In December 2016, Murray wrote that the leak of Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton campaign emails before the US 2016 presidential election was the work of a DNC insider, and said that he had spoken to the leak author. Murray said he had received a package containing the DNC emails "during a clandestine meeting in a wooded area near American University". This contradicted the conclusion of American security services that the Russian authorities had hacked the DNC and Clinton servers. Writing in "The Nation", Bob Dreyfuss called Murray’s statement "fanciful" and that "the conspiracy-mongers started tying Murray to Rich".