Many assumed the Russians were behind the hack into the Democrat National Committee’s emails.

But what if it wasn’t the Russians?

An explosive allegation by an intelligence community insider reveals just who may have Hillary’s emails.

Writing for the Observer, John Schindler detailed allegations made by William Binney – a former NSA senior mathematician – that the NSA is in possession of all of Hillary’s emails.

Schindler writes:

“In a recent radio interview, William Binney, a former NSA senior mathematician, stated that disgruntled American spies could be behind the hack of the DNC, adding that NSA is in possession of all of Hillary Clinton’s emails, including the more than 30,000 deleted by the Democratic presidential nominee and her staff in the EmailGate scandal. Let’s be clear: Bill Binney is no flake. A well-respected analyst who enjoyed a successful three-decade career at NSA, he resigned in disgust in 2001, believing the agency was wasting billions of dollars and endangering the privacy of American citizens in a failed modernization program called TRAILBLAZER. By the time it was shut down in 2006, TRAILBLAZER cost the American taxpayer billions of dollars while failing to modernize NSA. It was instead a Top Secret boondoggle for defense contractors. I was serving at NSA at the time and most of Binney’s allegations have been proven more or less correct. He became a genuine whistleblower, attempting to raise Congressional awareness of what he viewed as disastrous decisions by NSA leadership. Binney paid a steep price for this, including having his security clearances revoked, causing substantial lost income, while his home was raided by the FBI—which ultimately found no wrongdoing. This experience seems to have soured Binney, and since Snowden defected to Moscow in mid-2013, he’s gotten close to the Snowden-Wikileaks axis, which is under Vladimir Putin’s control. He’s not as measured as he used to be in his public comments about NSA, and some of Binney’s recent jeremiads against his former employer are over-the-top. Nevertheless, he’s a career intelligence professional who knows NSA well—unlike Snowden, who was never more than an IT sysadmin—so Binney’s claims merit investigation.”

But why would the NSA want to take down Hillary Clinton?

She has always been a cheerleader for unconstitutional spying and foreign adventurism.

And she is running as the Washington insider who will maintain the status quo.

It turns out patriotic duty supersedes institutional loyalty.

Hillary’s history of corruption and risking our national security could be the driving forces within the NSA to try and stop Hillary’s candidacy.

Schindler writes:

“It’s not difficult to determine why NSA might want to put a halt to Clinton’s presidential ambitions. The agency has viewed her with distaste for years, beginning with her antics as the newly appointed Secretary of State in early 2009, when her demands to disregard basic security regulations about her Blackberry raised the ire of the agency’s information assurance experts. Some at NSA saw the disaster of EmailGate developing, and were powerless to stop it. Worse was what transpired in EmailGate, which witnessed Hillary’s “unclassified” email including reams of very highly classified information—some of it from NSA. The agency is especially unhappy about what I revealed previously in this column, how Top Secret-plus NSA reports wound up being copied verbatim in “personal” emails sent to Clinton by her friend and factotum, Sid Blumenthal, back in 2011… ..Some of the information Blumenthal emailed to Hillary’s “private” server included GAMMA reporting, which as I explained previously, “is an NSA handling caveat that is applied to extraordinarily sensitive information (for instance, decrypted conversations between top foreign leadership, as this was). GAMMA is properly viewed as a SIGINT Special Access Program, or SAP, several of which from the CIA Clinton compromised in another series of her ‘unclassified’ emails.” The agency was hopping mad about that compromise of its “crown jewel” information, and they were even more displeased that the FBI decided to punt on prosecuting anybody for that notorious incident. “In wartime, we shoot people for compromising GAMMA,” explained an unhappy NSA senior official: “But the FBI was clearly told to look the other way by the White House—so they did.”

It would benefit the Clinton campaign to push the narrative that it was the Russians who hacked into the Democrats’ emails and leaked them.

And while Schindler notes there is not– as of yet – any evidence to link the NSA to Hillary’s emails, Binney is not a hysterical conspiracy theorist either, so his claims deserve attention.