FBI investigates hacking exposing bias vs. Bernie

PHILADELPHIA — The FBI is investigating a hack into 20,000 emails sent by the Democratic National Committee — a breach that has exposed what one national security watchdog called a glaring weakness of the U.S. government’s cyber infrastructure.

“Following the FBI report on Hillary Clinton’s email server, this shows a systemic problem, not endemic to the DNC or RNC or the Clinton server,” said University of Massachusetts Lowell professor Joel Day. “The root is, we don’t have a cyber security structure in the United States. We don’t have a general command.”

The emails released by WikiLeaks Friday reveal that DNC leadership and party staffers appeared to dismiss —and even undermine — Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders as a presidential candidate. The group did not identify the source of the emails, but it has been widely speculated to be the work of Russian hackers.

The top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff of California, released a scathing statement after being briefed on the FBI’s probe, saying yesterday this “would not be the first time cyber intrusions linked to the Kremlin and its supporters have sought to influence the political process in other countries.”

He went on to accuse GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump for being the one who could benefit — calling him a “dream candidate” for the Russians.

Top Trump aide Paul Manafort dismissed the notion the Kremlin is intervening on behalf of his candidate as “absurd.”

Trump took to Twitter yesterday to also slam the DNC and Clinton.

“Crooked Hillary Clinton knew everything that her ‘servant’ was doing at the DNC — they just got caught, that’s all! They laughed at Bernie,” he tweeted.

He also knocked Sanders for not fighting back following the WikiLeaks data dump, tweeting: “If Bernie Sanders, after seeing the just released emails, continues to look exhausted and done, then his legacy will never be the same.”