{"id":2346388,"date":"2024-09-26T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reporter-posts-vance-dossier-hacked-by-iran-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:27:28","slug":"reporter-posts-vance-dossier-hacked-by-iran-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reporter-posts-vance-dossier-hacked-by-iran-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter posts Vance dossier hacked by Iran &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freporter-posts-vance-dossier-hacked-by-iran-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2346388&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An investigative journalist, Ken Klippenstein, has published \u200ba\u200c dossier allegedly hacked from\u2062 former President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 campaign, detailing vulnerabilities of Senator J.D. Vance \u200c(R-OH). The campaign claimed the document was obtained illegally by Iranian hackers and \u200cdeclined to confirm its authenticity. Klippenstein&#8217;s \u2063decision to share the dossier on his Substack was justified by\u200b him as being of public interest during \u2062an election season, highlighting Vance&#8217;s stance against aid \u2063to Ukraine. Following the post, Klippenstein\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sickening-video-shows-antifa-allegedly-stab-4-trump-supporters-in-washington-dc\/\" title=\"Sickening Video Shows Antifa Allegedly Stab 4 Trump Supporters in Washington DC\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> account<\/a> was temporarily suspended. The publication of such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-shapiro-slams-russian-disinformation-claims-after-hunter-biden-says-laptop-certainly-could-be-real\/\" title=\"Ben Shapiro Slams \u2018Russian Disinformation\u2019 Claims After Hunter Biden Says Laptop \u2018Certainly\u2019 Could Be Real\">hacked materials<\/a> raises ethical concerns, with experts cautioning that \u2062it may set a precedent for journalists and comparing it to previous instances of leaked documents in political contexts. \u200bThe release has sparked significant discussion \u2062and controversy on social media.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">JD Vance dossier hacked from Trump campaign published by reporter<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tpd-featured-video\">\n<div id=\"Brid_22502\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:1280;height:720;\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>An investigative journalist has published what he claims is the vetting dossier on Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>J.D. Vance<\/a> (R-OH) compiled by former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>2024<\/a> campaign, which was hacked by Iran and subsequently leaked.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The dossier, which compiles a list of the Ohio senator&rsquo;s &ldquo;vulnerabilities,&rdquo; was initially sent to the likes of <em>Politico<\/em>, the<em> New York Times<\/em>, and the <em>Washington Post,<\/em> all of whom declined to publish its contents, instead writing stories about who was believed to be behind the leak.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign said at the time it had been &ldquo;obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But on Thursday, Ken Klippenstein, who formerly worked for the left-leaning outlet the<em> Intercept,<\/em> published what he said was the dossier on his Substack, saying he was doing so &ldquo;because it&rsquo;s of keen public interest in an election season.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In his Substack post, he noted that the dossier highlights perceived weaknesses of Vance, including his opposition to providing assistance to Ukraine in its war with Russia. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3084001\/trump-secures-his-legacy-with-vance-vp-pick-republicans-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Vance was picked\">Vance was picked<\/a> as Trump&rsquo;s running mate in July, on the first day of the Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>Social media website X suspended Klippenstien&rsquo;s account shortly after he posted a link to the published dossier and joked about never being able to work in media again.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign did not outright confirm the veracity of the document published by Klippenstein and said in a statement to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&nbsp;that he was working to advance Iran&rsquo;s interests.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The terror regime in Iran loves the weakness and stupidity of Kamala Harris, and is terrified of the strength and resolve of President Donald J. Trump,&rdquo; wrote Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign&rsquo;s communications director. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s sad some reporters and media outlets have decided to do Iran&rsquo;s bidding.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey McCall, a professor of communication specializing in political media studies at DePauw University, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-projects-tweets-of-private-dms-not-a-violation-twitter-says\/\" title=\"Lincoln Project\u2019s Tweets of Private DMs Not a Violation, Twitter Says\">publishing hacked materials<\/a> can be &ldquo;very murky water for a journalist to navigate.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Although the documents might well be authentic, Klippenstein can&rsquo;t be absolutely sure, and even if they are authentic, there is the matter of publishing information hacked by miscreants and basically doing the bidding of the miscreants who want to disrupt the rhetorical sphere,&rdquo; he wrote. &ldquo;It appears the documents don&rsquo;t really have that much juicy stuff in them, which could well be why other media outlets have taken a pass on publication.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, McCall said he found Klippenstein&rsquo;s explanation for publication &ldquo;a bit thin,&rdquo; as opposed to summarizing the documents &ldquo;for their news value.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Klippenstein has now set an expectation or precedent for himself with regard to publishing hacked documents. He might have found the decision easy in this case because the documents involved Vance,&rdquo; McCall continued. &ldquo;But should he receive unverified material regarding the Harris-Walz campaign, it will be interesting to see if he is so eager to disseminate it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Journalists publishing stolen materials has been a source of contention in modern politics. During the 2016 presidential election, a Russian hack of Democrats&rsquo; emails was released in troves by WikiLeaks, with major outlets such as the <em>New York Times <\/em>and the<em> Wall Street Journal<\/em> reporting on Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s private conversations.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, <em>BuzzFeed <\/em>published a discredited opposition dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele alleging Trump&rsquo;s ties to Russia. In the 2020 election cycle, the <em>New York Post<\/em> revealed the contents of Hunter Biden&rsquo;s laptop. The story was throttled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">social media companies<\/a> and downplayed by Joe Biden as the product of a Russian disinformation campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Thursday&rsquo;s release of the Vance dossier set off another social media firestorm. <\/p>\n<p>Ali Breland, a writer for the<em> Atlantic<\/em>, claimed to have been temporarily locked out of his X account for posting a screenshot of the published dossier.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">  https:\/\/twitter.com\/alibreland\/status\/1839369861153312951?s=46 <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Notable how quickly they started enforcing the Vance dossier given how diminished the moderation team is and how they often don&rsquo;t bother to handle a lot of things that otherwise violate the rules, or at least handle them quickly,&rdquo; Breland added in a subsequent post on X.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, X&rsquo;s owner, frequently defends the platform as a harbor for free speech and was quickly criticized for suppressing Klippenstein&rsquo;s&nbsp;report despite the website&rsquo;s stated policy on the publication of hacked materials. The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to X for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Elon Musk, &lsquo;free speech absolutist&rsquo;, just suspended progressive journalist Ken Klippenstein after he reported on the JD Vance Dossier,&rdquo; one self-identified &ldquo;socialist and progressive&rdquo; content creator wrote. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If anybody still believes the delusional notion that Elon is some sort of free speech champion and not a total partisan hack, he suspended Ken for leaking the JD Vance dossier. Shameful and cowardly behavior,&rdquo; added user &ldquo;BirdRespecter.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">  https:\/\/twitter.com\/socdoneleft\/status\/1839373561506775061?s=46 <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">  https:\/\/twitter.com\/birdrespecter\/status\/1839372169870250180?s=46 <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_22502\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"playlist\":\"22502\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Vance dossier from Trump campaign hacked and leaked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2346389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/vance-dossier.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[19536,11208,3823,41798],"class_list":["post-2346388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hacking","tag-iran","tag-vance-dossier"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/vance-dossier.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}