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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."

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  1. Wikileaks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    is the press office of the KGB. Only releases information that is useful to russia.

    1. Re:Wikileaks by gumbi+west · · Score: 0, Troll

      I completely blame Democrats for nominating a reasonable person.

  2. Re:Upstaged by Trump by amiga3D · · Score: 1, Troll

    I suspect that they are desperately digging hard for anything to hit Trump with. He's a lot harder to do away with than Bernie was. I'm sure they couldn't have had it long or they'd have pulled it out before the first debate. I wouldn't be surprised if they find some more evidence of bad behavior before the election. Of course for every nasty thing the Main Stream Media can dig up about Trump good old Wikileaks will drip some more of Hilliary's bad past as well. Nothing like a good old mud slinging Presidential election!