in Washington, DC, and the Richard Nixon administration’s attempted cover-up of its involvement in the theft of Democratic documents.
In 1973, Senator Howard Baker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, captured the essence of his inquiry with…