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NEW: Prosecutors investigated Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and Roger Stone for the hacking of DNC servers, but ultimately chose not to charge them, newly released portions of the Mueller Report reveal
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Though Wikileaks published emails stolen from the DNC in July and October 2016 and Roger Stone — a close associate to Donald Trump — appeared to know in advance the materials were coming, investigators “did not have sufficient evidence” to prove active participation in the hacks.
Federal prosecutors also could not establish that the hacked emails amounted to campaign contributions benefitting Donald Trump’s election chances, and furthermore felt their publication might have been protected by the First Amendment, making a successful prosecution tenuous.
Read more from new, unredacted sections of the Mueller report: buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…

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