[azkathy]

They may have been “purposefully” leaked by an insider who was sick of the corruption.

In my opinion, the reason the emails are focused on is because “ordinary citizens” and not so ordinary journalists can understand the plain language of an email but the codes have to be interpreted by “experts.”

[crescen7]

"They may have been “purposefully” leaked by an insider who was sick of the corruption."

Yeah, it's possible. Maybe even likely. But . . .

The "emails" appear to be almost surgically selected. There's only 1073 of them. They span a time frame of 13 years. The number sequence spans 400 million numbers.

Yet . . .

Not a single embarrassing personal email. No spam. No wife, girlfriend, boyfriend etc. It seems like a "disgruntled" employee would be a bit less careful about removing all personal communications.

call me a skeptical skeptic.