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Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data (engadget.com)
The hacker Guccifer 2.0 today released a large database of information reportedly stolen from the Clinton Foundation. The dump, Engadget reports, includes names, addresses, and emails of both individuals and corporate donors as well as their contribution amounts. From the report: This, of course, isn't the first time Guccifer or his friends at Wikileaks and the Kremlin have attempted to subvert the US political process during this election cycle. Just last month Guccifer released Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, Tim Kaine's personal cell phone number. What's more, nearly half of the country's state voter registration systems have recently come under cyberattack, according to the DHS, though the FBI has not yet determined if those breaches originated in Russia. There are also a number of unanswered questions regarding Republican nominee, Donald Trump's, connection to these attacks. Four House Democrats recently demanded that the FBI investigate the nominee after he "jokingly" suggested that Russia find and release the 33,000 emails reportedly missing from Hillary Clinton's private email server.
Maybe the Russians CAN find them.
I particularly liked:
There are also a number of unanswered questions regarding Republican nominee, Donald Trump's, connection to these attacks
So we're to understand that Trump is running these hacker groups? Hey, I suppose that's better than Hilary who can't even run a secure email server.
I'm also interested in these "unanswered questions"? I suspect the reason they're unanswered is because you haven't asked them. You're just implying that something is amiss about Trump without actually saying what is wrong or making any allegations.
They have a better chance of finding them than our own corrupt / incompetent / paid-for agencies do.
Is sad when you put more trust in a FOREIGN intelligence agency than your own when it comes to matters like this.
"Guccifer or his friends at Wikileaks and the Kremlin"
Just tell us what happened without participating in the propaganda will you? This is embarrassing for all reporters.
I'm so glad that: "Four House Democrats recently demanded that the FBI investigate the nominee after he 'jokingly' suggested that Russia find and release the 33,000 emails reportedly missing from Hillary Clinton's private email server."
I mean, that's the real crime--not what Hillary did. It's very important that the FBI get to the bottom of this--though maybe it will at least keep them too busy to be destroying more evidence that could indict a Clinton.
Before anyone says these are fake, people have been dialing the numbers in these leaks and verifying that the contact info is legit.
The Hillary Clinton supporters can rest easy knowing that most Americans don't care about the fact that the Clinton Foundation and DNC have just been revealed to be taking TARP kickbacks from giant banks in return for political favors. They're too busy worrying about how Halloween costumes are racist and downloading their weekly groupthink programming from social media.
(Also because Clinton.)
He implies there is some sort of correlation to banks making donations, and tarp funds being distributed. Does $1000 seem like an appropriate bribe for a billion dollars? And since when does the secretary of state have any impact on where tarp funds are distributed? And what's the freaking point when this money is used for charity anyhow, it's not like they are buying paintings of themselves with it.
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
> There are also a number of unanswered questions regarding Republican nominee, Donald Trump's, connection to these attacks.
Hold the phone. There is no evidence at all that Trump has anything to do with this. Jesus. This logic is worthy of 9/Truthers. I'm not a Trump supporter, not by a long shot, but WTF slashdot?
So, I get that the rapid response team has issued your talking points, but do you think it is worth mentioning the servers have a folder on them called "pay to play" or a spreadsheet tracking banks that got TARP money's large donations to top Dems? Or a file called "Wall Street money by committee" or a file tracking donors to Hilary's campaign? Does this sound like a charity or a PAC to you? If the Russians did hack it we owe them nothing but gratitude for exposing the Clintons. If she were not so monsterously corrupt, they would probably just find out she took normal tax deductions or something, and as we have seen, that's not a very effective attack.
You guys are making lots of fun of this, and maybe it's all false alarm, but then again some foreign intelligence agency might indeed try to massively influence your elections. I wouldn't consider that funny if I were you.
Valid information is valid information regardless of the source or their motives. The more you have the more power you have. So Trump, wikileaks, russia, snowden, anyone else who wants to share something valid with the public. Please do so.
The article has been updated with:
The Clinton Foundation has denied the validity of Guccifer 2.0's claims. Speaking to Politico, a foundation representative said, "Once again, we still have no evidence Clinton Foundation systems were breached and have not been notified by law enforcement of an issue. None of these folders or files shown are from the Clinton Foundation." And, as Buzzfeed Senior Technology Reporter, Joe Bernstein, points out, it's highly unlikely that the foundation would name its own folder "Pay to Play."
If this is the case, all of you people who are still looking to stick a crime on Hillary will have to look somewhere else.
Chances are they could find them, and the smoking gun that shows Big Oil and Big Coal subverted our Democracy for their Saudi masters gain
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Roughly 7% of the Clinton Foundation outlays go to charitable grants. A very large portion of the other 93% goes to "expenses", which means paying a lot of Clinton's friends and top campaign workers so they didn't have to get another job between elections. In other words, the "charity" is mostly used to buy influence.
It's funny to see so many Trump supporters celebrating these hacks and drooling at the possibility of terrorist attacks to boost their limp candidate. How the hell did Putin manage to turn so many right wingers into his cucks?
Ever notice the double standard?
When a lowly citizen of the United States complains about illegal surveillance, the elites argue that one only has to worry if one is doing something illegal
But when something illegal is found having been committed by one of the political figure head puppets, the one that the elites intend to steal the election, all of a sudden we hear about the illegal hacking of information.
Part red herring and part strawman. Obviously someone at Slashdot is working for the Clinton foundation and the Clinton campaign.
Just watched how fast the "Russian's hacked us narrative" dies away.
Like Miss Emily used to say "Nevermind".
I still remember how during the 2012 debates Barry told us that the Russians were no longer our enemy.
Let us just end this crap, vote for the Giant Asteroid / Supervolcano ticket this November.
but can you honestly say that there are no unanswered questions for Trump? Seriously how biased can you be? I will give you a hint, it rhymes with "Axe Concerns".
"Mister Burns"?
I think it's a Simpsons reference.
Maybe like, where does their money go to?
For a long time, Julian Assange and Wikileaks have been promoting a massive data dump that they'd make today that would totally destroy the Clinton campaign. Instead, they had a sort of self-promotion-fest and a promise to drop some interesting data real soon now..
Bruce Perens.
I am so sick and tired of hearing about how Russia is trying to "subvert our election." Annoyed enough to bother logging in and not posting AC.
Yes, we get it, there are nebulous rumors of how the Russians are trying to "subvert our democracy." But it's just fluff: the bottom line is that what Hillary and the Democrats have done is at best unethical, if not strictly illegal.
Who cares who revealed it? If they weren't acting unethically, there would be no issue. But they are, and that's why it's a problem, and trying to bring Russia into this is purely a smokescreen.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
And where exactly did "Russia" come from in this summary?
This new effort to demonize Russia just because Chevron can't get their little Qatari pipeline through Assad's Syria (thereby collapsing Russian GDP) is completely out of control.
Were Woodward and Bernstein "subverting the US political process" when they investigated Watergate and effectively ended Nixon's (duly elected by the people) presidency? Normally when these leaks occur the press takes the position that "the public has a right to know" regardless of where the leaks come from.
Sounds like someone at engadget misses the point of a free and independent press.
Unscrupulous corners of the internet are already poring over these.
Couple important bits:
DNC embezzling TARP bailout bank funds (!)
Monica Peloski laundering money through a pizza place
I'd like to know why all this critical DNC info - donor lists, deposits, travel itinerary, bank accounts, etc. - is sitting on a clinton foundation server for starters.
Informing the public about who's paying bribes to which Ruling Party candidates isn't subverting the process, it's benefitting the process.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
When TFA relates to another post (like in this case to Guccifer's "leak"), it would be good to have a direct link to that too.
Specially if TFA is clearly trying to steer people away from information that it is talking about.
Interesting redirect to cover up their shady practices.
Hey, I know embezzled money, you need to go after the people who exposed the embezzlement! WTF?
This "leak" is so obviously fake that Politico pulled their story about it. Here's an article about how obviously fake it is.
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
Yep. That's the only reason anyone is pointing a finger at Russia. It's not like their government beats up gay people, poisons dissidents with radioisotopes, bombs hospitals...
Anonymous comments prefixed with "I'm not pro Hillary" or "I'm not for either" are made by people who actually are for that person. You prove the point in an easy to spot fashion, so if you are a paid troll give your boss back your check. You suck.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Maybe they know how to secure their computers so all their info isn't getting stolen all the time?
if guccifer and wikileaks are friends, why did gucci decide to leak this a day after Mr Assange's embarrassing no-content "leaks" appearance?
you'd think they could coordinate better than that.
Western Civ, script kiddies
If Trump did not follow the law it would have been prosecuted and we would have a verdict. There is no such thing, and that fact bothers the shit out of people like you who find facts an inconvenience.
From 3 pages of taxes in the 1990s we have gleaned 1 fact, that Trump took a loss. Everything else is speculation. The one troll I saw on a similar post yesterday simply denied facts and claimed that the 90s were some great economic boom. Again FACTS can be used to prove that troll wrong.
Meanwhile, Hillary is guilty of several laws which the FBI has simply refused to prosecute her for. We know that the FBI gave complete immunity to staffers, the guy who setup and ran the Exchange server, and his boss had a secret meeting with the suspects husband and former ex President the Friday before the Monday dismissal. We KNOW that the DNC has been colluding with mass media to promote Hillary and we know that they used their influence to shove Bernie down in the elections.
I have plenty of things I could complain about with Trump too, but with all the media bullshit there is no way my complaint would ever be viewed as valid. Telling a crowd that maybe they can protect their 2nd amendment rights was turned into "Trump claimed Kill Hillary", and Trump satirically saying "maybe Russia can release those emails she deleted" became "Trump claimed he wanted Russia to hack America", and the Russian influence in the DNC and Clinton foundation are ignored, but "Trump loves Putin".
It is so contrived I honestly no longer feel like I'm living in my own Country.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
She has the full force of the Russians bearing down on her, trying to get Trump elected, and they had to resort to faking a leak. If they really couldn't find anything on her, and they don't have any political American overseers or bribes or whatever, Clinton might actually be better than we thought. God knows what would happen if these same hackers rooted around Donald Trump's stuff....
"Set a man a fire, he'll be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
getting mad at Hilary for this crap is like getting mad at me for doing 70 in a 65mph zone. It's universal. Bush deleted 22 million emails to hide what were probably war crimes and nobody gave a rat's behind. Your rage is manufactured. Ask yourself who's manufacturing it and you'll know who deserves your ire.
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if there weren't some really, really shady dealings with Trump, Russia and Guccifer. It became a Trump story too when the source of the leaks pointed towards Trump's Russian friends. If you don't think that matters than I guess we can forget about that whole Watergate thing too (the real one, not this week's *gate).
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Every Post in this chain made up a fact to make it a crime.
Stop just making shit up. You Too!
The Investigation was After the fact, not during.
the machine was out of service when it was requested.
The Machine was not requested till later.
If she was smart like the Bush Whitehouse, she would have destroyed the machine.
No telling what was on that one.
You Guys act like she was the only one doing this.
No.
Is there solid proof that Guccifer has friends at Wikileaks and in the Kremlin? Or are we just going to say that about every hacker now?
LOOK AT THE DAMNED COLUMNS!!!!
Members of congress or "DCCC" (that's the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee)
Then Amount (campaign cash)
Then TARP amount (TAXPAYER BAILOUT MONEY!!!!!)
Oh, and all these banks are also all-in with Hillary, to whom she has given secret speeches in exchange for "speaking fees"
The Bush admin was bullied (by the Democrats and their press friends) into having separate (private) servers for POLITICAL work, from the government servers for government work. They, as political wimps, caved-in and put up with the resulting inconveniences. They did not steal or wipe the government servers.
Hillary Clinton setup a private server (something lots of us do) but then put ALL her personal AND (illegally) government work on it to hide all her government activity from congress and the courts and the public (who can file FOIA requests). Then after people found out about her server and filed lawsuits and subpoenas for documents on that server she (illegally) wiped it, while laughing at the public (in-your-face illegality and corruption).
There is NO comparison
Who cares if they beat up gay people? Who cares if they poison dissidents? Who cares if they bomb... wait... um... that was us. That's not unusual out there in the world. If that's cause for ramping up military aggression, then I guess you're planning on fighting Albania, Malaysia, Philippines, Colombia, China and about 2/3's of Africa.
You also seem to be saying the reason we're in Syria and arming Syrian rebels isn't the net trillion dollar pipeline value, but because we think Russia and Syria are "bad guys" and as a matter of foreign we should ... y'know.... remove baddies from power?
Further proof that the Clintonites are the new neo-cons.
Clinton and the Democrats have already done that. Wikileaks is simply shining a light on them.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
By telling the truth?
And LOL at: "What's more, nearly half of the country's state voter registration systems have recently come under cyberattack"
And? Trying to imply that this is in any way to do with Guccifer! What a laughable, biased summary. The scum in power are terrified of Trump getting in, because he represents the MAJORITY, and we can't have that! What will the special interests do?
... When Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected in November, he'll never be able to live a normal life again. He'll be square in the sights of the most powerful person in the world, with the whole of Europe eager to please her. He'll be in an American prison or dead - bugsplat - very soon.
The only election fraud we know that has happened has been on the behalf of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
[citation neeeded]
If you're talking about Ohio:
* http://www.snopes.com/clinton-votes-found-in-warehouse/
Or are you referring to a "Standford study"?
* http://www.snopes.com/stanford-study-proves-election-fraud-through-exit-poll-discrepancies/
The one troll I saw on a similar post yesterday simply denied facts and claimed that the 90s were some great economic boom. Again FACTS can be used to prove that troll wrong.
You do realize that "the 90s" is more than just 1990 and 1991, right? The "FACTS" you point to have a short bit of pain, and the rest of the decade had a huge growth of GDP:
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the 1990s was the longest economic expansion in the history of the United States, lasting exactly ten years from March 1991 to March 2001. It was the best performance on all accounts since the 1961-1969 period.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_United_States_boom#Legacy
The "FACTS" are on the side of the "troll".
"Trump has not been prosecuted, therefore he is innocent."
"Hillary has not been prosecuted, therefore there is a conspiracy to cover up her obvious guilt."
You are not as clear and rational as you believe yourself to be.
"This, of course, isn't the first time Guccifer or his friends at Wikileaks and the Kremlin have attempted to subvert the US political process during this election cycle."
1) Not a single shred or iota of evidence has been shown to substantiate a case that the DNC hacks or Wikileaks were the actions of Russia.
2) The leaker is NOT the one interfering or subverting the US political process. Rather, they are merely showing that Hillary and her corrupt cohorts are doing so.
3) Hillary is a sociopath who in the first debate essentially threatened war with a nuclear power over in order to cover up her DNC scandal. Frankly, even Trump isn't that scary.
4) I think every one with half a brain (which probably leaves the poster out) understood Trump's comment about maybe having Russia find Hillary's missing emails was satire, and a jest at her public accusation of the Russians without any provided proof. Guess what, in America that is illegal. In fact, I think the Russian government should file a personal lawsuit against Hillary for slander.
"What's more, nearly half of the country's state voter registration systems have recently come under cyberattack, according to the DHS"
Why is that? Could it be because so many apparently dropped a crap ton of Bernie Sanders supporters from the voter rolls? And hackers are trying to find out how and by whom?
"Donald Trump's, connection to these attacks."
Donald Trump's connection is that he has seen them talked about in the media, and seen a very stupid Hillary accuse Russia of the attacks. That's it...
And the OP is a damnable moron for trying to seek more from it. I mean really, why the hell is anyone more upset about the hacks than the illegal and corrupt actions on the part of Hillary's cohorts? This is like the hacker who retrieved the photos to prove the rape case, but faces 10x the sentence for doing so than the rapists. WTF.
"Four House Democrats recently demanded that the FBI investigate the nominee after he "jokingly" suggested that Russia find and release the 33,000 emails reportedly missing from Hillary Clinton's private email server."
Well gee, considering the FBI is in Hillary's pants as are those four Democrats. I mean, the FBI basically came out and said "We found gross negligence and multiple violations, but because it is Hillary we are not going to prosecute." And this occurred shortly after a chance meeting between the Attorney General and Bill Clinton, which was no frigging change meeting.
Sorry, Hillary and Trump are both unacceptable candidates for presidency.
Trump is an arrogant bigoted asshole.
Hillary is a corrupt lying oligarchist warmonger.
You are making shit up with zero proof.
Obviously Clinton hopes people don't look at a world map. If only her followers had half a brain...
Does that mean the existing system is not truthful?
Real estate values would remain depressed through 1995, when they would return to growth.[8]
Do you need me to point out the 2nd paragraph of "Recovery" for you, or do you think you can stop selectively reading when facts don't back your position? If the latter, you are the problem not myself or Trump.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
So I see many posts that are pro-Trump, and deflecting that the Kremlin had anything to do with these hacks. Makes sense that Russian hackers would be here since many hackers enjoy slashdot, but seriously can't we put an end to this? Are we going to let Russian take over the elections?
Why the Americans have the need to bring Russian into everything "bad" that is happening? There is no proof that Russia is involved as a state or has sponsored any of this attacks. However, the media portrays it as it was a fact. Quite sad :(
Campers: did any of you actually look at the folders or data? Everyone seems to assume this is legit. Hard to believe it is. A Russian state-sponsored hacker -- known to be trying to influence US election -- releases supposed files with names like "Pay to Play" and others showing donations as percentage of what donors supposedly got in TARP funds. Really?? This is a really bad, absurdly clumsy, Boris and Natasha skit. Even assuming the Clinton Foundation somehow takes bribes, do you really think they'd set it up so blatantly?? Also, if you actually understand how their foundation works, you'd find this is even more absurd. C'mon people, show a little healthy skepticism.
Remember in 2000 when Sam Donaldson was fired for claiming a deferment letter for Bush Jr was from the late 60's, but it was written in a proportional font?
This is the same thing:
"...it's highly unlikely that the foundation would name its own folder "Pay to Play.""
Bahahaha!
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won't anyone leak the email backups I accidentally deleted, or my boss' cell phone records just once....
P.S., Gucifer 2.0: I'll pay handsomely for Bill Clinton's or Donald Trump's Google/Reddit/xhamster search history. Hillary's, not so much.
Simple. We refuse to acknowledge terrorism and play nothing to see here. But there has to be an enemy, or people stop paying attention. Russia is the perfect candidate, they are the old enemy from the Cold War that we pretended was ten times our size... when they were 1/10th our size... resulting in trillions of dollars of legal bribes paid.
Of course the real enemy is anyone who convinces you do to stupid shit because of some straw man enemy but if you're that easily duped there's little hope for you anyway, please keep repeating talking points devoid of common sense.
Murphy was an optimist
While the server itself was and still is not illegal....
Hiding all her work e-mails on it was and is! There are federal laws making all her work product FEDERAL RECORDS which are required to be accessible to the courts, the congress, the national archives (for future historians to study, etc).
Putting classified info onto that server was and is a FELONY. EVERY INSTANCE was a felony.
I held a security clearance many years ago and would be still in prison had I done what she did even ONE TIME, with ONE DOCUMENT.
This is toxic to have the political elite exempt from the nation's most basic security laws, and doubly toxic to have their mindless moron supporters violating everything they usually claim to believe in to support such illegalities because it's their side . Oh - and yes, I would want Bush, or Trump, or anybody else prosecuted and jailed if he had done the same thing. I' on the right and I was happy to see Nixon go, are ANY of you on the left that honest and consistent, or are you ALL "ends justify the means" partisan hacks?
A "celebrity" talking to bankers?
So, you're dismissing the entire thing about the Democrats directing HUGE piles of taxpayer TARP bailout cash to the Wall Street bankers based on how much money they have given to Democrat politicians and the Democrat congressional campaign org ....
and then you claim Hillary was just a celebrity who, apparently like Britney Spears, Beyoncee, or Jennifer Aniston was making millions of dollars giving talks to Wall St bankers behind closed doors...
Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State (a government employee on the taxpayer's dime) during half the past 4 years and a favored presidential candidate (a presumed future president, whose party was rigging the game to assure this) in the other half. She was pocketing millions of dollars from these same bankers who were also padding the wallets of all these other Democrat politicians while the politicians were stuffing those banks full of taxpayer TARP funds...
I'd bet you would be outraged if Disk Cheney was doing 1% of this...
And they run quite the propaganda machine as well. Look at how they're swaying the US election in favor of a monster. Then again, that's not hard due to the stupidity of the average American.
It's important to note the headline is a lie from the hacker: the "dump" is a collection of docs from the previous DNC hack and has nothing to do with the Clinton Foundation.
The ploy clearly worked though - too many people stop at the headline.
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