電郵泄露令希拉里競選活動陷入混亂

The head of the Democratic National Committee has resigned after the leaking of 20,000 emails exposed rifts in the party leadership, throwing Hillary Clinton’s campaign into turmoil on the eve of this week’s convention.

在遭泄露的2萬份電子郵件揭示出美國民主黨領導層內存在裂痕後，民主黨全國委員會（Democratic National Committee，簡稱DNC）主席已提出辭職。在本週的民主黨全國代表大會前夕，她的辭職令希拉里•克林頓(Hillary Clinton)的競選陷入一片混亂。

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC chairwoman, said on Sunday that she would be stepping down at the end of the convention in the wake of the leaks that have cast both her and her office in a negative light.

郵件泄露後，民主黨全國委員會主席黛比•沃瑟曼•舒爾茨(Debbie Wasserman Schultz)上週日表示，她會在本次大會結束時離職。郵件泄露令她和她的辦公室成爲了負面新聞焦點。

Ms Wasserman Schultz will open and close the event but by the end of the week her duties are to be taken over by Donna Brazile, a longtime Democratic operative and alumna of Bill Clinton’s White House.

沃瑟曼•舒爾茨將主持此次大會的開幕和閉幕，但在本週結束前，她的職務將由唐娜•布拉齊爾(Donna Brazile)接任。後者曾長期擔任民主黨黨工，也曾是比爾•克林頓(Bill Clinton)在白宮的幕僚。

The resignation comes in the wake of a growing scandal over the DNC’s closeness to the Clinton campaign during the primary — a time when the committee is supposed to be impartial — and threatens to overshadow the first days of the convention and the news that Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor, will endorse Mrs Clinton on the convention stage.

在沃瑟曼•舒爾茨辭職前，民主黨全國委員會捲入了一宗愈演愈烈的醜聞。醜聞涉及民主黨初選期間該委員會與希拉里競選活動的密切關係——它本該在這一時期保持中立。沃瑟曼•舒爾茨的辭職可能會爲民主黨全國代表大會的頭兩天蒙上陰影，也會爲紐約市前市長邁克爾•布隆伯格(Michael Bloomberg)將在大會現場爲希拉里站臺的消息蒙上陰影。

Last month the DNC reported that it had been hacked by what it believed were Russian government hackers, who had gained access to the committee’s email system for up to 12 months. The committee’s emails are now slowly being released to the public by WikiLeaks, which published an initial trove of 20,000 on Friday.

上月，民主黨全國委員會報告稱，其遭據信是俄羅斯政府黑客的人員攻陷。這些黑客侵入該委員會電子郵件系統長達12個月。如今，該委員會的電子郵件正被維基解密(WikiLeaks)慢慢公之於衆。上週五，維基解密公佈了首批2萬份郵件。

In a statement, Ms Wasserman Schultz said she would be stepping down to better focus on serving as Mrs Clinton’s surrogate in Florida, where she is one of the state’s representatives to Congress. But she did not directly address the leaks or some of the specific emails that have gained attention.

沃瑟曼•舒爾茨在一份聲明中表示，她會離職以便更好地集中精力擔任希拉里在佛羅里達州的代理人。沃瑟曼•舒爾茨是佛羅里達州在美國國會的代表之一。不過，她並未直接提到郵件泄露或引發媒體關注的部分具體郵件。

In one message sent on May 21, Ms Wasserman Schultz suggested that it was not worth responding to a particular claim by Bernie Sanders, who at the time was fiercely campaigning against Mrs Clinton for the Democratic nomination. “He isn’t going to be president,” she said of Mr Sanders.

在5月21日發送的一封電子郵件中，沃瑟曼•舒爾茨暗示不值得迴應伯尼•桑德斯(Bernie Sanders)的一份聲明。當時，桑德斯正處於同希拉里爭奪民主黨總統候選人提名的激烈選戰之中。沃瑟曼•舒爾茨在提到桑德斯時表示：“他不會成爲總統的。”

In another email, a DNC staffer suggested planting a story about the problems that had plagued Mr Sanders’ campaign.

在另一封電子郵件中，民主黨全國委員會一名工作人員建議弄出一篇新聞，報道困擾桑德斯競選的種種問題。

“Wondering if there’s a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never had his act together, that his campaign was a mess,” Mark Paustenbach, a DNC communications officer, wrote to Luis Miranda, the DNC’s communications director.

民主黨全國委員會溝通官員馬克•保斯滕巴赫(Mark Paustenbach)在給溝通部門主管路易斯•米蘭達(Luis Miranda)的電子郵件中寫道：“不知道可不可以好好報道下伯尼，就說伯尼從來都沒有章法，說他的競選一團糟。”

Mr Sanders, who has been calling for months for Ms Wasserman Schultz to resign, said he was not surprised by the content of the emails. “I told you a long time ago that the DNC was not running a fair operation, that they were supporting Secretary Clinton,” he told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos.

桑德斯幾個月來一直呼籲沃瑟曼•舒爾茨辭職，他表示自己對這些電子郵件的內容並不感到驚訝。他對ABC News的喬治•斯特凡諾普洛斯(George Stephanopoulos)說：“我早就告訴過你，民主黨全國委員會行事不公，他們在支持希拉里。”

Robby Mook, Mrs Clinton’s campaign manager, suggested on Sunday that the leak of the DNC emails on the eve of the convention could be an effort by Russia to give a boost to Mr Trump, the Republican candidate who has often sounded sympathetic to Moscow.

希拉里的競選經理羅比•穆克(Robby Mook)上週日暗示，在全國代表大會前夕發生的這起民主黨全國委員會電子郵件泄露，可能是俄羅斯爲了助唐納德•特朗普(Donald Trump)一臂之力而乾的，這位共和黨總統候選人常常對俄羅斯表示同情。

“What’s disturbing to us is that experts are telling us Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails, and other experts are now saying that the Russians are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump,” Mr Mook told CNN.

穆克對美國有線電視新聞網(CNN)表示：“讓我們不安的是，專家告訴我們俄政府黑客侵入了民主黨全國委員會，偷走了這些電子郵件。現在還有一些專家說，俄國人公佈這些郵件其實是爲了幫助唐納德•特朗普。”

Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, said the saga over the emails underscored the claim by Mr Trump that the Democratic primary process was rigged. Speaking at an event in Philadelphia, he said that “when you rig a system . . . this kind of outcome is inevitable”.

共和黨全國委員會(Republican National Committee)主席雷恩斯•普瑞巴斯(Reince Priebus)表示，郵件泄露事件支持了特朗普的說法，即民主黨初選過程受到了操縱。普瑞巴斯在費城一場活動上表示，“當你操縱一個體制時……這種結果是不可避免的。”

On Sunday, protesters were already staging rallies not far from the convention site. On social media some Sanders supporters were demanding that he revoke his endorsement of Mrs Clinton following the DNC leaks.

上週日，已經有抗議者在民主黨全國代表大會會場不遠處舉行集會。民主黨全國委員會郵件泄露事件發生後，一些桑德斯的支持者在社交媒體上要求他撤銷對希拉里的支持。