{"id":34635,"date":"2017-07-14T04:33:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T04:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=34635"},"modified":"2017-07-14T04:33:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T04:33:46","slug":"gop-operative-sought-clintons-emails-committed-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/gop-operative-sought-clintons-emails-committed-suicide.html","title":{"rendered":"GOP operative who sought Clinton’s emails committed suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

GOP operative who sought Clinton’s emails committed suicide<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

GOP operative who sought Clinton’s emails committed suicide:- A Republican Party operative who said he tried to obtain Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails from Russian hackers committed suicide days after speaking to The Wall Street Journal, records acquired by the Chicago Tribune show.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter W. Smith, an 81-year-old GOP donor from Chicago, was found dead in a Rochester, Minnesota hotel room on May 14. The Tribune obtained a state death record stating Smith committed suicide in the hotel on the date.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Journal reported that Smith, a longtime opposition researcher for the GOP, \u201cmounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen by Hillary Clinton\u2019s private server, likely by Russian hackers\u201d and implied he was working with Gen. Michael Flynn, then a senior adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith said he had created a team to find the emails that might have been stolen by hackers during Clinton\u2019s tenure as U.S. Secretary of State, although the Journal reported Smith was focused on obtaining the 30,000 emails Clinton claimed she deleted because they were personal.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Smith\u2019s hotel room, he left a \u201cstatement police called a suicide note in which he said he was in ill health and a life insurance policy was expiring,\u201d the Tribune reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

His death, which a police chief called \u201cunusual,\u201d had been recorded as \u201casphyxiation due to displacement of oxygen in a confined space with helium.\u201d Smith was found with a bag over his head and a helium source attached.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Tribune, Smith wrote two blog posts before his death: one challenging the U.S. intelligence community\u2019s findings that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and another \u201cpredicting\u201d that “the Russian interference story will die of its own weight.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/07\/13\/gop-operative-who-sought-clintons-emails-committed-suicide.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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