Donald Trump's campaign Wednesday bashed former CIA Director Leon Panetta's attack on the Republican nominee by noting how his "silence" on Hillary Clinton's private email use jeopardized American lives.
"It is alarming that Leon Panetta would, through his silence, excuse Hillary Clinton's enablement of foreign espionage with her illegal email scheme and her corrupt decision to then destroy those emails and dissemble her 'private' server to hide her crimes from the public and authorities," Stephen Miller, Trump's senior policy adviser, said in a statement.
"He better than most should know how many lives she put at risk," he said.
At the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Panetta said that Trump's call for Russia to find Hillary Clinton's missing emails disqualified him from being in the White House.
"Panetta ignored Hillary Clinton's rush to war in the Middle East and her deadly and calamitous invasion of Libya, which further proves her a reckless risk too grave for any American family," Miller said.