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WikiLeaks Posts 2,000 More Emails From John Podesta (cnn.com)
WikiLeaks has released an additional 2,000 emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta -- the second leak in four days. The first leak contained thousands of emails from Podesta, including apparent excerpts from Ms Clinton's paid, closed-door speeches to Wall Street executives after leaving her position as Secretary of State. CNN reports: The emails appear to be mostly from 2015, covering a litany of policy and strategy discussions between Clinton staffers on how to handle issues of the day and the press, including the release of the book "Clinton Cash" alleging nefarious activity by the Clinton Foundation. Another email has long-time Clinton aide Doug Band referring to Chelsea Clinton as a "spoiled brat." Doug Band emailed Podesta and longtime Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills about a damning story about his consulting company, Teneo, by lashing out at Chelsea Clinton. "I don't deserve this from her and deserve a tad more respect or at least a direct dialogue for me to explain these things," Band wrote. "She is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but create issues to justify what she's doing because she, as she has said, hasn't found her way and has a lack of focus in her life." The emails also revealed that Clinton wanted to respond more forcefully to "Clinton Cash," the 2015 book that looked to connect Clinton Foundation actions and decisions made by Hillary Clinton's State Department. According to an email from another close aide, Huma Abedin, Clinton wanted to tape a straight-to-camera video responding to the allegations. Clinton campaign responded to the release by slamming the Trump campaign for "cheering on a release today engineered by Vladimir Putin," after Trump adviser Jason Miller tweeted a link to the document page with the phrase "And here...we...go."
is the press office of the KGB. Only releases information that is useful to russia.
"She is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but create issues to justify what she's doing because she, as she has said, hasn't found her way and has a lack of focus in her life."
Really? This is the type of shit slashdot has devolved to?
What a fucking shame.
Assange's plan to sink Clinton's campaign a month before elections seems to have been preempted by Trump's meltdown.
So I guess we Assange will have to release 2,000 emails every two or three days to keep this going until the election. Is Slashdot going to run one of these stories every two days?
I didn't think the news could reach this level of meta-irrelevance!
Deny Deny Deny, Distract, Distract, Distract. Sorry folks, but if you are just now waking up you may want to go back to sleep. Politics is full of criminals and criminal actions, each trying to cover up for each other. The media has been in on the scam, as has been Department heads in charge of prosecuting wrong doing.
It's going to take me a while to read through this lot, I'm not done with the last dump. You can bet your ass the Media won't bother with this, because 11 years ago Trump said the P word. For the people focusing on that instead of actual political corruption, you deserve what is planned by the Left.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I would probably be a spoiled brat too if I had been raised by parents who taught me that political power is the only thing that matters, and that it can buy you out of any moral responsibility.
It probably also wouldn't help if everything in my life were just handed to me because of my parents' political clout, without me ever having to actually earn anything on my own or even having get a real job that wasn't just handed to me on a silver platter.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Good job Correcting The Record.
Trump said "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."
Hillary could actually shoot somebody in the middle of 5th avenue and those impotent old white-guy Republicans couldn't touch her.
Do you really want a blowhard LOSER for President when you can have a ice-cold GANGSTA?
"She is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but create issues to justify what she's doing..." She's her mother's daughter alright.
The Democrat's crying foul about Russia in this election is just plain crazy, they're preying on old cold-war fears; much like how they denounce the old frog god Kek. Weird and crazy.
When her "good friend" Trump met with Bill Clinton, THEN he announced he was going to run, I said, ok, it's over. I started to prepare myself for her to be president (yuck!). Trump was only in this to knock out any other Republican, using his "celebrity" status, and, it worked. He got all the attention, and the others just died on the vine. Now, it won't matter if you caught Hillary on HD video, with a gun in her hand, murdering a small kid in a wheelchair, then laughing because the media would cover it up. Between the media, and the amount of illegal votes that Hillary will receive, she'd have to DROP DEAD before being sworn in, to not win the election. She's been appointed, and the elections don't really matter...their corporate masters are the ones who appoint them. The general election is nothing but a farce. And why shouldn't it be? The "public" pays more attention to the TMZ types, sports types than they do politicians, who, have a greater impact on our lives than anything else. We don't live in a democratically elected republic anymore. It's more akin to what Russia/China have, than anything else.
Proof? I'm still waiting for the explanation as to how the hacks and leaks have been tied to the Russians. To date, this is all still conjecture and/or assertion without any credible presentation of evidence to back it up. Until I see it, I'll just [safely] assume this is an act of desperation by team Clinton to try to tie Trump to the Ruskies. Pathetic, weak diversion.
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Assange has made it a point to dump material for Journalists to report on. Wikileaks my occasionally provide some commentary, but that is not the service they want and not the service they claim to provide.
The real issue is that we have a massive media monopoly in the US. Journalism has died and entertainment took it's place. IMHO, the US DOJ should start breaking up the media monopolies. We have laws for that.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians were helping make these leaks, whether by breaking into the computers, connecting the data thieves with leaking organizations, bankrolling those organizations, or whatever.
But even if they did all those things, the real questions are (a) is the content true, and (b) if it is true, why do we need the Russians to reveal it?
Julian Assange's October Surprise. Hillary will have to drop out now that an email has been leaked from someone calling her daughter a 'spoiled brat".
The American People must not stand for this.
You are welcome on my lawn.
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Wait, Snowden — hiding in Russia is a hero for his exposes, but Assange — hiding in London — is a "KGB agent" for his?..
The only known instance of an American politician covertly seeking Russian help in exchange for favorable policy changes is that of Ted Kennedy (struggling against Ronald Reagan) — the Democratic "lion" and otherwise a hero of everything Progressive.
Secretary Clinton lied yesterday, when she claimed, Trump is the first to be accused of collaborating with Russia. And, while accusations against Trump are completely unsubstantiated, those against Kennedy are backed by the KGB's archives...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Hearing the media, progressives, and phony right career politicians claim doom and gloom for Trump is a narrative that benefits the left. It's obvious why they push the narrative, but I trust them with that as much as I trust them not to try and tag team Trump in debates. The left is so sure they won the USA they are playing sloppy. Remember Brexit was going to be a blowout too, and all the elites wanted to remain in the EU. I seem to remember the people of the UK getting the result that the majority wanted though, and not what the establishment "predicted".
Virtually everything you hear from the media in the US is contrived to manipulate Hillary into office. I have studied Philosophy, Rhetoric, Logic, and the necessary History, Psychology, Math, etc.. to make sense of the world. I can spot the crap from miles away, but this election requires very little insight. The Trump audio was released the same day as Wikileaks dumps. Would you like to bet money that they get another paid spokesperson to claim Trump touched her "no-no" place to distract from this one? Today or tomorrow you will see another contrived claim and even more hysterical phony outrage from people.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
During the Republican debates, Trump admitted* to bribing just about every politician on the stage. Is a pimp better than a ho?
If he's the answer to corruption, then what's the question?
Almost all politicians are sleazebags. We just happen to be seeing the dirty laundry this time due to the hacking. The honest ones get steamrolled by slimers because voters are easily duped, inattentive, and forget history.
* More like bragging
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I think hitlary says it best herself:
All the information revealed by these hacks are false and fabricated.
And its the Russians who did the hacking to get that information.
Why would the need to hack anything if the information was fabricated????
Sometimes i wish Southpark was a fictional show :(
... because it revealed things that truly matter to the freedom of the people of the US and the world. And yes, even because in doing so it put some people's lives in danger for what it and its supporters consider to be a good cause. Not everyone agrees to the latter, but at least the debate about what was right and/or wrong fundamentally mattered to the citizens of this world and will continue to matter for decades to come.
Nowadays, Wikileaks has degraded itself to being a mere tool in Assange's personal revenge vendetta against Hillary Clinton. He doesn't care about right or wrong (anymore).. All that he wants these days is to damage his personal enemy by any means possible and if achieving that implies potentially handing over the US nuclear arsenal and its economic power - and therefor the entire world - to a raging lunatic, then apparently so be it.
Now, if these leaks there would actually reveal a substantiated serious accusation... But no...The fact that Wikileaks now thinks that it must inform the world of the galactically shocking fact that someone finds Chelsea a spoiled brat says more about Assange's character and insignificance than it says about the Clintons..He used to get media attention by doing things that mattered. It seems that he as run out of such things, but can't accept that he too doesn't matter anymore and the media therefore moved on to other hunting grounds..
I'm no fan of Trump, but even if I were one, I would still hold the same opinion of what Assange is doing. Who wants to be president because someone considers the daughter of one's opponent to be a spoiled brat?
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tie Trump to the Ruskies.
I wonder where that idea came from? Perhaps someone who's last name rhymes with dump?
Way to Correct The Record.
CHECK THIS, THE MOST SHOCKING "JON PO" EMAIL!!!
Proof that this email thing has been going on for years.
Getting Down and Dirty with "John Po".
<blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
I can't wait to see how his regular fan boyz are going to rationalise this.
David Brock (behind some of the progressive "fact checking" internet mouthpieces on the net) was urging the Clinton campaign to demand Bernie's medical records, the better to trash him...
There's actually a lot of interesting stuff in there, as usual. It seems that the "good people" are all just as nasty, soul-less, and back-biting as they publicly claim their enemies are. Who'da thunk it? We're all supposed to just know and believe that the political side funded by all the Wall Street bankers and multinational mega corps who've been trashing middle America (That's Hillary) is the "good guys". We're supposed to fear the moralizing hyper-religious Bible-thumping republican candidate Trump...oh, wait...
We've always been at war with {insert current newspeak enemy}
Of course the allegations should play out in court, but the stream of bullshit we have seen from the Media, Democratic Party, and Clinton's in general have lost all credibility. If you want to play the "guilty by allegation" routine why is Hillary not sitting in one jail and Bill not in another? Is it only guilt by allegation when it's against a Republican?
To those who would claim Cruz or Rubio would be better off than Trump, time to fact check how the Church going Romney was treated by the media and Democratic party in the US. Anyone on the Republican ticket is vilified by all means necessary including flat out lies.
I remember a time when we had this Constitutional right to Due Process and being Innocent until proven guilty. Bill and Hillary have both been proven to be guilty, though the latter was given a free pass and the DOJ denied the ability to prosecute. She is still subject to perjury to Congress and Obstruction of Justice charges however, and those we know she _is_ guilty of by the Director of the FBIs admission.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
A one million dollar LOAN to get into MANHATTAN REAL ESTATE is MINISCULE.
A million bucks would buy lots of real-estate in middle America, but for a dice-roll in Manhattan? Your DNC talking point only works on the stupid.
Trump's dad did not die and leave an inheritance to his kids until long after Donald was quite wealthy and famous; Trump was rich and famous off his own business by 1980, but his dad (who also got rich in real estate) did not die until 1999.
Tell me again: HOW DID HILLARY GET SO RICH?
She was a senator for 6 years at less than 200K per year and a Sec State for four years at less than 200K per year and by her own very public pronouncements was flat broke in 2000. All the rest of her hundreds of millions of dollars comes from speaking to Wall Street bankers and tyrants behind closed doors, yet we're supposed to freak out that Trump got a loan from his dad in the 1970s?????.
That would be such a good argument if Trump hadn't been fat shaming women, telling people to go hunt down porn and talking about a newswoman bleeding out of her "whereever" in just the last few weeks.
Unfortunately for your argument, Trump's behavior has made it incredibly clear that he has not changed at all, despite his protests to the contrary.
Apropos of nothing, how does a recording made 11 years ago show that he hasn't changed?
The media is basically taking marching orders from the Clinton Campaign.
https://theintercept.com/2016/...
Its going to be on this, and no none of the below are going to break it.
The media is one of the strongest weapons in showing the world the devastating effects of corruption and shining a light on those who would use their entrusted power for personal gain. An independent and free media is a cornerstone of democracy and a crucial component of a healthy governance system.
Clinton has corrupted this and turned it into a propaganda arm for her campaign.
ABC,NBC, CBS,CNN, NY Times, Bloomberg,Vox, Huffington Post , People , New Yorker, Vice , Politico taking assignments from her campaign.
This should scare the hell out of the american people if they know their history.
Note some journalist declined her invitations , they are real journalists.
Glenn Greenwald broke the who Snowden story open and the NSA spying on everyone.
Glenn hates trump and hillary both but at least he is ethical.
#mediagate
"These leaks will be the end of Hillary's Campaign" says increasingly irrelevant man for seventh time this year
Everybody who thinks the election system is rigged, here's your challenge:
Work your butt off for, and vote for, Trump.
If the system is rigged, as you claim, then you cannot possibly end up electing Trump,so the experiment is "safe" even for the most-progressive person.
If the system is NOT rigged, you will have proven it by defeating the bi-partisan elitist globalists in BOTH parties who insist on Hillary.
Put up, or shut up.
Try some basic reading comprehension skills instead of listening to the media hype around a few simple words. Here is the summary very simply.
Trump: I tried to get with her and was turned down.
Bush's Cousin: Really?
Trump: Yeah, I took her furniture shopping.
So far, he understands and respects a woman's right to say no.
Trump: Have you seen her? She has those fake tits now, and all that other stuff.
So the incident Trump is discussing was past tense.
They then talk about a particular type of girl. Musicians call them groupies, Hollywood usually calls them gold diggers. Trump using his manly bravado talks about how you can grab them and they like it. Remember at this time Trump was a huge celebrity so would have them where ever he went in Hollywood and that circle.
Trump gets off the bus and behaves like a perfect gentlemen.
Wow, wholly fuck! I am shocked and amazed that there are women who would use sex to get ahead in life and perhaps get favor from people in power! I am stunned even further that while talking about grabbing a woman, he did not. In fact Bush's cousin instructed the lady to give him a hug, Trump was not forward at all. In fact, he ensured that within the first few seconds the woman knew he was married. Ouch, stop the mental flogging, I just can't take it any more!
To stupid people that can't read a few simple paragraphs of English, Trump confessed to molesting women. For those of us that read, we may be disappointed at the release of a chest bumping session but then again.. it's Bush's cousin who released it. No possible motive for that one right? I wonder how that tape started, and if Bush was instigating the conversation that direction. He sure does like legs..
Assuming the Russians have ALL of Hillary's emails (to be expected with her defenseless email server), why wouldn't they want her to win? How hard would it be to blackmail her into becoming Putin's puppet? If she loses the election, they squander the value of the work. If the Russians have a preference in this election, it's for a candidate who is easily controlled. Trump is utterly unpredictable, so it's hard to imagine why the Russians would work to promote him.
If (the original) Guccifer was a FSB asset, no way would he be extradited to the US. Based on what he revealed about Hillary's server, it could have been hacked by the Geek Squad from Moscow Best Buy.
No matter who these people turn out to be, they weren't the idiots who deployed the server, nor did they force Hillary to use it.
Blaming the Russians is just a political ploy to set expectations low. Don't expect anyone to get caught. Problem is, blaming the Russians isn't any more plausible than blaming the Benghazi attack on a YouTube video.
Jeb!
Jeb?
Jeb:(
can't have people killed by drones like Hillary tried to do to him?
How is it that every time this shit gets posted that part is left out?
Even when that information is provided by links and voted +5 Insightful it still ends up at the bottom of the page.
PS - I think both candidates are a joke. But Assange has a perfectly good reason to hate Hillary.
before I posted already. You deserve +5 Informative.
That email from Bill Ivey about Trump and the nature of the electorate was pretty interesting.
The Clinton's have made lots and lots of enemies here in the US. I find it much more likely that these leaks are from insiders who are pissed. You know, like the guy who is believed to have been responsible for the DNC leak who ended up shot dead in a Nothing Stolen Robbery? You think the law abiding people in the FBI like what Comey did and how it makes them look? Come now, this is much more plausible than the evil Russians who already do business with Hillary.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
That's something that came out in The Panama Papers.
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the only thing about this that could cost her supporters is if she tried to cover it up instead of acknowledging it and moving on. Bush/Cheney both did way worse than this but everytime somebody called 'em on it they just said: meh, wadda ya gonna do? Hilary's email "scandals" were caused by her poor response. She's long since learned. We saw that in the debates. Hell, we saw it in spades when they tried to bait her into blaming Colin Powel and (to her credit) she didn't bite (even when it was later revealed he did suggest the private email server).
If nothing else she's learned from her mistakes. If it were anyone else the scandal would have long since been dropped. But there's a _lot_ of folks who don't like Hilary so it's easy to keep it going. Still, if this is the best they got then she'll sail into the Whitehouse and probably a second term...
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Fortunately, the embassy IS in London, and protected by that British Explosives Suppressing Field. No bombs can go off there, so the embassy is safe. That's why we know that the subway bombings a few years ago were faked. No explosions in London!
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Manhattan real estate has been among the most expensive in the nation for a century. A million in Manhattan even in the 70s was not like a million anywhere else. If Trump was such a nothing, then why is Manhattan not so full of people far more successful for their actions in the activities and the same places that the Trump name is just another one nobody knows? In THAT space and THAT environment, he's the best known guy and has been for 40 years.
While we're at it: What the hell has Hillary EVER built?
You Hillary shills are embarrassing: most of you have never done much more than troll on the web, but you happily attack a person who has succeeded wildly while actually building stuff and employing people. All these talking points from the DNC about him not paying enough taxes, or making neck ties overseas, or bloviating about women on a bus, or getting a loan from his dad are all pathetic distractions from one basic fact: Donald Trump has been an imperfect but productive human being with a track record of getting things done, on-time and on-budget, whereas Hillary has never done a productive or positive thing in her life. The woman is such a parasite that she even enriched herself on the "charitable" funds that were supposed to re-build Haiti after an earthquake.
Democrats need to turn away! Don't look! Stay ignorant of all the Clinton corruption! Shut up and vote for the Wall Street Bankers via their puppet Hillary!
Love the bits like this one where Hillary's pal Donna Braizle who was then a vice-chair of the DNC working for the DNC was getting Bernie info and forwarding it to the Clinton team via Clinton guy John Podesta. Then, of course the DNC was "cleaned up" by getting rid of Clinton gal pal Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and sliding in ..... wait for it .... Donna Brazile!! ta dah!
It would be impossible to make this stuff up! It's just too impossibly twisted and corrupt.
The most amazing thing about this political season is that Trump is a serious contender no matter what he says and now the same is true of Clinton.
I mean, the woman should be in jail over those emails, and now they show just how two-faced she really is. And people don't care because of Trump. Amazing.
To be fair George H W Bush only became the youngest naval aviator during WW2 because his daddy was rich and a US Senator.
This won;t change a damn thing.
There is already a shit ton of hardcore evidence out there about how blatantly corrupt Hillary, Bill and the Clinton Foundation is, yet It seems clear that most Hillary fans simply refuse to believe any of it no matter how undeniable it is.
I would seriously bet that even if Hillary directly admitted that she was a devil worshiper who sacrifices babies and bathes in their blood every day, most Clinton fans would still find some way to ignore/rationalize it and would still vote for her.
"as she has said, hasn't found her way and has a lack of focus in her life." "
She's married and has a kid and she's so spoiled she sits around. It's like watching a lazy prince charles.
You've got Bill trying to bang chicks, even with his bad heart.
You've got HIllary with no aim in life except to get elected. And people are so enamored over the Clinton cult of personality that they say stupid stuff like "she has a lifelong commitment to helping people".
This is a joke family of grifters,con-men and spoiled royal offspring that should make us blush that we're paying attention to them.
It's mostly digest emails from right wing blogs and Chinese food orders but keep trying to bury the Clintons, tin foil hat operatives.
Trump or Hillary; it doesn't matter. One has tons of foreign policy experience that will just weave more of a mess; the other has none and is a big risk. Both have skeletons in their respective closets...probably both have walk-ins. Both candidates like women, whereas one grabs them the other probably caresses. Ugh, I know it's the responsible thing to do: to go out and vote, but this is like choosing between standing in front of a train and jumping out of a plane with an untested parachute. Perhaps they would be more likable I they dressed up in creepy clown costumes..er are they wearing them already.
What now, fake news sites with domains that had recently expired that sound newsy?
Why didn't Clinton's hatred of ordinary americans make it into summary?
2 people on HER OWN TEAM wrote about how she (you know) hates ordinary Americans?
Oh that's right, because \. is carrying water for the DNC.
If anyone thinks that bullets don't kill, here's your challenge. Load a handgun, hold it to your temple, and pull the trigger. If bullets don't kill, you can't possibly kill yourself, so the experiment is safe.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
The attacks have a Russian connection, and they're similar in several ways to other Russian state-sponsored hacks. The evidence isn't conclusive, but it's there.
Also, there's absolutely nothing desperate about Clinton's position right now. Trump has been doing an excellent job of that. Team Clinton isn't about to perform an act of desperation when they've got the election pretty well locked up. The emails aren't all that shocking, and don't have much new in them. Why would Team Clinton do anything desperate about them?
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
I slapped several bullets against my temple....did not even get a bruise.
Your stupid argument statement had nothing to do with the previously posted argument - was not even a poor analogy. Even the most hardcore gun enthusiast believes that if a moron puts a loaded gun to his head and pulls the trigger, bad things will happen. The gun itself is not harmful. Bullets themselves are not harmful. Bullets and guns together are not harmful. PEOPLE with bad intentions are what's harmful whether they have guns, or clubs, or explosives, or knives, or matches, or automobiles, or boxcutters and planes. Grow a brain before your next post, because in your current mental state, YOU are harmful.
When people say that MSM is working for Clinton, this kind of "news" is what they mean.
The best thing people have to say in favor of Clinton is that she is not Trump. Well, this release also showed that besides taking Sanders out of the Democrats race, they pushed Trump up on the Republicans race . That is news, not the internal brawls that the emails might cause.
When they say Trump is the KGB candidate they are lying, Trump is the DNC's republican candidate.
The release also showed that she considers the enviro groups opposing her effort to expand fracking are Russian front groups. But the media focus on the little BS to steer people away from things that matter.
Typical cherry picking bullshit. In the recent debate Trump promised to put Clinton in jail if he won the election. Wrong, and a complete fabrication just like most of the other anti Trump rhetoric. What Trump DID say is that he would ask his Attorney General to assign a Special Prosecutor to investigate the Clintons due to the overwhelming amount of corruption that surrounds them.
That is a LEGAL request, and follows actual procedure LAW requires. Reading full statements is not that intellectually difficult, so you are not trying. Pointing out Liberal controlled media cherry picking the same way does not make it true, it makes you look like an idiot who can't follow even a few simple sentences.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Infowars? Geez, why don't you cite the time cube guy?
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