As the Democratic National Convention begins today in Philadelphia, controversy hangs over the Wells Fargo Center.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is expected to resign as chair of the DNC at the end of the convention amid the release of internal committee emails by WikiLeaks that appear to show party officials strategizing ways to harm Sen. Bernie Sanders politically during the primaries, according to ABC News.
The committee’s communications director Luis Miranda tweeted that Donna Brazile will serve as interim chair “through the election.”
According to party sources, Wasserman Schultz’s role at the party’s convention this week will be severely limited.
Brazile, who is vice chair of the DNC and serving as interim chair until November, said the emails “do not reflect the spirit of the party.”
“This party of justice and peace and Lyndon Johnson,” she said. “This party of Barack Obama that has given 20 million Americans health care.”
A spokesperson for the FBI said Monday that the agency was investigating “a cyber intrusion involving the DNC,” according to the Huffington Post.
“A compromise of this nature is something we take very seriously, and the FBI will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace,” the statement read.
