“I’ve been involved in politics for nearly five decades, and this definitely is the first campaign that I’ve been involved with in which I’ve had to tangle with Russian intelligence agencies, who seem to be doing everything they can on behalf of our opponent,” Podesta told reporters aboard the Democratic nominee’s plane as it returned here from campaign stops in Florida…

Podesta said that it would be “reasonable” to assume that the Trump campaign knew that WikiLeaks would release his email. He pointed to comments earlier this year by Roger Stone, a longtime Trump associate and former adviser to the campaign, that he had been in contact with Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks.

“Around the same time, Stone pointed his finger at me, and said that I could expect some treatment that would expose me,” Podesta said, referring to comments on Twitter in August by Stone, who said it would soon be “Podesta’s time in the barrel.”