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Donna Brazile

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Donna Brazile was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She is a Democratic political strategist, adjunct professor, author, syndicated columnist, and television political commentator. She was also Al Gore's campaign manager for the 2000 presidential election. Author of the best-selling memoir "Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics", Ms. Brazile is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, a syndicated newspaper columnist for Universal Uclick, a columnist for Ms. Magazine, and O, the Oprah Magazine, an on-air contributor to CNN, and ABC, where she regularly appears on ABC's This Week.
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Democratic strategist.
Supports Obama's call for a thorough investigation of the hacking but lamented the administration's failure to protect the party and its infrastructure.[December 2016].
Sent a letter to Congress on behalf of the DNC, asking for an independent, bipartisan commission to study the alleged hacking by Russia.[December 2016].
Refused to blame Russia's interference in the election for Democrats' loss.[December 2016].
Took over as chair of the DNC months after the cyber attacks allegedly by Russia had begun.[December 2016].

[on the alleged hacking of DNC emails by Russia] There's no question; I took full responsibility, I spent the entire month of July, all of August, apologizing because of the leaks, while highlighting the "appropriate steps" the party took to prevent another attack afterwards.
[on the alleged hacking of DNC emails by Russia] They came after us absolutely every day until the end of the election. They tried to hack into our system repeatedly.
[on the alleged hacking of DNC emails by Russia] I'm still outraged by it, but I want to make sure that this never happens again because this country deserves to have the kind of cyber security experts involved to make sure that our homeland is protected.
[on the alleged hacking of DNC emails by Russia] The emails were weaponized , the thousands of emails that were hacked from the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign staff and then released publicly. "Donald Trump used this information in ways to also sow division. I was very disappointed in his repeated usage some of the stolen information. He used it as if he received daily talking points.
[on the alleged hacking of DNC emails by Russia] We were attacked by a foreign adversary, and I think it's the responsibility of the government to help individual citizens as well as institutions, nonprofits, corporations to protect us.

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