Regarding speculation as to the "mystery candidate" who received hacked docs from Russia.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Canova has expressly attempted to cast doubt that Russia was behind the DNC hacking...

....and even more disgustingly, attempted to cast blame on Seth Rich himself being the hacker.

From the Sun-Sentinel in June 2017:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-reg-tim-canova-theories-20170629-story.html

Seth Rich murder

Canova has raised questions about Seth Rich, a young Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered last summer. Conspiracy theorists have suggested — without evidence — that Rich, and not Russian hackers, might have provided explosive DNC emails to WikiLeaks, and that he might have been murdered as part of a cover-up. The most prominent purveyors of that theory have been Fox News personality Sean Hannity and internet and radio conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

One reason for Canova’s interest in Rich and WikiLeaks may be Wasserman Schultz. She was chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee at the time of the hacks and resigned last summer after the stolen emails detailed the inner workings of the party.

A video posted on Canova’s Facebook page in January shows him walking around the Washington, D.C., neighborhood where Rich was killed. He said there were reasons to doubt it was a robbery and suggested it could have been something more sinister. In May, he sent a reporter text messages about the Rich matter. He sent a link to an online account suggesting that Rich supplied the DNC emails to WikiLeaks and “not some random Russian cyber terrorist, as we’ve all been led to believe.”

Russian distraction

Canova has thrown cold water on the conclusion by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia was responsible for the hacking of the Democratic National Committee as part of its attempts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election. He argues that all the talk about Russian hacking may be only an attempt by the Democratic Party establishment to obscure its failures in recent elections, especially in the 2016 presidential race.

In a June 25 video interview carried on Facebook, Canova repeated for a California audience his assertion that talk about Russia is “a big distraction from the real issues” that Democrats use to explain away their loss to Donald Trump.