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November 23, 2016 8:33 am / Leave a Comment / Megan Ring
From an Angry Reader:
The new kind of Republican party is part 1930’s Nazi and 1950’s Dixiecrat.
Raye Harper
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Victor Davis Hanson’s Reply:
Dear Angry Reader Raye Harper,
Since you assert rather than argue or explain, it is hard to fathom what you are getting at. But in the spirit of the Angry Reader, I’ll give it a shot.
There is a reason why etymology is a valuable pursuit. Seek the root meaning of words and thereby learn. Our English word Nazism derives as an English transliterated abbreviation for the German Nationalsozialismus (“National Socialism”)—Hitler’s effort to combine fanatical nationalism with socialist and anti-capitalist principles.
Take also your “Dixiecrat” (which incidentally was a one-time phenomenon of the election of 1948, and did not reappear as you suggest in the “1950s.”) Note the suffix “-crat” (Greek, kratos, “power/rule”). It was so named in 1948 because it was a derivative of the Democratic Party. It was not called the Dixiepublicans because it had no similarities to the Republican Party.
Ironically, Dixiecrats’ official name (“The States’ Rights Democratic Party”) reflected and championed the idea of federal nullification (in this case school integration), which had been the source of the 1828 (in this case tariffs) and 1860 (in this case slavery) secessionist fervors. How odd, then, that 300 liberal jurisdictions currently are now “Sanctuary Cities” (perhaps better described as “Nullification Cities”) that defy federal immigration in the neo-Confederate spirit. Ask yourself which party, in the spirit of the Dixiecrats, is more likely to excuse race-base segregation, where on-campus “theme houses” or “safe spaces” with impunity discriminate on the basis of superficial appearance. Who is more tolerant of the idea of La Raza (“the Race”), a noun whose pedigree is found in Franco’s fascist Spain and Mussolini’s (as Razza) fascist Italy—Democrats or Republicans?
Is there any need to ask further where the impetus of contemporary anti-Semitism originates? Just walk on any contemporary campus, and visit the free-speech area. Being Jewish and pro-Israel is far more likely to incur left-wing anti-Semites than old-fashioned right-wing ones.
In sum, I don’t see how the present pro-capitalist, pro-federalist, pro-Israel Republican Party can derive from either a foreign imported socialism or an indigenous states’ rights Democratic Party.
Finally, most readers are aware of your insidious liberal trope. In 1980 Reagan was called a Nazi. When he left office, newly-elected George H.W. Bush was the next extremist and suddenly the Left nostalgically called Reagan moderate, given that he was out of power. In 2000 George W. Bush was the new Nazi, and his father reinvented as a moderate in comparison. By 2016 a “new” Republican Party under Trump is now supposedly Nazi-like and W. is now seen as sober and judicious. So the playbook is transparent: assassinate the character of your present adversary by claiming he is an extremist by the standard of his predecessors, whom you of course smeared when they were in power as well.
Bottom line: a lot of incoherence in your short sentence.
Sincerely,
VDH
“Violent Rioters” Who Support Hillary, Voted For The Redistribution of Wealth
By Capt Joseph R. John, November 16, 2016
Obama, Bernie, and Hillary’s support for the redistribution of wealth was support for the primary philosophy “Communism” promotes.
Over 60 million American Patriots, supported “The Free Enterprise System” form of government, and rejected Obama, Bernie, and Hillary’s support for the redistribution of wealth.
Anarchists, Black Lives Matter demonstrators, Progressives, Leftists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Communists trained by Obama’s Common Core Socialist Curriculum supported the redistribution of wealth and accepted Obama, Bernie, and Hillary’s Socialist philosophy.
Many Americans voted for Hillary, even though over and over again, nonstop, for 4 years, Hillary violated the National Security Laws of the United States by transmitting “thousands” of very highly classified messages on an unclassified server, endangering the lives of Americans and foreign allies. They weren’t bothered by her repeated violation of the National Security of the United States, which endangered the safety of American citizens and the Republic.
For seven days, the American electorate have been witnessing large scale “violent riots” against “Law and Order” in several dozen cities, instigated and organized by George Soros’s Pro-Communist organization “Open Society Foundation”, and by the Marxist Leninist Communist Workers Party’s front, “ANSWER”. “ANSWER” was funded by “Open Society Foundation”, the Communist Party “Progress Unity Fund.”, and Al Sharpton’s “National Action Network.”
The goal of the “violent riots” was to try to make the public believe the majority of Americans were against the election of President Elect Donald Trump, and that he lost the popular vote—nothing was further from the truth. Greg Phillips of VoteFraud.org claims that Trump would have won the election by a huge landslide, if the widespread vote fraud perpetrated during the election had been stamped out ahead of the vote.
After the VoterFraud.org organization extensively analyzed the database of 180 million registered voters, Greg Phillips stated, “We have verified that more than three million votes were cast illegally by non-citizens.” According to current press releases by the left of center liber4al media establishment, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by around 630,000 votes. Yet approximately 7 million ballots still remain to be counted, 3 million votes were cast illegally by non-citizens, more than 1.8 million dead people were “still” listed as voters, and approximately 2.75 million people were registered to vote in more than one state.
George Soros funded the “violent riots” against “Law and Order” in Ferguson, MO and Baltimore, MD with $33 million. Following the November 8th election, George Soros has been funding “violent riots” in cities like NYC, Portland, LA, Madison, San Francisco, Baltimore, Denver, etc. with $25 million. Those “violent riots” against “Law and Order” are Soros’ attempt to destabilize the new administration of President Elect Donald Trump. George Soros has been continuing to deconstruct the Constitutional Government of the United States.
By supporting the election of Hillary Clinton, who supports the redistribution of wealth philosophy; Soros was hoping to help elect a candidate for president who would agree with his support for the United Nations One World Order, a World Order philosophy supported by the Communists Party, USA. George Soros should be charged with “Seditious Conspiracy” for the damage he has been creating in the United States with his funding of “violent riots”.
The Webster Dictionary defines “Seditious Conspiracy” as: “The crime of saying, writing, or doing something that encourages people to destroy the government.” The Law Dictionary defines “Sedition” as: “The crime of creating a revolt, disaster or violence against lawful civic authority with the intent to cause overthrow or destroy.”
The “violent riots” against “Law and Order” organized by George Soros and the Progressives in dozens of cities following the November 8th election, was also supported by the abusive and biased main stream media. Those “violent riots” were promoted with the hopes that they would spread to thousands of cities across the nation, and would develop into massive national riots.
The hope of the Progressives, Anarchists, Communists, Leftists, Black Lives Matter demonstrators, the Muslim Brotherhood, Soros’s Open Society Foundation, Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, and left of center liberal media establishment was that Obama would react to massive national riots by declaring martial law, and that Obama would lock down the whole country. However, the “violent riots” promoted by intolerant & hypocritical supporters of Hillary campaign, slowly fizzled, and never developed into the massive national riots Soros had hoped for.
The radical organizations listed above are against the peaceful transition of power, outlined in the US Constitution. They have been promoting the burning of American Flags in the street, screaming vulgar obscenities that make Mr Trump comments 11 years ago sound like a Sunday sermon, encouraging the destruction of private property, promoting hate crimes including the unmercifully beating of Trump voters, and recently those violent rioters, in a despicable hate crime, “murdered” a Veteran who tried to prevent “violent rioters” from burning the American Flag (the beating and murder can be viewed in the video in the attachment)
On national television, President Elect Donald J. Trump called for “calm” and for his supporters not to respond to violent rioters, because he said “I will bring this country together.” Yet despite his call for “calm”, 7 days of “violent riots” by anarchists continue, and Twitter has been flooded with threats to assassinate President Elect Donald Trump, and the murder of his family members. Obama, Hillary, and the liberal media establishment have not called for “calm” and the immediate cessation of the “violent rioting”.
There is a difference between peaceful protests like those led by Rev Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, and the “violent riots” Americans have been witnessing—yet the left of center liberal media establishment are calling the “violent riots promoting sedition”—-“peaceful protests protected by the US Constitution.” There is an obvious double standard in reporting by the liberal press.
If President Elect Trump hadn’t been elected, and his supporters were rioting in the streets, killing a Veteran, the press would not be as compliant as it is now. The press has failed to inform the American people, that half of the “violent rioters” who have been arrested by police, haven’t even voted. The press’ continues in its attempt to mislead the American people—-it has lost all credibility.
Please click on the below listed link to view a “very impressive” commentary by Thaddeus Dionne Alexander, about the “violent rioters” and on the burning of American Flags—the article following this Op Ed will provide you with more information on Thaddeus.
George Soros’ Open Society Foundation will continue to promote rebellion against “Law and Order” as he has done for the last 8 years, and will fund criminal Radical Anarchists, the Communists Party USA, Progressives, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Marxist Leninist Communist Workers Party, Black Lives Matter, and Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.
The left of center liberal media establishment will support Soros’s program to encourage violent unlawful civic riots like the “violent riots” he funded in Ferguson, Baltimore, NYC, LA, Portland, San Francisco, Denver, etc. and to destabilize the US Government.
The battle to combat violent unlawful civic, and to riots protect and defend the US Constitution is far from over.
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Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62
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Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
-Isaiah 6:8
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YOU AIN’T NO SLAVES!’ BLACK VET’S EPIC TAKEDOWN OF ANTI-TRUMP RIOTERS
Monday, November 14th, 2016 by Chelsea Schilling –News & Commentary Editor for WND
A black Air Force veteran, Thaddeus Dionne Alexander, is fed up with anti-Trump rioters who disrespect America’s flag, refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance, reject their duly-elected president and wreak havoc in U.S. cities, smashing windows, blocking freeways and igniting fires.
In fact, Thaddeus Dionne Alexander is so outraged by the rioters that he posted a video on YouTube and Facebook – and his message is going viral with 20 million views and nearly a million shares on Facebook alone.
“Wow, y’all are protesting? Really? Man, I don’t understand. It’s not Republicans causing all this destruction, you know, burning up the streets, blocking roads and things like that. It’s the liberals,” Alexander begins.
“You know, these are the same people that are against the Second Amendment. Because they want to ‘decrease violence,’ nobody should have guns. The same people that are [pro]-abortion because they want to ‘save lives.’ And you’re causing all this destruction just because your candidate lost.”
But Alexander explains, in America, “You can’t always get your way.”
He continued:
Everybody wants to be politically correct. Quit being crybabies!
Ain’t nothing free! You ain’t no slave!
You don’t get your way, so you act like a 2-year-old, burning up people’s stuff? Destroying the streets, making people late for work?
Man, I’m glad I don’t live in New York City or Washington or Oregon because I would run one of your asses over. You are outrageous, man. You are the exact reason why Donald Trump won the election. Because we’re tired of you crybabies.
You didn’t earn anything. None of you put on a uniform. But you’re quick to disrespect the flag. Not want to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Not want to recognize the Bible. But you want everything.
You didn’t fight for anything. But you want it.
It doesn’t work like that. …
All these people out there that want to protest and burn stuff up, I don’t think the cops should protect them. When people look at the flag and say, ‘That’s not my flag. Donald Trump is not my president,’ then you know what? Obviously this ain’t your damn country! Leave!
Find another flag. Find another president. Go to Mexico. I really don’t care.
But quit tearing up stuff.
Quit causing destruction and preaching peace. Because you’re contradicting yourself.
During a Monday appearance on “Fox & Friends,” Alexander explained that he was astonished at how the left depicted Republicans as angry individuals who hoarded guns and wanted to “kill babies.”
In fact, Clinton-supporting media outlets predicted Republicans would refuse to accept undesirable election results. On Oct. 27, the New York Times warned of violence by Trump supporters and “another Revolutionary War” should Hillary Clinton win the White House.
And after Trump’s Election Day victory, CNN reported Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans refused to stand for the national anthem. “I’m not going to stand for something I don’t believe in,” Evans said, adding that “America’s not right” for electing Trump.
But for all the media warnings, it turns out, anti-Trump rioters are the ones inflicting violence, destruction and mayhem in American cities.
“I just thought it was so hypocritical. It just amazed me how people reacted,” Alexander said.
“We need to preserve this country. We need to stop burning flags. We need to stand for the pledge of allegiance. And we need to be proud of what we have here.”
Alexander concluded, “Being a black man, there is no other country where we’re accepted like we are in the U.S.
“People may think so. I’ve had friend say, ‘We’ll go back to Africa.’ Well, everybody knows if you’re black man, you’re not accepted in Africa. You’re not African. It’s just not going to work like that. This is the only place where you can be openly gay or homosexual. There’s nowhere else to go.”
[Note: as posted elsewhere on this blog, voter fraud is very real. It is predominantly on the left, and its purpose is to destroy the United States of America. At this point, I would normally restate my position that the Red States should secede. However, if you look at the map and paint the Trump Counties in Red and the Clinton Counties in Blue, the cultural secession has already occurred. As to the riots not being national enough to allow Obama to declare a national emergency and a domestic dictatorship, look back at the counties map, and you will see that only in those few blue areas could he succeed and such rioting is obviously not national in nature.
God Bless America!]
Storm-tossed: Haiti
Elections in the poorest country in the Americas are invariably fraught. And in the aftermath of last month’s Hurricane Matthew, the presidential vote on Sunday promises to be as tricky as any. It is a repeat of an election held in October 2015 that was aborted after widespread protests. But with homes destroyed and food scarce, many people have priorities other than voting. This could compromise the legitimacy of the first-round poll (a run-off is scheduled for January) and provide an excuse for losing candidates to protest once again. Whoever prevails, the new president’s priority will be to lead the response to the hurricane, which has affected nearly a fifth of the population. Storm-related losses have been put at $2bn; most of the farms and fisheries in the south-west, the main sources of regional economic activity, have been destroyed; and suspected cholera cases have surged. These are not problems for a caretaker president: Haiti desperately needs stable leadership.
Yellow v red: Malaysia
Thousands of people in yellow shirts will gather in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow to protest against corruption and impunity. The government of Najib Razak, the prime minister, has yet to prosecute anyone in connection with allegations of wrongdoing at 1MDB, a state investment firm from which billions of dollars are thought to have gone missing. A court this week instead handed an 18-month jail term to an opposition lawmaker accused of leaking classified information about the affair. The rally in the capital is the fifth to be organised by Bersih, a coalition calling for electoral reform. A similar event last year passed off peacefully—despite dire warnings from authorities—but without much immediate impact on the country’s stultified politics. This year gangs of red-shirted government supporters have sought to impede a roadshow put on to promote the march, and may try to make trouble at the weekend. Either way, the protesters are already seeing red.
Final countdown: Congolese politics
Residents of Kinshasa, the capital, will be preparing for a weekend hiding indoors. Tomorrow marks one month before the end of Joseph Kabila’s second—and supposedly final—term as president, under the constitution he helped to write. Yet he seems determined to stay in power. Protesters led by Etienne Tshisekedi, an ageing populist, have promised to try to stop him. Yesterday, Mr Kabila’s prime minister was replaced by a minor opposition figure as part of a power-sharing deal that would allow the president to stay in office until 2018. The main opposition called it “a useless provocation”, refusing to accept the deal. Mr Tshisekedi’s alliance, “Le Rassemblement”, remains strong. The question is whether its supporters will be put off by a government ban on protests, and memories of September, when 50-plus protesters at an authorised rally were gunned down by police. If people don’t take to the streets, Mr Kabila will be emboldened.
A perfect excuse to cry: APEC
The Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation meeting this weekend in Peru, with corporate and national leaders from 21 Pacific Rim countries, will be gloomy. The Trans-Pacific Partnership would have drawn 12 Pacific countries into the biggest regional free-trade pact ever. It would have prompted Japan to open some coddled industries to foreign competition and Vietnam to reform its inefficient state-owned firms, allowed America to set the economic rules for much of developing Asia and given sluggish global trade a fillip. But faced with an incoming president who dislikes free trade, the White House has given it up for dead. Bilateral agreements may partly fill the void, and the other 11 countries may crack on without America; RCEP, a smaller agreement among China, India, Japan and some South-East Asian countries, is near completion. Attendees will be wondering what the world will look like as America, having soured on globalisation, turns inward. They aren’t the only ones.
Will we always have Paris? Climate talks
The Paris Agreement, adopted at the last UN climate meeting a year ago, entered into force before delegations even arrived for this year’s get-together in early November. That ensured a cheery start to proceedings in Marrakech, which conclude this weekend. But that joy gave way to despair when Donald Trump was elected. He wants to stall American efforts to keep global warming to “well below” 2°C, as the Paris deal requires. Mitigation and adaptation efforts, an important topic at the talks, will prove even trickier to fund as a result. Greens insist Mr Trump will galvanise greater action. The latest estimates from the International Energy Agency suggest that’s needed anyway: coal use by 2040 will be more than double the level that would give humanity an odds-on shot at limiting warming to just 2°C. Demand for the stuff, not just growth in demand for the stuff, must fall. Mr Trump disagrees; markets may not.
The world in brief
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, called Donald Trump a “leader we can trust” after their meeting in New York, Mr Trump’s first with a foreign counterpart. If that was reassuring, Mr Trump’s reported choice of national security adviser was less so: General Michael Flynn was a decorated intelligence officer but has recently stirred controversy with strident rhetoric about waging war against radical Islam.
The International Atomic Energy Agency publicly warned Iran that it had endangered international support for its nuclear deal by twice producing more than the permissible amount of heavy water, a nuclear-reactor material. The UN nuclear watchdog’s head, Yukiya Amano, denied the warning was related to the election of Donald Trump, a vocal opponent of the deal.
As part of an ever-widening corruption probe in Brazil, police arrested a former governor of Rio de Janeiro state. Sergio Cabral is alleged to have led an operation that netted more than 224m reais ($66m) in construction-related bribes. Unrest over corruption and budget cuts has spread; on Wednesday right-wing protesters stormed the lower legislative house, demanding a military coup.
After the opprobrium, the overhaul. As Volkswagen grapples with a diesel-emissions scandal, the German carmaker announced a major restructuring, including shedding up to 30,000 jobs over five years. The aim is to buff up the core VW brand, doubling its return on sales to 4%—helping to offset the €18bn ($19bn) in scandal-related costs it has incurred so far.
American federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against and arrested a former executive of Valeant, a beleaguered Canadian drug company, and the ex-boss of Philidor, a mail-order pharmacy, over suspected fraud and payment of kickbacks. Investigators have been looking into whether the two companies bilked investors by concealing an arrangement in which Philidor was used to boost Valeant’s sales.
JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $264m to American authorities to settle criminal and civil probes into whether its hiring practices in China broke foreign-bribery laws. Investigators spent more than three years looking into suspicions that the bank had offered jobs to “princelings”—young relatives of senior Chinese officials—in return for business from state-run companies. Several other banks are also under investigation.
Amid signs of growing economic strength, Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said an interest-rate rise could come “relatively soon”; most pundits expect it in December. Earlier, the Bank of Japan, concerned about rising bond yields, surprised markets by offering to buy an unlimited amount of Japanese government bonds. The BoJ wants to keep ten-year yields at around 0%.
C4iSR: Air
USAF to study future command-and-control requirements
Gareth Jennings, London – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly
17 November 2016
The US Air Force (USAF) is to shortly begin work on a study to asses its command-and-control (C2) capability requirements out to 2030 and beyond, an official said on 16 November.
Speaking under the Chatham House rule, the official said that the study would be similar in scope to the service’s air superiority study that was concluded earlier this year.
“We looked out to 2030 and beyond for our future air superiority needs, and came up with a lot of good ideas and thoughts. Command-and-control will be the next study in which we will look at what are the next capabilities that we need to expand upon. We will be looking to glean as much information [as the USAF’s future C2 requirements] as is humanly possible,” he said.
According to the official, C2 is becoming increasingly important given the need to reduce and even eliminate collateral damage in the age of social media. “Near-precision is a thing of the past,” he said, adding, “[Eliminating] collateral damage is extremely important, and it is something that we need to do even in a denied [defended] environment.”
The USAF fields a number of aircraft types that are traditionally associated with C2, including the Boeing E-3 Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) and E-4B, but as the official noted, the service’s latest-generation combat platforms will greatly add to the C2 mix in the coming years.
“The F-22, F-35, and B-21 are going to be hoovers of information, and will bring information dominance,” he said.
EU defence ministers call for pragmatic capability initiatives in 2017
Brooks Tigner, Brussels – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly
16 November 2016
Aligning national defence planning among European Union countries and extending multinational command arrangements beyond air transport to medical, land, and naval logistics will be explored in early 2017, EU foreign and defence ministers announced after a joint meeting on 14 November.
Calling on the European Defence Agency (EDA) to develop proposals in these areas, they said business cases should be created to ‘replicate the success’ of the multinational European Air Transport Command (EATC) ‘in other domains’. Based in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, the command plans and tasks some 200 transport and air-to-air refuelling aircraft – 75% of Europe’s air transport capacity – on behalf of seven air forces (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Spain).
Country Risk
Argentine, Chilean navies patrol Antarctic waters
Alejandro Sanchez, Washington, DC – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly
17 November 2016
Argentine and Chilean sea platforms are to monitor the Antarctic from 15 November 2016 to 31 March 2017 under the Joint Antarctic Naval Patrol (Patrulla Antártica Naval Combinada: PANC) framework.
The operation includes search-and-rescue missions, monitoring maritime traffic, potential cleanup activities, and support for Antarctic bases.
Argentina will deploy Islas Malvinas (A 24), one of four Neftegaz-class ships acquired from Russia in 2014. Neftegaz-class ships are classified as Anchor Handling Vessels Tug Supply, weigh 2.7 tonnes, and can travel at 12 kt. Chile is sending Lautaro (ATF 67), a tug/supply vessel constructed in Norway in 1973 and incorporated into the Chilean Navy in 1990, which weighs 1.6 tonnes with a speed of 12 kt.
Air-Launched Weapons
USN plans extended range JSOW test
Richard Scott, London – IHS Jane’s Navy International
17 November 2016
Key Points
• NAVAIR plans a contract award to Raytheon in early 2017 for JSOW ER all-up-round test support
• Scope of work includes adding a production-representative engine/fuel/inlet system, and software modifications to optimise mid-course/endgame performance
The US Navy (USN) is finalising plans to move forward with testing of a powered, extended-range variant of Raytheon’s air-launched AGM-154C-1 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW).
In a pre-solicitation notice posted on 8 November, the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) said that the Precision Strike Weapons Program Office (PMA 201) intended to enter into sole-source negotiations with Raytheon Missile Systems for a JSOW Extended Range (JSOW ER) all-up-round (AUR) flight test programme.
Weapons
Syria now operating ‘restored’ S-200 SAMs
Jeremy Binnie, London – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly
17 November 2016
Syria’s longest range surface-to-air (SAM) systems have been refurbished and are now contributing to the anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) network in the Eastern Mediterranean region, Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu said on 15 November.
“We have repaired the Syrian S-200 [air defence] systems over the past four months. They are now effectively protecting Syrian territory, as well as providing air protection for the eastern flank of our Tartus and Humaymim bases,” he said in a joint press conference with President Vladimir Putin.
The Syrian military operates the S-200VE version of the system that has a range of 240 km. Open source satellite imagery shows it had four S-200 operational bases with a total of 10 batteries in 2014.
Air Platforms
India’s indigenous Rustom-II UAV completes maiden flight
Rahul Bedi, New Delhi – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly
17 November 2016
India’s locally developed Rustom-II MALE UAV completed its maiden test flight near Bangalore on 16 November. Source: DRDO
India’s locally developed Rustom-II medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (MALE UAV) completed its maiden test flight at the aeronautical test range in Chitradurga, near Bangalore, on 16 November.
Official sources told IHS Jane’s that the test flight was limited to a 100 km range even though the UAV’s operational range to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions for all three of India’s services is expected to reach to 250 km.
India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in a statement that the test flight achieved the main objectives of testing the platform’s capabilities such as take-off, banking, level flying, and landing.
Developed by the Aeronautical Development Establishment of India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Bharat Electronics Limited, the first prototype of the 1.8-tonne multimission UAV – known as TAPAS 201 – has a 21 m wingspan, a capacity payload of 350 kg, an endurance of over 24 hours, and an operational ceiling of 10,660 m (34,776 feet), according to the MoD.
The public sector Hindustan Aeronautics Limited is also a production partner in the programme.
The MoD said that the Rustom-II/TAPAS 201 is capable of carrying medium- and long-range optic sensors, synthetic aperture radar, electronic intelligence, communication intelligence, and situational awareness payloads for round-the-clock operations.
The UAV is powered by two Russian NPO Saturn 36T turboprop engines rated at 100 hp each. The UAV’s airframe, landing gear, digital flight control, avionic, and navigational systems have all been sourced locally from public and private sector companies.
DRDO officials said the Rustom-II/TAPAS 201 would undertake further trials to validate its design parameters before conducting user trials with the respective services.
The UAV is a derivative of the Rustom-I, which conducted its first test flight in October 2010 and was designed primarily as a test bed for more advanced variants. However, DRDO sources said that the Rustom-I is also expected to enter limited service, possibly with the Indian Navy.
Charlemagne
Iron waffler
Germany and its chancellor are still too hesitant to be able to lead the free world
Nov 19th 2016 | From the print edition
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TO VISIT Berlin is to be confronted at every turn by reminders of the evils that Germans do. Memorials to the Holocaust and other wartime atrocities dot the city. In Kreuzberg, a scruffy-but-hip neighbourhood, posters and leaflets denounce milder German iniquities, from urban gentrification to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a hated trade deal between the European Union and America that the election of Donald Trump may have killed for good.
Outside Germany, though, Mr Trump’s victory has left disaffected liberals gasping for German benevolence. Brexit, the refugee crisis and the rise of drawbridge-up populists across Europe had already punctured the West’s self-confidence. Now, after an election campaign in which Mr Trump trashed immigrants, vowed to rewrite trade deals and threatened to withdraw America’s security guarantee, the West’s indispensable nation appears to have dispensed with itself. Desperate for a candidate to accept the mantle of leader of the free world, some alighted on Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor.
It is easy to see why. Unflappable and patient, dedicated to the freedom she had thrust upon her as a young East German physicist in 1989, Mrs Merkel is a beacon to those who fear the flickering of the liberal flame. She likes markets, trade and good governance. Her commitment to helping refugees fleeing strife in Syria contrasts with the anti-migrant turn elsewhere in Europe. Mr Trump’s victory should extinguish any speculation that Mrs Merkel will not seek a fourth term as chancellor next year in Germany’s federal election; expect an announcement soon.
Yet anyone expecting Germany to fill America’s shoes will be disappointed. Consider Mrs Merkel’s approach to crisis management, from the euro to Ukraine to refugees. Each played out differently, but Mrs Merkel’s prevarication was consistent: humming and hawing over bail-outs for indebted governments; taking Vladimir Putin at his word before realising he was a liar; reacting to the refugee surge rather than trying to prevent it. For those seeking stability, Mrs Merkel’s taste for hesitation may be a feature, not a bug, but it hardly makes for bold leadership.
Nor does German assertiveness inside Europe run smoothly. Seventy years after the second world war, protestors in Greece and Spain who resent Germany’s strict approach to fiscal stewardship still resort to Nazi tropes. The occasional attempt to form “anti-austerity” (read: anti-German) axes inside the EU elicits terror in Berlin. The world’s progressives may have loved it, but some in Berlin were uneasy at the chiding tone of Mrs Merkel’s letter of congratulation to Mr Trump, which pledged co-operation on the basis of a commitment to liberal values. “We are protected by our terrible history,” says Joschka Fischer, a former foreign minister. “You cannot say, ‘Make Germany Great Again’.”
More importantly, Pax Americana has always required American bite. Germany, with a defence budget one-fifteenth that of the United States, no nuclear deterrent and an instinct for pacifism, has neither the ability nor the aspiration to act as the world’s liberal hegemon. This is a country that went through agonies over whether to arm Iraqi Kurds battling Islamic State. Inside Europe, let alone elsewhere, only France and Britain have the ability to project power, and that suits Germans fine. Put bluntly, if Mr Putin’s tanks roll into the Baltics it will not be the Bundeswehr that takes the lead in rolling them back.
Mrs Merkel’s ambitions are altogether smaller. First among them is to hold together the fracturing EU, via a blend of prayer and policy. Germany is pinning its hopes on France, its eternal partner inside the EU, electing a sane president next year—ideally Alain Juppé, the centre-right front-runner. Franco-German comity should help EU governments find common ground on defence co-operation, the focus of their efforts over the next few months. (Mr Trump’s questionable commitment to NATO should provide another spur.) Should the politics prove propitious, Germany may one day be open to more ambitious schemes, such as greater integration of the euro zone. But grand visions of EU institutional change, let alone a German-led reshaping of the world order, are off the menu in Berlin. The priority is stopping the rot.
Meanwhile Mrs Merkel, her political capital depleted by the refugee crisis, must hold the line at home. Owing in part to the rise of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the coalition that emerges from next year’s election will probably command a Bundestag majority far smaller than the one Mrs Merkel’s centrist grand coalition enjoys today. That will limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre, at home and in Europe. The political fragmentation is also disinterring old questions about Germany’s geopolitical allegiance. The Westbindung (Western integration), a staple of German foreign policy since Adenauer, is fraying as extremist parties on the left and right cosy up to Russia.
Leading from the mittel
And what about Mr Trump? For now, Germany retains a touching faith in America’s institutions to rein in the president-elect’s worst impulses. But from his vicious campaign to the chaotic management of his transition, there is every sign that Mr Trump will prove to be another of the erratic politicians, like Silvio Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy, who have tested Mrs Merkel’s patience. Russia is a particular worry. If Mr Trump abandons Ukraine and allows America’s sanctions to wither, Mrs Merkel’s task of maintaining European unity will become almost impossible.
Germany’s stake in the global liberal order is immense. Its export-led economic model relies on robust international trade; its political identity is inexorably linked to a strong EU; its westward orientation assumes a friendly and engaged America. All of these things may now be in jeopardy, and Germany would suffer more than most from their demise. But do not look to Mrs Merkel to save them, for she cannot do so alone.
Consumer goods
Pot of gold
America’s cannabis industry prepares for new highs
Nov 19th 2016 | From the print edition
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Flat white joint to go
IN THE 1990s Snoop Dogg, a rapper, called cannabis “chronic”. The drug was illicit and cool. In 2016 Mr Dogg is a cannabis investor, and the drug is poised to earn another title: consumer staple. On November 8th four states, including California, voted to approve recreational cannabis use. Four other states eased rules for medical marijuana. About three-fifths of America’s population lives in states that now allow cannabis use in some form.
So pot entrepreneurs face the thrilling prospect of normality. This week industry leaders were meeting in Las Vegas to discuss how the sector might expand. They have in prospect a vast, partially established market. More than 32m Americans already use cannabis. As the business becomes more normalised, it is sure to attract new customers. “It’s not often that you see an industry and you know the inevitability of it,” says Brendan Kennedy of Privateer Holdings, a private-equity firm that specialises in cannabis. Last year legal sales reached $6bn, according to the Arcview Group, an investment and market-research firm. By 2020 Arcview expects legal sales to be more than three times higher.
There remains the dispiriting fact that, on a national level, marijuana is still illegal. Federal agencies have generally respected states’ cannabis rules, but Donald Trump’s enforcers may be more aggressive. Even if they demur, the federal ban makes business difficult. Few banks are willing to lend to cannabis companies that handle the plant directly. Firms cannot operate across state lines, nor may they deduct common expenses from tax filings, which squeezes their profits.
Nevertheless, startups are spreading like weeds. Many of them serve the cannabis industry without touching the plant itself—these firms benefit from the sector’s growth while avoiding its strictest rules. For example Kush Bottles, based in California, sells product packaging that complies with idiosyncratic state requirements. Older firms are eyeing the industry as well. Scotts Miracle-Gro, a publicly traded gardening company, reckons it can serve not just ageing green thumbs but young cannabis growers, too.
Other companies deal with the plant directly, whether growing, processing or distributing it. Many early entrepreneurs have exited, unable to survive tight rules and falling cannabis prices brought about by legalisation. Bigger firms with strong management have, unsurprisingly, fared better. A company called LivWell now has 14 dispensaries across Colorado, which legalised recreational cannabis use in 2014. Its founder used to lead a firm that sold baby products to Walmart.
Cannabis firms have much in common with traditional consumer businesses. To cope with bans on interstate commerce, for example, those backed by Privateer license their brands and production methods to third parties in particular states, in much the same way that Coca-Cola depends on licensees in markets around the world. And just as big food companies grew in the 20th century by processing basic ingredients into tasty, more profitable snacks, for example, lots are processing plants into biscuits, gummy candies, tinctures and oils. “There’s not a lot of money to be made in tomatoes,” points out Arcview’s Troy Dayton, “but there’s a lot of money to be made in sauce.” In Colorado, the market share of cannabis flower, such as that typically rolled into a joint, fell from 68% in 2014 to 57% in the first nine months of this year, according to BDS Analytics, a data firm, but the processed versions of cannabis are on the rise.
Looming over the industry is the question of when tobacco companies might join the fray. Cigarette-makers certainly have the expertise to navigate complex rules for cannabis, points out Vivien Azer of Cowen, a financial-services firm. Their research on e-cigarettes could enhance vapour products for pot. If the federal government ever legalises the drug, tobacco firms would probably swoop in and snap up small, fast-growing firms. In the meantime, Colorado offers a tantalising glimpse of the future: there are now more cannabis dispensaries in the state than there are Starbucks coffee outlets.
Veterans Day November 11th—Thank a Veteran
By Capt Joseph R. John, November 11, 2016
We “Honor” Veterans who have served in the US Armed Forces during the 240 year history of the Republic, and those who gave their last full measure of devotion in defense of the nation.
An average of 22 Veterans commit suicide every day, many of them are suffering from PTSD, and have not been able to obtain timely or proper medical treatment.
By clicking on the below listed link, you will be able to listen to a powerful message delivered by President Ronald Reagan about “a soldier and his pledge.”
A Veteran, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America” for an amount “up to and including his life.”
If you have the opportunity to remember a Veteran’s service in defense of the Republic—Thank a Veteran.
Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62
Capt USN(Ret)/Former FBI
Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC
2307 Fenton Parkway, Suite 107-184
San Diego, CA 92108
http://www.CombatVeteransForCongress.org
https://www.facebook.com/combatveteransforcongress?ref=hl
Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
-Isaiah 6:8
Honor, get some tissues. I did a bunch of these when I was stationed at Camp LeJeune. I won’t compare to the gits rioting against the election.
THE AMERICAN CREED
“I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it; to support its Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag; and to defend it against all enemies.”
William Tyler Page – April 13, 1918
The Election Fables of 2016
November 8, 2016 12:17 pm / Leave a Comment / victorhanson
by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review
Clear choices on the issues in 2016 have been far more distinct than in 1960, 1968, or 1992.
Most of what we read about the election of 2016 was untrue. Here are the most glaring of the election fables.
Hillary would have been better off politically to come clean long ago We hear a few on the left lament Hillary’s two-year stubbornness in stonewalling, lying, and distorting the facts surrounding her unlawful use of a private e-mail server — as if her problems were largely a result of not being candid soon enough.
Nothing could be further from the truth if we define “better” as “more politically viable.” Had Clinton in spring 2015, from the outset, confessed that she had violated federal law in her transmissions of classified material, or admitted that she had deleted some e-mails under subpoena that contained government business, or had she apologized for allotting, as secretary of state, time to Clinton Foundation patrons of her husband, on the basis of their donations and honoraria, she would have lost the primaries to Bernie Sanders and landed in jail.
Had the president and the Democratic National Committee not intervened to massage the political climate and help to warp the primaries, or had Donna Brazile not continued to sabotage the sanctity of the debates, Hillary might well not have found herself on the eve of the election tied or ahead in the polls for the presidency. Had Bill Clinton not met Loretta Lynch on the tarmac, James Comey might well have acted earlier and with greater effect — and avoided his flip-flopping.
In other words, in all these cases of malfeasance, Clinton calculated quite correctly that Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the entire Obama administration, as well as the media and the liberal establishment, would rally to her side, even when it was evident that her denials were empty and her conduct ethically bankrupt and clearly illegal.
Lying paid off. It got Hillary this far; it could win her the presidency, and there is little likelihood in this world that she will pay a price — and some likelihood she will continue to benefit from smooth prevarication. Cosmic justice will come, as it always does, but probably in her dotage — or somewhere else.
The truth is that for all her campaign weaknesses (voice, demeanor, stamina, etc.), she remains an effective liar and cynically and correctly believes that she is largely immune from accountability — a fact borne out by the 2016 election.
‘They go high, we go low’ Clinton enjoys quoting the supposed hip ethical platitudes of Michelle Obama and, by association, her husband (of campaigning ever more nobly while Trump campaigns still more ignobly).
In fact, the Clinton campaign has matched all mud thrown by Trump, toss for toss — perhaps even more so, given its far greater cash reserves. This final week, she and the president of the United States were falsely alleging that Trump welcomed the official endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan — as if Trump had sat on a bench at a rally of the KKK the same way that Obama once had described himself as being mentored by the racist, anti-American, and anti-Semite Reverend “Audacity of Hope” Jeremiah Wright.
There was nothing “going high” about labeling millions as “deplorables” and not real Americans, any more than Obama took the high road when he gave his clinger speech, his “typical white person” speech, or his “get in their faces” and “bring a gun to a knife fight” riffs. Most recently, Obama was all but assuring that illegal aliens could vote without fear of legal consequences, once again fleshing out Trump’s rigged-election paranoia as not so paranoid.
Michelle Obama in 2008 suggested that Hillary was unfit for the White House (“If you can’t run your own house, you can’t run the White House.”). She serially declared that she had never been proud of her country until her husband ran for president, that her country was “downright mean,” and that “they” were perpetually raising the bar on the one-percenter victimized Obamas. That may have been campaigning at some level, but it was certainly not going “high.”
In sum, the Obamas have often gone low, Hillary goes low, Trump goes low — they all, by their very natures of being politicians, go low. The only difference between them is that Trump has less often in hypocritical fashion bragged that he ever at all “goes high” — in the way that Hillary and the president now claim.
Clinton likely got debate questions in advance, without a peep of moral compunction over refusing such an unethical edge. Her team insulted Latinos and Catholics, and she predicated making lots of money by virtue of selling influence accruing from her public office. There was also nothing “high” in all that — any more than Obama’s own outright lying to the American people about the Affordable Care Act, or his insisting that he first learned of Hillary’s unlawful private e-mail domain in the news, or his administration’s use of the IRS to hound pre-reelection opponents.
Cruelty and coarseness are unattractive traits even in politicians, but they reek even worse when perfumed with sanctimony.
Trump’s crude past and present made him uniquely vulnerable to liberal attacks To believe that, we would have to accept two premises. First, that a crude and vulgar Trump is cruder and more vulgar in matters of sex than, for example, were Presidents Kennedy and Clinton, both still worshiped by liberals as landmark presidents. Trump’s business deals are as questionable as the sources of the LBJ fortune, which bothered few in the media. Trump is Trump, with a personal life as checkered as Hillary’s but amplified by his money and the opportunities of gratification and crudity afforded in one’s Manhattan private life free of the worries of a discreet politician.
Second, ever since the ascendency of their “war room,” the Clinton-inspired Left has attacked the integrity and morality of all Republican presidential candidates: McCain was rendered a near-senile coot, confused about the extent of his wife’s wealth and the number of their estates. No finer man ran for president than Mitt Romney. And by November 2012 when he lost, he had been reduced to a bullying hazer in his teen-age years, a vulture capitalist, a heartless plutocrat who was rude to his garbage man, tortured dogs, had an elevator in his house, and provided horses and stables to his aristocratic wife. All were either lies or exaggerations or irrelevant and all insidiously cemented the picture of the gentlemanly Romney as a preppie, out-of-touch, old white-guy snob, and gratuitously cruel to the less fortunate.
Trump was certainly more vulgar than either McCain or Romney, but what voters he lost owing to his crass candor he may well have gained back through his slash-and-burn, take-no-prisoners willingness to fight back against the liberal smear machine. We can envision what Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, or Ted Cruz would look like after six months of “going high” from the Clinton-campaign treatment.
It is a mistake to believe that any other candidate would have better dealt with the Clinton-Podesta hit teams; all we can assume is that most would have suffered far more nobly than Trump. It would be wonderful if a Republican candidate ran with Romney’s personal integrity, Rubio’s charisma, Walker’s hands-on experience, Cruz’s commitment to constitutional conservatism, and Trump’s energy, animal cunning, and ferocity, but unfortunately such multifaceted candidates are rare.
The campaign marked a new low
One does not have to go back to 18th- and 19th-century smear-mongering to see that the crude electioneering this year was not so unusual.In 1944, an ailing FDR accused his Republican opponent of wanting to replicate the very Fascism at home that Americans were defeating abroad. The existential cover-up of FDR’s terminal health in November 1944 made Hillary’s dodges about her conditions minor stuff. McGovern often likened Nixon to Hitler. The 1964 LBJ “daisy” ad (resurrected by Hillary Clinton) trafficked in the charge that Barry Goldwater — the World War II pilot — was an utter nut who would blow up the world with nuclear weapons. The year 1968 saw riot, assassination, and blood in the streets.
When the noble patrician George H. W. Bush and his good-ol’-boy henchman Lee Atwater got done with the gentlemanly Michael Dukakis in 1988, he was a water polluter, murderer-releasing, wannabe-tank-driving wimp — dirt matched by a Dukakis campaign manager, Donna Brazile, who stoked rumor-mongering that the family man Bush was a philandering hypocrite.
When Bill Clinton’s hit team (fending off charges that he was a pro-Communist, marijuana-smoking draft dodger) finished with George H. W. Bush in 1992 (now without the services of the brilliantly demonic Atwater), the old combat fighter pilot was a wimp and near-planner of Iran-Contra — and likely to be indicted like his cronies such as the good but unfairly hounded Caspar Weinberger.
Again, spare us the sanctimony. Character assassination and cruelty have been trademarks of U.S. elections. In 1864, what Frémont, McClellan, and the Copperheads over the year said about Lincoln makes today’s disparagement seem tame. During that election year, newspaper grandee Horace Greeley flipped and flopped over the down-and-up Lincoln more than a Republican Never/Sometimes/Always Trumper up for reelection.
What was new in 2016 was not Hillary’s hit-team campaign (eerily reminiscent of Nixon’s 1972 CREEP operatives) or Trump’s “crooked Hillary” refrains but the social-media age of the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, and 24/7 cable news. For the first time, the electronic, lidless eye of millions hunted down race/class/gender politically incorrect “gaffes” to offer them up as a supposed window into a candidate’s dark soul.
There were no issues
The biggest myth of the election was that it was merely about who was worse between two unsavory candidates whose character flaws made issues irrelevant. The initial premise may be true that both were unattractive figures, but they certainly had quite different political agendas — a fact known to the voters.
On matters of Obamacare, fossil fuels, trade, the Supreme Court, abortion, illegal immigration, defense spending, the debt, taxes, regulation, and a host of other issues, Hillary, in her convenient hard-left remake, took an unapologetic hard-progressive stance. Donald Trump, in his latest incarnation, adopted positions mostly identical to those of most conservatives. Both were candid in their views about a future Supreme Court. Hillary would likely expand sanctuary cities; Trump would deny them federal funds. Hillary could not have been more antithetical to Trump on Obamacare. And on and on.
Clear choices on the issues in 2016 were far more distinct than in 1960, 1968, or 1992. Ironically, two unattractive candidates canceled each other out, and had the odd effect of turning attention to the Supreme Court or health care in a way not true of prior “nice” campaigns.
Also in mythical fashion, perhaps a few Never Trumpers clung to a fantasy that the real Hillary was only playacting hard-left. Once safely elected, supposedly she would revert to centrist Bill Clinton themes of the 1990s, as she welcomed former “bipartisan” neo-cons back into her advisory circle and service as newly minted neo-liberals to follow Dean Acheson’s visions. And it was an even greater myth that Trump was going to revert to his 1980s libertine self and govern to the left of Obama.
Both ran on partisan, contrary agendas, and supporters of both were correct to see each as the opposite of the other.
The year 2016, for all its carnival barking, ended up as a clash of visions, and a fork in the American road.
To ‘Chuck McDougald, PhD (Green Beret)’
Today at 11:07 AM
The below listed WikiLeaks E-mails should get very wide distribution thru your own extensive networks, There are so many E-mails that indict Hillary Clinton’s criminal actions, reveals Hillary’s intention to keep the southern border wide open which is a danger to the National Security of the United States, shows Hillary couldn’t handle the security for a 13 acre US Mission in Benghazi (turning the security of the US over to Hillary would be a disaster), shows Hillary putting America on the auction block for donations to the Clinton Foundation (pay to play), shows Hillary lied to the American people in public while saying what she would really do in private, shows Hillary was the architect & negotiator for the dangerous Iranian Nuclear Weapons Agreement that is giving Iran nuclear weapons, etc.
The below listed WikiLeaks E-mails demonstrates that Hillary Clinton and George Soros are a “clear and present danger” to:
1. The survival of the Free Enterprise System in the United States
2. The survival of the nation’s Judeo-Christian religious way of life that is under attack by progressives
3. The continued integrity US Constitution given to the American people by the Founding Fathers
4. The continued selection of members of the US Supreme Court who will not legislate from the bench
5. The right of every Americans to own and bear arms as guaranteed to them by the 2nd Amendment
6. The US Justice System that has been corrupted by the Attorney General of the United States, Hillary Clinton, and Director of the FBI
7. The US Armed Forces whose “Combat Effectiveness” and strength has been hallowed out over the last 8 years by Obama and inept Congress
8. America’s Health Care System, Socialized by the failed ObamaCare Program, had premiums spiked by 25%, 45%, 53 %, 69%,116% in various states
Kindly click on the below listed link to listen to Pat Condell, one of Europe’s most astute political commentators, he weighed in on the US Presidential race with only 2 weeks to go to the election—every American should listen to Pat Condell’s in depth and magnificent evaluation of the race
http://www.patcondell.net/americas-moment-of-truth/
Respectfully,
Joe
Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62
Capt USN(Ret)/Former FBI
Regional Chairman Veterans 4 Trump, Southern California (Orange County, Imperial County, and San Diego County)
2307 Fenton Parkway, Suite 107-184
San Diego, CA 92108
Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
-Isaiah 6:8
Here’s a great spread sheet of all the wikileaks:
https://docs.google.com/ spreadsheets/d/ 1DgwLHAC5mk9Ghblc6O7AXzxX5dNLl Mg0hHUn-D_Ay7I/htmlview
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· Wikileaks Index
· Important HRC Corruption Videos
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WIKILEAK INDEX
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SI – Self incrim
CF – Clint Found
OVS – Offensive Voter Statemen
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CTR
FP – Forgn Pol
DTC – Trump
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EMAIL#
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LINK
WIKILEAK DUMP#
MC – media coll
BS – Bernie
OTR – Other
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BS
Bernie Campaign Sabotage
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BS1
1193
>Massive Clinton ‘hits’ file on Bernie & http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/10/wikileaks-podesta-email-release-reveals-massive-clinton-hits-file-on-sanders.html
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1193
BS
20
6
BS2
2953
>Nothing more counter-productive than asking for Bernie’s medical records. Is David Brock a plant?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2953
MC
122
7
BS3
3023
Donna Brazile, now the current DNC chairwoman & replacement for Debbie Wasserman Shultz (who was forced to resign because of being anti-Bernie/Pro-Clinton), leaked insider Bernie Sander’s campaign information to Hillary’s staff:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3023#efmAMFAMSAM-ANBAOIAOhAOiAPV
SI
226
8
BS4
3188
Bernie supporters are bed wetters
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3188
CTR
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9
BS5
3609
Shitting on a Bernie super delegate, threaten to cut off funding
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3609
DTC
7
10
BS6
3990
>Hillary should stop attacking Bernie, especially when she says things that are untrue, which candidly she often does.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3990
CF
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BS7
5423
>‘Bitching’ Bernie Voters. Dems planned to fool Sanders supporters at convention. ‘His people will think they’ve won something’ & http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/12/dems-planned-fool-sanders-supporters-convention/ & http://www.infowars.com/wikileaks-clinton-surrogates-wanted-to-fool-bitching-bernie-voters-into-supporting-hillary/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5423
OVS
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12
BS8
5423
Concessions given to Bernie Sanders & his supporters were a false illusion of a victory for Bernie’s “self righteous ideologies”. Clinton Advisor: “Bernie and his people have been bitching about super delegates” “Throw Bernie a bone…[…]….his people will think they’ve “won” something from the Party Establishment. It doesn’t make a difference. We don’t lose”:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5423#efmAMyAPDAoKAqBAshAs8AzAA2x
OTR
36
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BS9
5616
7 months before Hillary earns nomination over Bernie Sanders, Donna Brazile pledges to John Podesta that “as soon as (Hillary’s) nomination is wrapped up. I will be your biggest surrogate” “Look forward to working with you to elect the first woman President of the United States” says Podesta:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5616#efmACTADd
FP
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BS10
8248
Clinton staff discusses Hillary only supporting a carbon tax to knock Bernie Sanders out of the primaries: “To be clear: it’s lethal in the general, so I don’t want to support one. But don’t want to give bernie contrast right now.”:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8248#efmAAGAHu
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BS11
10669
“We are going to need his voters to turn out in November for HRC, [Bernie] won’t be nominated.” {dated 2015-07-01; DNC was July 2016} & Strategy to run only positive ads to screw Bernie later
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10669
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BS12
11580
11580 Brent Budowsky writes to podesta 2016 February : “In the last 48 hours a) Hillary and her campaign have begun to question Bernie’s integrity and b) older feminists are beginning a civil war against younger women with idiot comments such as younger women support Bernie to get laid. What would be the reaction if Bill Clinton, George Bush or Harry Reid comments such as this? Or that younger women must support Hillary for the sole reason that she is a woman? Team Clinton has no idea the danger they are causing of creating such an intense antipathy towards Hillary that many Bernie supporters and younger women will not vote for her in November. I had coffee today with a female college senior who is an intern with the Obama administration—the daughter of a Democrat who has worked for senior Democrats who asked me to look after her while she is in Washington, who told me “I just hate her so much I might even vote for a Republican but I will never vote for her.” And she doesn’t even support Bernie.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11580#efmAAGAPF
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BS13
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– almost amusing and mouth frothing. “Senator Sanders has been pressed on this vote in every Democratic debate. And the truth is, even Hillary Clinton has cast votes she later said she regretted. So I’d understand if Senator Sanders would just stand up and say, “I got this one wrong. I made a mistake. I’m sorry.”….. And until he changes his position on immunity for gun sellers and gun makers, Senator Sanders is wrong on gun safety. And he’s the wrong candidate for President”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12278
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BS14
15464
John Podesta calls Bernie a doofus.
“Thanks Neera. Can you believe that doofus Bernie attacked it? Ben happy?”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15464
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BS15
15615
THE ENTIRE VP SHORTLIST (notice poor Bernie at the bottom of a very long list, he never had a shot) edit: apparently divided into “food groups” (Podesta’s words) by race and gender lmao. Fucking liberals.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15616
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BS16
21823
Their Books on Bernie Sanders (see attachments) – hundreds of pages
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21823
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BS17
21908
Robby Mook calls De Blasio a “terrorist” for saying nice things about Bernie.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21908
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BS18
22224
In this one, the campaign conspires to have a group of women senators privately confront Bernie about running a negative campaign so they can leak the meeting to the press to shape their preferred narrative that Bernie is a sexist who is running a negative campaign.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22224
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BS19
22262
Podesta Calls Bernie Supporters “paranoid internet dwellers”
Podesta wrote:
>This is good stuff for paranoid internet dwellers. Did Bernie ever say a word about this?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22262
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BS20
22405
HRC campaign making fun of Bernie
>That’s because the billionaaaaaahhhs own the media
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22405
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Neera Tanden: “he’s really hung up on Obama not caring about black people”
-speaking to Podesta about Ben Jealous potentially endorsing Sanders – which he eventually did.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23508
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EMAILD Judd Legum to John Podesta
“Not sure how it’s playing out on your end but having been seeing a lot of negative stuff online about the single payer hit on Bernie. See it being fit into the she’s dishonest/will say anything to win frame. So I just wanted you to make sure you were cognizant of that.”
John Podesta responds about Bernie’s healthcare proposal.
“Thx. His actual proposal sucks, but we live in a leftie alternative universe”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23991
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BS23
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HRC CAMPAIGN MAJOR PLAYERS SAYING SOMETHING WILL BE “VERY ROUGH”
John Podesta wrote:
Thx Donna. Time to buckle up.
From: *Donna Brazile*
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Subject: Good luck tonight.
To: John Podesta
Shake things up.
It’s going to be rough. Very rough.
NON-WIKILEAKS ANALYSIS
That was a caucus day where Hillary only won by .5% against Bernie. So the delegates ended up being pretty much split down the middle.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25203
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Seems like someone here made the mistake of defecting to the Bernie camp.
Subject: Re: Faiz advising Bernie
Podesta: Yes. Gave him a very hard time. I have to say this does not go down easy with me. Wish him well in life.
Tanden: He’s a fucker.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25301
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EMAILID 25301 Neera Tanden (star of Podesta part 14 (https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58ppna/podesta_emails_part_14_wikileaks_emailid_23605/ ) with her “Fuck those assholes” ( https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58ppna/podesta_emails_part_14_wikileaks_emailid_23605/) comments said about the New York Times) writes about information she gained from Judd Legum
“Faiz advising Bernie. I think it’s just kind of informal for now but he’s like writing speeches and stuff or at least speech language.”
Neera adds directly addressing Podesta about Faiz’s conduct:
“you know about this? Jesus Makes sense since all these freaks after Hillary are like his spawn.”
Podesta responds to this betrayal (someone daring to give advice to Bernie Sanders): “Yes. Gave him a very hard time. I have to say this does not go down easy with me. Wish him well in life.”
Finally Neera just responds about Faiz :
“He’s a fucker”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25301
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Clinton Foundation
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Clinton Foundation tied to uranium deal
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1127
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>Clinton Camp worried as Chelsea hosts “fundraiser” aka Cash payment for Radical Islamic Group that wants to end Israel & https://twitter.com/trump2016fan/status/786762646863224837
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1518
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Bill Clinton is damaging for Hillary:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2301
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Connects him to Magnetar Capital of which, Ross Laser is a founder. It’s a hedge fund organization that might have contributed to the 2007-2010 housing market crash. Apparently, Ross is a donor but don’t know if there’s anything else there
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2425
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Donor amounts including Soros
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2485
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Intelligence Reports Show SA and Qatar provide ISIL Support
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774
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Clinton Foundation has no internal audits
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4492
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Clinton foundation Exceeded its original authorization from the I.R.S
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6009
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Connects him to Magnetar Capital of which, Ross Laser is a founder. It’s a hedge fund organization that might have contributed to the 2007-2010 housing market crash. Apparently, Ross is a donor but don’t know if there’s anything else there
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6296
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Unless Sheikh Mo has sent us a $6 million check, this sounds crazy to do.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6775#efmACoADwAIqAJzAOXASM
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Indian business man donating who owns hospitals in India, pay to play?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6866
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(older leak) Warning about visuals on Hati CF Donations and Mining contracts conflict of interest
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6900
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CGI meeting with attachments
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7250
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Foundation needs to be low key in 2016
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7414
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Juicy Juicy foundation review(falsely labeled audit) of 2012 calls for ending conflicts of interest of staff look at attachement
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8160
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>Bill Clinton receives a million dollar birthday check from Qatar & https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/786774862371184640
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396
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$1million dollars from qatar to WJC for 5minute meeting. Also talk about rwanda attracting mining investors through the Clinton Global Initiative.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396
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Clinton Foundation”to me audit sounds bad, as if we started this with bad intentions”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9088
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Communication with WJC (Bill)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9200
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MORE PAY TO PLAY
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9388#efmAWoAaB
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Saudi Donations
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9442#efmAUJAXqAv0A1HBHPBJwBQTBUg
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c3 / c4 money involves Soros.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9570
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Foundation donor stuff (handling donors 500,000 or greater)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10227
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Discussing Bill Clinton attending a summit in Panama. Concerns that he will be seen by the press
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11480
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In attachments there are names and salaries of CF and other Clinton entities workers
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12112
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CF/CHAI Investment fund and advisory board. “It would be hard to imagine a worse idea than ira magaziner running an > investment fund of any kind not to mention one under this scenario > > Good luck with this”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12251
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EMAILID 12401 This seems big. Chelsea Clinton provides a list of concerns to the staff including John Podesta. Apparently several cases of surveillance and spying was going on between the employees. All of the names of persons will need to be identified and followed up on. There is a lot of information in just this one email: “Ilya physically saw/caught Justin a couple of days ago reading his bberry and loading the same spyware onto his computer that he loaded onto Bari’s computer” “- my father was told today of explicit examples at CGI of Doug/ Teneo pushing for – and receiving – free memberships – and of multiple examples of Teneo ‘hustling’ business at CGI – and of people now having quit at CGI” “- Ilya believes Hannah and Justin have taken significant sums of money from my parents personally – some in expenses – cars, etc. – and others directly”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12401#efmAXHAZp
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Problems at Clinton Foundation in 2011:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12401
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EMAILID 12401 This seems big. Chelsea Clinton provides a list of concerns to the staff including John Podesta. Apparently several cases of surveillance and spying was going on between the employees. All of the names of persons will need to be identified and followed up on. There is a lot of information in just this one email: “Ilya physically saw/caught Justin a couple of days ago reading his bberry and loading the same spyware onto his computer that he loaded onto Bari’s computer” “- my father was told today of explicit examples at CGI of Doug/ Teneo pushing for – and receiving – free memberships – and of multiple examples of Teneo ‘hustling’ business at CGI – and of people now having quit at CGI” “- Ilya believes Hannah and Justin have taken significant sums of money from my parents personally – some in expenses – cars, etc. – and others directly”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12401#efmAXHAZp
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12401
Some guy named “Justin” (Justin Cooper. He was the only Clinton IT guy who didn’t take the fifth in front of congress. Sonetear(Combetta) was there and fiffed, BPags skipped the hearing. ) is a mole in the Clinton Foundation who has been reading everyone’s emails and loading spyware on their computers
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12401
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EMAILID 12401: Chelsea addressing the team about concerns re: Clinton Foundation
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12401
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CF not spending money on what they said they use it for…
>I’m sensitive to that (which is why I’m asking) but those CHAI Stats are on nearly every public listing of CF accomplishment. I’m want to make people think twice about calls for dropping grants to CF or return the money and the HIV/AIDS work hits home in a way that other stats don’t. Plus it’s international work. I’m concerned about saying we used money to fund healthy schools (because we didn’t use the funding for that).
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12830
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Chelsea Clinton says Doug Band and Justin Cooper support Bill “in his political work and not at all on his foundation work.” Even though Band was on the board of directors of the Clinton Foundation.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15400
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Talking about calling Gowdy to get “a sense of where we are”??
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15416
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From:JPalmieri@americanprogress.org To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2008-07-31 18:24 Subject: FW: The person I most want to spend time with
seriously? this is the worst subject line ever in an email from Bill Clinton.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21670
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21888
Clinton Foundation: Swedish money islands, Pension fiasco details
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21888
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21978
From: Doug Band “Also I signed a conflict of interest policy as a board member of cgi On it, I wrote that my wife designs bags for cgi, and loses money doing so plus donating her time And that teneo represents 4 cgi sponsors, 3 of which teneo brought to cgi . Oddly, wjc does not have to sign such a document even though he is personally paid by 3 cgi sponsors, gets many expensive gifts from them, some that are at home etc I could add 500 different examples of things like this and while I removed lasry bc they are all on the offense, I get the sense that they are trying to put some sort of wrong doing on me after the audit as a crutch to change things and if I don’t mention things like lasry where they all have issues, I may regret it”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21978
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Doug Band, who was Clinton’s body man while he was in the WH and the guy who practically invented the Clinton Foundation, says this about Bill, who apparently did not have to sign a conflict of interest policy document like the rest of the Clinton Foundation board:
“he is personally paid by 3 cgi sponsors, gets many expensive gifts from them, some that are at home, etc.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21978
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CF39
22030
HRC pay to play with King of Morocco & making a “mess” of foreign policy
From:huma@hrcoffice.com To: robbymook2015@gmail.com, john.podesta@gmail.com
Just to give you some context, the condition upon which the Moroccans agreed to host the meeting was her participation. If hrc was not part if it, meeting was a non-starter.
CGI also wasn’t pushing for a meeting in Morocco and it wasn’t their first choice.
This was HRC’s idea, our office approached the Moroccans and they 100 percent believe they are doing this at her request. The King has personally committed approx $12 million both for the endowment and to support the meeting.
It will break a lot of china to back out now when we had so many opportunities to do it in the past few months.
She created this mess and she knows it.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22030#efmABAADKADLADiAEeAExAFbAH_AJwAKXAOWAO2
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Jennifer Palmieri writes about how Bill Clinton should refuse to answer the press on a few subjects
We recommend not engaging on specific questions related to 1) donors; 2) implementation of the MOU; or 3) HRC’s knowledge of donors to the Foundation. These are rabbit holes. Press want us to go deeper into these subjects to try to get us to introduce more facts which will lead to more questions and give the story more life.
It is very clear that Clinton staffers do not want the press or the voters to gain access to “more facts”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23539#efmAQJAVU
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CLINTON FOUNDATION SCHEMED WITH BIG PHARMA TO KEEP THE PRICE OF AIDS DRUGS HIGH IN AMERICA (https://archive.fo/G1q8s) (TLDR. http://imgur.com/a/Dcdmx)
When the Clintons are questioned about the obvious sketchiness of their foundation, they routinely cite AIDS work. But the AIDS work is carried out by CHAI (“Clinton Health Access Initiative”), a separate organization.
In one angry fax (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13278), Ira Magaziner, the head of CHAI, says the Clinton Foundation would have 40% overhead if they left out CHAI from the statistics (see pg.10 of attachment). The Clintons conflate these two organizations and they know it. Here (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10977)is an email from Podesta where he admits he, “mixed CHAI and CF together” on a television appearance defending the foundation. Tina Flournoy, an aide to Bill Clinton, worried (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12410) that the foundation was constantly “using CHAI stats.” Craig Minassian, an employee of the Clinton Foundation, dismissed (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12410) those concerns by noting “the HIV/AIDS work hits home in a way that other stats don’t.”
But now, with this new email ( https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24440 ), reveals the true nature of CHAI’s work. CHAI contracted with Big Pharma companies for AIDS drugs to be distributed in developing countries. This contract specified that AIDS drugs would be provided for a significant discount to CHAI. Getting the drugs at a large discount acts like a direct donation to CHAI. The Clintons reap all of the PR benefits which they use to defend themselves. Otherwise the Clintons would have no defense when the issue of the Clinton Foundation corruption is raised.
But why is this arrangement beneficial for Big Pharma? They could easily distribute drugs to the developing world themselves. Many pharma companies already have programs where they tightly monitor and control the distribution of drugs (REMS) (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/rems/) and programs that allow them to distribute to the less fortunate (Pfizer Rx Assistance Programs) (http://www.pfizer.com/health/financial_assistance_programs/patient_assistance_programs). Why then, do they need to go through the Clintons?
Corrupt Bargain
The answer, laid out for the first time in this email, is that the Pharma companies relied on the Clintons to resist efforts to lower the costs of AIDS drugs in the United States, the world’s most lucrative drug market. They enable CHAI to do and claim credit for running a massive AIDS drug program, in exchange they expect high drug prices in the United States.
• The Clintons get the positive press for running a large drug program with CHAI from the cheap drugs from the companies.
• The Pharma companies get a political machine to preserve their ability to fleece the American consumer.
• Since the insurance companies mostly pay for these drugs, the American consumer barely notices.
• And everyone else, even those without AIDS, just pay higher insurance premiums to offset this expense. The costs are distributed throughout the population via the insurance industry.
Smoking Gun Email
The email is a reaction to “comments President Clinton made on lowering domestic AIDS drugs prices at the World AIDS day event” that must have set off a firestorm within Clinton world. Ira notes that CHAI was “taken by surprise” and “wish[ed] that someone had consulted with us before he made these comments.” He explains:
“we think that publicly pressuring the US and European AIDS drug companies to lower prices and bringing pressure to allow generic AIDS drugs into the United States will have limited if any success and could seriously jeopardize our negotiations to continually lower prices in poor countries. …
We have always told the drug companies that we would not pressure them and create a slippery slope where prices they negotiate with us for poor countries would inevitably lead to similar prices in rich countries. If we were going to change our view on this, we should have informed the companies before President Clinton went public with his statement and attempted to negotiate a way for them to participate in and get credit for whatever steps we could have persuaded them to take to help the crisis in the states.
Since President Clinton’s comments were made, we have been contacted by a number of advocacy groups who are now intending to wage a public campaign to bring in generics and lower drug prices. We do not feel we can participate in this without jeopardizing our work around the world. We cannot oppose what they might do, but we also cannot be publicly supporting it either.This campaign will not get started until January, so we have some time to figure out and act upon our own strategy.”
Having laid out the damage, Ira turns to mitigation strategies:
“If we do try to do something in this area, we suggest that we approach the innovator companies that can currently sell products in the US with the idea of making donations to help clear the ADAP lists. For a variety of reasons, the companies will likely favor a donation approach rather than one that erodes prices across the board. …”
What reason(s) could there possibly be beyond simple profit maximization?
“… I would guess that they would also likely favor a solution that involved their drugs rather than an approach that allowed generic drugs from India to flood the US market at low prices or one that set a precedent of waiving patent laws on drugs. … We can go to war with the US drug companies if President Clinton would like to do so, but we would not suggest it.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24440#efmAZwAcGAePAgkAizAj9
Summary
CHAI freely admits there is an implicit agreement with the drug companies not to pressure them to lower domestic prices. Bill Clinton made comments that added pressure. CHAI receives a great amount of positive publicity for their AIDS work abroad, and the comments jeopardize that program. Here, CHAI admits it is in their interests for US AIDS drug prices to remain high, so that they can continue getting credit for keeping them low abroad.
But CHAI is not content with simply fleecing American AIDS sufferers. Since CHAI doesn’t want pressure on Pharma companies to linger, they propose to torpedo other AIDS advocacy groups by creating a smaller, watered-down domestic program with the Pharma companies before those other advocacy groups begin their assault in January.
The Clintons are only out for themselves. In comments on World AIDS day in the subsequent years of 2012 (http://archive.is/mg2cp) and 2013 (http://archive.is/RRBBz), Bill says nothing whatsoever about domestic drug prices. If AIDS advocacy groups cannot trust the Clintons not to stab them in the back, how can the American people?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24440
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EMAILD A Clinton Global Initiative(CGI) executive asks a meeting from Podesta. Apparently he has to justify why he wants the meeting in a long email. He wants to discuss the future of CGI:
“it is imperative that we formulate an answer to the question whether CGI can and will exist beyond 2016 if Secretary Clinton becomes the next President.”
Apparently he is concerned that the end of CGI may be in sight. Maybe it will not be needed any more as a campaign asset? Or the conflict of interests will be too big to ignore?
“1) In its current form, CGI’s existence depends on President Clinton’s active and visible participation as the convener. 2) The economic viability of CGI depends on its ability to attract members and sponsors to support the enterprise.”
Bill Clinton must keep working on CGI to remain viable.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25201#efmAPbAR3
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CLINTON FOUNDATION DR WAS HEAD OF EBOLA EFFORTS IN LIBERIA. CF STOOD TO MAKE A LOT OF MONEY BEING THE MIDDLE MAN, JUST LIKE THEY DID IN HAITI
From: “Walter T. Gwenigale”
Subject: Re: ebola plan
Date: September 13, 2014 at 5:45:14 AM EDT
To: “James Tomarken”
“Thanks, Jim, for getting to me yourself. If implemented, your proposal will be a great help to us. Dr. Moses Massaquoi, the head of the Clinton Foundation in the Ministry of Health & Social Welfare here in Liberia, is actively involved with the management of the Ebola incidence and heads the “case management (treatment)”team. I will pass your suggestions to him and Hon. Tolbert Nyenswah, the Chair of the “Ebola Incidence Management System” and get back to you very soon.
Walter”
TOTAL PLEDGED AND ACTUAL DONATIONS TO THE EBOLA EFFORTS
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11179135/What-countries-have-pledged-to-fight-Ebola…-and-how-much-theyve-paid-into-the-fund.html
‘$18.8 million (£11.7 million) from Britain and more than $200 million (£124.5 million) from the US.”
GOOD CHARTS IN THIS ARTICLE
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25737
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lawyers talking about not getting their money for their Clinton Foundation Haiti job.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25770
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Clinton Foundation not paying for the services they received for more than a year. This is related to the “looting of Haiti” case where the “Friends of Bill” list was created in the State Department. Chelsea complains:
“My friend Eric was the partner who led the work McKinsey did pro bono + expenses for the CF/ CBHF and the IHRC in Haiti for more than a year and their expenses have not yet been paid.”
Eric, the friend wants to get paid but doesn’t dare to tell his bosses because the info might leak out and it would be embarrassing if the press found out about this.
“I think he’s a bit at wits end and also doesn’t want to run it up the flag pole at McKinsey to attract any undesired attention.”
Meme version ( https://i.sli.mg/hgJyj5.png)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25770#efmADXAFGAHrAJq
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Concerns that Hillary will be the presedent and that she will be “most unfriendly to Israel…. worse than Obama.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26101
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HRC AND WJC TOLD TO DECLINE FOREIGN DONATIONS ASAP BY THEIR OWN CAMPAIGN!
“John, some free advice, good advice. Clinton Foundation should cut off foreign donations ASAP. Inevitably will happen anyway, they should get it off the table now. Not only because of the intrinsic issue, but it would be good for the Clintons to get in the habit of cutting off downside risks of any kind. You do not need me to tell you, before this campaign is done, it will not be pretty. I will not publicly call for this, but this is my advice to you and them……Brent”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26121
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Clinton Foundation Accepts tens of millions of dollars from SA and Qatar
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-charity.html
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CTR
Correct the Record
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7005
David Brock resignation but now runs Correct The Record
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7005
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16024
EMAILID 16024 re47 and cbaker agree to put the former Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm on the CTR paylist as an official CTR shill. This seems necessary because they want to start paying out money to her immediately. After a while they will move her to another “vehicle” (slush fund?), to draw salary from somewhere else. CTR is Correct The Record, a super PAC, most known for massive shill campaigns, using paid posters on social media like Reddit and Facebook, funded by millions of dollars. I explored with Marc what the limitations would be on HFA’s use of Governor Granholm if she were paid by Correct the Record. As a threshold matter we could not call her a spokesman for the campaign or schedule her directly. We would be able to refer groups or media to her if they are looking for a non-campaign, third part surrogate, the same way we might refer them to the DNC Chair or Stephanie Schriock. For example this weekend she spoke at the Ohio State Party dinner. If she were at Correct the Record we could at least make sure her speaking and media opportunities met our needs/requests. Finally, as a person paid by CTR she could not solicit donations for the campaign. She could be at CTR for a period and move to some other vehicle (New York – or Michigan- state party, DNC, HFA) at any point (i.e. there is no waiting period).
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16024
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16024
I explored with Marc what the limitations would be on HFA’s use of Governor Granholm if she were paid by Correct the Record. As a threshold matter we could not call her a spokesman for the campaign or schedule her directly. We would be able to refer groups or media to her if they are looking for a non-campaign, third part surrogate, the same way we might refer them to the DNC Chair or Stephanie Schriock. For example this weekend she spoke at the Ohio State Party dinner. If she were at Correct the Record we could at least make sure her speaking and media opportunities met our needs/requests. Finally, as a person paid by CTR she could not solicit donations for the campaign. She could be at CTR for a period and move to some other vehicle (New York – or Michigan- state party, DNC, HFA) at any point (i.e. there is no waiting period).
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16024
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20102
CTR talking points for January 2015. CTR is Correct the Record, a super PAC mostly known for hiring paid posters, shills to post pro-Hillary content on Reddit and Facebook. The goal of such an operation is to create an illusion of organic support for Hillary. This roundup will be possibly useful in the future to identify senior CTR accounts by comparing what they posted to the contents of this email, since most CTR employees only started posting much closer to the election than January 2015.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/20102
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DTC
Donald Trump Campaign
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Clinton strategist: We need to “produce an unaware and compliant citizenry” to defeat Trump:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599#efmARKATm
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4518
Hillary campaign desperate to generate fake “USA!” chants, calls Trump supporters “angry white guys”:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4518
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4664
Clinton campaign and the New York Times coordinating attack strategy against Trump:
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4664
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5774
Call to undermine Trump by accusing him of big brother plans.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5774
89
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7273
“…Trump is change of historic size…”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7273
90
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21792
David Brock (founded Correct the Record) ups the budget when The Donald is the apparent nominee
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21792
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21792
Brock now thinks Hillary will likely face The Donald , and that he could give her a tough challenge. He’s leaning on his super PAC, American Bridge, to step up delivery of a Trump oppo research book, contemplating strategic and tactical changes to Bridge’s program, and upping the group’s budget, the source said. Bridge’s union allies are telling Brock that Trump could attract significant support from rank-and-file union members in key states.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21792
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25449
“He’s [Trump] winning state after state in the primaries and his campaign doesn’t show any signs of slowing. He’s even funding his own campaign, so there’s no fear of running out of resources and losing steam.”
“Trump’s widespread, unwavering support among GOP voters is nothing short of terrifying.”
That’s because this train has no brakes!
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25449#efmAh5AlD
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FP
Foreign Policy
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Considering Hillary has been in Putin’s “inner sanctum” and approved of 20% of our uranium to end up in his governmental pockets, it shows her cozy relationship between them. HYPOCRITE!
Page 61 of attachment:
“Hillary Clinton Said One Time She Visited Putin And Bonded With Him Over Protecting The Habitat Of Tigers. “One time, I was visiting with him in his dacha outside of Moscow, and he was going on and on, you know, just listing all of the problems that he thinks are caused by the United States. And I said, ‘Well, you know, Mr.’—at that time, he was still prime minister. I said, ‘You know, Mr. Prime Minister, we actually have some things in common. We both want to protect wildlife, and I know how committed you are to protecting the tiger.’ I mean, all of a sudden, he sat up straight and his eyes got big and he goes, ‘You care about the tiger? I said, ‘I care about the tiger, I care about the elephant, I care about the rhinoceros, I care about the whale. I mean, yeah, I think we have a duty. You know, it’s an obligation that we as human beings have to protect God’s creation.’ He goes, ‘Come with me.’ So we go down the stairs, we go down this long hall, we go into this private inner sanctum. All of his, you know, very beefy security guys are there, they all jump up at attention, you know, they punch a code, he goes through a heavily-armed door. And then we’re in an inner, inner sanctum with, you know, just this long, wooden table, and then further back, there’s a desk and the biggest map of Russia I ever saw. And he starts talking to me about, you know, the habitat of the tigers and the habitat of the seals and the whales. And it was quite something.” [Jewish United Fund Of Metropolitan Chicago Vanguard Luncheon, 10/28/13]
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927
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>Hillary Clinton Dreams of ‘Open Trade and Open Borders’ & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/devastating-wikileaks-document-drop-hillary-clinton-dreams-open-trade-open-borders/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927#efmFhxFke
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Drone chemical warfare
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1488
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2016
Iran treaty discussion; Hillary wants sanctions and military threats
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2016
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In depth email dictating to Hillary what her stance on Israel should be
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2034
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>Hillary’s own advisor blamed Hillary for Benghazi & https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/785568915254575104
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2038
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Discussions about reforming laws regarding guantanamo bay (GTMO) and torture with reference from the “National Security Team”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2257
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Saudi Arabia & Qatar funding ISIS proof
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774#efmBA5BDe
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Trade deal explanation only for sophisticated audiences
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6330
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Foreign donor endowement?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7452
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Today’s Cost of War Receipt to the American People Iraq war invoice pretty much
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9954
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Muslim to Podesta: Trump Is Right “it really has little effect in the ISIL propaganda war if we’re hesitating to say “radical Islam”, they are already calling themselves the Islamic State after all”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18646
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HRC IS SEEN AS EXTREMEMLY UNFRIENDLY TO ISRAEL
From:meganrouse@gmail.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2015-05-11 21:21
Subject: Israel
“I’ve heard a concern from some folks who care deeply about Israel that Hillary will be the president “most unfriendly to Israel in our history, worse than Obama.” Thoughts on how I might respond in conversation? Thanks”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26101
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Ron Klain acknowledges that Hillary is very vulnerable on ISIS and terrorism :
“That is, it is just a matter of time before the Republicans (certainly) and the media (likely) begin to try to use San Bernandino as a sign that things were broken while she was Sec State and that she did not do enough to fix them. And I don’t know if saying, “Hey, this really wasn’t a problem until after I left State” is going to cut it. That is, someone (a Democratic opponent now, a moderator, or a Republican opponent later) takes her line – “the first job of any President is to keep the American people safe” – and says, “Well, it’s also the first job of a Secretary of State too – and what did you do about it while you were Sec State?”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26661
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Media Collusion
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Media collusion with Podesta getting drafts of NYT articles before they’re published
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/844
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Vice news does what Soros tells them
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/910
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More pre-published NYT articles being passed along for review
(a Rothschild is not exactly our best voice on income inequality)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1106
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More media collusion with Podesta being aware of media preparations before they break
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1216
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GOP debate moderator had lunch with Hillary’s campaign chief 3 weeks before the debate. see 4303
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2105
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Bill Clinton’s sex life liability
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2301
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CNBC/NYT Journalist John Harwood (was a Republican Primary debate moderator) reached out to John Podesta on numerous occasions, writing “congrats”, “she looked so much comfortable today” and more:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2591
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>DNC Chief Donna Brazile Conspired with Hillary to Defeat Bernie; Media Assisted Hillary & >https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/785575401275944960/photo/1 & >https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/785573145700892673/photo/1
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3023#efmAKjALL
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>The List of Reporters Were Taking Marching Orders from Hillary & (meta data) – https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/2015-03-08-John-Podesta-Subject-Re-Press-and-Surrogate-Plan-Email-From-pir-at-hrcoffice-com-Cc-John-Podesta-EmailID-3209-WikiLeaks-Mar-08-2015.pdf & (meta data/better format) – https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3125944-Press-Surrogate-Plan-030815.html & >https://theintercept.com/2016/10/09/exclusive-new-email-leak-reveals-clinton-campaigns-cozy-press-relationship/ & >http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-outs-corrupt-media-list-reporters-taking-marching-orders-hillary/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3209 (meta data)
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>Hillary Campaign thanking Univision’s owner Haim Saban for its moderators handling of Hillary against Sanders.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3782
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Hillary is a liability; becomes parasitic to Bernie’s cause
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3990
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Boston Globe colludes with Clinton campaign to give Hillary a “big presence”:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4180#efmAJhALE
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>NYT Gave Hillary Veto Power On Quotes… & >http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/new-york-times-gave-hillary-veto/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4213
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Scripted MSNBC interview
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4274
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>CNBC John Harwood Abused GOP Candidates at Debate – Then Trashed Them in Email to Hillary Camp & GOP debate moderator privately emailing Podesta post-debate & >http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/video-cnbc-crank-john-harwood-abused-gop-candidates-debate-trashed-email-hillary-camp/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4303
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Vice news looking to help Podesta “In any way they can”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4316
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HRC being lobbied to not follow fbi request for encryption
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4381
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4543 John Podesta hosts a dinner with reporters: I’m “Cooking for 30 of your reporter friends”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4543#efmAAGABu
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>CNN refers to Hillary as ‘Madre’ >https://twitter.com/hrtablaze/status/785983773124857856
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4818
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Head of Yahoo news planning pro-Hillary pieces with Podesta
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4836
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Media Collusion with NBC
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5142
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>BRAZILE BUSTED: DNC Chief Shared CNN Town Hall Questions… & >http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/11/revealed-donna-brazile-shared-cnn-town-hall-questions-with-clinton-camp/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5205
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Ad for Hillary Clinton secretly pitched by ‘right-leaning’ Heat Street ‘journalist’ Louise Mensch:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5740#efmAMvAUe
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio asking Clinton staff for approval/input about what he will say when asked about Hillary Clinton by interviewer:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5817#efmANjAcC
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Clinton Staff hosts private “off-the-record cocktail party” with 38 “influential” reporters, journalists, editors, and anchors (from 16 different mainstream media outlets including CNN, NBC, CBS, NYT, MSNBC, & more) with the stated goal of “framing the race”. (see attachment)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5953
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5988 Huffington Post contributor Frank Islam writes to John Podesta in email titled “My blogs in the Huffington Post”, says “I am committed to make sure she is elected the next president.” “Please let me know if I can be of any service to you”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5988#efmADmAE6AF-AG1
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Brent Budowsky (writer for The Hill and Huffington Post) warns John Podesta about possible Hillary attacks and that not talking to the press is killing her support: “I’m not going to raise this publicly, but..”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6453#efmARBAUVAVJAXBAfNAhWAkaAl4
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>Polls are untrustworthy, middle class will go from Dem to Trump, the rich hate Trump according to democrat advisor
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7273
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7524 Clinton staff “Placing a story” with Politico / New York Times: “place a story with a friendly journalist” “we have a very good relationship with Maggie Haberman of Politico” “we should shape likely leaks in the best light for HRC”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7524#efmA14A2IA3AA36A9fA-kA-6BAICwpCx4
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MORE MEDIA COLLUSION: Progressive media & Clinton foundation
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7570
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>Hillary staffers leaking reports to the NY Post to get them published
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7699
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CNBC panelist colluding with John Podesta on what to ask Trump when he calls in for an interview:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7710#efmAakAd6AjgAlR
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Brent Budowsky (writer for The Hill and Huffington Post) acting as an advisor again: Warns Podesta: “Almost every message being projected outward from her campaign is negative, and a candidate with high distrust ratings should not be doing this. My phone has been ringing and my email box is full with democrats who like me who support her, but like me, are appalled and losing confidence” “This campaign is in very, very big trouble”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7742#efmAAGAE0AlqAnx
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The Hill media collusion with HRC
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7899
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>CNN suspends reporters for having private political views, also talks about using the “liberal media” as an entity
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7966
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>Debate prep book 1
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8009
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>Debate prep book 2
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails//fileid/8009/2407
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Just Clinton staff conspiring to fake Wallstreet speeches
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8086
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Ben Sherwood is a writer, a journalist, and a producer who currently serves as the Co-Chairman of Disney Media Networks, and the President of Disney-ABC Television Group. Sherwood is the former President of ABC News
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8359
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It seems that they get to control the release times of Associated Press articles relevant possible to when Hillary was declared the frontrunner by AP just before the california primary after anonymous calls of the AP to superdelegates.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8460
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>FOX News Mole Leaked Town Hall Question to Clinton Campaign. & >http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-fox-news-mole-leaked-town-hall-question-clinton-campaign/ & >http://vesselnews.io/wikileaks-fox-news-mole-leaked-late-term-abortion-debate-question-hillary-campaign/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8678
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Clinton staff colluding with New York Times and Wall Street Journal to paint Hillary’s economic policies in a “progressive” light:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9007#efmAcTAdS
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DipJar CEO confirmed for hillshill
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9193
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Collusion with Washington Post
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9268
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Numbers from Iowa are terrible
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9302
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The Daily Show = source of news
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9318
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More media collusion Campaign aware of a NYT article before its release
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9416
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The story is moving more and more toward terrorism and it seems like by riffing on guns just now she looked a little behind the curve.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9507
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>WASH POST burea chief protected Podesta… & >http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/11/washington-post-reporter-spiked-info-about-podesta-conflict-of-interest/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9530
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Univision’s Haim Saban colluding with HRC campaign
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9547
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More media Collusion
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9578
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HRC campaign collusion with NYT report Mark Leibovich
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9586
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MORE MEDIA COLLUSION
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9714
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I didnt expect to be fucked by NYT – John Podesta to NYT
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9865
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BIG MEDIA COLLUSION
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9922
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Dreamwrks Media Collusion >Let’s talk after Meet the Press tmrw. Want to discuss Potus and Biden.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9992
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Jeffrey Katzenberg and Andy Spahn meeting with John podesta (Andy spahn being a huge democratic backer) >Andy Spahn (http://gonringspahn.com/andy_spahn.php) has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, is recognized as one of the top Democratic fundraisers in the country, was named one of the “Biggest Political Players” by The Hollywood Reporter and one of POLITICO’s “50 People to Watch.” He frequently serves as a trusted source of information to the national press corps on politics and philanthropy
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10021
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John Hardwood CNBC’s/NYT journalist again shown kissing the ass of Podesta & DNC
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10119
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implicated
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10119#searchresult
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Collusion with the DNC and Univsion & Telemundo & Spanish radio
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10160
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HRC and stagg got the questions and answers in advance of this forum with Bernie, Martin O’Malley & HRC http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/01/12/brown-and-black-forum-mixes-blunt-questions-lighter-fare/78668732/
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10288
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Progressive Media Outreach & Strategy Plan – Echo Chamber
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10547
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Forcing Progressive Agenda at every level of Govt for Years to Come
https://wikileaks.com/podesta-emails/emailid/10951
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From Liz bartolomeo “Neera — David Herszenhorn’s story in the Times is now online; Everyone in this email chain has an @americanprogress.org and some are
affiliated with news networks like Lindsay Hamilton being one of the
recipients, she works for TSN http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/us/politics/hillary-clinton-lobbied-on-health-care-as-secretary-of-state-emails-show.htm
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11104
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Scheduling Call w/ Jeffrey Katzenberg
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11106
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Hillary Campaign in bed with NYT, Mika (Joe’s gf), make fun of Cruz’s Canadian birther issue to distract the public from HRC email disaster.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11150
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Clinton campaign tells “AP, Politico, WSJ, WaPo, etc…” exactly what to say and when to say it, from her medical records to speech income. Even dictates exact headlines.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11277
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HRC “excellent health” statement being leaked to ‘press’
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11277
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EVERY SINGLE MSM OUTLET HAS SHILLS LISTED HERE &
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/787650648535887872
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11409
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placing “transparency” story with politico journalist Maggie Haberman
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11699
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more co-coordinating with NYT and WSJ.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11760#efmB52B7o
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List of media personalities who went to the “off the record” private party in the personal home of John Podesta. Includes many corrupt, in the tank-for-Hillary journalists like John Heillman, Mark Halperin, Maggie Haberman (colluding in other emails with the Hillary campaign) and many others. Largest amount of invitees who said yes to the private party are from the NYT, Bloomberg, MSNBC, CNN . Seems to nicely reflect the level of corruption and pro-Hillary bias. This is April 2015 so they were influencing and corrupting journalists for a long time and their investment clearly paid off.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12063
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EMAIL 12110 From: Glenn Thrush, Chief Political Correspondent & Senior Staff Writer at POLITICO to John Podesta “I need u It’s an Obama WH story you are in the thing… in a good way but could really use your insights sorry to be a pain in the ass ” The only Obama related article by Glenn Thrush around this time is this one: http://archive.is/gMigP – archived so the evidence can’t get as easily deleted as Crooked Hillary Clinton’s 33 000 emails.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12110
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Final nail in the coffin that Politico is an arm of the Clinton campaign
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12189
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Glenn Thrush from POLITICO checking to make sure his article is okay to print. What a bitch!
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12189
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More direct dealings with the press (Politico)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12191#efmAAGACyAGGAHk
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MEDIA COLLUSION: Jennifer Palmieri is complaining that in an interview with WJC about the Foundation, NBC asked CRITICAL questions since they had PREVIOUSLY agreed to paint the foundation in a good light, even though they are still promising to do so. So she makes a contingency plan for good press: “Craig has gotten in touch with NY mag this am to do a story about how grossly the media has handled the story on book/foundation and make this experience with NBC part of that story.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12196
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Trouble with NBC? Call Chuck Todd, he’ll take care of it.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12196
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– hillary given questions and answers for several TV appearances
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12241
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Looking for someone outside the campaign to attribute to an article that they wrote for medium:
This is the article: https://medium.com/@clai.lasher/i-m-with-hillary-f8a0b943dcbc
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12278
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Looking for someone outside the campaign to attribute to an article that they wrote for medium:
This is the article: https://medium.com/@clai.lasher/i-m-with-hillary-f8a0b943dcbc
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12278
https://twitter.com/AlexandreHilt0n/status/786920423908868097
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EMAILID 12403 From the attachment section of the email. This pdf memo reveals extremely close coordination between Eric Schmidt (google) and the Clinton campaign as early as 2014. They are developing software tools to help out the Clinton campaign. “I have been kept apprised of the work being done by Eric Schmidt’s group and others working directly and indirectly with your team. .. In summary: We have selected a team of developers, unaffiliated with Eric, to build the front-end of your website… Eric’s team is also developing products that are not, strictly speaking, critical for launch, but would be extremely useful to have as early in the cycle as possible”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12403
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Hillary campaign coordinating with Executive Chairman of Google parent Alphabet, Inc Eric Schmidt in 2014 (FEC laws you fucks)
• We have selected a team of developers, unaffiliated with Eric, to build the front-end of your website — a relatively simple process that does not need to have begun yet. These are former employees of mine in whom I have the highest confidence. They are apprised of what Eric is building but not dependent on it, having identified commercially available products for all mission-critical functions in the event Eric’s group is delayed or otherwise derailed.
• We have instructed Eric’s team to build the most important products in their portfolio — specifically, the back-end of the website, the ability to accept donations (along with associated features, most importantly the ability to store credit card information), and the ability to acquire email addresses — first. Given how much time remains between now and launch — and, again, the availability of alternative solutions — I believe there is effectively no chance that these core functionalities will not be in place in time for launch.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12403
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EMAILID 12427 Clinton campaign is getting questions in advance AGAIN for debates. Previously they got a debate question from Donna Brazile. This time it is John Podesta that gets the email from Jon Soltz who somehow learned of a question Cavuto will ask in an upcoming Republican debate. Podesta immediately blasts this out to the whole campaign so they prepare for the fallout. Soltz to Podesta: “We have gotten intel that Neil Cavuto plans to ask a veterans question of the GOP candidates tonight. As you can guess, the candidates are very likely to attack the Secretary in their answers. Your press team, therefore, may find it useful to get this to reporters”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12427
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Glenn Thrush, Politico Chief Political Correspondent: “No worries
> Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains
> to u
> Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this
> Tell me if I fucked up anything”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12681#efmABjAEV
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EMAILID 12681 Glenn Thrush Politico’s “Chief Political Correspondent” , extremely corrupt, dishonest “journalist” writes to John Podesta: “Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to u Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this Tell me if I fucked up anything” then he sends a huge part of the article to John Podesta. Absolutely disgraceful. Podesta approves the section of course which showed him in a very positive light to begin with. Don’t worry Glenn Trush of the Politico. I’m sure Podesta won’t tell anyone you did this.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12681#efmAByAEV
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EMAILID 12681 Glenn Thrush , extremely corrupt, dishonest “journalist” writes to John Podesta: “Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to u Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this Tell me if I fucked up anything” then he sends a huge part of the article to John Podesta. Absolutely disgraceful. Podesta approves the section of course which showed him in a very positive light to begin with. Don’t worry Glenn Trush of the Politico. I’m sure Podesta won’t tell anyone you did this.
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EMAILID 12831 Foreign press reaches out to the Clinton campaign : “I am writing to you on behalf of the Leading European Newspaper Alliance (LENA), which brings together Die Welt from Germany, El País from Spain, Belgium’s Le Soir, La Reppublica from Italy … an interview with Secretary Clinton. There is plenty for the Secretary to say to the people of Europe. We do not have a set timeframe, and we are perfectly aware of how tight her schedule is. We also know that interviews get arranged by strict policies and guidelines and only if they serve the communication agenda of the Secretary.”
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EMAILID 12831 Foreign press reaches out to the Clinton campaign : “I am writing to you on behalf of the Leading European Newspaper Alliance (LENA), which brings together Die Welt from Germany, El País from Spain, Belgium’s Le Soir, La Reppublica from Italy … an interview with Secretary Clinton. There is plenty for the Secretary to say to the people of Europe. We do not have a set timeframe, and we are perfectly aware of how tight her schedule is. We also know that interviews get arranged by strict policies and guidelines and only if they serve the communication agenda of the Secretary.”
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EMAILID 13817 Brent Budowsky again writing to Podesta… It seems Budowsky was an informal adviser of sorts to Podesta (while claiming to be a “journalist”). Budowsky wrote Podesta 70 emails according to the search engine, just in the leaks released so far. This time Budowsky appears to fish for a pat on the back, writing “You’ll enjoy how I handled Trump’s attack against Huma, among other things…Brent” and attaches his latest article, no doubt the fruit of the unhealthy relationship between him and Podesta. http://archive.is/3FStJ Budowsky is as clear a case of a Clinton campaign operative pretending to be a journalist as there ever was. I provided an archived version of the article because of the Clinton campaign’s known penchant for deleting incriminating evidence.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13817
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EMAILID 13817 Brent Budowsky again writing to Podesta… It seems Budowsky was an informal adviser of sorts to Podesta (while claiming to be a “journalist”). Budowsky wrote Podesta 70 emails according to the search engine, just in the leaks released so far. This time Budowsky appears to fish for a pat on the back, writing “You’ll enjoy how I handled Trump’s attack against Huma, among other things…Brent” and attaches his latest article, no doubt the fruit of the unhealthy relationship between him and Podesta. http://archive.is/3FStJ Budowsky is as clear a case of a Clinton campaign operative pretending to be a journalist as there ever was. I provided an archived version of the article because of the Clinton campaign’s known penchant for deleting incriminating evidence.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13817
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Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) – ” He’s begun to think about whether/how he might want to shape advocacy efforts to support his philanthropic priorities and is particularly interested in meeting people who could help him understand how to move the needle on the specific public policy issues he cares most about. He wants to meet folks who can inform his understanding about effective political operations to advance public policy goals on social oriented objectives (like immigration, education or basic scientific research).”
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EMAILID 15261 More from Mindy (the mole on Elizabeth Warren’s team) and Maggie (an NYT journalist, often colluding with the Clinton campaign). Mindy is giving up inside info as usual, Maggie is colluding as usual. ” The NYT (Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman) reached out this morning to tell us that they are aware of a meeting HRC had with Senator Warren at her house back in December. They plan to write imminently, so wanted everyone to be aware that this could pop soon.” Giving advance warning. “Just talked w Mindy. Good convo. She said she’s been getting really good feedback about Dan’s outreach–she said she knows we are talking to the people they suggested and they really like Dan…So good work, Schwerin! Also, she flagged that they’re going to push back hard against POTUS on trade.” handing out info. “And the NYT piece is fine — for both sides.” Of course it is good for you, one of your pawns Maggie Haberman co-wrote it. Phillipe Reines on the same NYT story : “They have to believe it came from us. Reads too perfectly for HRC. If we intended to do it it probably wouldn’t read so perfectly.” Once again a crooked journalist wrote it so it is no big surprise it reads “too perfectly for HRC”. Just remember that Maggie Haberman from the NYT is as Crooked as they come.
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EMAILID 15261 More from Mindy (the mole on Elizabeth Warren’s team) and Maggie (an NYT journalist, often colluding with the Clinton campaign). Mindy is giving up inside info as usual, Maggie is colluding as usual. ” The NYT (Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman) reached out this morning to tell us that they are aware of a meeting HRC had with Senator Warren at her house back in December. They plan to write imminently, so wanted everyone to be aware that this could pop soon.” Giving advance warning. “Just talked w Mindy. Good convo. She said she’s been getting really good feedback about Dan’s outreach–she said she knows we are talking to the people they suggested and they really like Dan…So good work, Schwerin! Also, she flagged that they’re going to push back hard against POTUS on trade.” handing out info. “And the NYT piece is fine — for both sides.” Of course it is good for you, one of your pawns Maggie Haberman co-wrote it. Phillipe Reines on the same NYT story : “They have to believe it came from us. Reads too perfectly for HRC. If we intended to do it it probably wouldn’t read so perfectly.” Once again a crooked journalist wrote it so it is no big surprise it reads “too perfectly for HRC”. Just remember that Maggie Haberman from the NYT is as Crooked as they come.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15261
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Mark Penn says they will be supportive.He was at Microsoft but apparently the stagwell group is involved in polling
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15398
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This email talks about a guy named Chip Smith wanting to help out with the campaign. He is the ceo/coo of Glover Park Group, a lobbying firm, and previously had worked on the Gore campaign. In 2013 the firm, full of ex Clinton staffers, donated to the CF according to this article: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/193467-group-touted-clinton-access-for-250000.
More interestingly, in May of this year, Chippy became the chief lobbyist for good old Rupert Murdoch and 21st Century Fox. The Cuckening of Fox is real. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/05/05/chip-smith-democratic-strategist-and-gore-aide-to-take-top-lobbying-job-at-21st-century-fox/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15434
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EMAILID 15455 Email contains attachments with the agenda of a 2007 meeting in NY. Many issues are discussed, like the topic of creating a media “echo chamber” : Control the political discourse. So much effort over the past few years has been focused on better coordinating, strengthening, and developing progressive institutions and leaders. Now that this enhanced infrastructure is in place—grassroots organizing; multi-issue advocacy groups; think tanks; youth outreach; faith communities; micro-targeting outfits; the netroots and blogosphere—we need to better utilize these networks to drive the content of politics through a strong “echo chamber” and message delivery system.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15455
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Laura Meckler from WSJ dinner with Podesta and kissing ass Podesta forwards to HRC campaign and asks: No good deed goes unpunished. Let me know how to handle. HRC campaign responds: Send her to us.
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15525#searchresult
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RIGGED POLLS! We are as interested in the “who” suburban, rural, we are polling as the issues. The plan includes a possible focus on women, might be something we want to do is over sample if we are worried about a certain group later in the summer.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15442
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More media collusion + getting celebs to tweet pro Hillary video. It’s all organized folks.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15563
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Clinton Camp received heads up on stories from Politico before they are published
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15722
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The failing New York Times proves themselves as DNC lapdogs once again
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15798
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Here’s Katie Couric sucking up to the campaign, guaranteeing “viral” potential if she’ll grant an interview.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15819#efmAFaALTAN_AP5
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Apple’s “experts” working with the Clinton campaign after encryption issue
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they were offered cybersecurity advice…
“Hey John, I know you’ve seen the article below. Huge issue out here as I am sure you know. If you ever want our tech experts to brief your folks, we’d be happy to do it.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15856
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Observer writer colluding with Clinton campaign
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16329
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MEDIA COLLUSION
WaPo ‘journalist’ trying to see how they can help with a story on WJC
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17311#searchresult
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More Media collusion, getting a story that will break next week a week in advance so they can prepare a statement
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17435
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EMAILID 17451 Remember how tweets signed by -H supposedly come from Hillary personally?
Tweets like this one https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/612002144686874627 Archived version http://archive.is/u4Kwz (no sudden deletions through BleachBit here)
The discussion in this email determined that that was a lie. Teddy Goff, John Podesta, Lauren Peterson and others discuss and craft that tweet through several revisions. Earlier versions include
Real problems take real solutions. Thank you, @Pontifex https://twitter.com/Pontifex, for shining a light on the crisis of climate change. -H
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There’s only one thing to say about @Pontifex https://twitter.com/Pontifex’s bold statements on climate change & renewable energy: Amen. -H
I believe these are the two we landed on as far as people’s favorites.
So there were even more versions before this…
Teddy Geoff:
Adding Podesta here too for his review. I vote #2, but defer to the non-Jews on this thread if anyone thinks “amen” might rub people the wrong way.
Lauren Peterson
How’s this? .@Pontifex https://twitter.com/Pontifex is right—climate change is a > moral crisis that disproportionately harms the neediest among us. We need > leadership, not denial. -H
John Podesta
I like it.
Notice how that last version is the same that was tweeted out. So tweets signed by -H actually came when John Podesta “liked it” and went through numerous revisions, reviews and product of teamwork beforehand. With 0% actual input from Hillary Clinton.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17451#efmAB8AErAWOAYnAYyAbJ
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Podesta decides to stonewall the WSJ. This email has the subject:Confidential . The staff is very very worried about the WSJ finding out that Hillary is already having meetings and building the campaign team in early 2014. He milks info out of the journalist which he shares with the others so they can map out what the guy knows. For some reason they are very afraid of this one. Podesta writes about the meeting with the WSJ journalist.:
He was doing a story on who wanted her to run, who didn’t. Had you in the latter category Only thing I told him was there was a third category-people who thought it was her decision and would support her whatever she decided. He had you, me and Maggie meeting with her at Whitehaven. Didn’t mention Plouffe. I didn’t engage with him on the topic. Just let him talk and gave nothing back.
They made a complete fool out of this poor WSJ guy. He should come out and set the record straight regarding this issue.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17556
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Glenn Thrush is at it again. In a previous email defined himself as a “hack journalist” and pleaded with Podesta “please don’t tell anyone I did this” when colluding with him. Now Glenn saw a bad tweet from Podesta and he immediately feels the need to grovel at his feet:
Saw your tweet I think u know I wasn’t fabricating you anything… No need for a response, but I hope u understand that I take this stuff seriously and try to be sensitive to the human impact of these shitty stories I take zero pleasure in them — whether u folks believe me or not Cheers and good luck today
Podesta’s response
..my tweet was accurate so 1) maybe you should question your sources or 2) maybe you are talking to people on the inside who the pressure is getting to.
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From:john.podesta@gmail.com To: gthrush@politico.com Date: 2016-02-09 18:52 Subject: Re: OTR
I have no doubt you had sources for your story and weren’t just making it up, but my tweet was accurate so 1) maybe you should question your sources or 2) maybe you are talking to people on the inside who the pressure is getting to.
On Tuesday, February 9, 2016, Glenn Thrush gthrush@politico.com wrote: > Saw your tweet > I think u know I wasn’t fabricating you anything… > No need for a response, but I hope u understand that I take this stuff > seriously and try to be sensitive to the human impact of these shitty > stories > I take zero pleasure in them — whether u folks believe me or not > Cheers and good luck today > > Sent from my iPhone
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EMAILID 19070 Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook writes to John Podesta May 2015:
And I still want HRC to win badly. I am still here to help as I can. She came over and was magical with my kids.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/19070#efmACIAD6
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Gloria Borger, CNN Chief Political Correspondent casually chatting & sucking up to Podesta
From:Gloria.Borger@turner.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2016-02-12 04:16
Subject: Re: U r a tv star!
She had a really good debate tonite
On Feb 12, 2016, at 1:14 AM, John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> wrote:
Yup
On Thursday, February 11, 2016, Borger, Gloria <Gloria.Borger@turner.com> wrote:
I have been in gop hell. Will reach out soon! U good?
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/19362#searchresult
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Much of this was already covered in earlier batches. Jake Tapper was upset about a story by Faiz Shakir. He complained directly to Jenifer Palmieri and John Podesta though.
The new parts in this chain are both from Jake Tapper:
What’s the plan? To try to intimidate reporters who ever report on anything the White House disapproves of? Disgusting.
The report Thinkprogress filed about me is dead wrong. I made that clear to your reporter and he wrote it any way. If this is the quality of CAP’s work I will let ABC News know that your organization cannot be counted on for factually accurate information.
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/20133
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Surrogate List! Names, dates, times, and what network they were on. Lot of surrogates here from Februrary. I have no idea whether all of them were known to be surrogates of Crooked Hillary at the time or they presented themselves as neutral commentators.
Also, all of the below have the memo – let me know if there are other messages we want them driving?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21454
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Re: 315 pm prep for FOX Town Hall Prep
While prepping for a town hall once again they “hear” the topics in advance.
Must be nice. Before almost every debate. To “hear” topics. Questions.
Kristina Costas writes:
Flagging that Bob B. heard that they could ask about carbon tax and late-term abortion restrictions. Solow and I are pulling debate book materials & running abortion answer by Jen & Rachel ahead of 3pm.
Bob B. Hmmm. Could it be Bob Beckel using his contacts at FOX?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21526#efmAJiAOE
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An interesting thread trying to chase down the FOX MOLE who was just revealed in Podesta 12.5 (this thread)
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58bshg/fox_news_debate_a_sham_get_this_to_the_top/
The existence of moles are revealed by the documented instances where questions or topics were leaked before a debate directly to the Hillary Clinton Campaign and the Podesta Emails show undeniable proof of it. See some of the newly discovered evidence below about a person named Bob B.. He was leaking information from FOX to the Clinton campaign. Bob B. leaked two upcoming questions, one about “carbon tax” and “late term abortion restrictions” before a town hall debate. The following text was sent as part of an email between Clinton operatives just before a previous Fox debate
Flagging that Bob B. heard that they could ask about carbon tax and late-term abortion restrictions. Solow and I are pulling debate book materials & running abortion answer by Jen & Rachel ahead of 3pm.
This is extremely important since the third presidential debate will be on the same FOX, this new information just came to light about. With confirmed previous leaking at FOX, we can not be sure the presidential debate questions were not also leaked. In fact it is extremely likely that the exact same system that produced one leak in one debate would produce another leak in another debate
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21526#efmAJiAOE
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Tapper, ABC, colluding with Podesta on a tweet
From:Jake.Tapper@abc.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com,
Some just tweeted something inaccurate about me, claiming I said something I didn’t. What am I supposed to do here?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21716
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Flournoy vetting Politico stories
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21886
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HRC has no black support and collusion with media
From:kfinney@hillaryclinton.com To: jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com Date: 2015-08-18 19:30 Subject: Re: Hillary Clinton needs to sit down with black reporters fast. Her efforts in the black community are not resonating
April Ryan White House Correspondent Washington Bureau Chief American Urban Radio Networks
>I would love to be a part of this sit down hopefully in DC.
From:kfinney@hillaryclinton.com To: jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com
how about I circle back with her. It’s a good idea
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21935
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HRC campaign dining with 25 reporters
Subject: RE: Press Dinners – Full Info
Here is the current RSVP list to the Thursday Night (4/9) dinner at Podesta’s.
As a reminder, this is with the 25 reporters more closely following HRC (aka the future bus).
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22283
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MORE EVIDENCE OF MEDIA COLLUSION
Glenn Thrush, Politico Chief Political Correspondent to Podesta
>Saw your tweet I think u know I wasn’t fabricating you anything… No need for a response, but I hope u understand that I take this stuff seriously and try to be sensitive to the human impact of these shitty stories I take zero pleasure in them — whether u folks believe me or not Cheers and good luck today
Podesta Responds
>I have no doubt you had sources for your story and weren’t just making it up, but my tweet was accurate so 1) maybe you should question your sources or 2) maybe you are talking to people on the inside who the pressure is getting to.
Thrush Cowers
>1) I do 2) very fair point Again best of luck
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22284
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HRC USING MORE COLLUDING MEDIA ORGS TO DISCREDIT BERNIE & PROOF THEY LINE UP PAID FOR “VALIDATORS” TO BE THEIR MOUTH PIECE TO GIVE THE ILLUSION OF CREDIBILITY
Bradley Komar wrote:
“The only candidate to oppose fracking” “What does that mean? A complete 100% fracking ban. There is no elected dem and I believe no enviro group that takes this position. In fact, such an extreme position threatens the progress of common-sense safety measures like frack fluid disclosure and methane capture/air quality regulations.
I think the Denver Post Ed Board could smack Sanders if we want them to but that makes it a bigger fight.”
MORE MSM CONTROLLED BY HRC
*From:* Bradley Komar
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 23, 2016 6:57 PM
*To:* Lily Adams
*Subject:* Re: NEW AD: Bernie Sanders – “Frack”
“I agree 100% would love to whistle passed the graveyard. but they are airing the ad for a reason, I expect they will draw us into a comment, and validators knocking Bernie for being irresponsible and in doing so, threatening real progress, makes a lot of sense to me. This is yet another promise he can’t keep.
I can quietly line up the validators now or wait until he fires. Nothing public until we a drawn out.”
HRC CAMPAIGN LINING UP BOUGHT AND PAID FOR “VALIDATORS” THAT WILL SAY WHATEVER THEY ARE TOLD TO DISCREDIT BERNIE’S POSITION
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23689
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EMAILD Much of this email appeared in earlier leaks, just the last response from Philippe Reines is new. That result seems like Reines wanted to play a larger part in the campaign but he was not trusted enough.
This email chain shows there were multiple leaks from the Hillary campaign and someone was leaking information that Andrea Mitchell was going to get an interview with Hillary. There were also possible leaks to Andrea Mitchell herself. Just recently Brian Fallon was writing something stealthily providing that information to Andrea Mitchell in the middle of a press conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMU_2V-bl-4 Andrea Mitchell got to ask a question soon after.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24675
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MEDIA COLLUSION
Dan Feiffer of CNN is a “Hillary supporter”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25106#efmAH-AIx
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HRC CAMPAIGN GIVEN HEADS UP ON AN ARTICLE BEING WRITTEN BEFORE ITS PUBLISHED
Dems trying to brainstorm how to counter such a negative article, given my a media insider before it comes out.
“Roy-Don’t be surprised if I write a column soon that Hillary is going to blow it, and is repeating her mistakes of 2008, with stories about her “shadow campaign” of consultants milking her for a lot of money, while she gives paid speeches to banks, while she acts like an incumbent, and says virtually nothing important about what Democrats stand for, while the most admired person in the world is the pope for saying the kind of things she should be saying but isn’t about economic fairness. This has got to be the worst pre-campaign in my memory. Imagine running as the candidate for the Democratic nomination as the candidate of banks, consultants and insiders. Unbelievable.”
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25264
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Brent Budowsky BTFO. He is the guy who wrote to Podesta a huge number of emails. No other journalist wrote to Podesta so much as Brent. And yet this is how Podesta viewed his own personal lapdog :
“To you only: Brent Budowsky. Leftie with no following, but clearly Roy sort of agrees with concerns .”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25264#efmABnADO
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Louise Mensch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Mensch. She was the Conservative MP for Corby from 2010 to 2012.[2] She is currently the head of the news website Heat Street.) writes:
“As you will know from Arnold I am a committed Republican (or would be if I had the vote this year). But I worry no end about Donald Trump becoming our President… much rather have your girl Hillary.
Anyway, the politician in me thinks Lena Dunham and Gloria Steinem are nails on a chalkboard to the average American woman…
Her [HRC] competence and intelligence are beyond doubt, her problem is warmth.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25540
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MORE COLLUSION BETWEEN BUDOWSKY (JOURNALIST) AND PODESTA/HRC CAMPAIGN
Brent Budowsky <brentbbi@webtv.net> wrote:
“Walk back and escape from her statement that “finally we are where we need to be” against ISIS. We are not where we need to be, we are far from it, most voters do not believe it, and when the next terror attack comes in America— which it certainly will—-she will be branded in hot iron with that statement.”
“She can praise Obama without such extravagant overstatement and such direct endorsement of his policy by falsely stating we are where we need to be.”
THE PUBLIC DOES NOT BELIEVE WE ARE WHERE WE NEED TO BE WITH ISIS. SHE CLEARLY WAS GRANDSTANDING
“I suspect her negative trust ratings are locked in through election day. If there is a Trump ISIS video the campaign release it. If not, her untrustworthy numbers will remain further locked at high levels. These trust problems are self-induced and keep occurring.”
HRC IS EXTREMELY UNTRUSTWORTHY AND HER CAMPAIGN KNOWS IT
“p.s. On the UN last week, support it yes, but be careful. I love Kerry like a bro’ and support him always as HRC should and does.”
IS THIS IN REFERENCE TO THE 7TH FLOOR MENTIONED IN OTHER LEAKED EMAILS?
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More from Brent Budowsky “journalist” to John Podesta February 2015 :
“John, some free advice, good advice. Clinton Foundation should cut off foreign donations ASAP. Inevitably will happen anyway, they should get it off the table now.. You do not need me to tell you, before this campaign is done, it will not be pretty. I will not publicly call for this, but this is my advice to you and them”
So this is what he believes, about the foreign donations but won’t mention it as an alleged journalist only as the personal email bro of John Podesta.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26121
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REUTERS REPORTER GIVING PODESTA HEADS UP ON BENGHAZI INVESTIGATION DOCUMENTATION & GIVES INFO THAT MIGHT DERAIL IT
Mark Hosenball (thomson reuters) to Podesta wrote:
“I have run across a rather interesting document which outlines in detail the principal current objectives of the House Benghazi Committee, and was wondering if you might have a minute or two to discuss this. If you are anywhere near 1333 H in next day or two I might even show the document to you (I’m out on Thursday, however) though I am reluctant to hand out copies at this stage. It is a document which raises some questions about the bona fides of the committee’s investigation, rather than about anything specific a certain former SecState might have done. If this is something that you would not want to get involved in, if you had any alternative ideas as to who I ought to speak to I would welcome them. Hope all is well etc. All best & regards mh”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26336
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MORE MEDIA COLLUSION WITH THE WSJ
EMAILID 26404 Corrupt WSJ reporter thanks Podesta for the extravagant dinner party in his home. Fantastic food and great opportunities “to connect”. They don’t even have to bribe these journalists with money, they are presstituting themselves for free diners, better connections and “scoops” from the Clinton Campaign.
“Hi John – I just wanted to thank you again for your hospitality last night. You were so kind to open your home to us, and the food was as fantastic as promised (everyone at the White House raves about your dinners). I really appreciated the opportunity to connect with a number of folks from Team Clinton. The evening was a great way to kick off this crazy adventure. Thank you, and I hope we’ll cross paths again soon. Best,
Colleen
Colleen McCain Nelson
The Wall Street Journal
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26404
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Content Subject: Initial investigative report confirms HRC/meda/third part collusion
Immediate Implications: This initial report confirms numerous reporters and HRC staffers were aware, encouraging, and utilizing media collusion to better frame and prepare HRC for her presidential campaign.
Full Report:
With the conclusion of the Third Presidential Debate, media sources began attacking Donald Trump for his “conspiratorial language” regarding collusion and vote rigging. These attacks occurred well before the Third Debate. Numerous high level individuals stated point blankly that there was no collusion or rigging of events.
Initial investigations by Task Force 58 have determined that statements claiming that there is no collusion are false. Numerous emails have been identified that confirm collusion at a number of levels with large media outlets. These include but are not limited to the following:
ABC
NBC
MSNBC
Politico
Huffington Post
The New York Times
Reporters of note involved directly include:
Jake Tapper
Chuck Todd
Reporters will try to hide themselves in their emails either by reporting to an HRC campaign handler that then forwards their articles to the campaign for review and approval, or they will use gmail accounts to hide their identity. We are working hard to try and match mails with names.
In the meantime, we have prepared a PDF that of our initial results. Ordinarily, we would not release such a small document. However, we felt it prudent to provide you all with this information given recent events. The PDF can be downloaded here .
Task Force 58 will continue to research and categorize evidence of collusion and provide a more full report in the future.
Addendum
Enterprising members of the community have identified additional pieces of evidence linked to collusion. See below for a list.
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58i06d/holeeshet_clinton_staffer_shows_reporter_what_she/ , thank you /u/skyparavoz for being its OP, and to u/fastmandan and u/REEB for bringing it to attention.
https://www.facebook.com/mary.walker.73307/videos/o.978104268920212/10206353006137164/?type=2&theater , thank you u/sandman441
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OTR
Other Miscellaneous Emails
244
OTR1
2010
Silberstein Foundation: the truth finally comes out. & MAJOR Soros connections
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2010
245
OTR2
2091
General campaign strategy along with discussion of expanding intelligence agencies
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2091
246
OTR3
2874
Top Clinton Aid Doug Band calls Chelsea Clinton a “spoiled brat”:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2874#efmANUAObAb9AgY
247
OTR4
4190
Eric McFadden, who was Hillary’s Catholic liaison in the primaries, was arrested yesterday forrunning a prostitution ring.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4190
248
OTR5
4607
>THIS JUDGE IS AN OLD FRIEND OF PODESTAS, THE CIA ASKED PODESTA TO CALL HIM
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4607
249
OTR6
5953
>Event Memo – Benensons OTR. >Event Memo – Benensons OTR (attachment) – http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3479690/posts
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5953
250
OTR7
6008
Mention of wetwork at the Vineyard days before Scalia’s death. Possible Supreme Court Justice Murder ((Antonin Scalia))
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6008
251
OTR8
7252
Extend Illinois Voting
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7252
252
OTR9
7278
>Hillary’s Podesta and Soros are working together & https://twitter.com/WDFx2EU7/status/786570301039534082
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7278
253
OTR10
7572
Hillarys campaign moving IL primary at gusto
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7252?2
254
OTR11
7922
>Podesta talking to the Rockerfellers
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7922
255
OTR12
8158
Big business saw Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton interchangeable! they are moving quickly to fill the dinner speaker spot and are talking about trying to get Jeb Bush if HRC can’t do it!
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8158
256
OTR13
10217
MEGA DUMP on McCain in case he ran
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10217
257
OTR14
10252
ROH – Global Giving Campaign (Roots of Health) & Includes Google Doc w Marketing Material
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10252
258
OTR15
10515
“That’s great news.” that the benghazi emails won’t be released “Monday”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10515
259
OTR16
10667
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: johnpodestatemp@outlook.com
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10667
260
OTR17
10731
You are trying to poach from the WH, need to stop. One toke over the > line. Wally is fair game.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10731
261
OTR18
11116
Podesta: “Back to the future. I managed this issue for President Clinton after we got ourselves all tangled in knots over the Clipper Chip.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11116
262
OTR19
11508
Jake Siewert (Goldman Sachs) to Podesta: Might be time for Denny [Dennis Hastert] to vanish to an undisclosed Japanese island.” regarding politico article on tax evasion
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11508
263
OTR20
11897
EMAILID 11897 Democats are campaigning with the prospects of owning the Supreme Court for decades to come. Written by Augie Ribeiro, but John Podesta loves it and finds it great. “Be a Voice to Decide The Future of the Supreme Court The next President of the United States will change the future of the Supreme Court for generations. By the middle of the next President’s term, there will be four Supreme Court justices in their 80s. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg born March 15, 1933. Justice Antonin Scalia born March 11, 1936 Justice Anthony Kennedy born July 23, 1936 Justice Stephen Breyer born August 15, 1938 If Hillary Clinton is elected President in 2016, and is able to replace Ginsberg, Breyer, and either Kennedy or Scalia, she will lock in a very young liberal court for many decades to come. ”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11897#efmAGLAQD
264
OTR21
11939
More UFO stuffs
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11939
265
OTR22
12194
Bonner group donor list
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12194
266
OTR23
12226
HRC Campain discussing new slogan/tag line for marketing
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12226
267
OTR24
12245
setting up the campaign structure in 2014
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12245
268
OTR25
12254
– staff orientation early 2015, what member heads what. shane.hable@gmail.com runs cyber security for the campaign
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12254
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12262
Re: just another day at the ofc…
Subject: Re: just another day at the ofc…
Doubled Robby’s time.
On Oct 15, 2015 8:47 PM, “Sara Latham” slatham@hillaryclinton.com wrote:
keg stand competition at HFA – JDP, wins !!
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12262
270
OTR27
12270
Outline for a strategic consulting company that does all sorts of shilling for HRC and includes business and academic minds for legitamacy. “A damn good memo, I must say. It was written early 2003. The date on the memo is weird.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12270
271
OTR28
12280
“Draft Media Prep Plan”. We are preparing clips of her best interviews to show her. Also compiling her worst and analyzing for triggers and her reactions. [so many to choose from]
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12280
272
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15201
Huma Abedin checking with Robby Mook and AG Loretta Lynch about HRC attending a dinner hosted by George Soros and America Votes. Mook says ” I would only do this for political reasons (ie to make Soros happy)”
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15201
273
OTR30
15319
EMAILID 15319 John Podesta gets an email signed as “Barack Obama”. Podesta being someone pretty important, probably expected something better but this is essentially a spam begging for donations with parts such as “Today, if you’re ready to make these choices and meet the challenges that face us, pitch in $3 or whatever you can to become an official State of the Union Donor.” Even the leaders of the campaign are not exempt from getting Democrat Spam.
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15319
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OTR31
15319
EMAILID 15319 John Podesta gets an email signed as “Barack Obama”. Podesta being someone pretty important, probably expected something better but this is essentially a spam begging for donations with parts such as “Today, if you’re ready to make these choices and meet the challenges that face us, pitch in $3 or whatever you can to become an official State of the Union Donor.” Even the leaders of the campaign are not exempt from getting Democrat Spam.
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15319
275
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15464
>I am very happy because this is the best realistic result to come out of Paris. Now we can truly say that the Republicans are the only thing standing in the way of literally saving civilization. If they don’t
cooperate then it is no longer hyperbole to say that they are truly enemies
of the state, enemies of the world. I am so happy I can say to my kids, yeah, people have finally gotten around to doing the right thing. It’s not all corrupt. There is a chance. I’m not naive enough to think that this is the solution, but just a new beginning. Too late? Yes, should have happened years ago. But finally, a plan for real action. I’m totally one hundred percent for Hillary because if any one of these bozos makes it to the White House, then we’ll have a revolution on our hands.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15464#efmAGSAIN
276
OTR33
15589
virtual currency donations
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15589
277
OTR34
15616
Tim Cook was listed as a possible VP pick!!
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15616#efmAV_AWH
278
OTR35
15824
Michelle Kwan is in on it
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15824
279
OTR36
23586
HRC gets jokes written for her
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23586
280
OTR37
24257
HRC Campaign thinks her laugh is weird
“Laughing too hard is her authentic weirdness.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24257
281
OTR38
25823
MORE INFO ABOUT 527 ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE & SOMEONE NAMED HAMBURGER
“I am scheduled to speak with him tomoorow….doesn’t sound like there is much else to cover. (I want to keep the distinction between DA and FFA clear for him.) I know he wants to discuss fundraising and budgets. I think we are best served by steering people away from the $200 million number. MV- for future reference you can send 527 media requests to Amy Dacey. Hamburger called my home recently. I will call him back and give him > nothing of substance on background just so he feels like I’m not > evading him. > > Media vs field isn’t what is drawing attention. “527” is a tarnished > brand smartly attacked by the Right Wing since they use c4’s, LLC’s > and c6’s as their vehicles which operate almost invisibly. > > The Republicans are trying to sniff out what is going on and frame > their attackers before the attacks start. (Like Obama is right now.) > > We are still staying silent on the work. There is no advantage to > discussing strategy one way or another in the media. However we should > fill the vacuum once the primaries subside. I think Hamburger has > enough to write on for now.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25823
282
OTR39
26295
Re: DRAFT: Opening Statement
Long discussion chain to come up with opening statement for Benghazi committee
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26295
283
OTR40
26511
DISCUSSING SHARING OFFICE SPACE AND GOLDMAN SACHS AS LESSOR AND WHAT HRC WILL DO AFTER STATE DEPT
From:Huma@clintonemail.com
To: lgraham@clintonfoundation.org, cheryl.mills@gmail.com
Date: 2011-11-14 22:59
Subject: RE: Office Space
“As you and I discussed Friday, we are still identifying activities hrc could be involved in once she leaves the State Department.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26511
284
OTR41
26765
Subject: REVISED Strategy Memo
3rd Debate strategy attached
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26765
285
OTR42
27006
EMAILID 27006 Huma Abedin writes that they have to send Katy Perry to do an Arkansas event because Hillary is unwilling to ask her daughter to go. Katy Perry is such a puppet for them that they can use her as a replacement for Chelsea when needed.
“She said no to asking Chelsea. Would go herself before asking her daughter. So we are at plan B: Katy Perry it is.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27006
286
OTR43
27076
Glen S. Fukushima seems to be a person working with Center for American Progress (CAP) and Neera Tanden who is one of the most prolific emailers in these leaks. Glen is planning a trip for Neera to Japan and as a part of that trip there will be an opportunity to collect campaign contributions. Glen wants to arrange donations from some “high net worth American business executives” to Hillary Clinton, but he has one big concern:
“How do I ensure that I am given “credit” for having gotten these individuals to contribute to HRC’s campaign? Is there a manual or set of guidelines you can send me on the do’s and don’ts of being a bundler for HRC?”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27076
287
OTR44
27293
TALKING ABOUT DENNIS BLAIR, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
From:Robert.Gibbs@ptt.gov
To: Rahm.Emanuel@ptt.gov, axelrodfam@aol.com, ‘john.podesta@gmail.com’
Date: 2008-11-26 02:21
Subject: For Monday
“Shouldn’t we also roll out Blair as DNI?”
TALKING ABOUT DENNIS BLAIR, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27293
288
OTR45
28839
Fundraising in Japan RE: Do you honestly want me to do a fundraiser in Japan?
Between Neera Tandeen and John Podesta
“Do you honestly want me to do a fundraiser in Japan? If it comes to pass, do we connect with Dennis? or some minion in finance?”
Other names mentioned: Dennis and Glenn
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/28839
289
OVS
Offensive Voter Statements
290
OVS1
141
CTR Nerd Virgins
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/141
291
OVS2
927
>Hillary Clinton: “I’m Kind of Far Removed from Struggles of Middle Class” & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-bombshell-hillary-clinton-im-kind-far-removed-struggles-middle-class/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927#efmAIuAMKAViAXv
292
OVS3
1637
>Racist Hillary Camp Trashes African Americans – Calls Them Losers & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-bombshell-racist-hillary-trashes-african-americans-calls-losers/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1637
293
OVS4
2893
$15 min wage an hour will kill jobs – liberal economists
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2893
294
OVS5
3154
Planning to make jokes regarding the server scandle
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3154
295
OVS6
3188
HRC CAMPAIGN CALLING BERNIE SUPPORTERS “BEDWETTERS”
Steve Elmendorf
wrote:
> We won. Raising money today, talking the bedwetters off the ledge
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3188
296
OVS7
4433
>Hillary Advisors Admit She “HATES EVERYDAY AMERICANS” & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-bombshell-hillary-advisors-admit-hates-everyday-americans/
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4433
297
OVS8
10090
Deploy National Guard to streets
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10090
298
OVS9
11152
The way to sure up the “black vote” is not to address the needs of the community but to hire a black person for a senior position. lol, this will communicate that she does appreciate the “black vote”.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11152#efmAKuAN5
299
OVS10
13776
her efforts in the black community are not resonating
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13776
300
OVS11
15360
The big debate in the Democratic Party is what’s the best way to do this? Just take it from people who have it and give it to the government and let them give it to everybody else, or start the whole new round of innovations while growing small business, growing the economy, raising incomes? It’s a legitimate debate.
Talking about how you raise the incomes of poor people.
Hillary’s the only person who’s come up with a plan to see where it’s migrated, because even in small towns in rural America now you’ve got prescription drug problems. And now that we’ve cracked down on the abuses, heroin is cheaper than prescription drugs. Why? Because it’s now being grown in Mexico and harvested by preteens and it can be distributed. And if you go into all these small towns in rural America, where there’s no economic activity, you see it running rampant.
Admitting Mexican drug running is a problem.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15360
301
OVS12
16492
16492 Just an email showing how the campaign thinks of police brutality and the deaths of black people: political fodder
Date: 2016-02-27 16:45
Subject: Re: Police brutality – you tube video
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 1:39 PM Neera Tanden ntanden@gmail.com wrote:
Do you guys have the Video of Hillary challenging Rudy Giuliani on the
death of Patrick dorismond at hands of police. She did it in a black church
in Harlem in March of 2000. Pretty strong as I recall. It helped turn the
race. It would be good to answer where she was before.
Maybe it was too political. I might have the actual speech in the attic
but it got fair amount of NYC coverage
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16492
302
OVS13
24148
HRC IMPLYING MILLENIALS ARE SWAYED BY CELEBRITIES LIKE MINDLESS DRONES
From: *Vincent Roberti*
Date: Monday, February 1, 2016
Subject: Exceeding expectation is always a good thing!
To: John Podesta
“You are in better place going in to new Hampshire than you were in eight years ago. Take the gloves off and figure out recapturing the 18 to 35 year vote later. Set up a separate recapture program tomorrow. We can help with a parallel program with a celebrity out reach tomorrow.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24148
303
OVS14
25735
Damage control after Hillary pissed off the entire LGBTQ community by her remarks at Nancy Reagan’s funeral. Her staff wrote and edited her entire speech to “clarify” her position. They openly discuss how they need to go back and smooth over relations with that group, where and how to message, etc.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25735
304
SI
Self-Incrimination/Public Image Destruction
305
SI1
225
Hillary team concerned about discussions of her Russian Uranium deal
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/225
306
SI2
370
“We got a few stories placed today debunking claims in the book ahead of the NYT story” & ” But I have asked Jeremy Bash and Tommy Vietor to go on cable tomorrow for us to respond to the book. I think they will both be good at dismissing the charges as ridiculous. ” Tldr. lying about Uranium 1 book and placing false stories with the media
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/370
307
SI3
927
>Hillary bragged about being invited to Russia’s Putin’s ‘Inner Sanctum’ & http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/10/11/wikileaks-clinton-bragged-putin-taking-private-inner-sanctum/ & (attachment) – https://ia801509.us.archive.org/19/items/HRCPaidSpeechesFlags/HRC%20Paid%20Speeches%20Flags.pdf
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927
308
SI4
1210
The campaign was incredibly, incredibly worried about the film ‘Clinton Cash’. This is a list of the coverage it got (one of many e-mails pertaining to the film).
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1210
309
SI5
1381
>Robby Mook: “it’s a little troubling” that meeting of Clinton Foundation was held at Goldman Sachs HQ & https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/784783850799001601
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1381
310
SI6
1702
New theory: https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/hillary-r.-clinton-part-04-of-04/view Go to page 56. TL;DR: Some people make up a shadow goverment comprised of some high ranking people like John Kerry, Jonathan Finer and others who meet up on this “7th floor” where they discuss clinton and the congress
Cool, right? Now go to:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10094
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1702
They mention a 7th floor in Washington which seems to be the meet up place
SUMMER 2010 BIDDING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BUREAU OF LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS
H offers career-enhancing, Seventh Floor positions in which you can have a direct, substantive impact in achieving our foreign policy goals.
Literally right at the start of the document
SEEKING BIDDERS
They are selling positions of power.
New FBI leaks confirm the existence of the “shadow government”.
“There was a powerful group of very high-ranking STATE officials that some referred to as ‘The 7th Floor Group’ or ‘The Shadow Government.’ This group met every Wednesday afternoon to discuss the FOIA process, Congressional records, and everything CLINTON-related to FOIA/Congressional inquiries,” the FBI’s interview summary said.”
http://www.trunews.com/article/the-shadow-government-is-real-according-to-the-fbi
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1702 & https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE89125_a.html
311
SI7
2175
Hijacking here with the leaked BIRD DOGGING EMAILS mentioned by Mr. O’Keefe:
“Bird dogging” is Democrat code for using plants to incite mayhem at events of political opponents
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2175
312
SI8
2301
>Bill Clinton sex “allegations are hurting both Clintons”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2301
313
SI9
2631
HRC & WJC against gay marriage
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2631
314
SI10
2783
>Hillary accepting foreign money
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2783
315
SI11
2953
Worried about Hillary’s health getting attention: “Hard to think of anything more counter productive than demanding Bernie’s medical records.”:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2953#efmAAvACJ
316
SI12
2986
Hillary Clinton decided on Tim Kaine as VP in July 2015. “A little unseemly.” (She didn’t officially announce Tim Kaine as her VP publicly until July 2016) & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-email-hillary-clinton-decided-tim-kaine-vp-july-2015/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2986#efmABHAB3AB6ACN
317
SI13
3154
>Hillary’s team doesn’t know what’s in her emails and is nervous about it
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3154
318
SI14
3332
Working for the Clintons drives staff to suicide attempts
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3332#efmAdAAmB
319
SI15
3599
>”we’ve all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599
320
SI16
3718
>Top Clinton donor paid $250 million for tax evasion / https://twitter.com/AmericanMex067/status/786020856749096960
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3718
321
SI17
3774
>Hillary Admits Saudi Arabia and Qatar Fund ISIS – But Took Their Money Anyway & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-hillary-admits-saudi-arabia-qatar-fund-isis-took-money-anyway/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774
322
SI18
3833
Hijacking here with the leaked BIRD DOGGING EMAILS mentioned by Mr. O’Keefe:
“Bird dogging” is Democrat code for using plants to incite mayhem at events of political opponents
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3833
323
SI19
3855
Lying about turning over thumb drives
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3855#efmBemBnB
324
SI20
4036
This is how you create a fake grassroots movement.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4036
325
SI21
4099
Hillary deleted some emails herself
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4099
326
SI22
4274
>Hillary reads script during interview. & >https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/786141677106765826
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4274
327
SI23
4364
>Hillary’s Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri TRASHES CATHOLICS. Clinton Staff mocking conservative catholics. Advisor to Podesta: “severely backwards gender relations” “they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion.”: … & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-emails-hillarys-communications-director-jennifer-palmieri-trashes-catholics/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4364
328
SI24
4632
Obama requesting that people’s profiles be scrubbed from a website
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4632
329
SI25
4635
>CROOKS: Clinton Campaign Chief Owned 75,000 Shares of Putin-Connected Energy Company & https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/786691843811577856 & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/crooks-clinton-campaign-chief-owned-75000-shares-putin-connected-energy-company/ & http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/13/wikileaks-bombshell-john-podesta-owned-75000-shares-putin-connected-energy-company/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4635
330
SI26
4697
Why doesnt Hillary turn the server over to a third party? (Staffers believe the FBI will leak the emails)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4697
331
SI27
4990
Elmendorf and Podesta discussing removal of emails after 3-6 months
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4990
332
SI28
5194
Top Secret Emails Include Drone Talk
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5194
333
SI29
5213
>Hillary’s people worried Chelsea Clinton sharing information with Bush daughter about Clinton’s corruption & https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/786530411820101632
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5213
334
SI30
5332
HRC campaign collaborating and picking board members for a super PAC
(illegal as hell) DIRECT COLLUSION!!
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5332
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>Hillary trying to get in front of email issue / https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/785835370013425664
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5344
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>Huma admits Foreign Interests own HRC & https://twitter.com/WDFx2EU7/status/786200896279486464
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5469#efmCAtCDf
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John Podesta receives Hillary’s “personal” tweets for approval a few days in advance of the tweets going online. Staff writes them:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5479
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HUGE, INTENT AND EXPRESSION OF GUILT
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5486
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>Biden Aide Sabotaged His Presidential Aspirations? & http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/12/email-suggests-biden-aide-sabotaged-his-presidential-aspirations-to-help-hillary/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5690
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Ron Klaine (Joe Biden chief of staff) betrays Joe Biden and acts as a mole for Clinton camp. (Note: Ron Klaine was former Chief of staff for Al Gore in 1999 and was let go because of his conflict of interest/ loyalty to the Clintons) Joe Biden was rumored to replace Hillary Clinton as the nominee. “I am definitely dead to them but I’m glad to be on team HRC”:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5690#efmACsAE4
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>But I should say that I would do whatever Hillary needs always. I owe her a lot. And I’m a loyal soldier
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5705
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>Podesta Documents Suggest Scalia Assassination & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-uncover-murder-plot-podesta-documents-suggest-scalia-assassination/
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6008
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State Department tipping off Hillary’s staff about upcoming investigation details regarding her case:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6185#efmAH_AJdANKAPC
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>Podesta and Left-Wing Activist Plot ‘Catholic Spring’ & http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/wikileaks-podesta-left-wing-activist-plot-catholic-spring/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6293
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Worrying about Hillary’s low turnout at events:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6370#efmAU2AWj
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>Hillary team discussed deleting emails knowing it was against the law / >Hillary Campaign Was in Touch with Obama DOJ on Email Investigation / https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/786217317881507841/photo/1 / http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-bomb-clinton-camp-discussed-deleting-emails-despite-knowing-law/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6391
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>Clinton Staffers Discussed Which Emails To Release and delete / http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/12/podesta-hacks-shows-clinton-staffers-discussing-which-emails-to-release/ / https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/786217317881507841/photo/1 / http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-bomb-clinton-camp-discussed-deleting-emails-despite-knowing-law/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6391
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UNIONS I think that John is going to be meeting with Trumka on Friday in DC and we’ll know more after that. I agree that a vote should only be called if we know we’ll get it. Otherwise, its not worth it. I’m also surprised that Bernie hasn’t peeled more unions off. I think that’s significant. If unions like ATU, CWA or APWU are going to raise a big stink it would be easier to do if they officially endorsed. But they haven’t
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6668
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John Podesta tells Hillary Clinton she needs to reach out to “needy Latinos”:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6777
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INTENT: I know this email thing isn’t on the level. I’m fully aware of that.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6971
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>Hillary’s own campaign doesn’t understand why she deleted 33,000 emails & https://twitter.com/latinaafortrump/status/786656783666323456
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7011
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H doesnt recall why deleted the emails
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7011
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>Chelsea Clinton (CVC) Busted Stealing from Clinton Foundation!!! & https://twitter.com/HalleyBorderCol/status/786678797986828288
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7136
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>Hillary sends intel to Podesta on unsecured server & https://twitter.com/SandraTXAS/status/786779688744185856
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7243
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INTENT: Our position is that no such material exists, else it could be said she mishandled classified info
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7460
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>Hillary’s staffers discuss how there exists classified emails but how they should deny they ever existed
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7460#content
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>Benghazi opening statement (see attachments)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7655
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>Hillary’s script for the emails discussion. Note the bit where she talks about all her security prep that her state department does in this leaked (and possibly hacked) email.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7660
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396
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DWS/Hillary broker out convention CEO march 2015
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7741
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Hillary’s campaign manager Robby Mook, to other staff, calls New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio a “terrorist” after Bill de Blasio stalls on his endorsement for Hillary Clinton during an interview:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7796#efmABDACG
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>Hillary’s attorney David Kendall did not turn over thumb drive and server / https://twitter.com/BinsackSb/status/785714200609824768
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7881
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>”The sooner Hillary gets that life is not fair, the better off she will be. I thought she understood this before this race, but apparently I was wrong.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7976
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Citigroup chose Obama’s 2008 cabinet
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8190
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Qatar give WJC 1 million dollars for his birthday
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Bill got a $1million birthday present from Qutar
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396#efmAAGABSAEOAETAEaAGWAGaAHZAJBAJd
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>Clinton Campaign Fudged Climate Change Data – Inflated Emission Numbers & http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/wikileaks-clinton-campaign-fudged-climate-change-data-inflated-emission-numbers/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8440
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8452 Hillary Clinton flipped her public position on TPP after her team discussed how she would be “eaten alive” by Labor
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8452#efmAH1APRA0NA5c
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From: Glenn Hutchins
the capacity of labor to demand a greater share of profits from productivity gains have been overwhelmed by several factors: 1) globalized wage competition as incomes have slowly equilibrated around the world
From:ntanden@americanprogress.org To: glenn.hutchins@gmail.com
>Isn’t stagnant wage (for the bottom 90%) part of the reason we have rising inequality?
Translation: Globalization is causing poverty and destruction of the middle class in the US and the HRC campaign KNOWS AND SUPPORTS IT!
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8567
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United States Deputy Secretary of Labor (Chris Lu) sends Education Policy Promises draft in an email cc:’ed with bankers and firms. (Large corporations & banks providing input in US law?):
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8762
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>Hillary didn’t like ‘bitch’ in the interview & https://twitter.com/karey_donna/status/786773742450044928
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8961
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Comparing Benghazi deaths to cigarette smoker deaths
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9101
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Possible collusion with AG loretta. Richard J. Leon, works at Georgetown with Podesta, HRC.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9127
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HRC ILLEGAL ACTIVITY WITH SUPERPAC
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9161
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Email regarding Scalia the same day he died
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9174
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That she says no backdoor, but then says we need a way in, and then the bad line about not understanding technology
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9181
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Hillary’s team trying to draft an official statement to congress “has it leaked yet?”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9252
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EVIDENCE HILLARY DID NOT SUBMIT ALL EMAILS— INTENT PROVEN – PRESS COLLUSION WITH INTENT TO CONFUSE CONGRESS PROVEN
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9272
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Trying to hide wallstreet Associations
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9290
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Hiding 1 Billion campaign chest information
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9368
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WJC and HRC disagree on TPP. internal strife in campaign on “having it both ways”
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9399#searchresult
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terrorism is bad for HRC gun grab
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9507
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Proof Obama knew about HRC server. Withholding Obama’s emails same day as subpoena issued.
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HRC suboptimal instincts & Obama cocaine ring
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9572
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9545
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We likely already have a contract but given that he’s a friend of Hillary’s and a former congressman, we should probably give him a phone call.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9769
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BIG: Pay for play for ambassadors
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9961
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>tennis me to discuss use of email
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9997
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New theory: https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/hillary-r.-clinton-part-04-of-04/view Go to page 56. TL;DR: Some people make up a shadow goverment comprised of some high ranking people like John Kerry, Jonathan Finer and others who meet up on this “7th floor” where they discuss clinton and the congress
Cool, right? Now go to:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10094
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1702
They mention a 7th floor in Washington which seems to be the meet up place
SUMMER 2010 BIDDING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BUREAU OF LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS
H offers career-enhancing, Seventh Floor positions in which you can have a direct, substantive impact in achieving our foreign policy goals.
Literally right at the start of the document
SEEKING BIDDERS
They are selling positions of power.
New FBI leaks confirm the existence of the “shadow government”.
“There was a powerful group of very high-ranking STATE officials that some referred to as ‘The 7th Floor Group’ or ‘The Shadow Government.’ This group met every Wednesday afternoon to discuss the FOIA process, Congressional records, and everything CLINTON-related to FOIA/Congressional inquiries,” the FBI’s interview summary said.”
http://www.trunews.com/article/the-shadow-government-is-real-according-to-the-fbi
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10094 & https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE89125_a.html
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>Subject: History of Juanita Broaddrick Allegations
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10275
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Cheryl Mills admits that no one likes HRC!!!!!!
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10289
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>We have a problem. HRC overstayed her case this morning in a pretty big way. Marcia, Judy and I have been figuring out what we could say that doesn’t contradict their 2001 statement. But my other idea is to have women Senators who all voted for it to put out statement.
>What did she say that was wrong?
>She said women groups were all pressuring her to vote for it. Evidence does not support that statement.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10359
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INSIDER TRADING? From: *Tiernan Sittenfeld*
Date: Monday, March 14, 2016
Subject: Atlantic/Arctic tomorrow
To: John Podesta “Totally confidential but in case you haven’t heard they are announcing 5 year drilling plan tomorrow late morning”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10451.html
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UNIONS This is deeper than that, our union “endorsed” HRC without speaking to the members and when confronted we were told it was a done deal. One of the few unions to endorse Bernie was Verizon…. and they got shafted in contract negotiations. It was a clear message to the other unions that if you didn’t bow you were on your own. Looks like the longshorement don’t like their struggle being used to push HRC’s “civil rights” agenda.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10735
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>Goldman Sachs paid speeches (see attachments for 1-3)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11011
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HRC/DNC Joint bank account. HIGHLY ILLEGAL!
From:re47@hillaryclinton.com
To: hdr29@hrcoffice.com
Madame Secretary,
…I wanted to get your blessing to move forward with the DNC joint account. We didn’t get a chance to cover that on our call. I’m obviously happy to have a conversation about it if you want–or move forward. I’m happy with the arrangement and believe it’s important to our money and operational strategies.
Thanks, Robby
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11131
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Neera Tanden
I know this email thing isn’t on the level. I’m fully aware of that. But her inability to just do a national interview and communicate genuine feelings of remorse and regret is now, I fear, becoming a character problem (more so than honesty).
John Podesta
Jen and I are in the same place. Trying to figure out how to get her there and best way to execute.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11136
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11136 Neera Tanden admits: “I know this email thing isn’t on the level. I’m fully aware of that. But her inability to just do a national interview and communicate genuine feelings of remorse and regret is now, I fear, becoming a character problem (more so than honesty). People hate her arrogant, like her down. It’s a sexist context, but I think it’s the truth.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11136#efmAC0AGw
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Self-Research — spoke to HRC. As we discussed, her definition of what she sees remaining with personal lawyers and HFS is the narrow areas we discussed (e.g., taxes, health, finances/speeches, family) though she added BZ. I shared that HFS can continue to manage in partnership with outside personal counsel (including DEK, HT, me) but that self-research as a whole (and explained the larger paradigm) should be in NY and run by someone sitting in NYC,with which she agreed. We discussed HFS; she wants her doing these areas, vetting, and personnel from a perch in the Legal Counsel operation or the COO operation — RM let’s discuss so it is consistent with your vision, organizational paradigm and goals.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11138
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EMAILID 11152 from someone named fwj to Podesta Re: black vote ” The black is obvious super critical. Im hearing the same complaint in political circles that i continue to hear while fundraising. “The campaign doesnt value black folks and takes us for granted”.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11152
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Podesta staffer sends email from Podesta’s email. Podesta has Top Secret clearance and staffer doesn’t.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11164
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My only concern is stating the article inflicted damage on our campaign. Certainly true but I worry that if we leak the letter, it could be misinterpreted as us admitting the email controversy in general is hurting us. Maybe we could soften it a bit by saying “…creating a firestorm that had a deep impact and cannot be unwound.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11305
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Clinton staffers admitting they have a thumb drive that they did not turn over to the State dept. But they plan on crafting her public statement to imply they did.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11393#efmBD1BFy
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EMAIL 11446 Someone named Scott Wallace, likely the guy in this article http://archive.is/9NsDI writes to John Podesta, apparently he wants to become US Ambassador to South Africa. : “I know you must have a million things on your plate, but as I mentioned to you, Elizabeth and Smith Bagley were encouraging me to reach out to you sooner rather than later about a possible appointment in an Obama administration… I am passionate about helping South Africa achieve its full promise, and see its upcoming elections and the next couple of years as critical to the health of its democracy. It has become my second country, and I would be deeply honored to be considered to represent President Obama as ambassador there.” He also has a plan B: “Of course, if it is determined that there are other areas where my background may be better put to use, I am happy to discuss them as well. .. My full CV is attached.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11446#efmAVuAWxAZAAac
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Clinton foundation discussing sharing office space with Goldman Sachs in 2011.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11457
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“I joined a phone bank last night calling Virginia voters – nearly all of > my electronic call sheets were for people over 60, with many in their late > 80s and 90s. It caused me to have another sleepless night, anxious about > the campaign.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11464
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Chelsea Clinton is a bitch. “As they say, the apple doesn’t fall far A kiss on the cheek while she is sticking a knife in the back, and front ” & “Diane Reynolds” is Chelsea Clinton’s nom de corruption.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11472
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Clinton foundation discussing sharing office space with Goldman Sachs in 2011.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11497
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EMAILID 11500 Podesta is concerned about a murderer’s politically unfortunate name : “NBC News now reporting a US citizen named Sayeed Farouk believed to be one of the people involved in the shooting.” Podesta responds: “Better if a guy named Sayeed Farouk was reporting that a guy named Christopher Hayes was the shooter.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11500
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11525 Hillary campaign talking about manipulating Reddit and discusses possible ways to exploit Reddit for their benefit : “Our other option is Reddit, which has an extremely vocal core of LGBT members, but I would prioritize this Facebook group, which is the largest LGBT community of Hillary’s supporters I know. These are friendlies, they are already carrying water for us making sure the apology is out there, and they firmly sit in groups 1 and 2 that Dom identified. Whatever we did to send our LGBT talking points to folks has really worked, they are popping up everywhere on the supporter Facebook groups.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11525#efmJEMJMC
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Maybe she could do Funny or Die w/ Meyl Streep w/ the Galyfinakis (can’t spell his name for he life of me) w it her. That would be Hilarious! And I still think she should do Season Opening of SNL. She hates this shit, but at the end of the day, nothing will move her personal numbers more.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11539
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Covering up the hiring of Robby Mook. “Yes. We need to kill that baby in the cradle.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11563
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EMAILID 11563 #HillarysHealth might be really bad : “Have you talked with her at all about taxes and health? I’m know both are hyper sensitive but I wonder if both are better dealt with very early so we control them”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11563
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HRC campaign distorting HRC true health. “Have you talked with her at all about taxes and health? I’m know both are hyper sensitive but I wonder if both are better dealt with very early so we control them–rather than responding to calls for transparency.”
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11563
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In the last 48 hours a) Hillary and her campaign have begun to question Bernie’s integrity and b) older feminists are beginning a civil war against younger women with idiot comments such as younger women support Bernie to get laid. What would be the reaction if Bill Clinton, George Bush or Harry Reid comments such as this? Or that younger women must support Hillary for the sole reason that she is a woman?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11580
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The idea of the campaign for the candidate who could become the first woman president initiating a civil war between older women and younger women over her candidacy is political malpractice that leaves me speechless.
My phone is ringing off the hook with establishment Democrats who she thinks support her, who are appalled and alarmed by the kind of campaign she is running….more than one of them has said I could quote them by name, that’s how appalled and alarmed they are, and I told them to calm down and tell the Clintons directly what they think, but not go public right now….
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11580
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11915 Big discussion inside the Hillary campaign whether to take money from people who are registered as “foreign agents” according to the FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The final decision? taking the money from foreign agents: “Hi all – we do need to make a decision on this ASAP as our friends who happen to be registered with FARA are already donating and raising.” Robby Mook-“I’m ok just taking the money and dealing with any attacks. Are you guys ok with that?” Palmieri “Take the money!!”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11915#efmAvrAx1
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HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN FOUND TAKING BRIBES FROM FOREIGN POWERS TO FUND HER ELECTION. THIS IS TREASON AND DISQUALIFIES HER FROM BEING ELECTED TO OFFICE BY UNITED STATES FEDERAL LAW.
FBI IS IN ABSOLUTE SHITFACED TURMOIL OVER THE FACT THAT THE FBI DIRECTOR COMEY ACTUALLY LET HILLARY GO WHEN THE ACTUAL AGENTS WORKING ON THE CASE HAD MASSES OF RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE AGAINST HER. THE ENTIRE ORGANIZATION FEELS SO BETRAYED THEY’RE SEEKING TO REMOVE THE DIRECTOR FROM HIS POSITION.
http://spectator.org/former-u-s-attorney-agents-see-fbi-chief-comey-as-a-dirty-cop/
AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST. CATHY O’BRIEN, RECORDED IN 1996 WITH CLAIMS THAT SHE WAS TIED UP AND BOUND AS A 9 YEAR OLD GIRL, AND FORCED TO PERFORM ORAL SEXUAL ACTS UPON HILLARY CLINTON. SHE EVEN WROTE A FUCKING BOOK ABOUT FULL OF COURT RECORDS TO BACK UP EVERY STATEMENT SHE’S MADE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SSa9tTa0-k [Embed] [Embed]
https://www.amazon.com/Access-Denied-Reasons-National-Security/dp/096601653X
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11915
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One of the foreign donors mentioned in the mail (only 23 listed of the 300+ donors):
“The Following Up and Recovering of the Libyan Looted and Disguised Funds of the Transitional Government of Libya, through Washington African Consulting Group, Inc (12/3/14 – Current)”
Washington African Consulting Group was appointed by the Libyan transitional government (installed by the USA probably) to recover all Gadaffi’s gold and money.
This money is now finding it’s way back into Hillary’s pocket.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11915
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HRC Campaign & DNC breaking law regarding coordination with Super PACs
Rigging the Election Part I 10:59-11:04 Zulema Rodriguez says “I just had a call with the campaign and the DNC. Everyday at one o’clock.” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY
“…Everyday at one o’clock.”
Wikileaks email id 12012 RE: Reminder — Trump Rapid Response/Bracketing Call — Today – Tues – May17 – 1PM Eastern (Thread was started by Bob Creamer and look at the others copied on it) https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/12012
‘1PM Eastern’
So much for the double blind.
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/12012
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12105 Memo revealing they were discussing the testimony of Cheryl Mills in meetings It must have been highly important to keep all of their stories straight, properly vetted and discussed. : “Please see below for today’s 8am meeting agenda. Also, please note that this meeting should last a full hour” Lists items to talk about “Timing of Focus Groups re Debate Prep” “8/31 Email Release” “Jake/Cheryl Testimony”.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12105#efmAC4ADoAHvAIE
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BONNER GROUP: Contributions from Linda Pritzer show up as $700,000 in the attached Excel sheet, but the FEC data shows no contributions in 2015 or 2016. Are they laundering money through the Bonner group?? This email is dated from 2008, thats why it doesn’t show up in 2015 or 2016.
Anything you’ve seen about The Bonner Group outside of wikileaks originated from me. I’ve been researching them and David Brock’s groups since July, and opened up a site to house my findings in September.
Relevant Bonner Articles:
They aren’t properly registered to solicit funds ANYWHERE: http://www.thecitizensaudit.com/2016/09/17/correct-the-record-unregistered-solicitation/
(remember how Trump Foundation was barred from raising funds in New York because they weren’t properly registered? That’s what’s happening with the Bonner Group, but in every state.)
Bonner Group Laundering Money through CTR and Brock’s organizations: http://www.thecitizensaudit.com/2016/09/19/money-laundering-david-brock/
Bonus Article
An explainer on Super PACs and what Coordination means. Don’t just repeat a talking point – become educated on WHY something is illegal. http://www.thecitizensaudit.com/2016/10/16/super-pac-coordination-an-explainer/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12194
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Current commitment sheet from Bonner Group, sent to Podesta and Brock
$1.7c4 and $400K c3 so far with about 60 people left to decide
edit: attached is a spreadsheet of names, numbers, and amounts of money to PA, MMFA, and CAP.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12194
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UNIONS Big Labor Update. HUGE Update on Union efforts by HRC campaign.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12223
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Seems clear that Clinton’s campaign was gearing up big-time as early as December 2014. Is this a massive breach of FEC rules? “From: Robert Mook robbymook@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 8:01:13 PM To: Huma Abedin Cc: John Podesta; Cheryl Mills Subject: Re: Update We had a good meeting today to ratify the research plan and discuss staffing structure and talent. Few things to report out:”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12245
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– George Soros team purchasing things for Podesta like tickets, etc. in attachment
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12247
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– initial polling on what positions they should publicly take
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12256
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Nomi Prins: The Clintons and Their Banker Friends
No matter what spin is used for campaigning purposes, the idea that a critical distance can be maintained between the White House and Wall Street is naïve given the multiple channels of money and favors that flow between the two. It is even more improbable, given the history of connections that Hillary Clinton has established through her associations with key bank leaders in the early 1990s, during her time as a senator from New York, and given their contributions to the Clinton foundation while she was secretary of state. At some level, the situation couldn’t be less complicated: her path aligns with that of the country’s most powerful bankers. If she becomes president, that will remain the case
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12297
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EMAILID 12342 Tina Flournoy alerts John Podesta to a document that’s being released. There is some concern that Bill Clinton said something that could hurt the campaign. She sends it over as a PDF. It’s an old meeting between Blair and Clinton. Clinton talks about pretty much hating the refugees saying “on another level I don’t want any”: “Bill Clinton: I understand the problem. On the other hand, we have to take enough pressure of Macedonia and Albania so they don’t close the borders to keep their countries from coming apart. Talk to your folks. On one level, I’d like to take 100 thousand and put them in America tomorrow and run the risk of saying people don’t want to go home.** On another level, I don’t want any. They might like it here and not want to leave.**
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12342
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EMAILID 12393 Neera Tanden and John Podesta. They realize the email deletion will hurt them but they have no idea how much. They think it will quickly pass “I mean, they will go after the deleting of the private emails…but at some point, this just will have to run out of steam, especially as they see minimal electoral consequence. ” Podesta said “They will go after the server but that takes us back to Benghazi which is good for us”
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EMAILID 12393 Neera Tanden and John Podesta. They realize the email deletion will hurt them but they have no idea how much. They think it will quickly pass “I mean, they will go after the deleting of the private emails…but at some point, this just will have to run out of steam, especially as they see minimal electoral consequence. ” Podesta said “They will go after the server but that takes us back to Benghazi which is good for us”
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EMAILID 12393 They hope the emails will distract from Benghazi: They will go after the server but that takes us back to Benghazi which is good for us.
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EMAILID 12393 Neera Tanden and John Podesta. They realize the email deletion will hurt them but they have no idea how much. They think it will quickly pass “I mean, they will go after the deleting of the private emails…but at some point, this just will have to run out of steam, especially as they see minimal electoral consequence. ” Podesta said “They will go after the server but that takes us back to Benghazi which is good for us”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12393
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EMAILID 12401 This seems big. Chelsea Clinton provides a list of concerns to the staff including John Podesta. Apparently several cases of surveillance and spying was going on between the employees. All of the names of persons will need to be identified and followed up on. There is a lot of information in just this one email: “Ilya physically saw/caught Justin a couple of days ago reading his bberry and loading the same spyware onto his computer that he loaded onto Bari’s computer” “- my father was told today of explicit examples at CGI of Doug/ Teneo pushing for – and receiving – free memberships – and of multiple examples of Teneo ‘hustling’ business at CGI – and of people now having quit at CGI” “- Ilya believes Hannah and Justin have taken significant sums of money from my parents personally – some in expenses – cars, etc. – and others directly”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12401#efmAXHAZp
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HRC Sick????????? “Two benefits of this revised plan – we have a better sense of press reactions before having her sit down and it is more time for her to be in right head space. Given where she is now, I don’t think it is realistic to expect that an interview on Monday would go well. Do also think there is a value in having staff take first round of questions on this.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12414
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More evidence that Clinton staffers kept the most nefarious stuff they were doing off the written email record. “Subject: Sharpton Very good straightforward meeting. Rather download on a call.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12510
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EMAILID 12539 Philippe Reines admits to the following about Hillary Clinton’s emails March 2015 : “To be clear, there are and will likely remain only two parties who can release the full 55k: State and us. Nobody else will have them. Gowdy will only end up with what’s relevant to his committee, which won’t grow that much beyond what he has. Probably not get anywhere close to 500.”
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EMAILID 12539 Philippe Reines admits to the following about Hillary Clinton’s emails Marhc 2015 : “To be clear, there are and will likely remain only two parties who can release the full 55k: State and us. Nobody else will have them. Gowdy will only end up with what’s relevant to his committee, which won’t grow that much beyond what he has. Probably not get anywhere close to 500.”
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State Dept. DOES have all of Hillary’s emails!!
To be clear, there are and will likely remain only two parties who can release the full 55k: State and us. Nobody else will have them. Gowdy will only end up with what’s relevant to his committee, which won’t grow that much beyond what he has. Probably not get anywhere close to 500.
If State had all her emails as of “Date: 2015-03-17 16:26” then either they still have them OR the *State Department Erased Hillary’s Emails As Well
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EMAILID 12539 Philippe Reines admmits to the following about Hillary Clinton’s emails March 2015 : “To be clear, there are and will likely remain only two parties who can release the full 55k: State and us. Nobody else will have them. Gowdy will only end up with what’s relevant to his committee, which won’t grow that much beyond what he has. Probably not get anywhere close to 500.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12539
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Can’t send it securely? fuck it, change the header.
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12605
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Pay4play letters
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/12803
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fake craigslist post created by HRC team for “Trump Jobs” & “grope under the table ”
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/12803
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EMAILID 12811 Cheryl Mills sends out an article to Podesta and several others “Aide who accused Bill Clinton of groping her in White House claims ‘Hillary Clinton IS the war on women … she enabled his behavior’ Kathleen Willey claims President Clinton forced himself on her in a study near the Oval Office in 1993, insists that Hillary ‘enabled his behavior’ and then conducted a campaign to discredit her.” Tina Flournoy responds “Saw it last night and ignored it” Doesn’t seem like they were willing to believe the accounts from Bill Clinton’s victims. They simply ignored them.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12811#efmAAGAAm
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EMAILID 12811 Cheryl Mills sends out an article to Podesta and several others “Aide who accused Bill Clinton of groping her in White House claims ‘Hillary Clinton IS the war on women … she enabled his behavior’ Kathleen Willey claims President Clinton forced himself on her in a study near the Oval Office in 1993, insists that Hillary ‘enabled his behavior’ and then conducted a campaign to discredit her.” Tina Flournoy responds “Saw it last night and ignored it” Doesn’t seem like they were willing to believe the accounts from Bill Clinton’s victims. They simply ignored them.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12811#efmAAGAAm
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UNIONS These are from Nikki Budzinski HRC’s labor outreach coordinator. I agree we should push to keep those other unions neutral. Any word on their boards and if we can lobby members individually to block a vote?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13257
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Haim was on his way to Israel today, he and Alex will be on the call tomorrow Laura suggested this call be a check-in, rather than about super-delegates as suggested, I’ll explain offline in the morning.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13355
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Clinton’s support of TPP, and and more evidence of public duplicity vs. private corporatism. On Mar 1, 2015, at 4:51 PM, Robby Mook robbymook2015@gmail.com wrote: I can’t recall where we landed exactly on trade. Is she going to say she supports it? Regardless of her position, signing a letter feels like poking the bear with labor to me.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13423
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EMAILID 13999 More possible violations of campaign finance rules. Email to Podesta from Minh Nguyen :”I’m swinging way above my weight class here. And I’m 100% sure this out of protocol.I’m trying to land the campaign a big fat whale that can give between $100,000 to maybe $1 million if their ego can be reassured that they won’t be just treated “just like any other donor.With your permission, can I CC you in an email to these guys.I’m work with Haim Saban’s political director on these same guys. If it’s 100% inappropriate I understand.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13999#efmAClADMADOAEwAIPAI3
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EMAILID 13999 More possible violations of campaign finance rules. Email to Podesta from Minh Nguyen :”I’m swinging way above my weight class here. And I’m 100% sure this out of protocol.I’m trying to land the campaign a big fat whale that can give between $100,000 to maybe $1 million if their ego can be reassured that they won’t be just treated “just like any other donor.With your permission, can I CC you in an email to these guys.I’m work with Haim Saban’s political director on these same guys. If it’s 100% inappropriate I understand.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/13999#efmAClADMADOAEwAIPAI3
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DAY OF Scalia’s death Podesta is talking with Soros’ guy about his replacement
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/14273
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Gowdy is focused on how her Benghazi emails are self-selected by her and therefore paint on an incomplete picture. He is not focused on the classified email, which is great.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/14294#efmAHHAJ6
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Did Clinton’s campaign have a mole on the Benghazi committee? Susanne Grooms is/was the Democratic legal counsel to the committee. There are other emails where the Clinton campaign is in contact with her getting info and dates. Here it seems like there is language that might indicate her contact with HRC’s campaign is illicit. “I just spoke with Susanne Grooms, who is resisting the idea of a telephone call. John, I am not sure David is available right now to discuss — is there a number where I can reach you? You can reach me at 202.434.5487. Thanks.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/14503
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Evidence of Clinton Campaign lack of ethics in fundraising. Denigrates Obama people of being “prissy” [read: ethical]. Subject: Re: F.E.C. Can’t Curb 2016 Election Abuse, Commission Chief Says There is a stalemate among the agency’s six commissioners, who are perpetually locked in 3-to-3 ties along party lines because of a fundamental disagreement over the commission’s mandate. Adding Elias. I agree with you, John. I think we focus hard on raising as much as we can and then throw the kitchen sink at everyone who we believe steps over the line, understanding that has limited impact. On May 3, 2015, at 5:55 PM, John Podesta wrote: I have no magic solutions other than execution. Elias may have some legal ideas to slow them down. We have 3 things we have to do. Raise the primary $ by expanding the bundler network. Get Priorities functional. Use this to scare our people into giving bigger sums. We may need to get WJC into the mix sooner. We should also ask BHO to do more in light of this, although they are kind of prissy about how they approach this.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/14580
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Podesta discussing how to skirt campaign finance law and the FEC. Option proposed: ‘there is one legal tool we could use that might slow them down. The law has a little noticed or used provision that says that if a complaint has been filed and it is either dismissed or not acted upon within 120 days the entity that filed the complaint can sue the FEC to force it to proceed with enforcement. If the FEC fails to move forward, then the complainant is permitted to bring their own lawsuit to enforce the law directly. IF it were announced that this was the path we intended to take, it would both make news and perhaps give pause to the groups.” FURTHER PROOF OF COORDINATION BETWEEN HRC CAMPAIGN AND DNC: “Is this something we want to push forward? If so, would we want the DNC to do it? The campaign? Or would we prefer it be done externally?”
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EMAILID 15000 Glenn Ivey and Cheryl Mills discuss their dreams of abolishing the Benghazi Committee, which uncovered much of the information that lead to the Clinton email scandal.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15000
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There’s a lot of work on this on both sides of the Capitol” TO ABOLISH THE BENGHAZI COMMITTEE
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15000
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EMAILID 15000 Glenn Ivey and Cheryl Mills discuss their dreams of abolishing the Benghazi Committee, which uncovered much of the information that lead to the Clinton email scandal.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15000
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And here’s more evidence of the “non-existence” of the Clinton campaign prior to her announcement. Notice the “we haven’t been ‘hired'” instead of truthfully “we haven’t been hired.” (no quotes) “The other thing we’d need to be very careful about from a compliance perspective is that we are volunteering to help her make a final decision. We haven’t been “hired” and she hasn’t decided to run. It’s very important we make that clear.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15014
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EMAILID 15202 Robby Mook the campaign manager Mentioning the Priorities super PAC (just busted for illegal coordination by the latest O’Keefe video)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15202
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EMAILID 15202 Robby Mook the campaign manager Mentioning the Priorities super PAC (just busted for illegal coordination by the latest O’Keefe video)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15202
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EMAILID 15202 Robby Mook the campaign manager Mentioning the Priorities super PAC (just busted for illegal coordination by the latest O’Keefe video)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15202
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…The other is that the press as a whole doesn’t like Clinton very much (and the feeling is mutual), so there’s a bias toward believing that the public feels the same way. So somehow her campaign is struggling even when it’s winning, and polls that show her winning are reported as showing her losing
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15387
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Quinnipac poll showing HRC winning. Ample evidence is now available that polling orgs are shilling for HRC and are outright oversampling groups to get favorable results (See: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15442). …The other is that the press as a whole doesn’t like Clinton very much (and the feeling is mutual)…
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15387
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Dinner @ Soros home
Look at the attachments… New America… controlling narrative
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15455
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John Podesta’s real opinion on Senator Bernard Sanders: ” that doofus Bernie” This email also contains some thoughts of Democrat Edwards Tanden about Republicans. He seems like a truly sick individual, completely consumed by hatred in his heart. Tanden about all Rebuplicans: ” If they don’t cooperate then it is no longer hyperbole to say that they are truly enemies of the state, enemies of the world.” Edwards also states: “I’m totally one hundred percent for Hillary because if any one of these bozos makes it to the White House, then we’ll have a revolution on our hands.” NOTE: Note that Edwards Tanden definitely includes Bernie in the “bozos”, because he is directly replying here to a question about Bernie. Neera Tanden wasn’t actually bothered by any of the above because she proudly forwarded the hate speech about Republicans and the insult to Bernie to John Podesta.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15464#efmAWQAW-
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Asking someone to intervene when Ben Jealous wants to endorse Bernie
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15465
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Have her keep her cool. These incompetent bastards are baiting her , embarressing and disrepectful.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15518
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Hillary herself acknowledges they shouldn’t “be seen” meddling in Convention CEO hire even tho Debbie hired one without consulting them.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15531
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Flipping out over DWS not consulting them for her Convention CEO appointment. And then saying how she needs to understand how to play ball with them
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15531
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Hillary has nothing good to say about LGBT- So they have to script everything she says to them
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15536
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This eerily sounds similar to what Trump just proposed just yesterday. Too bad she’s done the full opposite on these ‘rules’.
Subject: Corruption agenda A government not for the rich and powerful but accountable to you is the best frame from our research.
1 no one from Wall Street will serve in her admin
End the legalized bribery today. If you take a campaign contribution and change a law because of that, go to jail. She has never done that. No one else should either.
End practice of revolving door of members or anyone in admin. 5 yr bans maybe. I don’t know what it is now. If you regulate an industry, can’t go in to it later if you work for her. All will sign a pledge.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15577
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Podesta being asked to meet with Soros.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15585
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Podesta being asked to meet with Soros.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15922
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Diversity is a tactic, not a value
Can you call Larry and see what minorities he would put in top tier? Could be an asian. I know this isn’t Larry’s taste, but better if a woman
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16031
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More from Hillary herself: in a discussion of the Obamacare Cadillac Tax she says “we have to be careful the R version passes which begins the unraveling of he ACA”.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16070
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Apparently Hillary said something on Rachel (Maddow?) about a pressing amendment to DOMA that (according to team) was incorrect, ie not factual. The team know she won’t go back on it, say she’s wrong. Hillary’s incorrect statement has upset LGBT supporters, the team is getting blowback. They’re trying to work out how to spin it. Since THEY know she won’t go back on THIS and they say she’s WRONG:- It’d be a good thing for Trump to ask her in the debate!?
Someone who knows some history around DOMA needs to look at this. Also – sounds like LGBT peeps should know that Hillary HASN’T walked back her wrong statement, and won’t, just her team spinning it.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16088
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From:bdwanger@gmail.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2015-08-10 21:00 Subject: Wanger/unsolicited comment
Hi, John,
Unsolicited advice from a pr person.
Hillary needs to learn to memorize the first 60 to 90 seconds of prepared remarks.
Just saw her on the news talking about Trump and his remarks denigrating women.
She had great things to say but was reading from a script which made her looked programmed.
If there’s any topic she can talk about passionately without a script this was it. A missed opp.
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I would like to loop Dan and Jake into drafting of likely policy initiatives for testing–they have already provided me some input, but I’d like to get them on calls with the team to drill down on this in more detail, since it’s so important. I know that policy is still a nascent process and will be highly iterative, but I don’t think it makes sense to do the polling in isolation from the policy work itself (since the research should be supporting and informing the policy development)
Clinton team trying to determine what Hillary’s policy positions should be based on polling.
My one thought from the conversation I participated in with Wendy is that her strength is in branding and marketing, using the evidence base in determining how to generate the behaviors sought in the target audience. So I think she has the capacity and creativity to drive the brand development and strategy from inception to execution. I imagine she would rely on the data that is being collected through the polling and focus groups you outline but equally as important, would likely have questions she might suggest specifically be included in the process.
It’s like they’re developing an advertisement campaign for a product, only the product is Hillary Clinton.
I would still assume our budget will be in the $2+ million range per my earlier memo
They spent $2 Million on polling and focus groups to craft Hillary’s public persona
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Is Podesta the one forming US policies?
> Dear Mr Poddsta,
> Many congratulations on the U.S.-China climate accord. I realise it must have been very hard given the political climate but you got it thru.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16477
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EMAILID 16668 Mae Podesta writing to John Podesta and advising him how to best recommend a person to the CFR the Council of Foreign Relations for a position. The person who needs to have this opportunity according to Mae Podesta is Mea Podesta. Mae writes : I am writing to second the nomination of Mae Podesta to join the Council on Foreign Relations as a Term Member. I’ve known Mae since she was a child, having the pleasure to both watch her grow up and navigate her career, as well as seeing her work first hand when she spent a summer at Walmart with my Sustainability team…. The Council will be lucky to have her as a term member.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/16668#efmALXASR
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Podesta being asked to meet with Soros
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17133
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Podesta being asked to meet with Soros.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17133
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When talking about asking for donations. but your more-than 20 pleas for even more additional >> contributions in the space of less than 72 hours is absurd, annoying, and >> unworthy of you. Please moderate it.
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while we have record poverty rates and HRC campaign fraudulently over charges small donors they “This year, our party will be taco themed-with fresh, handmade tortillas flown in from Mexico the previous day”. http://observer.com/2016/09/exclusive-hillary-clinton-campaign-systematically-overcharging-poorest-donors/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17313
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Final q & a script of HRC for email investigation. States ” CORE LANGUAGE FOR ALL ANSWERS” which implies STICK TO THIS SCRIPT! We now know this whole statement is a fabricated lie and the emails were not turned over and were in fact deleted by her campaign and HRC herself! Additionally, HRC states she gave orders to have her “personal” emails deleted: “I didn’t see a reason to keep them so I asked that they be deleted”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17338
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> [SECOND IDEA] Strengthen bribery laws to ensure that politicians don’ change legislation for political donations.
>The second idea is a favorite of mine, as you know, but REALLY dicey territory for HRC, right?
Tldr
They acknowledge how corrupt she is!
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17343#searchresult
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Re: memo on govt reform/pulbic corruption Mar 1, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Jake Sullivan wrote about several ideas and their public support:
Increase government’s public reporting so voters know what goverment is doing …66..
Strengthen bribery laws to ensure that politicians don’ change legislation for political donations. 62%
The second idea is a favorite of mine, as you know, but REALLY dicey territory for HRC, right?
Wouldn’t want those bribery laws strengthened now, would we?
Neera Tanden’s response:
This is a jump ball. She may be so tainted she’s really vulnerable = if so, maybe a message of I’ve seen how this sausage is made,
Crooked Hillary Clinton is “really vulnerable” on corruption, folks. According to her own staff who know her really well.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17343#efmAFHAHJARzATdAeFAfj
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Jake Sullivan no less, suggests that HRC takes bribes for crafting laws.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17343#efmARzATdAeFAfj
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EMAILID 17375 Brent Budowsky and Podesta emailing each other, again. (they had almost 100 emails to each other in the 19 000 that came out so far). Budowsky writes:
And at a major university in Washington, D.C., where many of the kids come here because of an interest in politics and are already working as interns, there was not one student who gave enough of a damn for Hillary to open a booth, or even wear a Hillary button—-I didn’t see one and I was looking.
This pretty much explains why CTR’s paid posting campaigns were needed for Reddit and Facebook. She does not have enough real supporters who “give enough of a damn” to actively cheer and support her. This is why they need masses of paid shills here on Reddit, to create the illusion of enthusiastic support.
If there are secret Clinton talking points to surrogates to attack Bernie—and I now believe the story is true—–she is going to create ill-will that neither she nor her staff can even imagine. ..
What will happen if this continues is Bernie will get pissed off and lash back and I can write the words he will say if Clinton tactics anger him—-FBI investigation and aides taking the Fifth will be among them—and it will not be pretty.
Podesta responds :
We already discussed Castro. Beyond that, why do you think that story is not just a bunch of hyped up BS intended to have exactly the kind of reaction you are exhibiting?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17375#efmAAGACw
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If you donate to Democrats they will get you experimental life saving drugs.
Please please call them. I need tthem to ask people on the board why fred can’t have this drug. This drug has been tested with freds tumor in a testube and is efficaous. The drug is in the hospital that fred is in AND this drug is being used in clinical trials on myloma (but fred doesn’t qualify). It’s bullshit. If I am unable to get drug I will take out full pg add in boston globe to ceo and board members. Fred is running out of time. He’s so sick and needs this drug. Thanks so much
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I’ve worked the dutko, foley hoag and partners angles. Don’t know that it will mean anything given the pressure he’s already resisted, but hope it helps
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17368
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LITERALLY NO VOTER SUPPORT
>And at a major university in Washington, D.C…. there was not one student who gave enough of a damn for Hillary to open a booth, or even wear a Hillary button—-I didn’t see one and I was looking.
SECRET ATTACK SCRIPT ON BERNIE
>If there are secret Clinton talking points to surrogates to attack Bernie—and I now believe the story is true—–she is going to create ill-will that neither she nor her staff can even imagine.
Like is currently happening?
BERNIE WILL FALL IN LINE
>Moreover, Bernie is a pro, and his inclination will be to play ball if Hillary is nominated and urge his supporters to come around.
HOW TO HANDLE BERNIE
>The way to handle Bernie is to do what I have done in my columns—give high praise to Hillary, emphasize the historic moment for women and her vast qualifications, counter-attack against the Republican inquisitions, make love to Bernie and his idealistic supporters, and co-opt as many of his > progressive issues as possible, such as increasing social security benefits and paying for it through a transaction tax on Wall Street.
She has no policies of her own!
NOONE LIKES HRC ENOUGH TO WORK FOR FREE
>Read the Sunday NY Times story about all the tech wizards doing for Bernie for free what Hillary has to pay for
PROOF HRC LIES ABOUT WHY SHE WANTS TO BECOME PRESIDENT
>what the Hillary campaign should be doing… not negative politics that can’t be put in writing and have to be hidden like grand jury testimony because her well-paid consultants do not want anyone to know why they think she should become president…..
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17375
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Here’s Hillary’s Brain Trust preparing ONE tweet “from” Hillary on something the Pope said about Climate Change. She really doesn’t have one original thought, all her tweets, interviews, speeches, debate answers are prepared by Podesta and the other minions.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17451
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HRC campaign are very worried a WSJ reporter knows she is working with John on a campaign in 2014 while collecting fees and CF $$$. They lied to him.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17556
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They have to decide whether her explanation on why she stayed married to Bill was sufficient. Apparently Hillary is such a blank slate that they even have to choose what words she says about her marriage?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17700
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EMAILID 17724 Dan Schwerin
Here is a draft statement opposing TPP. It’s long, but covers a lot of ground. The goal here was to minimize our vulnerability to the authenticity attack and not piss off the WH any more than necessary.
Staff creates a statement about Hillary opposing TPP. Which is interesting because while staff creates this statement they admit she pushed and advocated for TPP.
Joel Benenson writes:
But the reality is HRC is more pro trade than anti and trying to turn her into something she is not could reinforce our negative around authenticity. This is an agreement that she pushed for and largely advocated for.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17724#efmAAGAD6
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Debbie Dignell (D) Want’s nothing to do w/ Hillary
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17747
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She was also championing TPP according to Jake Sullivan:
She has concerns about where TPP will end up. But denying potus negotiating authority to finish a deal she has championed?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17992
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HRC Meeting With Elizabeth Warren
Huma Abedin wrote:
HRC Health Issues back in Nov 2014
>Like all of you, the questions we get asked 20 times a day is a. where is she and what is she doing?
>Our answer is as honest as possible. We are giving her the time and space to think through the things she needs to think through.
Honest as possible implies hiding something…
>On John and CDM, we say you have been her closest advisors for a hundred years and that hasnt changed. Since we have never discussed this as a group or agreed on what to say, sharing with everyone.
Coordinating stories in case anyone asks
>We should be thoughtful about any group that wants to rent Friend of Hillary list now because there is interest. This is also probably best discussed off email.
Proof there is Collusion among her biggest donors
From: Robert Mook
>And then there’s the press question–not sure how high the chance of a leak is, but it would be good to have a joint plan with Mindy in the event it gets out to shape coverage. Or to proactively leak if that’s what EW wants. Not a bad thing to put out there that they had a constructive mtg.
Info “leaked” to the media without the media corroborating. More proof of MSM working for HRC
From:robbymook@gmail.com
>Will definitely get leaked!
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17955
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opposition research director Tony Carrk sends a hurried email to Podesta and many other high ranking staffers:
subject: If we get to talk to her on break
Have her mention climate change J
Now just what this could be? Seems very important to mention climate change, IF the staff can talk to her on break. If they update her talking points during the break they have to include climate change in there, writes Carrk. Now what situation could allow for such a break? Perhaps a debate against Bernie Sanders? Can someone look into whether there were any debates against Bernie during this time. This email strongly implies that they used the breaks in some type of event to update her talking points with the latest information produced by the team. This email was sent on 2016-01-18 0:47 (just barely, seems more like the evening of 01-17 in a different timezone)
UPDATE from a poster in the thread:” “View source” shows that email was received by Podesta’s ISP on Sun, 17 Jan 2016 18:47:14 (PST) which is actually during the Democrat debate on January 17 in which Crooked Hillary competed against Senator Bernie Sanders and other Dems.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18329
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Trying to dig up dirt on Gowdy
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18346
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HRC MENTAL HEALTH “It worries me more that she doesn’t seem to know what planet we are all living
in at the moment.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18353#efmACXAD2AFIAGYAGaAGl
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EMAILID 18353
2015-09-15 Neera Tanden and John Podesta tackle the issue of Hillary in the primary. Is she a progressive or a moderate?
Neera writes:
Why did she call herself a moderate?
Podesta replies:
I pushed her on this on Sunday night. She claims she didn’t remember saying it. Not sure I believe her. We were speculating, that it may be a Don Baer intervention.
John Podesta, the chairman of the Hillary Clinton campaign, thinks that Hillary may be lying to him here. To even think this Podesta MUST believe that Hillary is a pathological liar who just can’t stop lying. Podesta simply does not believe or trust her. You know your “trustworthy” numbers must be bad when you read “Not sure I believe her” from your own goddamn campaign chairman.
Neera Tanden angrily responds
I mean it makes my life more difficult after telling every reporter I know she’s actually progressive but that is really the smallest of issues. It worries me more that she doesn’t seem to know what planet we are all living in at the moment.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18353#efmAFIAGxAJCAJm
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HRC PHYSICAL HEALTH. “Well I definitely was able to breathe again when it was over.” why? afraid of her passing out on stage?
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18918#searchresult
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HRC HEALTH ISSUES! John Podesta writes on 2016-01-17. Great answer to Trump, but hard to cram more into her head in terms of quotes to memorize tonight. Still we should come back to it.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/20000#efmAAGACJ
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Some unflattering points,that we better be aware of,just in case Trump(or whoever) gets a hold of this and uses it in states like Florida where it would be very damaging. In any event need to be ready to answer the below if it pops up in adds or during debates. Not good! Attachment: article about HRC true position and feelings on Israel. She is highly critical of them
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/20949
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Brent Budowsky :
It is 9:13. Hillary just attacked Bernie. I just turned the debate off. I cannot watch any more. She is a slow learner.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21074#efmAAGACB
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From: Sara Solow
>She wants to be able to say: “No, I don’t accept donations from private prisons or from ppl who run private prisons.” But for her to say that, it has to be true.
TRANSLATION, HRC TAKES MONEY FROM PRIVATE PRISONS THAT LOCK UP MORE BLACKS/ HISPANICS THAN WHITES. -> THEY MAKE MORE MONEY THE MORE PEOPLE ARE IMPRISONED.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michaela-pommells/study-more-people-of-colo_b_4826086.html
>More than 60 percent of prison inmates in the U.S. identify as African American or Latino despite making up only 30 percent of the population.
>private prisons seek the least expensive prisoner to generate the highest possible profit.
>Private prisons receive carte blanche, picking and choosing the most desirable prisoner. In this case, they are more likely to chose African American and Latino prisoners; the prisoners of plenty.
HRC needs to be able to say “that she only accepts money from bundlers who lobby for private prisons — as well as other groups. Or that there is some disconnect between the lobbyists/bundlers for her, and actual private prison companies.”
Instead of shutting the prisons down or changing the industry, she just removes the direct link.
TLDR, HRC makes more money the more people suffer…
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21213#searchresult
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Looks like Palmieri was worried about how it looks submitting the same statement twice.
Know I missed discussions today – but this seems dangerous.If I understand this correctly – we are literally submitting her testimony from two years ago?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21704#efmAAGAAaAGSAHNAHyAIxASyAVX
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Their staff confirms Obama knew about Hillary’s email server. Confirmation Obama and Hillary emailed. Email is them planning to cover it up:
Suggest Philippe talk to Josh or Eric. They know POTUS and HRC emailed. Josh has been asked about that. Standard practice is not to confirm anything about his email, so his answer to press was that he would not comment/confirm. I recollect that Josh was also asked if POTUS ever noticed her personal email account and he said something like POTUS likely had better things to do than focus on his Cabinet’s email addresses.
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21779
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More on Obama’s email use. Staff is getting concerned about a NYT story, http://archive.is/noszL titled “Obama Says He Didn’t Know Hillary Clinton Was Using Private Email Address”:
Phillipe Reines:
One of us should connect with the WH just so they know that the email will show his statement to not make sense.
Jennifer Palmieri :
Suggest Philippe talk to Josh or Eric. They know POTUS and HRC emailed.
Both Palmieri and Reines are fully aware that not only Obama but lower level staff in the White House knew about the private server and the emails exchanged through it.
Phillipe Reines
Ok. Sounds like people are putting words into his mouth.
This is from March 2015, when Hillary has no official title or position. Yet her underlings are talking about how they will contact the White House to get them to change their story.
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21779#efmAAGAA-ADkAEEALeAM4AM5APx
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TANDEN SUSPECTS DOUG BAND IS A LEAK BUT IT’S ACTUALLY Eric Braverman.
Morning Joe Twitter: A source close to the Clintons tell @ron_fournier to “follow the money” and find the real HRC scandal.
Neera Tanden: I’m hoping someone is keeping tabs on Doug Band. Quote in here is from someone who worked in Clinton Foundation.
john.podesta@gmail.com wrote:
Eric Braverman
SEPARATE EMAIL TIES THIS TOGETHER
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21802
From: Ken Vogel, Politico
“Hey guys: Sorry for the delay on these. The story is about the management challenges and leadership changes at the foundation – and what if anything they portend for 2016. Deadline is Wednesday afternoon.”
“11 – What changed between December 2014 – when the board renewed Eric Braverman’s board term for another three years, and gave him a raise and a bonus – and early January when he resigned?
12 – Was Eric Braverman asked to resign and, if so, why?”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25357
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21802
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Not Actually respective to any religion
Teddy Goff” wrote: > >> Adding Podesta here too for his review. I vote #2, but defer to the >> non-Jews on this thread if anyone thinks “amen” might rub people the wrong >> way.
There’s only one thing to say about @Pontifex >>> ‘s bold statements on climate change & >>> renewable energy: Amen. -H
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21814#searchresult
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Prepared Q&A in 2015 , they were already concerned about her health but there is a lot more:
Personal
When will you release your medical records?
• I’m in great health, and I am going to do as other candidates have traditionally done when it came to health records. The voters will know from my doctors how healthy I am!
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21848
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Talk about skirting campaign finance laws
>One clarification question: In your second option in the document, is the idea that RFH would transfer the list to another super pac, which would in turn to sell it to the campaign?
>You probably saw the press stories last weekend about the fact that there is already a complaint filed nearly a year ago about RFH’s rental of the Friends of Hillary list. It won’t be the last. [See https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17955%5D
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21915#efmAqfAthAxpA0f
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HILLARY CANT SHOW EMOTIONS OR COMMUNICATE PROPER FEELINGS / REMORSE, THEY ADMIT THIS IS NOW A BIGGER ISSUE THAN HER DISHONESTY:
Neera Tanden wrote:
I know this email thing isn’t on the level. I’m fully aware of that. But her inability to just do a national interview and communicate genuine feelings of remorse and regret is now, I fear, becoming a character problem (more so than honesty).
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22039
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Brent hoping they can get Gowdy off the committee
I would not suggest HRC or the campaign raise this directly unless the strategy is total war, but I would suggest that some of her better surrogates might call on Trey Gowdy to resign from the Ethics C’tee….
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22078
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George Soros’ Open Societies Foundation crafting Police Reform policy
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22097
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HRC campaign collusion with State Department
From:jennifer.m.palmieri@gmail.com
To: jbenenson@bsgco.com, Jim.Margolis@gmmb.com, gruncom@aol.com, teddy@precisionstrategies.com
Date: 2015-03-04 22:25
Subject: Emails development
Team – wanted to let you know that Cheryl is working with State to get agreement on release of the 55k pages of emails she have to State. The hope would be that we are able to say tonight to the press that we are working with State to get emails released soon. Not sure where those discussions will land, but hope is either State agrees to release on timely basis or we pledge to release them ourselves in ten days/week. Assume you all would agree this is right move?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22105
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Podesta speed dating email…. he’s married
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22197
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Podesta having dinner with George Soros
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22202
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From:ntanden@gmail.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Subject: speaking at the banks
dont shoot me but if we lose badly maybe she should just return the money Say she gets the anger and moves on. Feels a little like an open wound One of the canvassers told me it came up at 3 undecideds houses. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-20/clinton-aide-asks-if-hillary-should-return-money-banks-if-she-loses-badly
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22242
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Tip? That doesn’t seem right.
Someone here just got a tip that the State Department may be planning to release her Benghazi emails tomorrow or Monday. Not sure the source is reliable. Has anyone heard anything about this?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22247
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Another juicy Chelsea/Doug Band email. This one accuses Doug of calling Bill on the day Hillary’s mother died and “yelled and screamed at my dad about how could he do this to [Doug] and Justin.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22275
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Still trying to decide what position she should take on TPP/Glass Steagall
“She has to be for TPP*. She called it the “gold standard” of trade agreements. I think opposing that would be a huge flip flop.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22392
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Ron Klain writes about how Hillary called TPP the “gold standard”. This is what she lied about in the first debate. The staffers knew in 2015 October this would look so bad, but they went along with it anyway.
I had to get off that call before it ended, and I also didn’t want to intrude in that group. But FWIW, my view would be: 1. * She has to be for TPP*. She called it the “gold standard” of trade agreements. I think opposing that would be a huge flip flop. She can say that as President she would work to change it. She can say that it can be better. But I think she should support it.
Jake Sullivan
I agree with you on TPP but others (including on this email!) feel strongly to the contrary.
So two senior officials in the Hillary campaign admitted that it would be a “huge flip flop” and they did it anyway because it was popular at the time. Now Hillary’s only attempted defense is to claim that she did not call TPP the gold standard (she did). Weak.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22392#efmAHjANp
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Possible another bimbo being dicked by Johnny boy? Their other correspondence seems more personal than professional. She’s concerned about whether her son is going to get to the shelter in 90 seconds before the bombs drop on Tel Aviv. Too bad he doesn’t have 4 minutes
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22485
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Here they are trying to weazel out of TPP support, it’s not even her changing position, it’s her staff trying to find a good excuse to get votes:
“you have no easy task here but I do feel like there are too many competing interests in the statement. On one hand you praise Obama while opposing his efforts and actions. Then you dissect the agreement in praise and criticism. And you take a swipe at Republicans for creating the environment that drives part of her opposition which feels forced and a way to lesson the blow to opposing the president. And the arguments against are so policy driven that I feel the American worker gets left out as the real reason to oppose it. But them again, beggars can’t be choosers. If this is what it takes to get an opposition position so be it. But I feel this type of approach, while sensitive to the Obama Administration, may get its own share of criticism for trying to balance her opposition and having it both ways. I would favor more of the paradigm of how we approached the Keystone opposition. More black and white”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22898
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Senator Diane Feinstein admits to “offer to help” and “be a surrogate” for Clinton in Benghazi hearings. Feinstein is the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee
VERY CLEAR INDICATION OF THIS BEING RIGGED AND THIS
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-06/we-wired-it-new-emails-show-hillary-tried-rig-benghazi-hearings-january-2013. https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58j7jn/gentlement_i_believe_we_found_it_diane_feinstein/
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23199
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Senator Diane Feinstein admits to “offer to help” and “be a surrogate” for Clinton in Benghazi hearings. Feinstein is the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee
VERY CLEAR INDICATION OF THIS BEING RIGGED AND THIS
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23199
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From:faiz.shakir@gmail.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2015-11-19 19:38 Subject: Re: What did you think of the speech?
yeah, my favorite part is how he connects IS [ISIS] to “billionaire families” in the Arab world. Always goes back to the billionaires. Hilarious. It sounds a bit too much like “our war in syria and iraq is ultimately a battle to reshape islam”. We’d lose that one. But I like the direction he’s going. Maybe you could one-up him with: “ISIS is trying to behead Islam” (kidding, don’t do that)
Faiz Shakir” wrote:
“Really appreciated the Saudi hit on feeding radical ideology.”
Saudi Arabia won’t be too happy since they ate huge donors
“We tend to be overly >> focused on the violent strains of the radicalism. But even if there weren’t violence, the fact that too many who are for subjugation of women, against gays, against Jews and Christians, etc – is a serious problem for our future.
THEY ADMIT ISLAM HAS HORRIFIC IDEALS YET THEY DO NOTHING BUT PROMOTE IT AMD WANT TO BRING IT INTO OUR COUNTRY!
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23240
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HRC KNOWS HER SERVER WAS HACKED!
John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com<mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com wrote:
Reluctant to go there. Makes it seem like she consciously went to the home server for security reasons which would fall apart under scrutiny.
Roy Spence <Roy.Spence@gsdm.com> wrote:
IRS was hacked. I think the State Department was hacked. Sony hacked. Banks hacked. As we try and close the Benghazi Chapter and the email drip drip. Is there ever a moment in TiMe not to Defend the decision but layout the fact….HRC servers were not hacked. Know this is s naive thought but just thinking.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23327#efmACtAE7AIzALQ
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subject:Re: Hey bro quick question.
The topic is the security of the private sever. Maybe they should claim it was really secure and maybe even better protected then some governmental systems. Podesta shoots the idea down:
Reluctant to go there. Makes it seem like she consciously went to the home server for security reasons which would fall apart under scrutiny.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23327#efmACtAE6
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From: John Podesta
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 7:43:07 AM
To: H
Subject: Re: Thanks for helping steer the ship thru our first choppy waters.
“I think you have a funky server.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23344
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Seems they were knowingly already prepping for a campaign in JAN 14? FEC violation given she had paid speeches after?
” … it will get reported if someone talks as a political meeting rather than one designed to preserve her options”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23363#efmAMtAOaAZJAcG
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“We recommend not engaging on specific questions related to 1) donors; 2) implementation of the MOU; or 3) HRC’s knowledge of donors to the foundation. These are rabbit holes.” The Clinton Foundation Memorandum of Understanding. When Clinton becamse Sec of State Obama made her sign the attached document. She agreed that there wouldn’t even be the appearance of a conflict of interest between her job at State and the donor’s to the foundation.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23539
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EMAILD The Bonner Group has a question for Podesta
Subject: Is there someone in your shop
Who totally understands “executive orders”. It is to answer a very big donors questions
Podesta responds within 2 hours “of course” to put the “very big donors” mind at ease.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23845
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HRC CAMPAIGN ACKNOWLEDGES SHE DELETED HER EMAILS
From:bfallon@hillaryclinton.com
To: hsamuelson@cdmillsgroup.com
Date: 2015-06-25 00:40 Subject:
Re: Proposed response to upcoming State Dept disclosure on Sid emails
*ON-THE-RECORD RESPONSE FROM SPOKESMAN NICK MERRILL:*
“Hillary Clinton has turned over 55,000 pages of materials to the State Department, including all emails in her possession from Mr. Blumenthal.”
*OFF RECORD, if pressed on whether we are essentially admitting the possibility that she deleted some emails:*
Look, we do not know what these materials are, or where they came from. Just take a look at them: many of the documents are not even formatted as emails.
Why would the HRC campaign have a plan for responding to allegations she deleted emails if they know she didn’t delete them?????
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23891#efmASbAUJ
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HRC CAMP USES PLANTED QUESTIONS TO MANIPULATE PUBLIC OPINION
EMAILD Brian Fallon – in the news today as a suspected question planter at a Hillary press conference – lays out a plan. How to effectively hide the fact that Hillary Clinton deleted emails even in the face of upcoming evidence.
https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/789447550575063040
“OFF RECORD, if pressed on whether we are essentially admitting the possibility that she deleted some emails:Look, we do not know what these materials are, or where they came from. Just take a look at them: many of the documents are not even formatted as emails.”
THE GOAL WAS TO CREATE THE ILLUSION THAT HILLARY CLINTON DID NOT DELETE ANY EMAILS (SHE DID).
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23891#efmASbAUJ
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HRC CAMPAIGN CONCERNED ABOUT LEAK AND EMAILS
From:cheryl.mills@gmail.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2014-11-14 13:26 Subject:
Re: remind me to discus with you
http://abc11.com/news/secret-emails-of-potential-clinton-campaign-managers-revealed/394929/
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23957
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EMAILD Neera Tanden about the New York Times journalists and editors:
“Fuck these assholes.”
Neera Tanden is the President of the Center for American Progress (CAP), and one of the most prominent email partners of Podesta as shown by the Podesta leaks.
This is what the powerful Clinton people thought about the servile media such as the New York Times as soon as they wrote anything but sycophantic praises of Hillary Clinton. In this case the NYT dared to report about Hillary Clinton’s email abuses. Their reaction: “Fuck these assholes”. And they did. They planned retaliation against the NYT journalists. And by now it is clear they got them to fall in line. They never dare to reveal even slightly negative information about the Clintons.
Jennifer Palmieri’s reacton to “Fuck these assholes”
“Love it. Thanks, Neera!”
Neera Tanden
“this is probably very unhealthy for me, but I’m going to war on this on twitter.”
This is the key folks, this is how we even know they were talking about the New York Times. The date of the email is Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:56:39 -0700 (PDT) . Neera Tanden posted the following to twitter during this time : tweet 1 http://archive.is/PcBAy document from tweet 1 http://archive.is/XLFS1 tweet 2 http://archive.is/tmfib tweet 3. http://archive.is/ItFbj
This is Neera’s response:
“@ron_fournier @HillaryClinton @nytimes Did you read the letter? Is that kind of journalism you practice Ron? I would never have thought that”
But what did she respond to? This tweet from Ron Fournier http://archive.is/UPl2U
Who convinced @HillaryClinton to pick a fight with @nytimes (and by extension all of us)? PR malpractice.
The evidence is conclusive. The only possible target of the “Fuck these assholes” is the servile New York Times, now working overtime for the Hillary Clinton campaign. This is the retaliation and anger, both internally and publicly when the lapdog media steps out of line. They dared to write about the emails. This was the cause for “war on twitter” for Neera Tanden. Two days later Tanden is still angrily tweeting about the NYT http://archive.is/ejqID http://archive.is/gG8gw . There is no other “letter”, just the one written to the NYT. There is no other “twitter war” in this period, just against the New York Times.
Neera Tanden’s message to the New York Times journalists and editors for all to see : “fuck these assholes” . Will the New York Times report this, examine this story? Will they ask Neera whether she stands by her comments that the NYT are assholes who should be fucked? Or will the New York Times cover up the story even though it directly involves them and their coverage?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24057#efmAAGABWAFQAFk
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HRC Campaign Position on Trump Exposing HRC/Obama ISIS Connection
“While on one level Trump’s assertion is somewhat silly and superficial, on another its potentially clever because it could possibly lead to a new spate of articles on how ISIS came to be and the US role in it. Frankly, it also may resonate somewhat as well (especially with respect to Obama) because of the widely shared perception, rightly or wrongly, that the Obama Administration was slow to address ISIS and that its resulting strategy is limited in nature and ineffectual (witness terrorist incidents in Europe and the United States).
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24222
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HRC CAMP DOESNT OUTRIGHT SAY THEY DIDNT CREATE ISIS, INSTEAD THEY DISCUSS DEFLECTIONS!
From:Jeff.Bialos@sutherland.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com, johnpodesta@hillaryclinton.com, lrosenberger@hillaryclinton.com
Subject: A Few Thoughts on Trump’s ISIS Comment – For What They Are Worth
While I’m sure you are all on top of this, I thought to mention a few points for what they are worth. While on one level Trump’s assertion is somewhat silly and superficial, on another its potentially clever because it could possibly lead to a new spate of articles on how ISIS came to be and the US role in it. Frankly, it also may resonate somewhat as well (especially with respect to Obama) because of the widely shared perception, rightly or wrongly, that the Obama Administration was slow to address ISIS and that its resulting strategy is limited in nature and ineffectual (witness terrorist incidents in Europe and the United States).
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24222
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H Clinton to Podesta
Huge email possibly classified, definitely sensitive information Note: Sources include Western intelligence, US intelligence and sources in the region.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24353
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WALL ST BANKS LOVE HRC AND HER POLICIES FOR THEM
WILLIAM DAVID COHAN >> wrote:
“i assume with HRC looking better these days, wall street is pretty happy with that and with Trump, wall street must be in despair”
From:rwolf@32advisors.com To: jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com, aelrod@hillaryclinton.com
“You can see Bill’s questions to me. I have become friends with him and can get insights but recall in general he is not a fan of most banks especially Goldman so don’t know his angle yet.”
If Bill is truly not a fan of the banks, then why did he sign into law the repeal (the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act) of Glass Steagall which gave the banks unprecedented ability to gamble with deposits? Bill signing this into law directly resulted in the 2008 Great Financial Crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legislation
The only explanation is they own him as a result of #PayToPlay. Wall St. banks have given $30 million to the Clintons through speaking fees and donations to the Clinton Foundation.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24887
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HRC Running for Emperor & Her own Campaign has doubts about her
From:brentbbi@webtv.net
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
“one of HRC’s opponents will soon charge that she is running an “imperial campaign.” If it is the right opponent, Democrat or Republican, the charge will resonate. Probably 90% of the total media coverage of HRC has a negative slant, from her paid speeches to foundation donations to not answering questions from the press.”
“If we look at a long curve of her numbers, there is reason for serious concern if trends continue and I see nothing today that will change them.”
“There is a missing element in her campaign and it is troubling. The “imperial campaign” charge will resonate when the right candidate figures it out….”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24584
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THE WHOLE JOBS RECOVER HAS BEEN A COMPLETE FARCE AND THEY KNOW IT!
From:donna@brazileassociates.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
“I think people are more in despair about how things are—yes new jobs but they are low wage jobs. HOUSING is a huge issue. Most people pay half of what they make to rent…”
THEY LIE EVERY TIME THEY ARE IN PUBLIC ABOUT HOW WELL THE ECONOMY IS DOING. THEY KNOW IT SUCKS!
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/789482865360764928
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24797
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PODESTA DISCUSSES POSITION TITLE SEMANTICS TO SKIRT COMPENSATION LAW
John Podesta
wrote: “Just member of advisory board if that’s what others are called.”
“Debbie Fine” wrote:
“they are members of the steering committee. i was looking for a title since an office and asst may be considered forms of compensation, but there is nothing that says a steering committee member can’t be compensated for his work as such so we could go with that if you prefer. (a CAP board member cannot be compensated for his work as such per by laws)”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25228
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MORE COLLUSION BETWEEN MEDIA AND HRC CAMPAIGN & HRC CAMPAIGN PLANTING QUESTIONS WITH THE PRESS
John Podesta wrote:
Haim [Saiban, media conglomerate head, including Univision] thinks we are under reacting to Trump/Hispanics. Thinks we can get something by standing up for Latinos or attacking R’s for not condemning
Huma Abedin wrote:
“I told him [Haim Saiban] she [HRC] had said something but he says he’s only heard her talk about immigration. And if Haim is raising it, it means he’s hearing it from his Univision colleagues. I told him I’d send what we had said so Kristina if you have that, would be great. Also told him about la raza but he thought that was too late. Do you think we would get it as a question at the press avail tomorrow? Cause it would be perfect opportunity.
HRC CAMPAIGN PLANTING QUESTIONS WITH THE PRESS
Lorella Praeli wrote:
Alex, who works for Haim, called a few minutes ago. Same message- Haim thinks HRC needs to be on the forefront of this… He asked to call him and share our plan and get input from them.
Robby Mook wrote:
Call to action to the groups, ask CHC members to write op eds, Univision interview, etc. then we need to make more news at La Raza.
HRC CAMPAIGN GIVING ORDERS FOR PEOPLE TO WRITE OP EDS AND THEN THE MEDIA TO PUBLISH THEM!
*Friday, July 10th / Saturday, July 11th * HRC Tweet/Facebook post saying she’s looking forward to speaking at NCLR tomorrow
HRC NOT GENERATING HER OWN POSITIONS AND OUTREACH
From:xhinojosa@hillaryclinton.com
To: arenteria@hillaryclinton.com
Date: 2015-07-04 00:49
Subject: Re: Hi
I’ve included a draft plan on how we can go after Trump’s comments over the next week leading up to NCLR.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25255
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Hillary donors think there is not enough Play for their Pay
big donors usually have ideas/advice and want to feel like they are being heard
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25320#efmAFmAHCATBAUQ
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Steven Bakalar to Podesta about fundraisers and big donors. He says Hillary must tweak her policy to be more in line with the donors (this is in May 2015) Who is Bakalar? “Just to remind, I’m the guy who raised $600K for Obama re-elect”. Bakalar writes :
“Raisers are effectively salespeople selling the candidate on the donor marketplace, so their feedback is valuable to HQ in terms of tweaking policy, messaging, tone, etc …
big donors usually have ideas/advice and want to feel like they are being heard”
They give the money so their ideas must be taken seriously. It seems Bakalar was worried that in 2015 the donors weren’t assured enough that there will be enough play of their ideas. We haven’t seen any later complaints about this so it must have been fixed quite efficiently.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25320#efmAFmAHCATBAUQ
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HRC TURNED OVER SERVER TO THIRD PARTY
Neera Tanden writes email subject: Why doesn’t she just turn the server over to a third party at this point? : isn’t it going to leak out of the FBI anyway?
Podesta replies: Done so think about something else
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25341
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Sitting with Soros to see if he approves of messaging in ads funded by Soros, since he is a “right wing punching bag.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25342
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TANDEN SUSPECTS DOUG BAND IS A LEAK BUT IT’S ACTUALLY Eric Braverman.
Morning Joe Twitter: A source close to the Clintons tell @ron_fournier to “follow the money” and find the real HRC scandal.
Neera Tanden: I’m hoping someone is keeping tabs on Doug Band. Quote in here is from someone who worked in Clinton Foundation.
john.podesta@gmail.com wrote:
Eric Braverman
SEPARATE EMAIL TIES THIS TOGETHER
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/21802
From: Ken Vogel, Politico
“Hey guys: Sorry for the delay on these. The story is about the management challenges and leadership changes at the foundation – and what if anything they portend for 2016. Deadline is Wednesday afternoon.”
“11 – What changed between December 2014 – when the board renewed Eric Braverman’s board term for another three years, and gave him a raise and a bonus – and early January when he resigned?
12 – Was Eric Braverman asked to resign and, if so, why?”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25357
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Neera writes:
@JoeNBC: A source close to the Clintons tell @ron_fournier to “follow the money” and find the real HRC scandal. http://t.co/lPTQY0L0o4 I’m hoping someone is keeping tabs on Doug Band. Quote in here is from someone who worked in Clinton Foundation.
Doug Band just became a lot more interesting. Doug is one of the founders of TENEO http://archive.is/ykcQo We have to keep tabs on him from now on.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25357#efmAFAAJC
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Information suggesting that Tim Kaine lied and lied and lied. About when he learned about being VP. Eric Mullen says Kaine knew in July 2015 he is going to be the nominee for Vice President:
“Won’t stop assuring Sens Brown and Heitkamp (at dinner now) that HRC has personally told Tim Kaine he’s the veep.”
Kaine said that he knew only 48 hours before the announcement.
article about this wikileak http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/wikileaks-kaine-clinton-lied-vp-selection/
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25445#efmALMAM-
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MAJOR TENSION BETWEEN PODESTA AND TANDEN
Neera Tanden wrote:
“I’m not the diversity police but there is grumbling on the 4 white boys running next presidential cycle. So I recommend rolling out some people who look like the rest of America soon!”
John Podesta wrote:
“Really, don’t you think I know that?”
Neera Tanden wrote:
“Yeah I know you know it. But in case people feel intimidated in making direct comments to Hillaryland, I thought I’d let you know of grumbling I’m hearing directly. But maybe that was my mistake.”
John Podesta wrote:
“Since you failed to convince Danielle, got other top tier suggestions?”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25489
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Paul Begala to Podesta during the 2008 campaign. Apparently Obama pushed for investigation into “Clinton’s sex life”:
“My hatred for the Clinton-bashing, hand-wringing, sanctimonious commentariat outweighs all other considerations. It’s okay for Barack’s campaign to push reporters to pry into Clinton’s sex life, but if Clinton says Barack is fudging his story about the war, he’s a racist? Give me a break.’
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25573
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I’ve got a great idea! Let’s put all our presidential administration transition data on the Google cloud!
“I’ve set up a data room on google sites to help you all share information with each other. Please take time and upload files that you want to share.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25611
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HRC STRATEGY TO DISCREDIT & BEAT TRUMP BY CHANGING AND DEFRAUDING VOTER LAWS
Brent Budowsky: “Best approach is to slaughter Donald for his bromance with Putin”
“The best single move to elect her would be a massive voter registration and organization drive. Expand the electorate so more voters will vote so her low trust ratings generally will have less pro rated impact, and the number of higher trust voters will be newly registered…
…It is no coincidence that this year Trump runs no ads, while Jeb and Hillary run the most ads with little effect. Voter registration by contrast creates real voters and changes—and improves—the playing field itself. There is no ad on earth that will increase her trust ratings or the enthusiasm of her voters the way a mega-registration project will increase her support on election day.” – end of quote
Well, we all know what´s included in the phrase “massive voter and organization drive”.
SEE PROJECT VERITAS VIDEOS:
Project Veritas, Rigging the Election – Part I: Clinton Campaign and DNC Incite Violence at Trump Rallies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY
Project Veritas, Mass Voter Fraud, Part 2: Bussing in illegal immigrants with fake IDs to vote in numerous states
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDc8PVCvfKs
Project Veritas, DNC Schemes to Bully Women at Trump Rally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b24Yq1Ndnjo&feature=youtu.be
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25651
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“SOME KIND OF ILLEGAL ALLEGATIONS BROUGHT AGAINST WJC THAT CHELSEA AND PODESTA NEED TO ADDRESS “”QUICKLY””
“”A former MF Global employee accused former president William J. Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former CEO Jon S. Corzine to improve his image and to enhance his connections with Clinton’s political family, said the employee, who asked that his name be withheld because he feared retribution.””
aj66@nyu.edu [Chelsea Clinton] wrote:
“”I was in London Sunday and did a Foundation event Sunday evening and two people separately voiced concerns directly to me about Teneo, neither of whom I know well…””
“”Ilya has called Members of the House and Members of Parliament, “”on behalf of President Clinton,”” for Teneo clients (eg for Andrew Liveris and Dow who’s coming this month to London), without my father’s knowledge and inelegantly and ineffectually at best and at worse has now precipitating people in London making comparisons between my father and Tony Blair’s profit motivations. Which would horrify my father. “”
“”Sara also told Bari she started working for Teneo, as Teneo, more than a year ago and then recently stopped because she was so upset, partly because of what Doug and Declan asked her to do/ pretend was happening for their clients at Davos- that’s all I know.””
SOUNDS SKETCHY
From:john.podesta@gmail.com
To: aj66@nyu.edu
“”We need to move to a resolution of this quickly.”””
Articles about this:
Leaked Emails Show Tension Inside Clinton Inner Circle
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/leaked-emails-show-tension-inside-clinton-circle-42708277
Report: Bill Clinton Reaped Big Bucks from Corzine Firm Before Collapse
http://nation.foxnews.com/mf-global/2011/12/05/report-bill-clinton-reaped-big-bucks-corzine-firm-collapse
Claim: Clinton Collected $50K Per Month From MF Global
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2816382/posts
Claim: Clinton Collected $50K Per Month From MF Global
http://humanevents.com/2011/12/05/claim-clinton-collected-50k-per-month-from-mf-global/
Tldr:
Basically, they knew they were going to go bankrupt. So, they decided to pay Bill $50,000 each month to show him some love. That way all the money didn’t go to waste when they filed for Bankruptcy. Also, shows they have less money on hand and more of a reason to file for bankruptcy. Pretty fuckin’ shady.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25657
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CITI GROUP EMPLOYEE EMAILING PODESTA ABOUT TREASURY SECRETARY POSITION. COLLUDING WITH WALL ST TO PICK TREASURER
From:fromanm@citi.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2008-10-07 11:06
Subject:
“So, just to review from our conversation Sunday, with regard to the private vet, should we assume we start with the following? Tim Geithner Larry Summers Jim Jones Jim Steinberg Jack Reed Janet Napolitano John Kerry Susan Rice Chuck Hagel”
TIM GEITHNER BECAME SEC TREASURE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Geithner)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25756
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PODESTA CALLS OUT THE HRC MARKETING TEAM FOR BEING WORTHLESS
Neera Tanden wrote:
“this video is awesome. Did the campaign do it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8KbyIlruso”
From:john.podesta@gmail.com
To: ntanden@gmail.com
Date: 2016-02-14 04:25
Subject: Re:
“You have to be kidding. When have our people ever ever done anything this interesting?”
REGARDING YOUTUBE VIDEO THAT WAS TAKEN DOWN:
Way Back Machine shows it was “Hillary: Rebel Girl” : https://web.archive.org/web/20160216222153/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8KbyIlruso
“Pretty sure this is the same one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0vT2TOMhVI”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25773
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Congratulations to Podesta from the Carlyle Group
Carlyle Group owns Booz Allen Hamilton. A big Defense Contractor. But we already knew BAH was sucking up to Clinton. Although Carlyle Group recently started dumping them (made like 2 billion off of them since they went public – IPO). I believe it has to do with their relations to Snowden and the other recent NSA insider threat. The thing with BAH is that they really should be held accountable for their own problems. Security culture in the firm is lax and they have poor management in that respect.
there was a strong connection to W and HW Bush IIRC
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25819
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PODESTA LIKES SHARK FIN SOUP, WHICH SHOULD UPSET PETA
From:progden@gmail.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2014-11-09 03:40
Subject: Re: touching base
“Great, will do. You off to Beijing again or had enough shark fin soup for a while?”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25988
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Congratulations to Podesta from the Carlyle Group
Carlyle Group owns Booz Allen Hamilton. A big Defense Contractor. But we already knew BAH was sucking up to Clinton. Although Carlyle Group recently started dumping them (made like 2 billion off of them since they went public – IPO). I believe it has to do with their relations to Snowden and the other recent NSA insider threat. The thing with BAH is that they really should be held accountable for their own problems. Security culture in the firm is lax and they have poor management in that respect.
there was a strong connection to W and HW Bush IIRC
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26033
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EMAILID 26098 John Podesta admits to threatening a person called “Tad” over an interview given by Bernie’s brother.
subject was: Re: Tapper just asked Bernie about his brothers interview!
“I think i reported I talked to Tad. Expressed our unhappiness in vaguely threatening terms.”
Tad could be Tad Devine a Bernie adviser. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad_Devine#Bernie_Sanders.27_presidential_campaign)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26098#efmAAGABh
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Sermons scripted by the Hillary Clinton campaign: Sep 12, 2015 Dan Schwerin wrote:
“Hi all, wanted to share our draft of tomorrow’s sermon at the Foundry Methodist Church in Washington. HRC is working on this as well. Dan”
Campaign people writing sermons for churches? Is this normal practice? They also want to distribute their campaign sermons as widely as possible. Jim Margolis wants the “script” to get out particularly to African American and Latino ministers:
“Do we have any mechanism to move it to ministers, faith community , particularly AA and Latino ministers?”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26106#efmAQdASs
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Talking about the Benghazi hearings
“I talked to Brian. So long as we do not release the testimony ahead of the hearing – it is okay. If we released it ahead of time, the press would ding is for trolling the Committee and we would lose some of the moral high ground we have going into the hearing.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26295
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HRC CAMPAIGN HOPING TO DISTRACT FROM BENGHAZI “PROTEST MELTDOWN”
“*From:* John Podesta
*To:* Jennifer Palmieri
*Subject:* Benghazi protest meltdown
He handled it well although a little long windedly lots of unpacking of oversight action and 83 Embassy bombings. Lamented the shouting and partisanship
From:creynolds@hillaryclinton.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Will hopefully be overshadowed by her protest—in which a white guy protested her on super predators and according to the reporters was rejected by the African American crowd.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26333
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HRC IS RUNNING AGAINST HERSELF BECAUSE SHE IS CORRUPT AND CAN’T DROWN THAT FACT OUT & THE ELITE ARE HATED AND THE BOTTOM ARE IN REVOLT
From:brentbbi@webtv.net
To: john.podesta@gmail.com, roy.spence@gsdm.com
Date: 2015-09-07 13:12
Subject: Washington Post story
Hillary is not running against Bernie, she is running against herself, against the perception that she is calculating and lacks principles and causes and a higher purpose to be president and that she is too beholden to inside powers that give her money and an insider system that voters detest in this election, in both parties…..
Attacking Bernie doesn’t help her win this campaign against herself, it hurts her, stories about others doing “her dirty work” only dirty her and lower her level of trust, and the attacks against Bernie only help him, making him look like the fighter against a corrupt politics of which Hillary appears to part of…..
Bernie is fighting an asymmetrical political war from the bottom up, Hillary is fighting an old fashioned conventional war from the top down in a political year when the top is terribly disliked and the bottom is in revolt….
Hillary is almost universally seen as far too entrenched with Wall Street players who paid her money to speak and give money to her campaigns…
Hillary won’t win one vote by attacking “robber barons” unless she backs it up with substance which doesn’t mean talking class warfare, but does mean taking some policy positions that do not require approval from Wall Street donors….
I was at a university day with thousands of students on Saturday where Bernie had a booth with a long line of people signing up to support him, and Hillary did not have any booth and I did not see even one Hillary button or t-shirt from even one student who cared to support the candidate who would be the first woman president—-not even one!!!
And on Bernie’s major issues, whether they are “left” or not, most of them are majority positions, and she would defeat Bernie by co-opting as many of these issues as possible and not using “surrogates” to do “dirty work” against him which helps him, and hurts her……Brent”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26449#efmAF6AMV
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PODESTA TALKING ABOUT BURYING A STORY PRESUMABLY IN NYT RELATED TO TENEO AND HRC EMAILS BEING INVESTIGATED/CONFIRMED CLASSIFIED
John Podesta wrote:
“Ok let’s save the ammunition for the day they confirm the story and put it on A 37 in the back of the local nyc section given that it involves a local resident.”
From:bfallon@hillaryclinton.com
To: jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com
Date: 2015-11-07 16:43
Subject: Re: We haven’t had a good war with NYT in awhile
“Sorry. I am misremembering. One of our team heard that rumor from the state department. Think it was heather.
Heather talked to I believe Alex gerlach at State, who said they were hearing only one email had so far been ruled out as Top Secret.
Separately, two reporters who were trying to confirm Gerstein’s report with ODNI reported back to us that they were hearing the same.
The rumor was not that ODNI had completed the review and determined only one was not TS and the other was, but rather that they had only reached a definitive conclusion on the one (we think the North Korea email that supposedly relied on satellite imagery) and were still deciding on the other.
Separately, gerstein is still confident the review is indeed done, and the emails are no longer being handled as TS materials, and the statement was only issued last night because ODNI is trying to avoid embarrassing the IG by acting like they have overruled them.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26545
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FURTHER PROOF HRC CAMPAIGN IS PRODUCING BIASED POLLS AND THE MEDIA ARE PROMOTING THEM
SEE ATTACHED FOR THEIR PLAN AND BREAKDOWN
Subject: Meet and polling design
“Hey, when can we meet? I also want to get your Atlas folks to
recommend oversamples for our polling before we start in February. By
market, regions, etc. I want to get this all compiled into one set of
recommendations so we can maximize what we get out of our media
polling.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26551#efmANYARq
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HRC CAMPAIGN STAFF WRITING THE TALKING POINTS FOR HRC ON HER INITIAL SUPPORT FOR DOMA AND ANTI- GAY MARRIAGE AND HOW TO CHANGE PERCEPTION ON THAT
Richard Socarides wrote: “Attached expanded TPs which incorporate Qs like when did you actually change your mind on gay marriage.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26769
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EMAILID 26817 Looks like a bunch of Podesta voicemails helpfully transcribed by an assistant.
“Claire McCaskill: Give me a call back at your convenient on my cell or at home. Got some info about the state department IG. You guys should digest and figure out what if anything we can do.”
The State Department IG (Inspector General) was investigating Hillary Clinton’s email use and disclosure of classified information, including TOP SECRET/SAP to unauthorized persons, without security clearances such as IT staff or a team of lawyers. Giving inside information about the State Department IG could allow the Hillary staff to get ahead of the investigation and run an efficient coverup.
“Andrew Cuomo: I have an idea that I want to do here in NY that I think could work nicely for Hillary. It’s time sensitive.”
This was around 6 Oct 2015 14:20:03 so maybe someone will be able to figure out what A. Cuomo wanted to do to help out Hillary. It was time sensitive. Andrew Cuomo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo) is the Democrat governor of the state of New York and the brother of lyin’ CNN’s anchor Chris Cuomo(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Cuomo) . No conflict of interest to see here.
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APPEARS George Soros IS directing the expenditure of campaign advertising funds?
“I think we have resolved the whole question. Soros is fine with Bing giving directly to c4’s and not the 527. Although, they do think that it provides a story that will be even more focused on him. Bing may split his money between media and field c4’s in order to show good faith that he is in it with all the other major funders jointly. If so he would probably give funds to WVWV who he likes and ACORN’s c4 to help with their match.”
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HRC IS KNOWINGLY AND COMPLICITY “DISTORTING DEMOCRACY” BY TAKING BIG MONEY
From:john.podesta@gmail.com
To: dschwerin@hillaryclinton.com
Date: 2016-02-09 20:30
Subject: REVISED DRAFT: Primary Night Remarks
“Somehow we should get more punch out of the fact that she knows how big $ can distort democracy.”
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*From:* Duvall, Amanda
*Statement from the Communications Director on Subpoena Issuance*
“The Select Committee on Benghazi today issued subpoenas for all >>> communications of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton related to >>> Libya and to the State Department for other individuals who have >>> information pertinent to the investigation. The Committee also has issued >>> preservation letters to internet firms informing them of their legal >>> obligation to protect all relevant documents.”
Philippe Reines wrote:
rather than going around and around on how to release the 55k, let’s just be for what’s happening and use this as the excuse.
Philippe Reines wrote:
We’re on with David. Yes they have everything, but they don’t believe they have everything. But no, they are not asking for all 55k. But nevertheless gives us an excuse.
HRC CAMPAIGN ACKNOWLEDGE THEY DIDN’T TURN OVER EVERY EMAIL
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HRC INSIDERS ARE ALMOST CERTAIN HRC’S SERVER WAS HACKED AND THE EMAILS MIGHT BE RELEASED BEFORE THE ELECTION
EMAILID 26948
The email itself has no value but there is a pdf attachment titled: “Hillary Clinton’s emails and what to do about them”
“There is a very real risk that the system was broken into, possibly by Republican operatives (or China or some other country or organization). If this has happened and if there is anything that might appear problematic in those emails, whether or not it actually is, the relevant emails might be released to the press shortly before the election. Even if the system was not broken into, there is the threat that opp…
In addition, there are questions that any computer security expert will ask, such as was the system backed up regularly.”
The official line was always that nobody got into the server. So the private server arrangement was no big deal. No classified information was exposed (other than what Hillary exposed herself to a team of lawyers, IT specialists, aids and maybe a few janitors).
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A health issue with Hillary Clinton’s head around 2015-09-26 . The date might allow to look for further information and try to track it down. John Podesta wrote this email to Jennifer Palmieri .
“subject:Any sense of whether and when she wants to talk?
How bad is her head?”
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HRC CAMPAIGN TRYING TO GET THEIR STORIES STRAIGHT ON WHY THERE ARE GAPS IN THE EMAILS… THEY DELETED THEM!
“From: Mandy Grunwald
Subject: ‘Huge gaps’ in Clinton emails: Chairman of House Benghazi Committee | New York Post
Do we have an answer for why there are no emails from the Oct. 8 trip to Libya?
http://nypost.com/2015/03/08/huge-gaps-in-clinton-emails-chairman-of-house-benghazi-committee/
Mandy Grunwald
Grunwald Communications”
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PODESTA AND MOOK OF HRC CAMPAIGN CONSPIRING TO FIX THE DATE OF THE CA PRIMARY TO HELP HRC WIN
Robert Mook wrote:
“FYI–Lehane called me about CA primary and I told him that the operating strategy is to keep blue states late (i.e. don’t move CA). He said he was at dinner with you and was under the impression that you wanted to move it earlier. He’s wondering how to proceed and I said I’d try to get us on the same page and go back with an answer. Are you ok with me saying that we both want CA to stay where it is?”
John Podesta wrote:
“Yes. That’s great.”
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2008 email discussion of Democrat Party operatives about the possibility of interfering with the 2008 Republican primary process. From Paul Begala :
CNN projects Sen. John McCain will win South Carolina primary – This is trouble.
Tom Matzzie responds:
Yes, we need to move with some tactics to try to stop him. Ideas? We should take another swing at the immigration angle. I think this is a crisis. We need to ring the alarm bell. But I’m not sure how we could affect the GOP primary? Earned media play on McCain and immigration. Robocalls to suppress his vote? Turnout evangelicals for Huck?
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HRC CAMPAIGN DOESNT SELECT PEOPLE FOR POSITIONS BASED ON QUALIFICATIONS THEY SELECT BASED ON RACE. THESE ARE TOKEN APPOINTMENTS
“Cheryl Mills” wrote:
Here is Robby’s List of the top 10 or so positions:
Political Director – Hispanic Woman
12 positions:
4 POC (2 Black; 1 Asian; 1 Hispanic)
4 Women (assuming COO is a white woman)
6 White Men
33% diverse
33% women
50% white men”
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HRC CAMPAIGN PICKS ADMINISTRATION AND HIGH LEVEL POSITIONS BASED ON RACE AND RELIGION. ALSO HIRING SPECIFICALLY MUSLIM JUDGES AND ATTORNEYS TO BETTER MIRROR MIDDLE EASTERN LAW!
From: Bansal, Preeta D (NYC)
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 11:01 PM
To: Froman, Michael B
Cc: ‘Onek, Matthew’
Subject: Asian American Candidates, Muslim American Candidates
“Here are the compiled lists of Asian American and Muslim American candidates for top Administration jobs, sub-cabinet jobs, and outside boards/agencies/policy committees.
1) In the candidates for top jobs, I excluded those with some Arab American background but who are not Muslim (e.g., George Mitchell). Many Lebanese Americans, for example, are Christian. In the last list (of outside boards/commissions), most who are listed appear to be Muslim American, except that a handful (where noted) may be Arab American but of uncertain religion (esp. Christian).
2) There is only one candidate I thought was a viable one for a Secretary-level job among the Muslim Americans.
3) High-profile Muslim Americans tend to be the subject of a fair amount of blogger criticism, and so the individuals on this list would need to be ESPECIALLY carefully vetted. I suspect some of the people I list would not survive such a vet…”
WHY WOULDN’T THEY SURVIVE A VETTING? ARE THEY KNOWINGLY PRESENTING PEOPLE WITH CRIMINAL TIES OR TERRORIST TIES?
“DOJ list will be coming in the next two days. Judges and USAttorneys will still take about 10 days. Let me know if the latter are needed sooner.”
WHY SPECIFICALLY MUSLIM JUDGES AND ATTORNEYS? THE LAW IS BLIND TO RELIGION, UNLESS THEY ARE TRYING TO SHAPE IT INTO LAW THAT REFLECTS MIDDLE EASTERN LAW
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Robert Gates, the sitting Secretary of Defense emailing John Podesta’s gmail from his secret email address in 2008. Robert Gates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates) who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011, wrote this to John Podesta’s gmail address:
“Several items.
1. I will interview Michele Flournoy, Bob Hale and Jeh Johnson tomorrow. I support all three and will e-mail you a presumed thumbs up by midday. ..
2. Scott Gratian called Robert Rangel and told him he was doing all the personnel for DoD and that we should work with him. I just need confirmation whether that is true since this is the first time he has come up on the net on personnel.
3. I really must communicate with the political appointees/schedule C folks here by this Friday about their future. I have told Clapper, Donley and Vickers that they are likely to be asked to stay for some period of time — maybe up to a year — and told them to keep mum. All others are in the dark. ..
4. Once Flournoy, Hale, Johnson, Soule, etc. are named, they will no longer be able to serve on the transition because of the presumption problem on the Hill. You will need to think about the composition of the team at that point.
5. Finally, Senator Levin called me this morning and pointedly asked that names for Deputy and other senior jobs be run by the Armed Services staff director (Rick DeBobes) and Levin’s chief of staff (David Lyles) before final decisions are made.
That’s “all” for now
Thanks for the help.
Bob”
I think the sitting Secretary of Defense and John Podesta are discussing yoga emails here in coded language. If this was some official business, Gates could not have used an address ending in @att.net meaning an address that was registered with AT&T and not the Department of Defense. Right?
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PODESTA AND SOROS MEETING WITH ATTACHMENTS
John Podesta and George Soros were having a meeting. As part of the preparation Soros staff is sending Podesta memos to read. The first memo is on Malaysia it is a 14 page pdf, so check the attachment of this email.
“Subject: Soros meeting
Hi John, sorry it was so difficult for us to talk. I have attached a memo on TPP and Malaysia, as it may come up when you see George and Alex. .. In a separate email I will send you George’s latest thinking on the migration crisis, which he is spending a lot of time on. His other big preoccupation these days is Ukraine. Both the migration crisis and Ukraine are part of his view of Europe as falling apart”
The Malaysia memo, the pdf attachment to this email has some items at the end which look like demands that George Soros wanted to extract from the administration. Things such as:
“Dissociate from Najib…soon. The administration should consider a plan to distance itself from Mr Najib. The open scandal around Najib has spiraled out of control and his position is unsustainable.
Demand Anwar’s release At a closed door meeting with Mr. Najib in Kuala Lumpur in November 2015, the President firmly requested the release of Mr. Anwar, on health grounds, for medical treatment in Washington. Najib has not complied.”
Someone who knows more about Malaysia and George Soros’s interests there could look into this. Why did Soros want to influence the political situation in that country in such a direct way?
Hillary Clinton keeps talking that all U.S. transfers of government have been peaceful.
Am I the only person who has ever heard of The American Civil War or aka The War of 1861 or did all of those teachers lie to me and Lincoln not assassinated????
I’m just sayin’.
From Greek tragedy to American therapy
October 6, 2016 2:49 pm / Leave a Comment / victorhanson
By Victor Davis Hanson // Town Hall
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From Greek tragedy to American therapy
The Greeks gave us tragedy — the idea that life is never fair. Terrible stuff for no reason tragically falls on good people. Life’s choices are sometimes only between the bad and the far worse.
In the plays of the ancient dramatists Aeschylus and Sophocles, heroism and nobility only arise out of tragedies.
The tragic hero refuses to blame the gods for his terrible fate. Instead, a Prometheus, Ajax or Oedipus prefers to fight against the odds. He thereby establishes a code of honor, even as defeat looms.
In contrast, modern Americans gave the world therapy.
Life must always be fair. If not, something or someone must be blamed. All good people deserve only a good life — or else.
A nation of victims soon becomes collectively paralyzed in fear of offending someone. Pay down the $20 trillion debt? Reform the unsustainable Social Security system? Ask the 47 percent of the population that pays no income tax to at least pay some?
Nope. Victims would allege that such belt-tightening is unfair and impossible — and hurtful to boot. So we do nothing as the rendezvous with financial collapse gets ever closer.
Does anyone think a culture of whiners can really build high-speed rail in California? Even its supporters want the noisy tracks built somewhere away from their homes.
Even animals get in on the new victimhood. To build a reservoir in drought-stricken California means oppressing the valley elderberry longhorn beetle or ignoring the feelings of the foothill yellow-legged frog.
America’s impoverished ancestors at 15 years of age may have rounded Cape Horn on a schooner or ridden bareback over the Rockies.
Not today’s therapeutic college youth. They have been so victimized by racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia and other -isms and -phobias that colleges often provide them “safe spaces,” outlaw “microaggressions” and demand “trigger warnings” to avoid the un-nice.
What would our grandfathers think?
As teenagers on D-Day, they found no safe spaces on Omaha Beach. A storm of steel from thousands of SS killers proved more than a “microaggression” at the Battle of the Bulge. Generals did not give their freezing GIs mere “trigger warnings” about a half-million Chinese Red Army soldiers crossing the Yalu River during the Korean War.
American victimhood is the luxury of an affluent, secure and leisured postmodern society that can afford such silly indulgences.
Second-string San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick apparently assumes that his wealthy team can afford to pay him nearly $20 million a year to sit on the bench, without much caring that he can’t be bothered to stand up for the National Anthem.
But victimhood is a good career move. Kaepernick went from being a washed-up quarterback to being a much-publicized social justice warrior — a veritable Noam Chomsky in cleats opining on over two centuries of American criminal justice. He was once fined for reportedly smearing a fellow NFL player with the N-word, but now as a victim himself, Kaepernick can no longer be a victimizer.
During the first presidential debate, Hillary Clinton blamed Donald Trump for body-shaming 1996 Miss Universe Alicia Machado two decades ago. Machado had reportedly gained more than 40 pounds and apparently made it hard for Trump’s beauty pageant to showcase her figure in promotional events.
America may be broke and plagued by riots and terrorism. No matter: It apparently can afford to fret over Machado’s 20 years of post-traumatic stress.
Once victimhood is established, we lose our identities and, as part of an offended collective, claim blanket exemption for all our imperfections.
In Machado’s case, what does it matter if such a victim allegedly threatened a Venezuelan judge, or was reportedly involved with a drug cartel leader, or became a campaign shill for the Clinton campaign?
All of that is nothing compared with the trauma of being called fat for not being able to fit back into the bikini that won her the Miss Universe crown and fame.
Sometimes the art of victimhood gets confusing. If we are all victims of some sort, who are left to be the victimizers?
Can victims victimize? Can gays be Islamophobic, Muslims homophobic, blacks racist, women sexist or Latinos xenophobic? If so, who is to sort out their relative rock/paper/scissors zero-sum grievances?
Unfortunately, Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Islamic State and the Chinese have no particular sympathy for any American who lays claim to victim status.
Nor do foreign buyers of U.S. Treasury bonds to finance the debt defer to America’s legions of victims. A nuclear bomb from North Korea or Iran will not sort us all out by race, class or gender, much less by victim and victimizer.
To appreciate American heroism, we might read Sophocles’ “Antigone” or E.B. Sledge’s “With the Old Breed” — and watch a lot less Sunday football.
After the Republic
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By: Angelo M. Codevilla
September 27, 2016
ver the past half century, the Reagan years notwithstanding, our ruling class’s changing preferences and habits have transformed public and private life in America. As John Marini shows in his essay, “Donald Trump and the American Crisis,” this has resulted in citizens morphing into either this class’s “stakeholders” or its subjects. And, as Publius Decius Mus argues, “America and the West” now are so firmly “on a trajectory toward something very bad” that it is no longer reasonable to hope that “all human outcomes are still possible,” by which he means restoration of the public and private practices that made the American republic. In fact, the 2016 election is sealing the United States’s transition from that republic to some kind of empire.
Electing either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump cannot change that trajectory. Because each candidate represents constituencies hostile to republicanism, each in its own way, these individuals are not what this election is about. This election is about whether the Democratic Party, the ruling class’s enforcer, will impose its tastes more strongly and arbitrarily than ever, or whether constituencies opposed to that rule will get some ill-defined chance to strike back. Regardless of the election’s outcome, the republic established by America’s Founders is probably gone. But since the Democratic Party’s constituencies differ radically from their opponents’, and since the character of imperial governance depends inherently on the emperor, the election’s result will make a big difference in our lives.
Many Enemies, Few Friends
The overriding question of 2016 has been how eager the American people are to reject the bipartisan class that has ruled this country contrary to its majority’s convictions. Turned out, eager enough to throw out the baby with the dirty bathwater. The ruling class’s united front in response to the 2008 financial crisis had ignited the Tea Party’s call for adherence to the Constitution, and led to elections that gave control of both houses of Congress to the Republican Party. But as Republicans became full partners in the ruling class’s headlong rush in what most considered disastrous directions, Americans lost faith in the Constitution’s power to restrain the wrecking of their way of life.
From the primary season’s outset, the Democratic Party’s candidates promised even more radical “transformations.” When, rarely, they have been asked what gives them the right to do such things they have acted as if the only answer were Nancy Pelosi’s reply to whether the Constitution allows the government to force us into Obamacare: “Are you kidding? Are you kidding?”
On the Republican side, 17 hopefuls promised much, without dealing with the primordial fact that, in today’s America, those in power basically do what they please. Executive orders, phone calls, and the right judge mean a lot more than laws. They even trump state referenda. Over the past half-century, presidents have ruled not by enforcing laws but increasingly through agencies that write their own rules, interpret them, and punish unaccountably—the administrative state. As for the Supreme Court, the American people have seen it invent rights where there were none—e.g., abortion—while trammeling ones that had been the republic’s spine, such as the free exercise of religion and freedom of speech. The Court taught Americans that the word “public” can mean “private” (Kelo v. City of New London), that “penalty” can mean “tax” (King v. Burwell), and that holding an opinion contrary to its own can only be due to an “irrational animus” (Obergefell v. Hodges).
What goes by the name “constitutional law” has been eclipsing the U.S. Constitution for a long time. But when the 1964 Civil Rights Act substituted a wholly open-ended mandate to oppose “discrimination” for any and all fundamental rights, it became the little law that ate the Constitution. Now, because the Act pretended that the commerce clause trumps the freedom of persons to associate or not with whomever they wish, and is being taken to mean that it trumps the free exercise of religion as well, bakers and photographers are forced to take part in homosexual weddings. A commission in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts reported that even a church may be forced to operate its bathrooms according to gender self-identification because it “could be seen as a place of public accommodation if it holds a secular event, such as a spaghetti supper, that is open to the general public.” California came very close to mandating that Catholic schools admit homosexual and transgender students or close down. The Justice Department is studying how to prosecute on-line transactions such as vacation home rental site Airbnb, Inc., that fall afoul of its evolving anti-discrimination standards.
This arbitrary power, whose rabid guard-dog growls and barks: “Racist! Sexist! Homophobic!” has transformed our lives by removing restraints on government. The American Bar Association’s new professional guidelines expose lawyers to penalties for insufficient political correctness. Performing abortions or at least training to perform them may be imposed as a requirement for licensing doctors, nurses, and hospitals that offer services to the general public.
Addressing what it would take to reestablish the primacy of fundamental rights would have required Republican candidates to reset the Civil Rights movement on sound constitutional roots. Surprised they didn’t do it?
No one running for the GOP nomination discussed the greatest violation of popular government’s norms—never mind the Constitution—to have occurred in two hundred years, namely, the practice, agreed upon by mainstream Republicans and Democrats, of rolling all of the government’s expenditures into a single bill. This eliminates elected officials’ responsibility for any of the government’s actions, and reduces them either to approving all that the government does without reservation, or the allegedly revolutionary, disloyal act of “shutting down the government.”
Rather than talk about how to restrain or shrink government, Republican candidates talked about how to do more with government. The Wall Street Journal called that “having a positive agenda.” Hence, Republicans by and large joined the Democrats in relegating the U.S. Constitution to history’s dustbin.
Because Republicans largely agree with Democrats that they need not take seriously the founders’ Constitution, today’s American regime is now what Max Weber had called the Tsarist regime on the eve of the Revolution: “fake constitutionalism.” Because such fakery is self-discrediting and removes anyone’s obligation to restrain his passions, it is a harbinger of revolution and of imperial power.
The ruling class having chosen raw power over law and persuasion, the American people reasonably concluded that raw power is the only way to counter it, and looked for candidates who would do that. Hence, even constitutional scholar Ted Cruz stopped talking about the constitutional implications of President Obama’s actions after polls told him that the public was more interested in what he would do to reverse them, niceties notwithstanding. Had Cruz become the main alternative to the Democratic Party’s dominion, the American people might have been presented with the option of reverting to the rule of law. But that did not happen. Both of the choices before us presuppose force, not law.
A Change of Regimes
All ruling classes are what Shakespeare called the “makers of manners.” Plato, in The Republic, and Aristotle, in his Politics, teach that polities reflect the persons who rise to prominence within them, whose habits the people imitate, and who set the tone of life in them. Thus a polity can change as thoroughly as a chorus changes from comedy to tragedy depending on the lyrics and music. Obviously, the standards and tone of life that came from Abraham Lincoln’s Oval Office is quite opposite from what came from the same place when Bill Clinton used it. Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm was arguably the world’s most polite society. Under Hitler, it became the most murderous.
In today’s America, a network of executive, judicial, bureaucratic, and social kinship channels bypasses the sovereignty of citizens. Our imperial regime, already in force, works on a simple principle: the president and the cronies who populate these channels may do whatever they like so long as the bureaucracy obeys and one third plus one of the Senate protects him from impeachment. If you are on the right side of that network, you can make up the rules as you go along, ignore or violate any number of laws, obfuscate or commit perjury about what you are doing (in the unlikely case they put you under oath), and be certain of your peers’ support. These cronies’ shared social and intellectual identity stems from the uniform education they have received in the universities. Because disdain for ordinary Americans is this ruling class’s chief feature, its members can be equally certain that all will join in celebrating each, and in demonizing their respective opponents.
And, because the ruling class blurs the distinction between public and private business, connection to that class has become the principal way of getting rich in America. Not so long ago, the way to make it here was to start a business that satisfied customers’ needs better than before. Nowadays, more businesses die each year than are started. In this century, all net additions in employment have come from the country’s 1,500 largest corporations. Rent-seeking through influence on regulations is the path to wealth. In the professions, competitive exams were the key to entry and advancement not so long ago. Now, you have to make yourself acceptable to your superiors. More important, judicial decisions and administrative practice have divided Americans into “protected classes”—possessed of special privileges and immunities—and everybody else. Equality before the law and equality of opportunity are memories. Co-option is the path to power. Ever wonder why the quality of our leaders has been declining with each successive generation?
Moreover, since the Kennedy reform of 1965, and with greater speed since 2009, the ruling class’s immigration policy has changed the regime by introducing some 60 million people—roughly a fifth of our population—from countries and traditions different from, if not hostile, to ours. Whereas earlier immigrants earned their way to prosperity, a disproportionate percentage of post-1965 arrivals have been encouraged to become dependents of the state. Equally important, the ruling class chose to reverse America’s historic practice of assimilating immigrants, emphasizing instead what divides them from other Americans. Whereas Lincoln spoke of binding immigrants by “the electric cord” of the founders’ principles, our ruling class treats these principles as hypocrisy. All this without votes or law; just power.
Foul is Fair and Fair is Foul
In short, precisely as the classics defined regime change, people and practices that had been at society’s margins have been brought to its center, while people and ideas that had been central have been marginalized.
Fifty years ago, prayer in the schools was near universal, but no one was punished for not praying. Nowadays, countless people are arrested or fired for praying on school property. West Point’s commanding general reprimanded the football coach for his team’s thanksgiving prayer. Fifty years ago, bringing sexually explicit stuff into schools was treated as a crime, as was “procuring abortion.” Nowadays, schools contract with Planned Parenthood to teach sex, and will not tell parents when they take girls to PP facilities for abortions. Back then, many schools worked with the National Rifle Association to teach gun handling and marksmanship. Now students are arrested and expelled merely for pointing their finger and saying “bang.” In those benighted times, boys who ventured into the girls’ bathroom were expelled as perverts. Now, girls are suspended for objecting to boys coming into the girls’ room under pretense of transgenderism. The mainstreaming of pornography, the invention of abortion as the most inalienable of human rights and, most recently, the designation of opposition to homosexual marriage as a culpable psychosis—none of which is dictated by law enacted by elected officials—is enforced as if it had been. No surprise that America has experienced a drastic drop in the formation of families, with the rise of rates of out-of-wedlock births among whites equal to the rates among blacks that was recognized as disastrous a half-century ago, the near-disappearance of two-parent families among blacks, and the social dislocations attendant to all that.
Ever since the middle of the 20th century our ruling class, pursuing hazy concepts of world order without declarations of war, has sacrificed American lives first in Korea, then in Vietnam, and now throughout the Muslim world. By denigrating Americans who call for peace, or for wars unto victory over America’s enemies; by excusing or glorifying those who take our enemies’ side or who disrespect the American flag; our rulers have drawn down the American regime’s credit and eroded the people’s patriotism.
As the ruling class destroyed its own authority, it wrecked the republic’s as well. This is no longer the “land where our fathers died,” nor even the country that won World War II. It would be surprising if any society, its identity altered and its most fundamental institutions diminished, had continued to function as before. Ours sure does not, and it is difficult to imagine how it can do so ever again. We can be sure only that the revolution underway among us, like all others, will run its unpredictable course.
All we know is the choice that faces us at this stage: either America continues in the same direction, but faster and without restraint, or there’s the hazy possibility of something else.
Imperial Alternatives
The consequences of empowering today’s Democratic Party are crystal clear. The Democratic Party—regardless of its standard bearer—would use its victory to drive the transformations that it has already wrought on America to quantitative and qualitative levels that not even its members can imagine. We can be sure of that because what it has done and is doing is rooted in a logic that has animated the ruling class for a century, and because that logic has shaped the minds and hearts of millions of this class’s members, supporters, and wannabes.
That logic’s essence, expressed variously by Herbert Croly and Woodrow Wilson, FDR’s brains trust, intellectuals of both the old and the new Left, choked back and blurted out by progressive politicians, is this: America’s constitutional republic had given the American people too much latitude to be who they are, that is: religiously and socially reactionary, ignorant, even pathological, barriers to Progress. Thankfully, an enlightened minority exists with the expertise and the duty to disperse the religious obscurantism, the hypocritical talk of piety, freedom, and equality, which excuses Americans’ racism, sexism, greed, and rape of the environment. As we progressives take up our proper responsibilities, Americans will no longer live politically according to their prejudices; they will be ruled administratively according to scientific knowledge.
Progressivism’s programs have changed over time. But its disdain for how other Americans live and think has remained fundamental. More than any commitment to principles, programs, or way of life, this is its paramount feature. The media reacted to Hillary Clinton’s remark that “half of Trump’s supporters could be put into a ‘basket of deplorables’” as if these sentiments were novel and peculiar to her. In fact, these are unremarkable restatements of our ruling class’s perennial creed.
The pseudo-intellectual argument for why these “deplorables” have no right to their opinions is that giving equal consideration to people and positions that stand in the way of Progress is “false equivalence,” as President Obama has put it. But the same idea has been expressed most recently and fully by New York Times CEO Mark Thompson, as well as Times columnists Jim Rutenberg, Timothy Egan, and William Davies. In short, devotion to truth means not reporting on Donald Trump and people like him as if they or anything they say might be of value.
If trying to persuade irredeemable socio-political inferiors is no more appropriate than arguing with animals, why not just write them off by sticking dismissive names on them? Doing so is less challenging, and makes you feel superior. Why wrestle with the statistical questions implicit in Darwin when you can just dismiss Christians as Bible-thumpers? Why bother arguing for Progressivism’s superiority when you can construct “scientific” studies like Theodor Adorno’s, proving that your opponents suffer from degrees of “fascism” and other pathologies? This is a well-trod path. Why, to take an older example, should General Omar Bradley have bothered trying to refute Douglas MacArthur’s statement that in war there is no substitute for victory when calling MacArthur and his supporters “primitives” did the trick? Why wrestle with our climate’s complexities when you can make up your own “models,” being sure that your class will treat them as truth?
What priorities will the ruling class’s notion of scientific truth dictate to the next Democratic administration? Because rejecting that true and false, right and wrong are objectively ascertainable is part of this class’s DNA, no corpus of fact or canon of reason restrains it or defines its end-point. Its definition of “science” is neither more nor less than what “scientists say” at any given time. In practice, that means “Science R-Us,” now and always, exclusively. Thus has come to pass what President Dwight Eisenhower warned against in his 1960 Farewell address: “A steadily increasing share [of science] is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.… [T]he free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution…a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.” Hence, said Ike, “The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present—and is gravely to be regarded.” The result has been that academics rise through government grants while the government exercises power by claiming to act on science’s behalf. If you don’t bow to the authority of the power that says what is and is not so, you are an obscurantist or worse.
Under our ruling class, “truth” has morphed from the reflection of objective reality to whatever has “normative pull”—i.e., to what furthers the ruling class’s agenda, whatever that might be at any given time. That is the meaning of the term “political correctness,” as opposed to factual correctness.
It’s the Contempt, Stupid!
Who, a generation ago, could have guessed that careers and social standing could be ruined by stating the fact that the paramount influence on the earth’s climate is the sun, that its output of energy varies and with it the climate? Who, a decade ago, could have predicted that stating that marriage is the union of a man and a woman would be treated as a culpable sociopathy, or just yesterday that refusing to let certifiably biological men into women’s bathrooms would disqualify you from mainstream society? Or that saying that the lives of white people “matter” as much as those of blacks is evidence of racism? These strictures came about quite simply because some sectors of the ruling class felt like inflicting them on the rest of America. Insulting presumed inferiors proved to be even more important to the ruling class than the inflictions’ substance.
How far will our rulers go? Because their network is mutually supporting, they will go as far as they want. Already, there is pressure from ruling class constituencies, as well as academic arguments, for morphing the concept of “hate crime” into the criminalization of “hate speech”—which means whatever these loving folks hate. Of course this is contrary to the First Amendment, and a wholesale negation of freedom. But it is no more so than the negation of freedom of association that is already eclipsing religious freedom in the name anti-discrimination. It is difficult to imagine a Democratic president, Congress, and Supreme Court standing in the way.
Above all, these inflictions, as well as the ruling class’s acceptance of its own members’ misbehavior, came about because millions of its supporters were happy, or happy enough, to support them in the interest of maintaining their own status in a ruling coalition while discomfiting their socio-political opponents. Consider, for example, how republic-killing an event was the ruling class’s support of President Bill Clinton in the wake of his nationally televised perjury. Subsequently, as constituencies of supporters have effectively condoned officials’ abusive, self-serving, and even outright illegal behavior, they have encouraged more and more of it while inuring themselves to it. That is how republics turn into empires from the roots up.
But it is also true, as Mao Tse-Tung used to say, “a fish begins to rot at the head.” If you want to understand why any and all future Democratic Party administrations can only be empires dedicated to injuring and insulting their subjects, look first at their intellectual leaders’ rejection of the American republic’s most fundamental principles.
The Declaration of Independence says that all men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights” among which are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” These rights—codified in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights—are not civil rights that governments may define. The free exercise of religion, freedom of speech and assembly, keeping and bearing arms, freedom from warrantless searches, protection against double jeopardy and self-incrimination, trial by jury of one’s peers, etc., are natural rights that pertain to human beings as such. Securing them for Americans is what the United States is all about. But today’s U.S. Civil Rights Commission advocates truncating the foremost of these rights because, as it stated in a recent report, “Religious exemptions to the protections of civil rights based upon classifications such as race, color, national origin, sex, disability status, sexual orientation, and gender identity, when they are permissible, significantly infringe upon those civil rights.” The report explains why the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights should not be permissible: “The phrases ‘religious liberty’ and ‘religious freedom’ will stand for nothing except hypocrisy so long as they remain code words for discrimination, intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, Christian supremacy, or any form of intolerance.”
Hillary Clinton’s attack on Trump supporters merely matched the ruling class’s current common sense. Why should government workers and all who wield the administrative state’s unaccountable powers not follow their leaders’ judgment, backed by the prestige press, about who are to be treated as citizens and who is to be handled as deplorable refuse? Hillary Clinton underlined once again how the ruling class regards us, and about what it has in store for us.
Electing Donald Trump would result in an administration far less predictable than any Democratic one. In fact, what Trump would or would not do, could or could not do, pales into insignificance next to the certainty of what any Democrat would do. That is what might elect Trump.
The character of an eventual Trump Administration is unpredictable because speculating about Trump’s mind is futile. It is equally futile to guess how he might react to the mixture of flattery and threats sure to be leveled against him. The entire ruling class—Democrats and Republicans, the bulk of the bureaucracy, the judiciary, and the press—would do everything possible to thwart him; and the constituencies that chose him as their candidate, and that might elect him, are surely not united and are by no means clear about the demands they would press. Moreover, it is anyone’s guess whom he would appoint and how he would balance his constituencies’ pressures against those of the ruling class.
Never before has such a large percentage of Americans expressed alienation from their leaders, resentment, even fear. Some two-thirds of Americans believe that elected and appointed officials—plus the courts, the justice system, business leaders, educators—are leading the country in the wrong direction: that they are corrupt, do more harm than good, make us poorer, get us into wars and lose them. Because this majority sees no one in the political mainstream who shares their concerns, because it lacks confidence that the system can be fixed, it is eager to empower whoever might flush the system and its denizens with something like an ungentle enema.
Yet the persons who express such revolutionary sentiments are not a majority ready to support a coherent imperial program to reverse the course of America’s past half-century. Temperamentally conservative, these constituencies had been most attached to the Constitution and been counted as the bedrock of stability. They are not yet wholly convinced that there is little left to conserve. What they want, beyond an end to the ruling class’s outrages, has never been clear. This is not surprising, given that the candidates who appeal to their concerns do so with mere sound bites. Hence they chose as the presidential candidate of the nominal opposition party the man who combined the most provocative anti-establishment sounds with reassurance that it won’t take much to bring back good old America: Donald Trump. But bringing back good old America would take an awful lot. What could he do to satisfy them?
Trump’s propensity for treating pronouncements on policy as flags to be run up and down the flagpole as he measures the volume of the applause does not deprive them of all significance—especially the ones that confirm his anti-establishment bona fides. These few policy items happen to be the ones by which he gained his anti-establishment reputation in the first place: 1) opposition to illegal immigration, especially the importation of Muslims whom Americans reasonably perceive as hostile to us; 2) law and order: stop excusing rioters and coddling criminals; 3) build a wall, throw out the illegals, let in only people who are vetted and certified as supporters of our way of life (that’s the way it was when I got my immigrant visa in 1955), and keep out anybody we can’t be sure isn’t a terrorist. Trump’s tentative, partial retreat from a bit of the latter nearly caused his political standing to implode, prompting the observation that doing something similar regarding abortion would end his political career. That is noteworthy because, although Trump’s support of the pro-life cause is lukewarm at best, it is the defining commitment for much of his constituency. The point here is that, regardless of his own sentiments, Trump cannot wholly discount his constituencies’ demands for a forceful turn away from the country’s current direction.
Trump’s slogan—“make America great again”—is the broadest, most unspecific, common denominator of non-ruling-class Americans’ diverse dissatisfaction with what has happened to the country. He talks about reasserting America’s identity, at least by controlling the borders; governing in America’s own interest rather than in pursuit of objectives of which the American people have not approved; stopping the export of jobs and removing barriers to business; and banishing political correctness’s insults and injuries. But all that together does not amount to making America great again. Nor does Trump begin to explain what it was that had made this country great to millions who have known only an America much diminished.
In fact, the United States of America was great because of a whole bunch of things that now are gone. Yes, the ruling class led the way in personal corruption, cheating on tests, lowering of professional standards, abandoning churches and synagogues for the Playboy Philosophy and lifestyle, disregarding law, basing economic life on gaming the administrative state, basing politics on conflicting identities, and much more. But much of the rest of the country followed. What would it take to make America great again—or indeed to make any of the changes that Trump’s voters demand? Replacing the current ruling class would be only the beginning.
Because it is difficult to imagine a Trump presidency even thinking about something so monumental as replacing an entire ruling elite, much less leading his constituency to accomplishing it, electing Trump is unlikely to result in a forceful turn away from the country’s current direction. Continuing pretty much on the current trajectory under the same class will further fuel revolutionary sentiments in the land all by itself. Inevitable disappointment with Trump is sure to add to them.
We have stepped over the threshold of a revolution. It is difficult to imagine how we might step back, and futile to speculate where it will end. Our ruling class’s malfeasance, combined with insult, brought it about. Donald Trump did not cause it and is by no means its ultimate manifestation. Regardless of who wins in 2016, this revolution’s sentiments will grow in volume and intensity, and are sure to empower politicians likely to make Americans nostalgic for Donald Trump’s moderation.
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In the Communist
Manifesto, Marx a
nd Engels wrote that “the history of all
hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.” Today the story of American
politics is the story of class struggles. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. We didn’t think
we were divided into different classes. Neither did Marx.
America was an exception to Marx’s theory of social progress. By that theory,
societies were supposed to move from feudalism to capitalism to communism. But the
America of the 1850s, the most capitalist society around, was not turning communist.
Marx had an explanation for that. “True enough, the classes already exist,” he wrote
of the United States, but they “are in constant f lux and ref lux, constantly changing
their elements and yielding them up to one another.” In other words, when you have
economic and social mobility, you don’t go communist.
That is the country in which some imagine we still live, Horatio Alger’s America—a
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EY
is a Foundation Professor at Scalia Law School at George Mason
University, where he has taught since 1989. Previously he was a visiting
Olin Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, and he has also
taught at McGill Law School, the Sorbonne, and Sciences Po in Paris.
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anyone else to rise, with pluck, industry,
and talent. But they imagine wrong.
The U.S. today lags behind many of its
First World rivals in terms of mobility. A
class society has inserted itself within the
folds of what was once a classless country,
and a dominant New Class—as social
critic Christopher Lasch called it—has
pulled up the ladder of social advance
ment behind it.
One can measure these things
empirically by comparing the correlation
between the earnings of fathers and sons.
Pew’s Economic Mobility Project ranks
Britain at 0.5, which means that if a father
earns £100,000 more than the median,
his son will earn £50,000 more than the
average member of his cohort. That’s
pretty aristocratic. On the other end of
the scale, the most economically mobile
society is Denmark, with a correlation of
0.15. The U.S. is at 0.47, almost as immo
bile as Britain.
A complacent Republican establish
ment denies this change has occurred. If
they don’t get it, how
ever, American voters
do. For the first time,
Americans don’t
believe their children
will be as well off
as they have been.
They see an economy
that’s stalled, one
in which jobs are
moving offshore.
In the first decade
of this century, U.S.
multinationals shed
2.9 million U.S. jobs
while increasing
employment over
seas by 2.4 million.
General Electric
provides a strik
ing example. Jeffrey
Immelt became the
company’s CEO in
2001, with a mission
to advance stock
price. He did this
in part by reducing
GE’s U.S. workforce
by 34,000 jobs. During the same period,
the company added 25,000 jobs overseas.
Ironically, President Obama chose Immelt
to head his Jobs Council.
According to establishment Repub
licans, none of this can be helped. We
are losing middle
class jobs because of
the move to a high
tech world that cre
ates jobs for a cognitive elite and destroys
them for everyone else. But that doesn’t
describe what’s happening. We are losing
middle
class jobs, but lower
class jobs are
expanding. Automation is changing the
way we make cars, but the rich still need
their maids and gardeners. Middle
class
jobs are also lost as a result of regulatory
and environmental barriers, especially in
the energy sector. And the skills
based
technological change argument is entirely
implausible: countries that beat us hands
down on mobility are just as technologi
cally advanced. Folks in Denmark aren’t
exactly living in the Stone Age.
This is why voters across the spectrum
began to demand radical change. What
did the Republican
elite offer in response?
At a time of maximal
crisis they have been
content with mini
mal goals, like Mitt
Romney’s 59
point
plan in 2012. How
many Americans
remember even one
of those points? What
we remember instead
is Romney’s remark
about 47 percent of
Americans being tak
ers. That was Romney’s
way of recognizing
the class divide—and
in the election,
Americans took notice
and paid him back
with interest.
Since 2012, estab
lishment Republicans
have continued to be
less than concerned for
the plight of ordinary
Americans. Sure, they
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want economic growth, but it doesn’t
seem to matter into whose pockets the
money f lows. There are even the “con
servative” pundits who offer the pious
hope that drug
addicted Trump sup
porters will hurry up and die. That’s
one way to ameliorate the class struggle,
but it doesn’t exactly endear anyone to
the establishment.
The southern writer Flannery
O’Connor once attended a dinner party
in New York given for her and liberal
intellectual Mary McCarthy. At one
point the issue of Catholicism came
up, and McCarthy offered the opinion
that the Eucharist is “just a symbol,”
albeit “a pretty one.” O’Connor, a pious
Catholic, bristled: “Well, if it’s just
a symbol, to Hell with it.” Likewise,
the principles held up as sacrosanct
by establishment Republicans might
be logically unassailable, derived like
theorems from a set of axioms based
on a pure theory of natural rights. But
if I don’t see them making people bet
ter off, I say to Hell with them. And
so do the voters this year. What the
establishment Republicans should ask
themselves is Anton Chigurh’s ques
tion in
No Country for Old Men
: If you
followed your principles, and your prin
ciples brought you to this, what good are
your principles?
***
Had Marx been asked what would
happen to America if it ever became
economically immobile, we know what
his answer would be: Bernie Sanders
and Hillary Clinton. And also Donald
Trump. The anger expressed by the vot
ers in 2016—their support for candidates
from far outside the traditional political
class—has little parallel in American
history. We are accustomed to protest
movements on the Left, but the whole
sale repudiation of the establishment
on the Right is something new. All that
was solid has melted into air, and what
has taken its place is a kind of right
wing Marxism, scornful of Washington
power brokers and sneering pundits
and repelled by America’s immobile,
class
ridden society.
Establishment Republicans came
up with the “right
wing Marxist” label
when House Speaker John Boehner
was deposed, and labels stick when
they have the ring of truth. So it is with
the right
wing Marxist. He is right
wing because he seeks to return to an
America of economic mobility. He has
seen how broken education and immi
gration systems, the decline of the rule
of law, and the rise of a supercharged
regulatory state serve as barriers to
economic improvement. And he is a
Marxist to the extent that he sees our
current politics as the politics of class
struggle, with an insurgent middle class
that seeks to surmount the barriers
to mobility erected by an aristocratic
New Class. In his passion, he is also
a revolutionary. He has little time for
a Republican elite that smirks at his
heroes—heroes who communicate
through their brashness and rudeness
the fact that our country is in a crisis.
To his more polite critics, the right
wing
Marxist says: We are not so nice as you!
The right
wing Marxist notes that
establishment Republicans who decry
crony capitalism are often surrounded
by lobbyists and funded by the Chamber
of Commerce. He is unpersuaded when
they argue that government subsidies
are needed for their friends. He does
not believe that the federal bailouts
of the 2008
2012 TARP program and
the Federal Reserve’s zero
interest and
quantitative easing policies were justi
fied. He sees that they doubled the size
of public debt over an eight
year period,
and that our experiment in consumer
protection for billionaires took the oxy
gen out of the economy and produced a
jobless Wall Street recovery.
The right
wing Marxist’s vision of
the good society is not so very differ
ent from that of the JFK
era liberal; it is
a vision of a society where all have the
opportunity to rise, where people are
judged by the content of their charac
ter, and where class distinctions are a
thing of the past. But for the right
wing
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Marxist, the best way to reach the goal
of a good society is through free mar
kets, open competition, and the removal
of wasteful government barriers.
***
Readers of Umberto Eco’s
The Name
of the Rose
will have encountered the
word palimpsest, used to describe a
manuscript in which one text has been
written over another, and in which
traces of the original remain. So it is
with Canada, a country that beats the
U.S. hands down
on economic
mobility. Canada
has the reputation
of being more lib
eral than the U.S.,
but in reality it is
more conservative
because its liberal
policies are written
over a page of deep
conservatism.
Whereas the
U.S. comes in at
a highly immo
bile 0.47 on the
Pew mobility
scale, Canada is at 0.19, very close to
Denmark’s 0.15. What is further remark
able about Canada is that the difference
is mostly at the top and bottom of the
distribution. Between the tenth and
90th deciles there isn’t much difference
between the two countries. The differ
ence is in the bottom and top ten per
cent, where the poorest parents raise the
poorest kids and the richest parents raise
the richest kids.
For parents in the top U.S. decile,
46 percent of their kids will end up in
the top two deciles and only 2 percent
in the bottom decile. The members of
the top decile comprise a New Class
of lawyers, academics, trust
fund
babies, and media types—a group that
wields undue inf luence in both politi
cal parties and dominates our culture.
These are the people who said yes,
there is an immigration crisis—but it’s
caused by our failure to give illegals a
pathway to citizenship!
There’s a top ten percent in Canada,
of course, but its children are far more
likely to descend into the middle or
lower classes. There’s also a bottom ten
percent, but its children are far more
likely to rise to the top. The country of
opportunity, the country we’ve imag
ined ourselves to be, isn’t dead—it
moved to Canada, a country that ranks
higher than the U.S. on measures of
economic freedom. Yes, Canada has its
much
vaunted Medicare system, but
cross
border dif
ferences in health
care don’t explain
the mobility levels.
And when you add
it all up, America
has a more gener
ous welfare system
than Canada or just
about anywhere
else. To explain
Canada’s higher
mobility levels,
one has to turn
to differences in
education systems,
immigration laws,
regulatory burdens, the rule of law, and
corruption—on all of which counts,
Canada is a more conservative country.
America’s K
12 public schools per
form poorly, relative to the rest of the
First World. Its universities are great fun
for the kids, but many students emerge
on graduation no better educated than
when they arrived. What should be an
elevator to the upper class is stalled on
the ground f loor. One study has con
cluded that if American public school stu
dents were magically raised to Canadian
levels, the economic gain would amount
to a 20 percent annual pay increase for
the average American worker.
The U.S. has a two
tiered educational
system: a superb set of schools and col
leges for the upper classes and a medio
cre set for everyone else. The best of
our colleges are the best anywhere, but
the average Canadian school is better
Source:
Economic Mobility Project, Pew Charitable Trusts
Economic Mobility Rankings
U.K.
United States
France
Germany
Australia
Canada
Denmark
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LOW MOBILITY
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than the average American one. At both
the K
12 and college levels, Canadian
schools have adhered more closely to a
traditional, conservative set of offerings.
For K
12, a principal reason for the dif
ference is the greater competition offered
in Canada, with its publicly
supported
church
affiliated schools. With barriers
like America’s Blaine Amendments—state
laws preventing public funding of reli
gious schools—lower
class students in the
U.S. must enjoy the dubious blessing of a
public school education.
What about immigration? Canada
doesn’t have a problem with illegal
aliens—it deports them. As for the legal
intake, Canadian policies have a strong
bias towards admitting immigrants who
will confer a benefit on Canadian citi
zens. Even in absolute numbers, Canada
admits more immigrants under eco
nomic categories than the U.S., where
most legal immigrants qualify instead
under family preference categories. As
a result, on average, immigrants to the
U.S. are less educated than U.S. natives,
and unlike in Canada, second
and
third
generation U.S. immigrants earn
less than their native
born counterparts.
In short, the U.S. immigration system
imports inequality and immobility. If
immigration isn’t an issue in Canada,
that’s because it’s a system Trump
voters would love.
For those at the bottom of the social
and economic ladder who seek to rise,
nothing is more important than the rule
of law, property rights, and the sanctity
of contract provided by a mature and
efficient legal system. The alternative—in
place today in America—is a network of
elites whose personal bonds supply the
trust that is needed before deals can be
done and promises relied on. With its
more traditional
legal system, Canada
better respects the
sanctity of contract
and is less likely
to weaken prop
erty rights with
an American
style
civil justice system
which at times resembles a slot machine
of judicially
sanctioned theft. Americans
are great at talking about the rule of law,
but in reality we don’t have much stand
ing to do so.
Then there’s corruption. As ranked by
Transparency International’s Corruption
Perceptions Index, America is consider
ably more corrupt than most of the rest of
the First World. With our K Street lobby
ists and our donor class, we’ve spawned
the greatest concentration of money and
inf luence ever. And corruption costs. In
a regression model, the average family’s
earnings would increase from $55,000 to
$60,000 were we to ascend to Canada’s
level of non
corruption, and to $68,000 if
we moved to Denmark’s level.
In a corrupt country, trust is a rare
commodity. That’s America today. Only
19 percent of Americans say they trust the
government most of the time, down from
73 percent in 1958 according to the Pew
Research Center. Sadly, that is a rational
response to the way things are. America
is a different country today, and a much
nastier one. For politically engaged
Republicans, the figure is six percent.
That in a nutshell explains the Trump
phenomenon and the disintegration of
the Republican establishment. If the peo
ple don’t trust the government, tinkering
with entitlement reform is like rearrang
ing deck chairs on the Titanic.
American legal institutions are consis
tently more liberal than those in Canada,
and they are biased towards a privileged
class of insiders who are better educated
and wealthier than the average American.
That’s why America has become an aris
tocracy. By contrast, Canadian legal insti
tutions aren’t slanted to an aristocracy.
The paradox is that Canadians employ
conservative, free market means to
achieve the liberal
end of economic
mobility. And that
points to America’s
way back: acknowl
edge that the prom
ise of America has
diminished, then
emulate Canada.
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Dec 7 at 3:35 AM
December 7, 2016: The 75th Anniversary of the Sneak Attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor
The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Forces of Japan, executed by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s strike plan “Z”, commenced at 7:48 AM Hawaiian Time. The base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese fighters, bomber, and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six Japanese aircraft carriers. All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four sunk. All but the USS Arizona (BB-39) were later raised, and six were returned to service and went on to fight the Imperial Forces of Japan in the WWII. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer. In addition 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded. However, important base installations such as the power station, shipyard, maintenance, and fuel and torpedo storage facilities, as well as the submarine piers and headquarters building (also home of the intelligence section) were not attacked. Japanese losses were light; 29 aircraft and five midget submarines were lost, and 64 servicemen killed. One Japanese sailor, Kazuo Sakamaki, was captured.
In the wake of the attack, 15 Medal Of Honor, 51 Navy Crosses, 53 Silver Stars, 4 Navy and Marine Corps Medals, one Distinguished Flying Cross, four Distinguished Service Crosses, one Distinguished Service Medal, and three Bronze Star Medals were awarded to the American servicemen who distinguished themselves in combat at Pearl Harbor. Additionally, a special military award, the Pearl Harbor Commemorative medal was later authorized for all military veterans of the attack
Japan’s Prime Minister’s Will Visit Pearl Harbor Today
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced he would travel to Pearl Harbor today, to recognize the 75th Anniversary of Japan’s attack on the home port of the, US Navy’s Pacific Fleet. Prime Minister Abe is the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor to “pay tribute [and] comfort the souls” of those who died from both countries during World War II. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said that Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor “awoke a sleeping giant”. The attack was labeled “A Day of Infamy” by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In the next 3 years, 7 months, and 25 days, the US Armed Forces and their Allies in the Pacific Theatre, defeated the Imperial Forces of Japan. On September 2, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur, USMA ’03, USA, representing the Combined Allied Forces, accepted the “Unconditional Surrender” of the Imperial Forces of Japan aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay.
Pearl Harbor – 75 years on
In the below listed Op Ed, by Admiral James A. Lyons, Jr. USNA ’52, USN (Ret), who was the Commander–in-Chief, of the US Pacific Fleet, and the Senior US Military Representative to the United Nations, exposes the US military personnel who were responsible for failing to alert Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Fleet, and Lt. General Walter Short, who was responsible for the defense of Hawaii, of the pending attack by Japan, were accused of dereliction of duty following the attack. Admiral Kimmel was reduced in rank to Rear Admiral, and retired from the US Navy. Lt General Short was reduced in rank to Major General and retired from the US Army. Admiral Lyons recommends in the below listed Op Ed that Rear Admiral Kimmel and Major General Short have their honor, reputations, and ranks restored by Congress.
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From: James A. Lyons, Jr
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 6:27 AM
To: Joseph R. John
Subject: Op-Ed – Pearl Harbor – 75 years on
My latest op-ed published in the Washington Times.
As an aside, it made the cover of the National Enquirer.
All The Best
Ace
James A. Lyons, Jr.
Admiral, USN (Ret)
Pearl Harbor, 75 years on
Remembering the grim day and an ongoing injustice
By James A. Lyons – – Sunday, December 4, 2016
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
The 75th anniversary of the Imperial Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will soon be remembered again as a “Day of Infamy.” On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan launched over 353 aircraft from six carriers, flawlessly executing Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto’s strike plan “Z” and succeeded in crippling the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
How could the commanders in Hawaii be so unprepared when in Washington both the Army and Navy intelligence organizations had broken key Japanese diplomatic codes, including the high level “Purple” code in which Japan was conducting its peace negotiations with the United States? Whether the Japanese naval code “JN-25” was broken prior to the attack remains unknown.
In their new book, “A Matter of Honor,” by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, the authors provide information never before revealed. The authors make the case for restoring the personal reputation, honor and ranks of the two Pearl Harbor commanders who were unjustly made the scapegoats.
The second new book, “Into the Lion’s Mouth” by Larry Loftis, discusses the most successful British double agent, “Dusko Popov,” the real life inspiration for Ian Fleming’s James Bond and Popov’s relationship to Pearl Harbor. In short, the Japanese were fascinated by the British surprise airstrike at Taranto, which destroyed the Italian Fleet primarily by dropping torpedoes in relatively shallow water. They prepared questions and passed them to Germany who in turn gave them to Popov. He turned them over to the FBI on his arrival in New York in August 1941. The U.K. raid on Taranto became the blueprint for the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Mr. Loftis contends that J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI Director, never turned over the questions to the military or to the president. Former CIA Director William Casey made the same charges in 1988 and blamed Hoover for failing to share the information with the military. However, according to Mr. Summers and Ms. Swan, Hoover did turn over paraphrased versions of the question to military intelligence who failed to recognize the significance of this information.
Of the eight official inquiries, the most biased conducted was by Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts shortly following the attack. Neither Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, or Lt. Gen. Walter Short, who was responsible for the defense of Hawaii, received any information from the decrypted codes which would have alerted them to the Japanese fleet’s intentions. Yet the Roberts commission declared Adm. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Short derelict in carrying their duties and held them solely responsible for the Pearl Harbor disaster. None of the 10 Washington officials authorized to receive the decrypted information was held accountable. Cover up?
The Washington officials authorized to receive the decrypted “Purple” intelligence, referred to as “Magic,” included the Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Marshall; Chief of Naval Operations Harold Stark; Chief of Navy War Plans RADM Richmond K. Turner; Brig. Gen. Gerow; head of Army War Plans; heads of both Army and Navy Intelligence, Secretary of War (Army) Stimson; Secretary of Navy Knox; the president and the Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
The president only saw brief summaries of “Magic” decoded information and at times only received verbal briefings. Further, Marshall and Stark at one point denied the president and secretary of State any “Magic” information for four months because they didn’t trust people around them. Of course, one person who did see Magic was Winston Churchill. The U.S. provided three “Purple” machines to the U.K. to facilitate their breaking of the code. Another machine went to the U.S. Army and two went to the Navy. Interesting, one “Purple” machine was sent to the naval station CAST at Cavite in the Philippines for use by Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm. Harold Hart. Astonishingly, none were provided to the Hawaii Commanders Adm. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Short. What use MacArthur made of the Purple intelligence is unknown. Further, he was unprepared for the Japanese attack that destroyed our FAREAST Air Force at Clark AFB nine hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was never held accountable.
One other aspect that is seldom mentioned is that the Dutch Army cryptanalysts had also broken the Japanese diplomatic code “Purple.” According to Brig. Gen. Elliot Thorpe, USA (ret.) when he was the army attaché in Java, Gen. Tec Pooten, CINC of Far East Dutch Army, provided him a decrypted message from Tokyo to the Japanese Ambassador in Bangkok which told of the upcoming attack on Hawaii, Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand. After sending four messages about the upcoming attack, Thorpe as he recalled was directed by our War Department to send “no more on this subject.”
“Magic” decrypted information held a wealth of information. There was the “bomb plot” grid message #83 of Sept. 24, 1941, which divided the fleet anchorages in Pearl Harbor into bombing sectors. We also had the Nov. 30, 1941 message to designated Japanese Embassies to destroy their codes, files, etc. Washington cleared officials also had the 14-part message on Dec. 6 1941, the Japanese response to the secretary of State’s Nov. 26 ultimatum, ceasing all negotiations to which President Roosevelt remarked, “This means war.” Yet none of this critical intelligence was passed to the Hawaii Commanders. As an aside, Churchill was getting much of this information as well. We do know it was his goal to involve “isolationist” America in the war.
The three principals that should have been held accountable were Gen. Marshall, Adm. Stark and Adm. Turner, who assumed responsibility for distributing the decrypted information for the Navy. It clearly is time for Adm. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Short to have their honor, reputations and ranks restored. It is a matter of honor for the Navy, Army, and country to correct this terrible injustice.
• James A. Lyons, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations.
[Personal note on this: for over 40 years I have been a proponent of the position that FDR withheld information for the purposes of involving the U.S.A. in the war and to get himself out of the Great Depression. The first purpose is self-evident. However, few know that FDR kept the U.S. in the depression for longer than necessary by, among several wrongful acts, allowing the dollar to become the global currency, and by fixing the dollar to gold during this economic crisis instead of letting it float. By 1938, most of Europe was out of the depression as they prepared for war. FDR did not. Instead, this stalwart liberal insisted on domestic policies that included the National Recovery Act, unconstitutional on its face, called the Negro Ruination Act by integrationists. The NRA permitted businesses to fire colored employees before firing white employees, just one of many discriminatory and crony features. JPB]