Report on WikiLeaks Emails Won’t Make Donna Brazile Happy

According to a new report Tuesday, Democratic National Committee Interim Chairwoman Donna Brazile and Hillary Clinton staffers need to come up with a new argument for the WikiLeaks emails.

Calling them fake isn’t going to work anymore.

The Daily Caller News Foundation reportedly conducted a test on approximately one-fourth of the 23,000 emails WikiLeaks has released so far. Every single one of them passed the test, meaning they are legitimate, and taken from the inbox of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

According to The Daily Caller’s Luke Rosiak:

The DCNF used a digital security test employed by email providers to determine whether messages have been tampered with or otherwise modified.

Passing the test means the email as posted by WikiLeaks is exactly the same as when it was sent. The test used by TheDCNF on all of the emails contained in WikiLeaks’ first 13 Podesta releases to date is the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) security measure.

The test failed on about a quarter of the emails. This doesn’t necessarily mean those emails are fake. As the report states, that can be caused by changes in the security key of the originating email account—most of those that failed were more than two years old.

The remaining half did not use any kind of security key that could be verified, meaning they could not be assessed one way or another. But specific to one email in which Brazile obtained a debate question in advance and forwarded it to the Clinton campaign:

But the Brazile email was verified as authentic Friday by TheDCNF. Neither the Clinton campaign nor Brazile have since responded to TheDCNF’s requests for comment.

The Daily Caller has asked the Clinton campaign to provide it with an email it believes is not authentic, so it might also be tested. It has not responded to those requests.