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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Marcus

Hacker Guccifer who infiltrated Clinton and Bush emails slams DC ‘hypocrisy’ in first interview out of prison

REUTERS/Mediafax/Silviu Matei

The infamous Romanian hacker known as Guccifer, who managed to break into the online correspondence of the Bush and Clinton political dynasties, fueling years of right-wing conspiracies, declared his project a “failure,” according to his first US interview since getting out of prison in 2021.

Marcel Lehel Lazar, who served more than four years in federal prison in Pennsylvania, told The Intercept he set out to discover what he felt must be a hidden reason for America’s ongoing political dysfunction, but instead discovered a stranger and more mundane world, such as how former president George Bush likes to make paintings of himself in the bath.

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