Washington - A massive leak of Democratic leadership e-mails has sent the party reeling into its national convention this week, with aides to Hillary Clinton, its presumptive presidential nominee, accusing Russia of coordinating the attack.

Robby Mook, campaign manager for Hillary for America, accused Moscow on Sunday of deliberately helping Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by directly orchestrating the hack, which resulted in the release of roughly 20,000 e-mails by Wikileaks, a whistleblower organization founded by Julian Assange, on Friday.

Several of those e-mails reveal an apparent bias within the Democratic National Committee for Clinton during her primary campaign against Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, who for months claimed the process was stacked in her favor.

Sanders renewed his call on Sunday for the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the DNC and the party’s most senior Jewish member. In her own e-mail exchanges, Wasserman Schultz questioned Sanders’ loyalty to the party– he has never registered as a Democrat– and disparaged his campaign’s leadership in personal terms.

As a result of the leak, Wasserman Schultz will no longer speak at the convention.

The leak also showed the party’s chief financial officer sought to...read more at VIN