GOP official: I used Ashley Madison for 'opposition research'

The executive director of the Louisiana GOP spent $176 on Ashley Madison, a website for people seeking affairs, but he says he wasn’t using it to cheat.

Jason Doré acknowledged that his name is on the list released by hackers this week, according to The Times-Picayune. But he said he used the account strictly for “opposition research.”


“As the state’s leading opposition research firm, our law office routinely searches public records, online databases and websites of all types to provide clients with comprehensive reports,” he told the New Orleans newspaper.

He didn’t say who the account was for, though he did say that “it ended up being a waste of money and time.”

So far, hackers have released data in two massive dumps – 10 gigabytes on Tuesday and another 20 Thursday.

On Thursday, the Pentagon announced it was looking into the more than 13,000 email addresses with military domains that appeared on the website.

More than 15,000 of the email addresses contain government suffixes, including military ones. It is not clear how many of the accounts are real.

The Associated Press reported Thursday that hundreds of government employees with jobs at the White House, Congress and more than two dozen agencies used Internet connections in the federal offices to access the site.

One Justice Department investigator told the AP he was “doing some things I shouldn’t have been doing.”