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At least three news outlets were leaked confidential material from inside the Donald Trump campaign, including its report vetting JD Vance as a vice presidential candidate. So far, each has refused to reveal any details about what they received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post have written about a potential hack of the campaign and described what they had in broad terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their decisions stand in marked contrast to the 2016 presidential campaign, when a Russian hack exposed emails to and from Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign manager, John Podesta. The website Wikileaks published a trove of these embarrassing missives, and mainstream news organizations covered them avidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico wrote over the weekend about receiving emails starting July 22 from a person identified as \u201cRobert\u201d that included a 271-page campaign document about Vance and a partial vetting report on Sen. Marco Rubio, who was also considered as a potential vice president. Both Politico and the Post said that two people had independently confirmed that the documents were authentic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike many such vetting documents,\u201d The Times wrote of the Vance report, \u201cthey contained past statements with the potential to be embarrassing or damaging, such as Mr. Vance\u2019s remarks casting aspersions on Mr. Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whodunit?
What\u2019s unclear is who provided the material. Politico said it did not know who \u201cRobert\u201d was and that when it spoke to the supposed leaker, he said, \u201cI suggest you don\u2019t be curious about where I got them from.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump campaign said it had been hacked and that Iranians were behind it. While the campaign provided no evidence for the claim, it came a day after a Microsoft report detailed an effort by an Iranian military intelligence unit to compromise the email account of a former senior advisor to a presidential campaign. The report did not specify which campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump\u2019s campaign, said over the weekend that \u201cany media or news outlet reprinting documents or internal communications are doing the bidding of America\u2019s enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FBI released a brief statement Monday that read: \u201cWe can confirm the FBI is investigating this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Times said it would not discuss why it had decided not to print details of the internal communications. A spokesperson for the Post said: \u201cAs with any information we receive, we take into account the authenticity of the materials, any motives of the source and assess the public interest in making decisions about what, if anything, to publish.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brad Dayspring, a spokesperson for Politico, said editors there judged that \u201cthe questions surrounding the origins of the documents and how they came to our attention were more newsworthy than the material that was in those documents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, it didn\u2019t take long after Vance was announced as Trump\u2019s running mate for various news organizations to dig up unflattering statements that the Ohio senator had made about him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lesson from 2016?
It\u2019s also easy to recall how, in 2016, candidate Trump and his team encouraged coverage of documents on the Clinton campaign that Wikileaks had acquired from hackers. It was widespread: A BBC story promised \u201c18 revelations from Wikileaks\u2019 hacked Clinton emails\u201d and Vox even wrote about Podesta\u2019s advice for making superb risotto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Fallon, then a Clinton campaign spokesperson, noted at the time how striking it was that concern about Russian hacking quickly gave way to fascination over what was revealed. \u201cJust like Russia wanted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike this year, the Wikileaks material was dumped into the public domain, increasing the pressure on news organizations to publish. That led to some bad decisions: In some cases, outlets misrepresented some of the material to be more damaging to Clinton than it actually was, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a University of Pennsylvania communications professor who wrote \u201cCyberwar,\u201d a book about the 2016 hacking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, Jamieson said she believed news organizations made the right decision not to publish details of the Trump campaign material because they can\u2019t be sure of the source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow do you know that you\u2019re not being manipulated by the Trump campaign?\u201d Jamieson said. She\u2019s conservative about publishing decisions \u201cbecause we\u2019re in the misinformation age,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Rid, director of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins, also believes that the news organizations have made the right decision, but for different reasons. He said it appeared that an effort by a foreign agent to influence the 2024 presidential campaign was more newsworthy than the leaked material itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one prominent journalist, Jesse Eisinger, senior reporter and editor at ProPublica, suggested the outlets could have told more than they did. While it\u2019s true that past Vance statements about Trump are easily found publicly, the vetting document could have indicated which statements most concerned the campaign, or revealed things the journalists didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once it is established that the material is accurate, newsworthiness is a more important consideration than the source, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think they handled it properly,\u201d Eisinger said. \u201cI think they overlearned the lesson of 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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