Hillary Clinton’s campaign opened a nasty Twitter war with WikiLeaks late Monday amid the leak of campaign chairman John Podesta’s purported emails, with spokesman Brian Fallon accusing the group of being a “propaganda arm” for Moscow and WikiLeaks firing back with a battery of counter-charges — and another document dump.

Late Monday, Fallon tweeted that “media needs to stop treating WikiLeaks like it is same as FOIA” and recognize that the emails are from “an illegal hack” from a group “colluding” with Russia to help Donald Trump. WikiLeaks has since gone point for point with him on Twitter, accusing the campaign of “lying.”

If you are going to write about materials issued by @wikileaks, you should at least state they are product of illegal hack by a foreign govt — Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) October 11, 2016

Media needs to stop treating Wikileaks like it is same as FOIA. Assange is colluding with Russian government to help Trump. — Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) October 11, 2016

Fallon’s claim of Russian involvement comes after the Obama administration announced Friday that the Russian government has been deploying hackers to meddle in the election. The Clinton campaign seized on the development to argue that Russia is working to hand Trump the election.

They have also used the claim to downplay the damaging revelations in the emails. Clinton was grilled at Sunday night’s debate, for instance, about a leaked speech excerpt in which she distinguished between a “private” and “public” position on certain issues.

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