Wikileaks dump: John Podesta email dump

[TheSanityAnnex]

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/ (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuMSqoaWIAA-SR1.jpg (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuMSqoaWIAA-SR1.jpg)

[TheSanityAnnex]

Today WikiLeaks begins its series on deals involving Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta. Mr Podesta is a long-term associate of the Clintons and was President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff from 1998 until 2001. Mr Podesta also controls the Podesta Group, a major lobbying firm and is the Chair of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington DC-based think tank. Part 1 of the Podesta Emails comprises 2,060 emails and 170 attachments and focuses on Mr Podesta's communications relating to nuclear energy, and media handling over donations to the Clinton Foundation from mining and nuclear interests; 1,244 of the emails reference nuclear energy. The full collection includes emails to and from Hillary Clinton.


In April 2015 the New York Times published a story (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0) about a company called "Uranium One" which was sold to Russian government-controlled interests, giving Russia effective control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for the production of nuclear weapons, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of US government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off the deal was the State Department, then headed by Secretary Clinton. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) comprises, among others, the secretaries of the Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy.
As Russian interests gradually took control of Uranium One millions of dollars were donated to the Clinton Foundation between 2009 and 2013 from individuals directly connected to the deal including the Chairman of Uranium One, Ian Telfer. Although Mrs Clinton had an agreement with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors to the Clinton Foundation, the contributions from the Chairman of Uranium One were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons.


When the New York Times article was published the Clinton campaign spokesman, Brian Fallon, strongly rejected the possibility that then-Secretary Clinton exerted any influence in the US goverment's review of the sale of Uranium One, describing this possibility as "baseless".


Mr Fallon promptly sent a memo to the New York Times with a rebuttal of the story (Podesta Email ID 1489 (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails//emailid/1489)).


In this memo, Mr Fallon argued: "Apart from the fact that the State Department was one of just nine agencies involved in CFIUS, it is also true that within the State Department, the CFIUS approval process historically does not trigger the personal involvement of the Secretary of State. The State Department’s principal representative to CFIUS was the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs. During the time period in question, that position was held by Jose Fernandez. As you are aware, Mr Fernandez has personally attested that “Secretary Clinton never intervened with me on any CFIUS matter.”


What the Clinton campaign spokesman failed to disclose, however, was the fact that a few days before sending his rebuttal to the New York Times, Jose Fernandez wrote on the evening of the 17 April 2015 to John Podesta following a phone call from Mr Podesta (Email ID 2053 (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails//emailid/2053)): "John, It was good to talk to you this afternoon, and I appreciate your taking the time to call. As I mentioned, I would like to do all I can to support Secretary Clinton, and would welcome your advice and help in steering me to the right persons in the campaign".


Five days after this email (22 April 2015), Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon wrote a memo to the New York Times, declaring that "Jose Fernandez has personally attested that 'Secretary Clinton never intervened with me on any CFIUS matter',” but Fallon failed to mention that Fernandez was hardly a neutral witness in this case, considering that he had agreed with John Podesta to play a role in the Clinton campaign.


The emails show that the contacts between John Podesta and Jose Fernandez go back to the time of internal Clinton campaign concern about the then-forthcoming book and movie "Clinton Cash" by Peter Schweizer on the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.


In an email dated 29 March 2015 (Email ID 2059 (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails//emailid/2059)), Jose Fernandez writes to Podesta: "Hi John, I trust you are getting a brief rest after a job well done. Thanks no doubt to your recommendation I have joined the CAP [Center for American Progress] board of trustees, which I'm finding extremely rewarding."


Julian Assange

[Splits]

BRB gonna go grab them by the pussy

[TheSanityAnnex]

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32


Iran Nuclear Deal From:[email protected] To: [email protected]
Date: 2015-06-22 04:23
Subject: Iran Nuclear Deal
Dear Jake, I have sent several detailed notes on the Iran nuclear deal, and will avoid repetition. But with the June 30 deadline fast approaching (although it may be extended), and with Hillary certain to be pressed on whether she supports the deal and will urge Congress not to disapprove it, I wanted to share a few thoughts.
1. This could well be a voting issue for many moderates in the Jewish community. The mainstream organized leadership will almost certainly oppose the deal, along with Israel and all the Republican candidates, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, and perhaps Egypt.
2. While we cannot be sure until there is a final agreement, it appears that many of the open issues since the preliminary accord, may be resolved in Iran's favor: (1) Enriched uranium will stay in Iran for dilution, rather than be sent to Russia or France for reprocessing.
(2) Sanctions will not be phased-out commensurate with compliance, as the US Fact Sheet indicated after the last "agreement", but may come off more quickly. This will transfer billions to Iran and enhance its funding for terrorism and its efforts to gain hegemony in the region.
(3) It is not clear what Iran will be required to do on PMD, if anything. This was required of Iraq by the UNSC in September 2002. Iran should be held to the same standard. They have yet to answer 11 of the 12 IAEA questions, yet UN sanctions will be lifted. (4) Russia, China and Iran itself may be able to block "snapback" sanctions if there is a violation of the agreement. US companies will be disadvantaged compared to European companies, since many US non-nuclear sanctions will remain, while all EU sanctions are nuclear-related.
(5) Military sites (Parchin) are likely to be off the table for inspections.
(6) Iran will likely be able to do research on advanced centrifuges, which enrich more uranium more rapidly than the current generation. This would markedly reduce the breakout time in the last years of the accord. Presidenr Obama has conceded this point (e.g. David Sanger article in NYT, April 8, 2015)
(7) Iran will have an industrial size nuclear program, and will be left as a "nuclear capable state".
(8) Iran will be able to keep 1000 centrifuges at Fordo.
(9) Nothing in the agreement will limit its support for terrorism.

3. That said, there are likely to be positive aspects to the agreement.
(1) The Arak plutonium plant will be effectively dismantled.
(2) There will be more intrusive IAEA inspections, since Iran will sign the Additional Protocol of thr NPT.
(3) The number of centrifuges will be cut by 2/3.
(4) Iran will be a year away from breakout. It would still need to develop a nuclear weapon that can fit on a missile.
(5) Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium from 10 tons to 700 pounds.
(6) Ten years is a long time and Iran's conduct may moderate.

4, Hillary cannot oppose the agreement given her position as the President's Secretary of State and should urge its approval by Congress under Corker-Cardin. But she can and should point out concerns with it (as she did, unfortunately from my perspective, on TPP/TPA). More broadly, she should appear more muscular I her approach than the President's. The statement I suggested a few months ago still would be appropriate.
But she should also say the following:
(1) As President, she would never consider Iran a strategic partner in the region. Quite the contrary, she would do all she can to oppose Iranian misconduct.
(2) Our allies in the region must know that we will stand behind them and supply them with the means to defend themselves and avoid the region tilting to Iran, including bunker-busting bombs Bush and Obama refused to provide to Israel.. Defense treaties should be considered so any attack by Iran would be considered an attack against the US.
(3) Bibi should be invited for early talks on how the partnership with Israel can be strengthened to combat Iran and Israel's other avowed enemies.
(4) A common agenda should be forged with Israel and our Arab allies.
(5) If the US itself believes Iran has cheated, as President, she would reimpose US sanctions, even if Russia-China-Iran say there was no violation. She would work to get the EU to also reimpose their sanctions.
(6) It is just as unacceptable for Iran to develop a nuclear weapon after the expiration of the agreement, as it is during the agreement, given the nature of the regime. Therefore, while she would not be president, all means should be used to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Best wishes, Stu Eizenstat

[TheSanityAnnex]

Meanwhile the MSM will ignore this and instead run stories of Trump saying lewd comments 24/7
https://www.yahoo.com/news/video-emerges-of-donald-trump-saying-shockingly-lewd-things-in-2005-205256001.html

[Spurminator]

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32


Iran Nuclear Deal

From:[email protected] To: [email protected]
Date: 2015-06-22 04:23
Subject: Iran Nuclear Deal
Dear Jake, I have sent several detailed notes on the Iran nuclear deal, and will avoid repetition. But with the June 30 deadline fast approaching (although it may be extended), and with Hillary certain to be pressed on whether she supports the deal and will urge Congress not to disapprove it, I wanted to share a few thoughts.
1. This could well be a voting issue for many moderates in the Jewish community. The mainstream organized leadership will almost certainly oppose the deal, along with Israel and all the Republican candidates, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, and perhaps Egypt.
2. While we cannot be sure until there is a final agreement, it appears that many of the open issues since the preliminary accord, may be resolved in Iran's favor: (1) Enriched uranium will stay in Iran for dilution, rather than be sent to Russia or France for reprocessing.
(2) Sanctions will not be phased-out commensurate with compliance, as the US Fact Sheet indicated after the last "agreement", but may come off more quickly. This will transfer billions to Iran and enhance its funding for terrorism and its efforts to gain hegemony in the region.
(3) It is not clear what Iran will be required to do on PMD, if anything. This was required of Iraq by the UNSC in September 2002. Iran should be held to the same standard. They have yet to answer 11 of the 12 IAEA questions, yet UN sanctions will be lifted. (4) Russia, China and Iran itself may be able to block "snapback" sanctions if there is a violation of the agreement. US companies will be disadvantaged compared to European companies, since many US non-nuclear sanctions will remain, while all EU sanctions are nuclear-related.
(5) Military sites (Parchin) are likely to be off the table for inspections.
(6) Iran will likely be able to do research on advanced centrifuges, which enrich more uranium more rapidly than the current generation. This would markedly reduce the breakout time in the last years of the accord. Presidenr Obama has conceded this point (e.g. David Sanger article in NYT, April 8, 2015)
(7) Iran will have an industrial size nuclear program, and will be left as a "nuclear capable state".
(8) Iran will be able to keep 1000 centrifuges at Fordo.
(9) Nothing in the agreement will limit its support for terrorism.

3. That said, there are likely to be positive aspects to the agreement.
(1) The Arak plutonium plant will be effectively dismantled.
(2) There will be more intrusive IAEA inspections, since Iran will sign the Additional Protocol of thr NPT.
(3) The number of centrifuges will be cut by 2/3.
(4) Iran will be a year away from breakout. It would still need to develop a nuclear weapon that can fit on a missile.
(5) Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium from 10 tons to 700 pounds.
(6) Ten years is a long time and Iran's conduct may moderate.

4, Hillary cannot oppose the agreement given her position as the President's Secretary of State and should urge its approval by Congress under Corker-Cardin. But she can and should point out concerns with it (as she did, unfortunately from my perspective, on TPP/TPA). More broadly, she should appear more muscular I her approach than the President's. The statement I suggested a few months ago still would be appropriate.
But she should also say the following:
(1) As President, she would never consider Iran a strategic partner in the region. Quite the contrary, she would do all she can to oppose Iranian misconduct.
(2) Our allies in the region must know that we will stand behind them and supply them with the means to defend themselves and avoid the region tilting to Iran, including bunker-busting bombs Bush and Obama refused to provide to Israel.. Defense treaties should be considered so any attack by Iran would be considered an attack against the US.
(3) Bibi should be invited for early talks on how the partnership with Israel can be strengthened to combat Iran and Israel's other avowed enemies.
(4) A common agenda should be forged with Israel and our Arab allies.
(5) If the US itself believes Iran has cheated, as President, she would reimpose US sanctions, even if Russia-China-Iran say there was no violation. She would work to get the EU to also reimpose their sanctions.
(6) It is just as unacceptable for Iran to develop a nuclear weapon after the expiration of the agreement, as it is during the agreement, given the nature of the regime. Therefore, while she would not be president, all means should be used to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Best wishes, Stu Eizenstat

Any specific concerns you have with this email?

[TheSanityAnnex]

Any specific concerns you have with this email?

2. While we cannot be sure until there is a final agreement, it appears that many of the open issues since the preliminary accord, may be resolved in Iran's favor: (1) Enriched uranium will stay in Iran for dilution, rather than be sent to Russia or France for reprocessing.
(2) Sanctions will not be phased-out commensurate with compliance, as the US Fact Sheet indicated after the last "agreement", but may come off more quickly. This will transfer billions to Iran and enhance its funding for terrorism and its efforts to gain hegemony in the region.
(3) It is not clear what Iran will be required to do on PMD, if anything. This was required of Iraq by the UNSC in September 2002. Iran should be held to the same standard. They have yet to answer 11 of the 12 IAEA questions, yet UN sanctions will be lifted. (4) Russia, China and Iran itself may be able to block "snapback" sanctions if there is a violation of the agreement. US companies will be disadvantaged compared to European companies, since many US non-nuclear sanctions will remain, while all EU sanctions are nuclear-related.
(5) Military sites (Parchin) are likely to be off the table for inspections.
(6) Iran will likely be able to do research on advanced centrifuges, which enrich more uranium more rapidly than the current generation. This would markedly reduce the breakout time in the last years of the accord. Presidenr Obama has conceded this point (e.g. David Sanger article in NYT, April 8, 2015)
(7) Iran will have an industrial size nuclear program, and will be left as a "nuclear capable state".
(8) Iran will be able to keep 1000 centrifuges at Fordo.
(9) Nothing in the agreement will limit its support for terrorism.

[Spurminator]

2. While we cannot be sure until there is a final agreement, it appears that many of the open issues since the preliminary accord, may be resolved in Iran's favor: (1) Enriched uranium will stay in Iran for dilution, rather than be sent to Russia or France for reprocessing.
(2) Sanctions will not be phased-out commensurate with compliance, as the US Fact Sheet indicated after the last "agreement", but may come off more quickly. This will transfer billions to Iran and enhance its funding for terrorism and its efforts to gain hegemony in the region.
(3) It is not clear what Iran will be required to do on PMD, if anything. This was required of Iraq by the UNSC in September 2002. Iran should be held to the same standard. They have yet to answer 11 of the 12 IAEA questions, yet UN sanctions will be lifted. (4) Russia, China and Iran itself may be able to block "snapback" sanctions if there is a violation of the agreement. US companies will be disadvantaged compared to European companies, since many US non-nuclear sanctions will remain, while all EU sanctions are nuclear-related.
(5) Military sites (Parchin) are likely to be off the table for inspections.
(6) Iran will likely be able to do research on advanced centrifuges, which enrich more uranium more rapidly than the current generation. This would markedly reduce the breakout time in the last years of the accord. Presidenr Obama has conceded this point (e.g. David Sanger article in NYT, April 8, 2015)
(7) Iran will have an industrial size nuclear program, and will be left as a "nuclear capable state".
(8) Iran will be able to keep 1000 centrifuges at Fordo.
(9) Nothing in the agreement will limit its support for terrorism.

Does any of this contradict the details of the agreement that have already been published?

[TheSanityAnnex]

Don't have the details of the agreement fresh in my head.

[TheSanityAnnex]

I can't navigate Reddit at all but the Autists are going to work on this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/

seen so far:

collusion between HRC and the white house to undermine the emails investigation

state department funding Hezlbolloah

transcripts from her secret speeches

collusion with most major media sources

[Spurminator]

I guess it just kind of seems like you're pasting this stuff as though it's meant to be read with ominous music playing in the background, but I'm honestly not sure what the big reveal is. I'm fully open to hearing and have no assumptions or bias on this.

Stu Eizenstat is a retired diplomat. Were the concerns he listed from rumors or reports he had read, or was he directly involved somehow?

[Spurminator]

I can't navigate Reddit at all but the Autists are going to work on this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/

seen so far:

collusion between HRC and the white house to undermine the emails investigation

state department funding Hezlbolloah

transcripts from her secret speeches

collusion with most major media sources

Even if you could navigate Reddit, r/The_Donald isn't where I would go for... well, anything, ever.

[TheSanityAnnex]

I guess it just kind of seems like you're pasting this stuff as though it's meant to be read with ominous music playing in the background, but I'm honestly not sure what the big reveal is. I'm fully open to hearing and have no assumptions or bias on this.

Stu Eizenstat is a retired diplomat. Were the concerns he listed from rumors or reports he had read, or was he directly involved somehow?
Uranium One deal and Podesta contacting Fernandez could be a huge deal considering Clinton denied any contact with Fernandez.

[Spurminator]

Uranium One deal and Podesta contacting Fernandez could be a huge deal considering Clinton denied any contact with Fernandez.

I'll have to read up on that one later, but what about the Eizenstat email?

[TheSanityAnnex]

Even if you could navigate Reddit, r/The_Donald isn't where I would go for... well, anything, ever.

They do most all the digging through the emails dumps that eventually make their way to the media. Something that would take media investigators months to compile is done over the weekend by millions of Redditors. It's invaluable in terms of research.

[TheSanityAnnex]

I'll have to read up on that one later, but what about the Eizenstat email?

I'll have to read up on that later. :lol

[Spurminator]

They do most all the digging through the emails dumps that eventually make their way to the media. Something that would take media investigators months to compile is done over the weekend by millions of Redditors. It's invaluable in terms of research.

If knowing something within 2 days means relying on r/The_Donald contributors for analysis, I'd rather wait a few more days for someone like Greenwald to report it.

[Spurminator]

I'll have to read up on that later. :lol

Good one, but to be fair... You posted it.

[Reck]

BRB gonna go grab them by the pussy

:lol

[TheSanityAnnex]

Good one, but to be fair... You posted it.
Dump happened like 30 mins ago. Posted the first two I saw.

[Winehole23]

Use your words, TSA. Where's the bombshell?

[TheSanityAnnex]

If knowing something within 2 days means relying on r/The_Donald contributors for analysis, I'd rather wait a few more days for someone like Greenwald to report it.
Wouldn't surprise me if he just sifts through what they dig up and reports on what he feels is important.

These are they same people that linked and exposed Combetta. They aren't slouches and the rate they compile information is astonishing.

[Winehole23]

How are we supposed to distinguish this from the rest of your anti-HRC shit-posting?

[TheSanityAnnex]

Use your words, TSA. Where's the bombshell?
Seriously lol? It's been 30 fucking minutes. There thousands of emails to go through.

[Winehole23]

So there's nothing to distinguish this post from your long career of wish-casting HRC's doom.

The results are likely to be the same this time around.

[TheSanityAnnex]

https://mobile.twitter.com/basedmattforney/status/784509320956444672

easier to find email links here than on Reddit

[TheSanityAnnex]

So there's nothing to distinguish this post from your long career of wish-casting HRC's doom.

The results are likely to be the same this time around.

You are literally whining about me passing on information. Feel free to leave the thread and wait for the media to hand you the results.

[Winehole23]

Meanwhile the MSM will ignore this and instead run stories of Trump saying lewd comments 24/7
https://www.yahoo.com/news/video-emerges-of-donald-trump-saying-shockingly-lewd-things-in-2005-205256001.htmlThey're still reading the emails, like you.

This claim will be proven incorrect tomorrow.

Why did Wikileaks release it on a Friday? :cry

[Winehole23]

You are literally whining about me passing on information. Feel free to leave the thread and wait for the media to hand you the results.You've not passed on any information you can relate in your own words.

Are you waiting for your alt-right media masters to tell you what to say?

[TheSanityAnnex]

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/07/excerpts-of-hillary-clintons-paid-speeches-to-goldman-sachs-finally-leaked/

[TheSanityAnnex]

You've not passed on any information you can relate in your own words.

Are you waiting for your alt-right media masters to tell you what to say?

You are free to continue whining or just read the information provided and draw your own conclusions. All whining today will be ignored from here on out.

[Winehole23]

lol feel free to leave the thread.

if you can't answer for your own shit posting maybe you should leave the thread. I'm sure you'll come back when Breitbart tells you what to say.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Uranium One deal and Podesta contacting Fernandez could be a huge deal considering Clinton denied any contact with Fernandez.
Uh oh

Fwd: it's out there
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/225

[TheSanityAnnex]

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/118

[Spurminator]

Wouldn't surprise me if he just sifts through what they dig up and reports on what he feels is important.

That's fine. I prefer a filter with journalistic integrity vs. an email dump.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Uh oh

Fwd: it's out there
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/225

More on Uranium One deal. Damning emails and this is only email dump 1. Assange delivers again.


Fwd: Grassley letter From:[email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Date: 2015-07-03 13:49 Subject: Fwd: Grassley letter ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Maura Pally* <[email protected]> Date: Friday, July 3, 2015 Subject: Grassley letter To: Cheryl Mills <[email protected]>, John Podesta < [email protected]>, Heather Samuelson <[email protected]>, Huma Abedin <[email protected]> Putting on all of your radars that Grassley sent a letter to AG Lynch (dated June 30th though we just saw it) asking questions about contributions to the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One deal. Letter is attached. Craig is connecting with comms team to be sure they are aware as well.



https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/286

[TheSanityAnnex]

That's fine. I prefer a filter with journalistic integrity vs. an email dump.
That's fine. I lack patience and the media's filter.

[Spurminator]

More on Uranium One deal. Damning emails and this is only email dump 1. Assange delivers again.

Fwd: Grassley letter

From:[email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Date: 2015-07-03 13:49 Subject: Fwd: Grassley letter ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Maura Pally* <[email protected]> Date: Friday, July 3, 2015 Subject: Grassley letter To: Cheryl Mills <[email protected]>, John Podesta < [email protected]>, Heather Samuelson <[email protected]>, Huma Abedin <[email protected]> Putting on all of your radars that Grassley sent a letter to AG Lynch (dated June 30th though we just saw it) asking questions about contributions to the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One deal. Letter is attached. Craig is connecting with comms team to be sure they are aware as well.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/286

This is an email about a letter being sent that asks questions.

[Winehole23]

That's fine. I lack patience and the media's filter.Lacking patience and having no independent take isn't a strength.

TSA still waiting for marching orders from his alt-right media masters. This post is just a placeholder, and he's just a sock puppet.

[TheSanityAnnex]

This is an email about a letter being sent that asks questions.
Correct. Sent by Podesta who contacted Hernandez who Hillary said she'd had no contact with.

[Spurminator]

Correct. Sent by Podesta who contacted Hernandez who Hillary said she'd had no contact with.

Where are you getting that from this email?

[TheSanityAnnex]

:lol call Bernie supporters a bucket of losers in a paid speech. FkLA

https://mobile.twitter.com/America_1st_/status/784532138104385536/photo/1

[TheSanityAnnex]

Where are you getting that from this email?
From the other email from Podesta to Hernandez mentioned earlier.

[Winehole23]

Maybe TSA should wait for marching orders. His independent take seems to have gone off half-cocked.

Maybe reading and analysis aren't his strong suits. Lack of patience, like he said.

[TheSanityAnnex]

*Fernadez. Keeps auto correcting.

[Winehole23]

:lol call Bernie supporters a bucket of losers in a paid speech. FkLA (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=17213)

https://mobile.twitter.com/America_1st_/status/784532138104385536/photo/1^^^grasping for straws in the maelstrom

[TheSanityAnnex]

Dreams of open trade and open borders
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927#efmFhxFke

[Winehole23]

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/07/excerpts-of-hillary-clintons-paid-speeches-to-goldman-sachs-finally-leaked/worthy of its own thread. did you read it?

recap?

[Winehole23]

it might get buried here

[TheSanityAnnex]

They're still reading the emails, like you.

This claim will be proven incorrect tomorrow.

Why did Wikileaks release it on a Friday? :cry
Fox is running it. We were both incorrect. :cry

[Winehole23]

Dreams of open trade and open borders
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927#efmFhxFkedid you read it?

what's the crux of it?

[TheSanityAnnex]

worthy of its own thread. did you read it?

recap?
I skimmed through the actual leaked speeches but was in a shitty format on wikileaks. Too hard to copy/paste from my phone. Haven't had time to read the intercept article but figured it was presented well. Always liked their work.

[Winehole23]

Fox is running it. We were both incorrect. :cryFox goes off half-cocked, like you. No surprise there.

[Winehole23]

I skimmed through the actual leaked speeches but was in a shitty format on wikileaks. Too hard to copy/paste from my phone. Haven't had time to read the intercept article but figured it was presented well. Always liked their work.So, you got nothing from your brief attempt at reading. That sounds about right.

[TheSanityAnnex]

did you read it?

what's the crux of it?

At the rate I'm posting these do you really think I'm reading all of this stuff :lol
i told you I'm just passing on info, sort through it and dismiss as you wish. Having to respond to your every question is time consuming.

[TheSanityAnnex]

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/?q=Stu+Eizenstat&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=200&sort=0#searchresult

[Winehole23]

but really, TSA, there's no need to read anything. your mind is already made up and other people who did read will tell you what to emphasize soon.

[Winehole23]

TSA is waiting for redditors to tell him how to attack HRC.

[clambake]

but really, TSA, there's no need to read anything. your mind is already made up and other people who did read will tell you what to emphasize soon.

all the energy consumed, even knowing he'll receive the meal.

don't worry, it will be just what you ordered.

[Reck]

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/07/excerpts-of-hillary-clintons-paid-speeches-to-goldman-sachs-finally-leaked/

Needs biggers fonts. :lol

She's an elitist. Who didn't already know this?

[TheSanityAnnex]

All I got for today. Logging off and heading out.

Keep whining wine, thank me later.

[Winehole23]

all the energy consumed, even knowing he'll receive the meal.

don't worry, it will be just what you ordered.

[hater]

No need to read anything. Let me guess the conclusion: Shitler is a bitch :lol

[ElNono]

No need to read anything. Let me guess the conclusion: Shitler is a bitch :lol

bombshell, tbh... nobody knew... :lol

[clambake]

paul ryan will not be attending the event tomorrow with trump so that " i can have time to sort thru all this leaky shit, its enormous and they need me"

[Th'Pusher]

Too bad this story got buried. TSA spinning out of control, I'm sure.

[ducks]

Wikileaks Dump: Hillary Dreams of ‘Open Trade and Open Borders’
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton admitted she takes two positions on policy issues.
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/wikileaks-dump-hillary-dreams-open-trade-open-borders/

[Spurminator]

Wikileaks Dump: Hillary Dreams of ‘Open Trade and Open Borders’
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton admitted she takes two positions on policy issues.
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/wikileaks-dump-hillary-dreams-open-trade-open-borders/

This is surprising to... whom, exactly?

Is this the biggest revelation from the emails? Seems like a lot of excitement over nothing at this point.

[Axl Rose]

That's fine. I prefer a filter with journalistic integrity vs. an email dump.
Lmao integrity

[Axl Rose]

This is surprising to... whom, exactly?

Is this the biggest revelation from the emails? Seems like a lot of excitement over nothing at this point.
So completely wide open borders is ok to you cucks? Somewhere a wire got crossed in your brain for you to be like this. Why even limit voting to just the USA then? Just let Mexico vote

[Spurminator]

So completely wide open borders is ok to you cucks? Somewhere a wire got crossed in your brain for you to be like this. Why even limit voting to just the USA then? Just let Mexico vote

Did you read the comments? Do you know what she meant by open borders?

[ducks]

I am assuming you are going to spin it and say it is ok

[Spurminator]

Lmao integrity

You think Greenwald lacks integrity? Well, touche then. You seem like the type that probably has good rationale for that, I'm interested in hearing it.

[Spurminator]

I am assuming you are going to spin it and say it is ok

At what point did you ever believe that Hillary Clinton would never say something like this?

“My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.”

[Reck]

I find it peculiar that these speeches are now being leaked after Trump talked about them. He has Russia in his back pocket..at least for now.

Bernie spent a year and a half asking for transcripts and nothing. But Trump starts talking about them and magically portions of them get leaked? You dont say..

[Reck]

At what point did you ever believe that Hillary Clinton would never say something like this?

“My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.”




Her open borders are being taken out of context. Having open borders is clearly a bad idea. Duh

I'm hoping she means open border as an trading openly with the rest of the world.

It's not like she's planning on taking down the border fences and let all the mexicans in..

[CosmicCowboy]

That's exactly what she said.

[rmt]

At what point did you ever believe that Hillary Clinton would never say something like this?

“My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.”




Seems like she wants to be President of the Hemisphere - not President of the United States - where's the concern for US, AMERICANS?

[rmt]

I find it peculiar that these speeches are now being leaked after Trump talked about them. He has Russia in his back pocket..at least for now.

Bernie spent a year and a half asking for transcripts and nothing. But Trump starts talking about them and magically portions of them get leaked? You dont say..

Didn't they come out a little after Trump's audio came out? Probably Assange trying to counter-act/do damage control for Trump - you know how he hates HC. Assange knew Bernie wouldn't win with the DNC fix - was keeping it for the General to try to bury her but maybe had to release earlier than he wanted to counter this audio. Hopefully he has more to try to counter whatever else Hillary has on Trump from The Apprentice. Maybe Russian hackers originally got it - but Wiki is the one controlling the timing of release. I don't think they would normally have released late on a Friday before a holiday weekend but had to because of the audio.

[rmt]

Is this what it's come down to - Clinton campaign opposition research vs WikiLeaks and who has more/worse dirt?

[Splits]

Grab them by the pussy

[Spurminator]

I'm hoping she means open border as an trading openly with the rest of the world.


Why would it be anything else? Does the rest of the quote sound like she's talking about immigration?

[Spurminator]

Seems like she wants to be President of the Hemisphere - not President of the United States - where's the concern for US, AMERICANS?

:rolleyes

[Reck]

Why would it be anything else? Does the rest of the quote sound like she's talking about immigration?

It is obvious to us. That's how I read it the first time.

But of course Fox is already twisting this into something that is not and their viewers are like WHY AREN'T WE TALKING ABOUT THIS TRAVESTY INSTEAD?

[spurraider21]

alex jones was right! she's a globalist

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/7/78/Illuminati-Logo.png/revision/latest?cb=20150529234113

[CosmicCowboy]

It is obvious to us. That's how I read it the first time.

But of course Fox is already twisting this into something that is not and their viewers are like WHY AREN'T WE TALKING ABOUT THIS TRAVESTY INSTEAD?

:lol that's because your reading comprehension consistently sucks. Open borders means open borders EU style.

[Reck]

:lol that's because your reading comprehension consistently sucks. Open borders means open borders EU style.

Aren't you the one constantly arguing with people here because you're so shitty at getting at whatever point you're trying to make? :lol

Cosmic gaylord. :lol

[AaronY]

Looks like Wikileaks brought a knife to a pussy grabbing gunfight tbh..

[Spurminator]

Looks like Wikileaks brought a knife to a pussy grabbing gunfight tbh..

:lol

[ducks]

Wikileaks has released another batch of purported emails from Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta. The release comes after Clinton squirmed faced tough questioning at last night's debate about speech excerpts in a batch of emails released Friday by the group.

Clinton was asked about excerpts in which she purportedly claimed to hold a private and a public position on political issues. She responded by saying she was making reference to Abraham Lincoln's fight to pass the 13th Amendment -- a claim for which she was mocked by rival Donald Trump.








WikiLeaks

@wikileaks

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RELEASE: The #PodestaEmails part two: 2,086 new emails https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/?q=&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=6#searchresult … pic.twitter.com/Jlcf4Fde65


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2016/events/elections-2016-live-blog another one today!

[ducks]

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/785474021211140096/photo/1 part 2

[ducks]

PodestaEmails2: Hillary Clinton "says things that are untrue... often" ; "Trump" may be her only hope

[ducks]

PodestaEmails2: "Hard to think of anything more counter productive than demanding Bernie's medical records." https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2953#efmAAvACJ …

[ducks]

PodestaEmails2: People close to the Clintons pushing for "the less Bill [WJC] the better" due to his "sex life" https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2301 …

[ducks]

PodestaEmails: Clinton Foundation COO suicidal over Bill Clinton & Clinton Valley Centre https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3332#efmAdAAmB …

[ducks]

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/


David Sirota Verified account 
‏@davidsirota
REVEALED: In paid speech, Clinton said enviro groups opposing her effort to expand fracking are Russian front groups

[ducks]

WikiLeaks ‏@wikileaks · 51s52 seconds ago

Lanny Davis avised Clinton camp to quickly release her Wall St. speeches in Feb, 2016 "release later...is worse

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3905#efmAB2ACvADQAE_

[ducks]

Longtime Clinton advisor calls Chelsea Clinton a 'spoiled brat' #PodestaEmails2 https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2874#efmAb8AfI …

[ducks]

WikiLeaks ‏@wikileaks · 50m50 minutes ago

"I'm also starting to worry that if this story gets out, we are screwed." - Clinton chief advisor Doug Band https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2874#efmANUAOb …

[ducks]

http://www.politico.com/live-blog-updates/2016/10/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-emails-wikileaks-000011#postid=00000157-af2f-d29e-ab57-ffbf63580000


:wow

[ducks]

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Clinton advisers debate whether Hillary should crack an email joke

Hillary Clinton’s advisers briefly considered having her joke about her use of a private email account for government work when she addressed the pro-choice group Emily’s List the day after the story broke.

“Greetings,” Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri wrote to a number of advisers on March 3. “I wanted to float idea of HRC making a joke about the email situation at the Emily's List dinner tonight. What do folks think about that?”

Palmieri’s deputy, Kristina Schake, replied that “it would be good for her to show some humor” and observed that the Emily’s List audience “is her crowd so the response would be great.”

But senior adviser Mandy Grunwald argued that joking about the new revelation was risky. “We don't know what's in the emails, so we are nervous about this,” she wrote, after saying she had discussed the idea with campaign strategist Jim Margolis. “Might get a big laugh tonight and regret it when content of emails is disclosed.”





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10/10/2016 12:08 PM EDT
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Clinton camp gets State Dept. to approve email scandal tweet

Hillary Clinton’s campaign checked with the State Department before sending a tweet from the Democratic nominee’s account supporting the release of her private emails.

“This is final [and] cleared with State. HRC approved. Please send now,” longtime Clinton aide Philippe Reines wrote on March 4, two days after the New York Times revealed Clinton’s exclusive use of private email for government work.

The tweet, sent at 11:35 p.m. that night, read, “I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.”





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10/10/2016 12:05 PM EDT
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Mook angry with Wasserman Schultz over convention hire

Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook expressed dismay when then-Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz hired Leah Daughtry as CEO of the Democratic convention.

“I'm distressed that DWS hired a convention CEO without consulting us after Charlie and I both told them repeatedly that we expected to be consulted--and we were under the impression they would,” Mook said in a March 2015 email.

“John--you, Charlie and I may need to sit down with Debbie to make clear how we want things to change/improve before we are willing to consider playing ball with them,” Mook continues.

Daughtry has recently been tapped by the Clinton campaign to build the transition team.





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10/10/2016 12:03 PM EDT
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Lanny Davis calls Chris Cillizza an ‘obsessive Clinton hater’

Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza is an “obsessive Clinton hater,” according to longtime Hillary Clinton ally Lanny Davis.

In an email exchange sent from Davis to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta on Feb. 5, 2015, Davis flagged an article by Cillizza titled “Why Hillary Clinton won’t release transcripts of her paid Goldman Sachs speeches.”

“Hi John-- sorry to bother you. Re story below by obsessive Clinton hater Chris Cillizza -- re link/story below,” the email starts.

“Hope there is no debate about full and immediate release. Whatever nice words she said -- not releasing or delay, and then-- my opinion for what it's worth - release later as is inevitable, is worse. Best Lanny”

The article, published on Cillizza’s political blog “The Fix” outlined Clinton’s missed opportunities during a primary debate to directly release details about paid speeches she gave to financial firms like Goldman Sachs.

MSNBC moderator Chuck Todd asked Clinton if she planned to release full accounts of her speeches.

“Are you willing to release the transcripts of all your paid speeches? We do know through reporting that there were transcription services for all of those paid speeches. In full disclosure, would you release all of them?” Todd asked.

“I will look into it. I don't know the status, but I will certainly look into it.”

Cillizza commented that while he generally takes Clinton at her word when she describes the nature of her speeches, he went on to speculate about potentially negative content. “My guess is that in the speeches, Clinton likely acknowledges her various friends and acquaintances at Goldman Sachs (and other Wall Street firms) and praises them for the work they are doing.”






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10/10/2016 11:59 AM EDT
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Clinton advisers try to avoid Blackberry references

As Hillary Clinton’s campaign advisers drafted remarks for her to deliver about her use of a private email account for government business, they were determined not to highlight references to her Blackberry.

In an Aug. 21, 2015, email critiquing versions of the planned speech, Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri argued that campaign manager Robby Mook’s “version is better, but still focuses on the Blackberry, which is weird and press will find suspicious.”

That version included a paragraph that read, “In 2007, when I was a U.S. Senator, I got my first Blackberry. I used it to keep up with the news, with friends & family - and yes, I also got my fair share of unsolicited forwards that sometimes made me laugh and sometimes made me want to throw it away. In short, I used email like most people.”

Mook wrote back with an updated version that modified the paragraph to say, “In 2007, when I was a U.S. Senator, I got my first Blackberry. I used it to keep up with the news, with friends & family - like anyone else.”





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10/10/2016 11:51 AM EDT
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Tanden: Can Obama even hint support?

Hillary Clinton’s 2008 policy director expressed frustration at President Barack Obama’s neutrality in the Democratic primary, asking Clinton 2016 campaign chairman John Podesta if the president could “even hint” support for his former secretary of state ahead the Illinois primary.

“Can Obama even hint of support of Hillary before Tuesday? Really, just a directional nod would be helpful,” Neera Tanden wrote to Podesta on March 12, days ahead of primaries in Illinois, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio. “Like if he just is asked a question or tweets an innuendo -- how did he vote in the primary?”

“Maybe they don't want to do this,” she wondered, “but the stakes are pretty damn high in this election for him. Though I don't know how most people are going to take these clashes between Bernie supporters and Trump's people.”





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10/10/2016 11:34 AM EDT
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Longtime Clinton aide calls Chelsea a ‘spoiled brat’

Chelsea Clinton is a “spoiled brat” who has a “lack of focus in her life,” according to longtime Bill Clinton aide Doug Band in a 2011 email exchange posted by Wikileaks on Monday.

Band, in an exchange with John Podesta and Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills over a potentially damaging story about Teneo, references “cvc” – Chelsea Clinton’s initials.

“I don't deserve this from her and deserve a tad more respect or at least a direct dialogue for me to explain these things,” he wrote. “She is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but create issues to justify what she's doing because she, as she has said, hasn't found her way and has a lack of focus in her life.”






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10/10/2016 11:21 AM EDT
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De Blasio quietly helped Clinton camp before his endorsement

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio didn’t endorse his former boss, Hillary Clinton, until October of 2015 -- a belated nod of approval after a six-month awkward walk to the finish line, where the liberal mayor tried to hold out and stay neutral, in order to burnish his own national, progressive credentials.

But new emails also show he was trying to be helpful to Clinton’s campaign behind the scenes, as early as August.

“I'm certain I'll be asked about Biden as early as tmrw,” de Blasio wrote to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta on Aug. 23, 2015. “What could I say that would be helpful?” At the time, the vice president was still mulling his own presidential bid.

“Great guy, serious, grieve with him on the loss of his son, he has to make up his own mind whether to run, no big clamor out there for additional candidates,” Podesta replied.






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10/10/2016 11:08 AM EDT
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Clinton ally suggests she challenge Trump to an arm wrestling match

Hillary Clinton’s 2008 policy director questioned in an email last November whether the former secretary of state was going to respond to Donald Trump’s attacks on her stamina.

“Is she going to say something about that tonight?” Neera Tanden wrote to Clinton speechwriting director Dan Schwerin the afternoon of Nov. 29. “After she endured an 800 Benghazi hearing, I find it so ridiculous that a guy who whined about a 3 hour debate is attacking her stamina.”

“It’s absurd,” Schwerin said in response. “Do you have a suggested joke?”

Tanden recommended Clinton challenge the real estate mogul to arm wrestle her or see if he could survive “11 hrs of grilling from Dems like she did from reps.”

“Humor isn’t my forte,” she later conceded.





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10/10/2016 10:41 AM EDT
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Podesta tried to woo O'Malley into endorsing Clinton in February

Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta appears to have reached out to Martin O’Malley on Feb. 23, a few weeks after he ended his short-lived presidential bid, seeking an endorsement.

“You in any mood to talk to me?” Podesta emailed the former Maryland governor, according to new messages published by Wikileaks Monday morning, the second batch of emails that had been hacked from Podesta’s personal email account.

The Clinton campaign has not confirmed nor denied the veracity of the emails.

“Want to know how you are doing and interested to get your observations and advice,” Podesta wrote to the one-time Hillary Clinton rival. “We would, of course, love to get your support.”

But O’Malley didn’t immediately offer it up.

“Thanks for reaching out. I'm good. No money, but no real debt,” he responded. “Good to be home again actually. I'm now looking for work.” He noted that “HRC kindly called me a while back, very nice of her.”

And he offered some observations from his time on the trail. “When you think your country no longer works for you and your family, voting becomes solely an act of protest. Most Americans feel their own politicians have rigged the economic opportunity game against them. But you know all of that," O'Malley said.

O’Malley did not endorse Clinton until June.






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Bill Clinton chief of staff: ‘He’s losing it badly'

The weeks leading up to the New Hampshire primary last February were some of the most stressful in Hillary Clinton’s campaign — Bill Clinton was apoplectic about the prospect of losing the state that once crowned him “The Comeback Kid” to Bernie Sanders, and was desperate to try and help win it back for his wife.

Hillary Clinton's top campaign staff were huddled, trying to figure out a new way to save a campaign that was slowly losing altitude. Bill Clinton, sources have told POLITICO, was frustrated that the campaign had not attacked Sanders hard enough in the weeks leading up to the Iowa caucuses. Now, new emails from the second batch of John Podesta’s hacked personal email accounts, posted to Wikileaks on Monday morning, point to how much Sanders' surge was riling up the former president.

“He's losing it bad today,” Bill Clinton’s chief of staff Tina Flournoy wrote to Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, on Feb. 7, two days before the primary where Sanders ultimately walloped Hillary Clinton by 20 points. “I'm not with him. If you're in NH please see if you can talk to him.”

Flournoy's email coincided with Bill Clinton opening up a new, aggressive line of attack on Sanders at a rally in Milford.

“When you’re making a revolution, you can’t be too careful with the facts,” he told the crowd of just under 300 who came to hear him speak that Sunday afternoon. “I want you to laugh, because when you’re mad you can’t think.”


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but he will be in change of the economy if she is elected

[101A]

From the list, found this quote interesting:


“but the stakes are pretty damn high in this election for him.

re: Obama.

Why are the stakes so high in this election for Obama? I understand legacy and all, but the way that is worded is odd.

[ducks]

WikiLeaks ‏@wikileaks · 10m10 minutes ago

Bill Clinton's behavior pushed female Clinton Foundation chief to near suicide by plunging her car into ocean depths https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3332#efmAdAAmB …

[benefactor]

7.5/10 meltdown

[TheSanityAnnex]

ducks doing the lords work. Bout to board a flight, keep the updates coming ill be out all week.

[ducks]

Mook angry with Wasserman Schultz over convention hire

Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook expressed dismay when then-Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz hired Leah Daughtry as CEO of the Democratic convention.

“I'm distressed that DWS hired a convention CEO without consulting us after Charlie and I both told them repeatedly that we expected to be consulted--and we were under the impression they would,” Mook said in a March 2015 email.

“John--you, Charlie and I may need to sit down with Debbie to make clear how we want things to change/improve before we are willing to consider playing ball with them,” Mook continues.

Daughtry has recently been tapped by the Clinton campaign to build the transition team.


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[ducks]

Gabbard gets punished for backing Sanders

[TheSanityAnnex]

Podesta dump part 2

https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/785474021211140096

[hitmanyr2k]

Honestly this is some dull nickel and dime shit being produced so far. It's nothing game changing.

[CosmicCowboy]

I would have to agree. Although they are certainly titillating there aren't any knockout blows there so far.

[ducks]

Hammed dropped! From: Darnell Strom Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 3:13 PM To: Tulsi Gabbard ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) Cc: Michael Kives Subject: Disappointed Representative Gabbard, We were very disappointed to hear that you would resign your position with the DNC so you could endorse Bernie Sanders, a man who has never been a Democrat before. When we met over dinner a couple of years ago I was so impressed by your intellect, your passion, and commitment to getting things done on behalf of the American people. For you to endorse a man who has spent almost 40 years in public office with very few accomplishments, doesn't fall in line with what we previously thought of you. Hillary Clinton will be our party's nominee and you standing on ceremony to support the sinking Bernie Sanders ship is disrespectful to Hillary Clinton. A woman who has spent the vast majority of her life in public service and working on behalf of women, families, and the underserved. You have called both myself and Michael Kives before about helping your campaign raise money, we no longer trust your judgement so will not be raising money for your campaign. Darnell Strom & Michael Kives This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited.

[CosmicCowboy]

uhhh ducks...Why should we care what Darnell Strom said? He might be a Democratic bundler but he's not part of the campaign.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Wasserman is already out. The ducks desperation meltdown is kinda funny though.

[Reck]

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Clinton advisers debate whether Hillary should crack an email joke

Hillary Clinton’s advisers briefly considered having her joke about her use of a private email account for government work when she addressed the pro-choice group Emily’s List the day after the story broke.

“Greetings,” Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri wrote to a number of advisers on March 3. “I wanted to float idea of HRC making a joke about the email situation at the Emily's List dinner tonight. What do folks think about that?”

Palmieri’s deputy, Kristina Schake, replied that “it would be good for her to show some humor” and observed that the Emily’s List audience “is her crowd so the response would be great.”

But senior adviser Mandy Grunwald argued that joking about the new revelation was risky. “We don't know what's in the emails, so we are nervous about this,” she wrote, after saying she had discussed the idea with campaign strategist Jim Margolis. “Might get a big laugh tonight and regret it when content of emails is disclosed.”





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10/10/2016 12:08 PM EDT
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Clinton camp gets State Dept. to approve email scandal tweet

Hillary Clinton’s campaign checked with the State Department before sending a tweet from the Democratic nominee’s account supporting the release of her private emails.

“This is final [and] cleared with State. HRC approved. Please send now,” longtime Clinton aide Philippe Reines wrote on March 4, two days after the New York Times revealed Clinton’s exclusive use of private email for government work.

The tweet, sent at 11:35 p.m. that night, read, “I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.”





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Mook angry with Wasserman Schultz over convention hire

Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook expressed dismay when then-Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz hired Leah Daughtry as CEO of the Democratic convention.

“I'm distressed that DWS hired a convention CEO without consulting us after Charlie and I both told them repeatedly that we expected to be consulted--and we were under the impression they would,” Mook said in a March 2015 email.

“John--you, Charlie and I may need to sit down with Debbie to make clear how we want things to change/improve before we are willing to consider playing ball with them,” Mook continues.

Daughtry has recently been tapped by the Clinton campaign to build the transition team.





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10/10/2016 12:03 PM EDT
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Lanny Davis calls Chris Cillizza an ‘obsessive Clinton hater’

Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza is an “obsessive Clinton hater,” according to longtime Hillary Clinton ally Lanny Davis.

In an email exchange sent from Davis to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta on Feb. 5, 2015, Davis flagged an article by Cillizza titled “Why Hillary Clinton won’t release transcripts of her paid Goldman Sachs speeches.”

“Hi John-- sorry to bother you. Re story below by obsessive Clinton hater Chris Cillizza -- re link/story below,” the email starts.

“Hope there is no debate about full and immediate release. Whatever nice words she said -- not releasing or delay, and then-- my opinion for what it's worth - release later as is inevitable, is worse. Best Lanny”

The article, published on Cillizza’s political blog “The Fix” outlined Clinton’s missed opportunities during a primary debate to directly release details about paid speeches she gave to financial firms like Goldman Sachs.

MSNBC moderator Chuck Todd asked Clinton if she planned to release full accounts of her speeches.

“Are you willing to release the transcripts of all your paid speeches? We do know through reporting that there were transcription services for all of those paid speeches. In full disclosure, would you release all of them?” Todd asked.

“I will look into it. I don't know the status, but I will certainly look into it.”

Cillizza commented that while he generally takes Clinton at her word when she describes the nature of her speeches, he went on to speculate about potentially negative content. “My guess is that in the speeches, Clinton likely acknowledges her various friends and acquaintances at Goldman Sachs (and other Wall Street firms) and praises them for the work they are doing.”






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10/10/2016 11:59 AM EDT
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Clinton advisers try to avoid Blackberry references

As Hillary Clinton’s campaign advisers drafted remarks for her to deliver about her use of a private email account for government business, they were determined not to highlight references to her Blackberry.

In an Aug. 21, 2015, email critiquing versions of the planned speech, Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri argued that campaign manager Robby Mook’s “version is better, but still focuses on the Blackberry, which is weird and press will find suspicious.”

That version included a paragraph that read, “In 2007, when I was a U.S. Senator, I got my first Blackberry. I used it to keep up with the news, with friends & family - and yes, I also got my fair share of unsolicited forwards that sometimes made me laugh and sometimes made me want to throw it away. In short, I used email like most people.”

Mook wrote back with an updated version that modified the paragraph to say, “In 2007, when I was a U.S. Senator, I got my first Blackberry. I used it to keep up with the news, with friends & family - like anyone else.”





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10/10/2016 11:51 AM EDT
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Tanden: Can Obama even hint support?

Hillary Clinton’s 2008 policy director expressed frustration at President Barack Obama’s neutrality in the Democratic primary, asking Clinton 2016 campaign chairman John Podesta if the president could “even hint” support for his former secretary of state ahead the Illinois primary.

“Can Obama even hint of support of Hillary before Tuesday? Really, just a directional nod would be helpful,” Neera Tanden wrote to Podesta on March 12, days ahead of primaries in Illinois, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio. “Like if he just is asked a question or tweets an innuendo -- how did he vote in the primary?”

“Maybe they don't want to do this,” she wondered, “but the stakes are pretty damn high in this election for him. Though I don't know how most people are going to take these clashes between Bernie supporters and Trump's people.”





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10/10/2016 11:34 AM EDT
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Longtime Clinton aide calls Chelsea a ‘spoiled brat’

Chelsea Clinton is a “spoiled brat” who has a “lack of focus in her life,” according to longtime Bill Clinton aide Doug Band in a 2011 email exchange posted by Wikileaks on Monday.

Band, in an exchange with John Podesta and Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills over a potentially damaging story about Teneo, references “cvc” – Chelsea Clinton’s initials.

“I don't deserve this from her and deserve a tad more respect or at least a direct dialogue for me to explain these things,” he wrote. “She is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but create issues to justify what she's doing because she, as she has said, hasn't found her way and has a lack of focus in her life.”






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10/10/2016 11:21 AM EDT
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De Blasio quietly helped Clinton camp before his endorsement

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio didn’t endorse his former boss, Hillary Clinton, until October of 2015 -- a belated nod of approval after a six-month awkward walk to the finish line, where the liberal mayor tried to hold out and stay neutral, in order to burnish his own national, progressive credentials.

But new emails also show he was trying to be helpful to Clinton’s campaign behind the scenes, as early as August.

“I'm certain I'll be asked about Biden as early as tmrw,” de Blasio wrote to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta on Aug. 23, 2015. “What could I say that would be helpful?” At the time, the vice president was still mulling his own presidential bid.

“Great guy, serious, grieve with him on the loss of his son, he has to make up his own mind whether to run, no big clamor out there for additional candidates,” Podesta replied.






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10/10/2016 11:08 AM EDT
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Clinton ally suggests she challenge Trump to an arm wrestling match

Hillary Clinton’s 2008 policy director questioned in an email last November whether the former secretary of state was going to respond to Donald Trump’s attacks on her stamina.

“Is she going to say something about that tonight?” Neera Tanden wrote to Clinton speechwriting director Dan Schwerin the afternoon of Nov. 29. “After she endured an 800 Benghazi hearing, I find it so ridiculous that a guy who whined about a 3 hour debate is attacking her stamina.”

“It’s absurd,” Schwerin said in response. “Do you have a suggested joke?”

Tanden recommended Clinton challenge the real estate mogul to arm wrestle her or see if he could survive “11 hrs of grilling from Dems like she did from reps.”

“Humor isn’t my forte,” she later conceded.





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Podesta tried to woo O'Malley into endorsing Clinton in February

Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta appears to have reached out to Martin O’Malley on Feb. 23, a few weeks after he ended his short-lived presidential bid, seeking an endorsement.

“You in any mood to talk to me?” Podesta emailed the former Maryland governor, according to new messages published by Wikileaks Monday morning, the second batch of emails that had been hacked from Podesta’s personal email account.

The Clinton campaign has not confirmed nor denied the veracity of the emails.

“Want to know how you are doing and interested to get your observations and advice,” Podesta wrote to the one-time Hillary Clinton rival. “We would, of course, love to get your support.”

But O’Malley didn’t immediately offer it up.

“Thanks for reaching out. I'm good. No money, but no real debt,” he responded. “Good to be home again actually. I'm now looking for work.” He noted that “HRC kindly called me a while back, very nice of her.”

And he offered some observations from his time on the trail. “When you think your country no longer works for you and your family, voting becomes solely an act of protest. Most Americans feel their own politicians have rigged the economic opportunity game against them. But you know all of that," O'Malley said.

O’Malley did not endorse Clinton until June.






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Bill Clinton chief of staff: ‘He’s losing it badly'

The weeks leading up to the New Hampshire primary last February were some of the most stressful in Hillary Clinton’s campaign — Bill Clinton was apoplectic about the prospect of losing the state that once crowned him “The Comeback Kid” to Bernie Sanders, and was desperate to try and help win it back for his wife.

Hillary Clinton's top campaign staff were huddled, trying to figure out a new way to save a campaign that was slowly losing altitude. Bill Clinton, sources have told POLITICO, was frustrated that the campaign had not attacked Sanders hard enough in the weeks leading up to the Iowa caucuses. Now, new emails from the second batch of John Podesta’s hacked personal email accounts, posted to Wikileaks on Monday morning, point to how much Sanders' surge was riling up the former president.

“He's losing it bad today,” Bill Clinton’s chief of staff Tina Flournoy wrote to Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, on Feb. 7, two days before the primary where Sanders ultimately walloped Hillary Clinton by 20 points. “I'm not with him. If you're in NH please see if you can talk to him.”

Flournoy's email coincided with Bill Clinton opening up a new, aggressive line of attack on Sanders at a rally in Milford.

“When you’re making a revolution, you can’t be too careful with the facts,” he told the crowd of just under 300 who came to hear him speak that Sunday afternoon. “I want you to laugh, because when you’re mad you can’t think.”


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but he will be in change of the economy if she is elected

I guarantee you everyone here read this very diligently.

[Reck]

ducks doing the lords work. Bout to board a flight, keep the updates coming ill be out all week.

Your standards are shit. :lol

ducks being your standard bearer. Haha

[TheSanityAnnex]

Your standards are shit. :lol

ducks being your standard bearer. Haha
You lost an ELE bet. Kill your account.

[Reck]

You lost an ELE bet. Kill your account.

:lmao

I did?

Have there been emails implicating Hillary directly? If so then what?

And explain why this isn't huge news.

You are realizing nothing's coming. Your days are numbered here.

[Th'Pusher]

You lost an ELE bet. Kill your account.

The plane hasn't even taxied to the terminal and TSA is firing up his phone to post about Hillary on ST :lol

[Fabbs]

Longtime Clinton advisor calls Chelsea Clinton a 'spoiled brat' #PodestaEmails2 https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2874#efmAb8AfI …
But would he like to "grab her pussy" nonetheless?
Sometimes it's the challenge.

[TheSanityAnnex]

:lmao

I did?

Have there been emails implicating Hillary directly? If so then what?

And explain why this isn't huge news.

You are realizing nothing's coming. Your days are numbered here.
You said Assange had nothing more on Hillary. The Wall St speeches are just that.

Don't be a little faggot about. Kill your account.

[TheSanityAnnex]

The plane hasn't even taxied to the terminal and TSA is firing up his phone to post about Hillary on ST :lol
Been at DFW for an hour. Hate baseball and the food at Fridays sucked. Is being on spurstalk really worthy of an lol?

[Th'Pusher]

Been at DFW for an hour. Hate baseball and the food at Fridays sucked. Is being on spurstalk really worthy of an lol?

It was amusing because you said you were out for the week, then proceeded to post several hours later...in any event You better hope that albino bastard has more than these boring Podesta emails.

[TheSanityAnnex]

It was amusing because you said you were out for the week, then proceeded to post several hours later...in any event You better hope that albino bastard has more than these boring Podesta emails.
Easily amused I guess.

[Th'Pusher]

Easily amused I guess.
I imagined you landing and frantically firing up your phone to check and see if any Hillary bombshells had dropped while you were in the air :lol.

Was your first stop ST or AR15.com?

[Reck]

You said Assange had nothing more on Hillary. The Wall St speeches are just that.

Don't be a little faggot about. Kill your account.

You're such a laughingstock..


If you are so sure he has nothing more directly on Hillary I propose an ELE bet. If Assange does, you are gone from the site. If Assange doesn't, I'm gone from this site. We got a deal?

First of all. The "leaked" transcripts weren't even that. They were passages as told through other people sent TO OTHER people.


The passages were contained in an internal review of Mrs. Clinton’s paid speeches undertaken by her campaign, which was identifying potential land mines should the speeches become public.


Mrs. Clinton’s campaign would not confirm the authenticity of the documents. They were released on Friday night by WikiLeaks, the hacker collective founded by the activist Julian Assange (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/julian_p_assange/index.html?inline=nyt-per), saying that they had come from the email account of John D. Podesta, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/politics/hillary-clinton-speeches-wikileaks.html?_r=0

What about that sounds to you like it's coming directly from Hillary?

How about you show me facts that aren't hear say or second hand infomation bullshit like this, moron?

[ducks]

Mediaite: Hacked E-Mails Show CNBC's Harwood Fawning Over Hillary



The latest batch of hacked e-mails from Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta show that CNBC’s chief Washington correspondent John Harwood fawned over the Democratic candidate with glowing coverage.

Harwood’s bootlicking began with a message sent out on Twitter on July 24, 2015, as Clinton’s e-mail scandal first broke, saying: “Set aside process – if there’s any specific/plausible suggestion of nefarious e-mail Hillary Clinton was trying to hide, I haven’t heard it.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/hacked-clinton-emails-show-cnbc-host-john-harwood-constantly-complementing-hillary/

[hater]

Havent seen media hype up a team like clintons since Howard and Nash joined the lakers :lmao

[ducks]

http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/10/leaked-emails-show-facebook-exec-shared-research-with-clinton-campaign/
so facebook is helping her!

[ducks]

Breaking: DNC Chief Donna Brazile Leaked Sanders Info to Clinton Campaign

http://observer.com/2016/10/breaking-dnc-chief-donna-brazile-leaked-sanders-info-to-clinton-campaign/

[ducks]

Clinton weighed reinstating Glass-Steagall, Wikileaks emails show
Reuters

https://www.yahoo.com/news/clinton-weighed-reinstating-glass-steagall-wikileaks-emails-show-004052611.html

[Winehole23]

is there something wrong with reinstating Glass-Steagall?

[Winehole23]

Breaking: DNC Chief Donna Brazile Leaked Sanders Info to Clinton Campaign

http://observer.com/2016/10/breaking-dnc-chief-donna-brazile-leaked-sanders-info-to-clinton-campaign/We already knew the DNC screwed Sanders, and frankly, this misdemeanor is on Donna Brazile, not Hilary Clinton.

[Winehole23]

Longtime Clinton advisor calls Chelsea Clinton a 'spoiled brat' #PodestaEmails2 https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2874#efmAb8AfI …Shocking!

[Winehole23]

PodestaEmails2: Hillary Clinton "says things that are untrue... often" ; "Trump" may be her only hopeClinton would have a real fight on her hands if she were facing anyone but Trump.

[Winehole23]

at this point your just throwing shit on the wall, ducks.

[boutons_deux]

We already knew the DNC screwed Sanders, and frankly, this misdemeanor is on Donna Brazile, not Hilary Clinton.

Sanders wasn't, isn't, never has been an card-carrying Democrat. Of course, they had to screw him.

How demeaning would it have been for the Dem establishment to have a non-Democrat as their candidate?

[Winehole23]

Not nearly as bad as Donald Trump for the GOP, but like the GOP, the Dems' problem doesn't go away when the outsider loses.

[Winehole23]

Both parties are badly out of tune with their own voters. The voters are realigning.

[Splits]

Re: Rigging of Foreign Exchange Market Makes Felons of Top Banks From:[email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: 2015-05-21 13:56
Subject: Re: Rigging of Foreign Exchange Market Makes Felons of Top Banks
Yep we have. To Joel's question, real people certainly get hurt by this but it's not like subprime.



On May 21, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Mandy Grunwald <[email protected]> wrote:
Also, FYI, I asked Gary Gensler about this last week when the stories first emerged and it sounds like he has good ideas that Jake has already incorporated.

Mandy Grunwald
Grunwald Communications
202 973-9400


On May 21, 2015, at 11:26 AM, Joel Benenson <[email protected]> wrote:
Jake,
Who are the victims in this? Is this just other institutions or traders or do real people get hurt?

From: Mandy Grunwald [mailto:[email protected] ([email protected])]
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 8:46 AM
To: Jim Margolis
Cc: Jake Sullivan; Joel Benenson; Jennifer Palmieri; Kristina Schake; John Podesta; Robby Mook, Hillary for America; Dan Schwerin
Subject: Re: Rigging of Foreign Exchange Market Makes Felons of Top Banks

Why does nobody ever go to jail?

Mandy Grunwald
Grunwald Communications
202 973-9400


On May 21, 2015, at 8:25 AM, "Margolis, Jim" <[email protected]> wrote:
Jake,
Are we looking at this?


Last graph:
For the banks, though, life as a felon is likely to carry more symbolic shame than practical problems. Although they could be barred by American regulators from certain activities, the banks scrambled behind the scenes to persuade those regulators to grant exemptions. That process, which delayed the Justice Department’s announcement by a week, already led to the Securities and Exchange Commission (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/securities_and_exchange_commission/index.html?inline=nyt-org) providing a number of waivers that allow the banks to conduct business as usual.
Rigging of Foreign Exchange Market Makes Felons of Top BanksBy MICHAEL CORKERY (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/michael_corkery/index.html) and BEN PROTESS (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/ben_protess/index.html)MAY 20, 2015


"Why does nobody ever go to jail?"

[101A]

is there something wrong with reinstating Glass-Steagall?

I perked up at that. Reverse her husband's worst mistake.

[boutons_deux]

Both parties are badly out of tune with their own voters. The voters are realigning.

Politicians run to become (more) wealthy, with govt being totally corrupted by 1%/BigFinance/BigCorp $Bs. Suckering voters to vote for them is only a means to their $$$ ends.

Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/princeton-experts-say-us-no-longer-democracy

USA simply can't get money out of politics, since the corrupted politicians enriching themselves won't legislate money out of politics.

The VRWC "SCOTUS FIVE" gutted the VRA, and said "corporations are people", "money is (unrestrictable) speech"

The VRWC/Repug "redmap" strategy has totally corrupted red/slave states into non competitive, one-party Repug states, at all levels of govt. If they can't/won't govern, they have enough power to block governance, while defunding/privatizing govt.

In short, America is a corrupt oligarchy, plutocracy, corporatocracy, is fucked and unfuckable.

and I've asking here FOR YEARS how to unfuck it, and nobody answers.

[CosmicCowboy]

Uhhh Boo....the US has never been a democracy. It has always been a Constitutional Republic.

[Splits]

785860040464928770

[ducks]

Clinton does not even know how to cook stew!

[Sportcamper]

"moose stew" is delicious....

[tlongII]

Actually I've heard that moose is very good. Never had it personally though.

[ducks]

Hillary Clinton’s campaign opened a nasty Twitter war with WikiLeaks late Monday amid the leak of campaign chairman John Podesta’s purported emails, with spokesman Brian Fallon accusing the group of being a “propaganda arm” for Moscow and WikiLeaks firing back with a battery of counter-charges -- and another document dump.

Late Monday, Fallon tweeted that “media needs to stop treating WikiLeaks like it is same as FOIA" and recognize that the emails are from "an illegal hack" from a group "colluding" with Russia to help Donald Trump. WikiLeaks has since gone point for point with him on Twitter, accusing the campaign of "lying."

[ducks]

WikiLeaks, meanwhile, published more emails on Tuesday, releasing a third set of Podesta emails on their website.

[ducks]

WikiLeaks dropped on Tuesday morning the third installment of its trove of Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta’s hacked emails.

The messages released so far have provided an unprecedented glimpse into the inner workings of the Clinton camp, and appeared to include excerpts of Clinton’s controversial paid speeches, including those before Wall Street firms.

While there have been no bombshells — especially compared to the tape of Donald Trump cavalierly talking about sexually assaulting women — some emails have proven embarrassing to those in Clinton’s orbit, and the Democratic nominee has had to answer for discrepancies is some public and private opinions on policy issues, including trade.

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[ducks]

Benenson thought Rubio could be a real threat

Early on in the 2016 presidential cycle Hillary Clinton's chief strategist worried to other aides about Sen. Marco Rubio's political acumen.

In an email to colleagues chief strategist Joel Benenson said he was "beginning to worry about Rubio more than others."

"He's playing this very smart —only one who didn't duck like a chicken shit on the Q of whether POTUS loves America," Benenson wrote in the February 23 email to other top aides. "He had stronger right wing cred than Jeb and he's finding a way to the middle enough for now and he will be the most exciting choice to Republicans. Could pose q real threat with Latinos."

Clinton campaign adviser Mandy Grunwald cautioned Benenson on that assessment.

"He's very inspiring at his best," she wrote. "Feels kind of like a light weight in a lot of interviews -- but I take your point."


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[ducks]

Reines blows up at Podesta over leak accusation

Philippe Reines, a longtime Clinton confidante who has tapped to play Donald Trump in debate prep, blew up at Podesta in a hacked email over implications that Reines was leaking information to the press.

“You got to stop this,” Podesta emails to Reines, while cc’ing Cherryl Mills. “If we are going to be at each others [sic] throats before we start, we are going nowhere.”

Reines shoots back, saying in an email that “with all due respect, and reluctantly to do this in front of HRC except for wanting to defend myself against being labeled as a cancer - but the conclusion that it is ME that has to stop ‘this’ is really unfair.”

“Again, with all due respect, your reaction to me is unfair in that's [sic] it's stronger than any admonition anyone else has received who is actually doing something wrong,” he continues. “With that, I'm going to sit queitly [sic] in the corner until Cheryl calls me to admonish me for sending this reply and digging myself into an even deeper hole with you than I already was.”


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[ducks]

Clinton was ‘obsessed’ with Jeb Bush

A Hillary Clinton ally rated Jeb Bush’s August debate performance as a fail, and discussed how the Democratic presidential nominee was “obsessed” with both Bush and Donald Trump.

In an email exchange released by WikiLeaks on Tuesday, the third of a series of hacked emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s account, Neera Tanden, a public policy advisor, criticized Bush’s performance in the first Republican primary debate, which took place in Cleveland, Ohio, in August 2015.

“Bush sucked. I'm glad Hillary is obsessed with the one candidate who would be easiest to beat :),” Tanden wrote in response to Podesta, who asked if she watched the debate with her kids.

The email exchange also suggests that Tanden underestimated Trump’s success in the primaries.

“Besides Trump, of course,” she ended.


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[ducks]

Aides go into damage control over Clinton’s comments on bankruptcy bill


Aides to Hillary Clinton quickly moved into damage control mode when they realized the Democratic presidential candidate overstated in February of this year the pressure she got from women’s groups to vote for a 2001 bankruptcy bill as a senator.

The correspondence between top aides on how to quickly remedy Clinton’s comments came out in a batch of hacked emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s email account published by Wikileaks on Tuesday. The email chain began with Clinton research director Tony Carrk highlighting a portion of an interview Sen. Elizabeth Warren did with Bill Moyers where the Massachusetts senator criticized the bill before Moyers noted Clinton voted for it.

“We have a problem,” Clinton campaign senior policy adviser Ann O’Leary emailed on Feb. 7. “HRC overstayed [sic] 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.”

Deputy communications director Kristina Schake asked what Clinton said what was wrong.

“She said women groups were all pressuring her to vote for it. Evidence does not support that statement,” O’Leary replied.

The aides on the email chain then rushed to reach the chiefs of staff for Sens. Barbara Mikulski, Patty Murray, and Barbara Boxer to get the trio of senators to issue supportive statements on voting for the bankruptcy bill. O’Leary said they could not directly address women’s groups in their response.

“Women's Groups - We cannot put something out proactive here b/c the record just isn't good,” O’Leary wrote.


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[ducks]

As they staffed up, Clinton camp worried about offending Biden

As they staffed up for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in early 2015, her top aides worried about offending Vice President Joe Biden and debated how early to set up a meeting with him, according to one hacked email exchange published by WikiLeaks on Tuesday.

On January 27, 2015, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin emailed with Cheryl Mills and Robby Mook to alert them that Biden’s staff said the vice president could meet with Clinton the following week. Acknowledging that the meeting would leak to the press, Abedin asked them to confirm that they were “all still on board with her seeing him.” John Podesta was copied on the aides' exchange.

Their responses indicate that they recognized that the relationship between Biden and the Clinton camp was sensitive, given that they were looking to hire some of his supporters and the possibility that the vice president could mount his own run for the Democratic nomination.

Mills replied that she had no objections, though added that “if we could do it later I would.” Mook advocated going ahead with the meeting and suggested delaying involving Biden could make him more likely to challenge Clinton.

“I worry the later we wait the more possibility there is that he'll get offended,” Mook wrote. “I'd rather have it leak and him feel respected than delay and he feel more pressure to run.”

He added: “But I don't know the guy at all…”

Abedin signaled her agreement: “Part of our challenge is we are interviewing people in his office and I am concerned he finds out and additionally feels like we are taking people from under him,” she wrote.

Mook and Mills suggested that Podesta was in favor of the meeting and concluded that they should go ahead with it.

“Fine to do - manage for the leak,” Mills wrote.


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[ducks]

Rep. Lofgren warns about Clinton siding with FBI on encryption debate

The day after a federal magistrate ordered Apple to help the Justice Department access a dead terrorist’s locked, encrypted iPhone, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) tried to find out where Hillary Clinton stood in the encryption debate.

“I hope that our candidate does not leap on the side of the FBI on the encryption ruling,” the California Democrat wrote in an email to campaign chairman John Podesta. “If she is leaning that way, can I talk with her?”

Podesta replied, “Let me [check] where we are on this and whether there is a need for a call.”

Clinton would not end up siding firmly with either Apple or the government on the question of whether investigators should have guaranteed access to encrypted communications. She has called for a national commission to study the issue but declined to comment further.

It is unclear whether Lofgren and Clinton ever spoke about encryption.

The government eventually unlocked the iPhone without Apple’s help by purchasing a custom tool from an unknown third party.


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[ducks]

Tanden suggests Clinton hand over email server to third party

Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress and a longtime Hillary Clinton confidante, had what she thought was a reasonable suggestion about Clinton’s private email server.

“Why doesn't she just turn the server over to a third party at this point?” Tanden wrote to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta on Aug. 12, 2015, about five months after news broke about Clinton’s use of the server for government business.

“Isn't it going to leak out of the FBI anyway?” Tanden added.

The previous day, the Clinton campaign had said that the former secretary of state would turn over her server to the Justice Department, as part of the FBI’s investigation into whether she had mishandled classified information.

Podesta responded tersely that Tanden should forget about it and focus her energy elsewhere.

“Done so think about something else,” he wrote back.


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[ducks]

Sanders' Wall Street attacks left Clinton aides divided on a response

Hillary Clinton's advisors were divided on how to address Bernie Sanders' attacks that she was too cozy with Wall Street, according to correspondence released to the public by Wikileaks.

In emails between top Clinton aides came ahead of a speech Clinton planned for January, advisors debated whether to try and drive .

"HRC does not want to call Bernie out by name in her speech Wednesday night, but she does want to drive a more effective and comprehensive contrast with him. In particular, she's keen to find a way to keep going after him on Wall Street (she's convinced his plan is naive and unworkable) as part of a broader indictment," Clinton director of speechwriting Dan Schwerin wrote to fellow Clinton advisers on January 6.

Other senior aides though urged caution.

"I liked messing with Bernie on wall street at a staff level for the purposes of muddying the waters and throwing them off their game a bit," responded communications director Jennifer Palmieri. "But don't [sic] know that it is most effective contrast for her. Seems like we are picking the fight he wants to have. If we really want to do this, think your formulation is good but not [convinced] it is a good idea."

Clinton campaign adviser Mandy Grunwald quickly supported Palmieri.

"I agree with you. Bernie wants a fight on a Wall Street. We should not give him one," Grunwald wrote. "Our polling shows this is one of our weakest areas. Further, our Wall Street approach has always been to agree about the problem, show passion about it, and say we have a better approach to holding the rascals accountable."

So Schwerin offered up new language so he wouldn't have to go to Clinton "empty handed."

The proposed language said "I have plans that will actually help families get ahead and stay ahead… that will make the wealthy pay their fair share, hold corporate price gougers, polluters, and Wall Street speculators accountable, and prevent the Republicans from taking us backwards. And you can count on me to get the job done."

Policy adviser Jake Sullivan wrote that that was "good," but Grunwald offered more direct language.

" I know Senator Sanders attacked me on this, that his choice. But the truth is, he and I both want to crack down on the risky behavior on Wall Street, we both want to make sure people go to jail when they cross the line. I think my plan is tougher because it also cracks down on the shadow banking world but the real difference is that every single Republican wants to get RID of the new financial regulations," Grunwald's counter proposal read.

Grunwald quickly followed up with one more email.

"My concern on this continues to be that Bernie gets to whack her around and she is purely positive to him in reply," Grunwald wrote.


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Ted Turner pushed Podesta on Obama cabinet pick

Ted Turner, cable media tycoon and Clinton foundation mega donor, can add a new line to his resume: freelance Interior Department advisor.

In an email exchange with Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta, the CNN founder lavished praise on John Berry, a veteran of President Bill Clinton’s administration, for consideration as head of Interior under President Barack Obama.

“As the nation's largest private landowner, I would like to express my strong support of John Berry for appointment as Interior Secretary,” Turner wrote in December 2008, according to a newly released batch of emails unearthed by WikiLeaks.

Turner, who rents the Democratic nominee office space for her campaign operation in Montana and did previously occupy the top spot as the country’s largest private landowner until 2011, praised Berry’s dedication to preserving the “country's natural resources and cultural heritage.”

“Never in our history has it been more important to protect our national resources, and Mr. Berry has the unique combination of passion, experience and expertise to oversee the Department of the Interior at this critical juncture for our environment. I sincerely believe John's vision and that of the President-elect are complementary and Mr. Berry will serve as Interior Secretary with passion and distinction,” he continued.

Turner also noted Berry’s accomplishments while serving in leadership positions at the National Zoo and the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation


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Clinton ally to Podesta: 'Hillary is almost totally dependent on Republicans nominating Trump'

Brent Budowsky, a former Hill staffer and media commentator, emailed Podesta to express his concern about the relative weakness of Clinton’s candidacy.

“Right now I am petrified that Hillary is almost totally dependent on Republicans nominating Trump,” Budowsky said in a March email. “[E]ven a clown like Ted Cruz would be an even money bet to beat and this scares the hell of out me.”

Budowsky suggested that Clinton “look for issues where she can dovetail with Bernie [Sanders]” to appeal to his supporters. Budowsky also suggested that Clinton’s knocks against Sanders were unfair, saying she should stop attacking him “especially when she says things that are untrue, which candidly she often does.”


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Clinton team debates how bold to be at Benghazi hearing

Hillary Clinton campaign advisers debate how boldly to challenge the chairman of the House Benghazi committee over her emails related to the September 2012 terrorist attack.

Deputy communications director Kristina Schake sent campaign chairman John Podesta a draft statement on March 12, 2015, in which Clinton would call on committee Chairman Trey Gowdy to release all of her Benghazi-related emails. The campaign, like the Democrats on the panel, didn’t want Gowdy and the Republicans presenting a distorted picture of what Clinton said at the time.

The draft also had Clinton recounting her many hours of Benghazi testimony before other committees and adding, “I’ve already said that I’m more than happy to testify again.”


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Christiane Amanpour asks Foundation for intro to North Korean dictator

When veteran war correspondent Christiane Amanpour wanted to get in touch with one of the world’s most reclusive dictators, former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, she turned to Hillary Clinton’s family foundation for help.

In an email exchange on Aug. 6, 2009, CNN’s chief international correspondent reached out to Doug Band, a businessman who helped start a wing of the Clinton foundation, praising the successful release of two American journalists abroad and requesting a possible meeting with the North Korean leader.

“I wanted to send congratulations to President Clinton on securing the release of the two American journalists. I would also like to ask whether it would be possible to help move ahead my request to interview Kim Jong Il,” she started.

Amanpour noted that she recalls Band accompanying former President Bill Clinton on a trip to the isolationist regime in 2009, which raised questions about the foundation’s ties to the State Department at the time.

“I know you accompanied the President on this fascinating trip,” she wrote. “Getting a first hand look and feel for Kim Jong Il is incredibly valuable. I myself have been to Pyongyang with the NY Philharmonic last year, and later in June ’08 as one of a very small group of journalists invited to witness and report the destruction of the Yongbyon cooling tower. During my trip I was the only journalist to hold an exclusive meeting with Kim Gae Gwan, the chief nuclear negotiator who welcomed President Clinton upon his arrival.”

“I pressed my case for an interview then and am obviously keen to keep doing so,” she wrote.

Amanpour ended by offering an open invitation for Clinton to appear on her cable news show, which had not yet launched, and doubling down on her request for channels to securing an interview with the former North Korean dictator.

If there are any leads with the North Korean leadership you could help me pursue, I would be most grateful.”


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Clinton advisers debate whether Hillary should crack an email joke

Hillary Clinton’s advisers briefly considered having her joke about her use of a private email account for government work when she addressed the pro-choice group Emily’s List the day after the story broke.

“Greetings,” Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri wrote to a number of advisers on March 3. “I wanted to float idea of HRC making a joke about the email situation at the Emily's List dinner tonight. What do folks think about that?”

Palmieri’s deputy, Kristina Schake, replied that “it would be good for her to show some humor” and observed that the Emily’s List audience “is her crowd so the response would be great.”

But senior adviser Mandy Grunwald argued that joking about the new revelation was risky. “We don't know what's in the emails, so we are nervous about this,” she wrote, after saying she had discussed the idea with campaign strategist Jim Margolis. “Might get a big laugh tonight and regret it when content of emails is disclosed.”


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Financier Robert Wolf feeds Clinton team on Frank Luntz genius

Clinton ally Robert Wolf, a former investment banker, sat in on a closed call in January with famed GOP spinster Frank Luntz — and reported back to the Clinton campaign. On the call, Luntz made several accurate predictions well ahead of conventional wisdom.

“I have to admit I had no idea what to expect but was pretty impressed by the depth & breadth of the call as well as the diverse audience & questions,” Wolf said in an email to John Podesta and Jake Sullivan. “I want to be clear at no time was he disrespectful to Potus nor HRC but the questions certainly showed a right leaning audience.”

Luntz hit several bullseyes. Luntz, according to Wolf, said that Bernie Sanders’ “ground game is being underestimated and the primary will last longer than anyone expected.”

He also predicted the chatter around a potential brokered convention months in advance and gave Trump the highest probability of winning.

Luntz wasn’t perfect and made some predictions that ultimately ended up not coming to fruition, like expecting the South Carolina Democratic primary to be closer than expected.

Wolf said people from companies like Amazon and the National Football League were also on the call.


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Clinton adviser feared antagonizing Warren over Glass-Steagall

At one point last year, Hillary Clinton was "leaning toward" endorsing a reinstatement of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act that separated commercial and investment banking, according to an alleged campaign email exchange in the latest batch of John Podesta's emails released by WikiLeaks.

The email string, which has not been verified by the Clinton campaign, provides a rare glimpse into the internal debate among top Clinton aides before the release of her Wall Street regulation plan in October 2015.

The conversation underlines the looming presence of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who is one of the party's most outspoken bank critics. One of Warren's signature legislative proposals is a modern-day Glass-Steagall - a policy that Clinton ultimately declined to support in favor of a less dramatic regulatory platform.

Just days before the campaign released her Wall Street plan, adviser Mandy Grunwald, who previously worked for Warren, said in an email that she is worried "that we will antagonize and activate Elizabeth Warren by opposing a new Glass-Steagall." Grunwald said she worried about "defending the banks in the debate."

Grunwald said she was concerned about Warren deciding to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary.

"Jake says this is a political decision," Grunwald said in the email, likely referring to Clinton aide Jake Sullivan. "My understand from HRC is that she left her call kind of leaning toward endorsing Glass-Steagall. I understand that we face phoniness charges if we 'change' our position now - but we face political risks this way too."

In a follow-up message, campaign Chief Financial Officer Gary Gensler - a former financial regulator respected by the Warren wing of the party - said he "spoke with EW twice this week and numerous earlier times re Glass-Steagall as well as possible other Financial reform proposals."

A Clinton campaign spokesman did not respond to requests for comment. The campaign in general has neither confirmed nor denied the authenticity of the emails.


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Univision owner Haim Saban pushes Clinton team to Latino strategy

Major Hillary Clinton donor and Univision owner Haim Saban pushed Clinton to come out more forcefully against Donald Trump for his remarks about Mexican immigrants — but also expressed concerned that Univision was starting to be seen as too pro-Clinton, hacked emails released by Wikileaks show.

In the summer of 2015, shortly after Trump launched his campaign with the pronouncement that Mexico sends over illegal immigrants who are “rapists”, Saban told the Clinton team in multiple emails and phone calls that he thought Clinton needed to do more to push back on the comments and shore up Latino support.

"Haim 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,” Clinton campaign chair John Podesta wrote to senior members of the campaign.

Clinton campaign vice chair Huma Abedin wrote back that “if Haim is raising it, it means he’s hearing it from his Univision colleagues."

Univision has not been shy about its position on immigration or Trump. Top anchor Jorge Ramos has famously tangled with the Republican nominee and denounced him, saying he is “spreading hate.” Though Ramos has also drawn criticism from some in the mainstream media, who say he strays from objectivity into advocacy, Univision News President Isaac Lee — who has equated speaking truth in today’s politics to speaking out against the Nazis during World War II — has vigorously defended Ramos’ journalist-activist role.

As a result of Saban’s urging, the Clinton campaign drafted a detailed media plan around Clinton’s planned speech before a Latino advocacy group and included an interview with Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas.

But in later emails from August of 2015, Saban seemed concerned that Univision was appearing to be too pro-Clinton. He forwarded to Abedin an article from Hot Air published in May of 2015, headlined "The press is starting to notice Univision’s pro-Hillary boosterism”, which linked to a piece by POLITICO about the deep Univision/Clinton relationship. "I have nothing to do with it,” Saban wrote. "i NEVER tell our news dep. What to cover.,,,unlike some of my peers."

Abedin replied “welcome to our world!"

That doesn't mean Saban didn't enjoy when Univision helped Clinton. Rob Friedman, former Co-Chairman of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group sent Saban an email praising Univision's Democratic debate from March of 2016.

"I just wanted to tell you that I thought the moderators for last nights Debate were excellent," Friedman wrote. "They were thoughtful, tough and incisive. I thought it made Hilary appear direct and strong in her resolve. I felt it advanced our candidate. Thanks for Univision. "

“I like this one," Saban wrote, forwarding the note to Clinton's top staff.

In a statement, Univision emphasized its business-editorial separation.

“Univision News is an editorially independent division of Univision Communications Inc. We are devoted to in-depth, quality journalism and maintain or independence from the larger corporation. Mr. Saban has always respected that independence and has never tried to get involved or made any requests to our news division.”


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Leaked emails show Podesta floated Steyer for Obama Cabinet position

John Podesta allegedly told Barack Obama's campaign in 2008 that billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer should be among the candidates for a top job in Obama's Cabinet, according to leaked emails released by Wikileaks on Monday.

In response to a September 2008 email from Cassandra Butts, a lawyer who was working on the Obama campaign's transition team, Podesta offered his advice on who should get top spots at the EPA and the Energy Department.

In her initial email, Butts listed Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson, former Clinton Energy Department official Robert Gee and Jonathan Pershing, who at that time had experience working at the State Department and the International Energy Agency, as possible candidates for Energy secretary. And she listed then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, then-Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and former Clinton White House staffer Todd Stern as candidates for EPA administrator.

Podesta, in his response, said Gee and Pershing should be assistant secretaries at the Energy Department, "not higher." And he said Jackson "should be considered" for Energy secretary. Under Obama, Pershing would go on to serve in a senior role at the Energy Department and as the U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change at the State Department.

He then listed three additional suggestions for the top spot at the Energy Department: Tom Steyer, who was then a hedge fund manager at Farallon Capital, then-Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and former Sen. Tim Wirth. He added that former Pennsylvania environment official Katie McGinty, then-Massachusetts environment official Ian Bowles and Yale environmental law professor Dan Esty should be considered for EPA administrator.

In 2008, Steyer was little known on the national political stage. He would soon retire from his career as a hedge fund manager to launch a super PAC devoted to elevating climate change as a political issue.

Podesta was also apparently on the Obama campaign's shortlist. "Needless to say, your name has come up repeatedly in our consultations," Butts wrote. Podesta returned to the White House in Obama's second term as a senior adviser and he is now Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman.

Neither Butts nor Podesta mentioned the two people who would go on to lead EPA and the Energy Department in Obama's first term: Lisa Jackson and Steven Chu.

In a separate February 2012 email chain released by Wikileaks, Podesta allegedly discussed preparations for a meeting between Steyer and Bill Clinton, saying he would encourage Steyer to support the Clinton Foundation.

Another email chain, from January 2014, appears to shows Podesta was unhappy about a letter from a coalition of environmental groups calling on Obama to be more aggressive about tackling climate change and bashing his "all of the above" strategy.

"Enviro letter today stupid and unhelpful. I'm on the warpath," Podesta wrote in a Jan. 16, 2014 email to Steyer, the same day the environmentalists' letter was publicly released.

Neither Podesta, nor a Steyer spokeswoman immediately responded to a request for comment.


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Podesta makes sure White House isn’t mad about Clinton’s comments on Obama

After Hillary Clinton discussed President Barack Obama’s record in a September 2015 “Face the Nation” interview, John Podesta turned to Obama’s chief of staff to gauge if there was any “grumpiness” in the White House about her answers.

The hacked email exchange between Podesta and Denis McDonough from September 20, 2015, suggests that the Clinton campaign was sensitive about rubbing the president and his advisors the wrong way if Clinton diverged with him.

Podesta wrote that he thought Clinton was “generous” to Obama on his handling of the economy and his signature healthcare law, while she was “tough on the Pentagon on train and equip, but didn't take any swipes at him.”

Asked by John Dickerson on the show about the lack of success with training and arming Syrian rebels, Clinton said that she "wouldn't give up" on the train and equip effort, but critiqued the U.S.'s strategy. The U.S. had been "trying to train people to only take on ISIS and terrorist networks" but not "training and equipping them to take on Assad or his military or his proxies," she said.

"I sure would push the Pentagon to take a hard look why what has been done has been such a failure and what more we could do to support, like, Kurdish fighters who are on the front lines," she said.

“Trying to calibrate whether we are threading the needle ok with you guys after Valerie getting her nose out of joint on Keystone,” Podesta wrote, presumably referencing Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett and Clinton’s earlier decision to break with the president and oppose the Keystone pipeline.

Podesta added that Jarrett “watches too much Morning Joe”; “they are the only people who viewed her comments on being frustrated with the delay as a frontal attack on POTUS,” he wrote.

Podesta concluded his email with a personal request of McDonough, referring to the upcoming China state dinner. “[N]ot to sound like a whining weasel, but should I assume I didn't make the cut on the China dinner?” he wrote. “Haven't heard anything and both Mary and I are trying to figure out travel plans.”

McDonough replied assuring Podesta that “You def are on invite list” for the dinner, and said he would “check on” the response to “Face the Nation.”


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Reines blows up at Podesta over leak accusation

Philippe Reines, a longtime Clinton confidante who has tapped to play Donald Trump in debate prep, blew up at Podesta in a hacked email over implications that Reines was leaking information to the press.

“You got to stop this,” Podesta emails to Reines, while cc’ing Cherryl Mills. “If we are going to be at each others [sic] throats before we start, we are going nowhere.”

Reines shoots back, saying in an email that “with all due respect, and reluctantly to do this in front of HRC except for wanting to defend myself against being labeled as a cancer - but the conclusion that it is ME that has to stop ‘this’ is really unfair.”

“Again, with all due respect, your reaction to me is unfair in that's [sic] it's stronger than any admonition anyone else has received who is actually doing something wrong,” he continues. “With that, I'm going to sit queitly [sic] in the corner until Cheryl calls me to admonish me for sending this reply and digging myself into an even deeper hole with you than I already was.”


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Podesta had phone-friendly relationship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg


Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta has a phone-friendly relationship with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

A new email released by WikiLeaks on Tuesday shows that Podesta received a phone call from Ginsburg on December 15, 2008, according to a log of missed calls from that day.

“Justice Ginsburg, returning your call,” the email states, following the Supreme Court justice’s phone number.

The ongoing relationship between a top Clinton campaign official and a sitting Supreme Court justice comes at a time of increased interest in the country’s highest court during the presidential election after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February 2016.

Ginsburg has railed against Donald Trump as a “faker,” but later said such comments were “ill-advised.”


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Podesta 'pushed' invite to Canada state dinner for former pipeline lobbyist

What does it take to get invited to a state dinner? Apparently, even a former U.S. ambassador to the country honored by such festivities can struggle to get a seat, even when he has connections to one of the Democratic Party's top operators and has donated thousands of dollars to Democrats.

In a hacked email posted by WikiLeaks on Tuesday, former U.S. ambassador to Canada Gordon Giffin -- who later served as a lobbyist for the company pushing the Keystone XL pipeline -- pledged to continue helping Hillary Clinton’s campaign behind the scenes. Giffin is a "Hillblazer" who has contributed or raised at least $100,000 for Clinton and her joint funds with the Democratic Party.

But in the email Giffin, who served in his position from 1997 to 2001, also asked for a small favor from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta: an invitation to the Canadian state dinner on March 10, 2016.

“It would mean a lot to me to be invited to that dinner,” Giffin wrote to Podesta in January 2016. “Frankly, I do not have close ties to the WH staff and am hoping that you might intercede on my behalf in the right spot to advocate for me. The last time there was a State Dinner was 1997 and I was invited-before I was named as ambassador.”

Podesta had just finished a stint in the White House a year before and was known to oppose Keystone, but replied it was "[a]lways tough but let me see what I can do."

He later reported back: "I pushed this with Denis McDonough and Anita Breckenridge who is his deputy. I don't know the new social secretary. Didn't really get a signal back."

Ultimately, while Deadpool’s Ryan Reynolds and Back to the Future’s Michael J. Fox were on the guest list, Giffin was not.

But perhaps Podesta lucked out by not securing the invite: Giffin chairs the energy practice at the global law firm Dentons, and one of his former clients was TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline. Giffin is also a member of the board of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, an investor in the pipeline that paid Clinton $150,000 for a speech in January 2015.

President Barack Obama rejected a permit for the controversial project last fall, a decision Hillary Clinton supported, calling the pipeline "a distraction from important work we have to do on climate change."


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Clinton ‘not in the same place’ as her aides on email scandal

As the furor over Hillary Clinton’s emails built in the summer of 2015, the Democratic candidate appears to have resisted at least some of her team’s advice about how to get ahead of the story. In an email to other aides, Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri said she viewed the decision to turn over thumb drives and a computer server to the Justice Department as a chance for Clinton to try to move past the controversy, but Clinton apparently had a different view.

“As you all know, I had hoped that we could use the ‘server moment’ as an opportunity for her to be viewed as having take [sic] a big step to deal with the email problem that would best position us for what is ahead. It is clear that she is not in same place (unless John has a convo with her and gets her in a different place),” Palmieri wrote in the August 8 email.

Palmieri proposed that the campaign put out word after the Sunday talk shows the following day that Clinton had surrendered the thumb drives and server to the Justice Department then do an interview with Univision where she would talk about the decision during a broader discussion about college costs. However, the timing ultimately slipped a bit, with the campaign announcing the move late on Tuesday, after she’d already taped the Univision interview earlier that day.


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Leaked Email: Hillary Hates Phrase 'Everyday Americans'

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"I know she has begun to hate everyday Americans, but I think we should use it once the first time she says, 'I'm running for president because you and everyday Americans need a champion,'" Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta wrote. "I think if she doesn't say it once, people will notice and say we false started in Iowa."

Dan Schwerin, Clinton's director of speechwriting, wrote the original email that contains a 1,000-plus word speech Clinton was to deliver at Whitney Brothers, a children's furniture store in Keene, N.H.

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"I know she has begun to hate everyday Americans, but I think we should use it once the first time she says, 'I'm running for president because you and everyday Americans need a champion,'" Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta wrote. "I think if she doesn't say it once, people will notice and say we false started in Iowa."

Dan Schwerin, Clinton's director of speechwriting, wrote the original email that contains a 1,000-plus word speech Clinton was to deliver at Whitney Brothers, a children's furniture store in Keene, N.H.

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Clinton chairman subscribes to Daily Stock Tips

Leaked emails reveal that Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta receives daily stock market analysis from Motley Fool. In an email leaked last Friday, Podesta was advised by Motley Fool writers that Bank of America was a trendy Q4 stock pick in 2015. The email also hinted at additional tips from Motley Fool for a paid fee. It is uncertain if Podesta paid the subscription fee to reveal the additional stock tips from Motley Fool.

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What is of potential interest is whether or not a former DOJ employee was speaking with DOJ officials while working for Clinton camp.
https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter

NEW: Hacked e-mails from Wikileaks appear to show Clinton campaign spokesman in touch with DOJ officials regarding e-mail litigation:
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Clinton chairman cancelled dinner plans of Nov 12, 2015

Leaked emails revealed that Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta was scheduled to have dinner with a former High School classmate, Stan Walker, who was in the area on a business trip. In an email sent by Podesta on Nov. 8, he regretfully informs Walker that the upcoming Democratic primary has him neck deep at the office all week, so he will be unable to attend the previously scheduled dinner. He offers to meet Walker for dinner next time he is in town. No emails from Friday's leak confirm any additional details or indicate that the dinner was able to be rescheduled.

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Starbucks CEO urged Clinton to reboot her campaign

Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks and a supporter of Hillary Clinton, urged her top aides to reboot the campaign in July 2015.

Schultz emailed longtime Clinton loyalist Cheryl Mills with his concerns, who forwarded it to John Podesta. The conversation was made public when Podesta’s hacked emails were released by WikiLeaks.

Schultz is highly critical of the nascent Clinton campaign, saying it “feels stale with very few signs of the kind of freshness and transparency that the American people (especially millennials) will need to trust and ultimately elect HRC as President.”

He continues, saying the campaign feels “too packaged and prescribed.” Schultz encourages the campaign to shed its data-driven message and let Clinton be Clinton.

“Encourage her to be herself. And, to embrace her core purpose and reason for being. That's the lens it all needs to go through,’ he writes.

He also said it is “very apparent and concerning that the media is not on her side.”


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Podesta didn't want to talk with Panetta aide after memoir

Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta didn’t want to talk to a top adviser to Leon Panetta on the day the former secretary of defense’s memoir came out in late 2014.

That’s likely because the memoir included a range of criticisms of President Barack Obama. Podesta, at the time, was serving as a counselor to Obama.

Panetta, in his book “Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace” wrote that during the first four years of working for Obama he thought the president was a “strong leader on security issues” but in the last two Obama “kind of lost his way.” Panetta also blamed the Obama administration for how it handled Iraq and Syria.

So when a top Panetta aide emailed Podesta with the subject line “Leon,” the then-Obama counselor didn’t want to talk.

“John, can I call you? Jeremy,” Jeremy Bash, a top aide to Panetta, wrote in the October 7, 2014, email to Panetta.

“No,” Podesta responded without saying anything else.


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what does it pay, ducks?

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:lmao ducks at DefCon level 4 meltdown

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Warren gave Clinton list of staff picks

Sen. Elizabeth Warren attempted to influence personnel picks in a Hillary Clinton presidential administration, presenting the campaign with a list of potential nominees, the latest batch of WikiLeaks hacked emails shows.

An unverified January 2015 email from Clinton speechwriting director Dan Schwerin to other campaign officials describes a discussion with longtime Warren aide Dan Geldon, following a meeting that Warren and Clinton had the previous month.

The adviser to the Massachusetts Democrat was "intently focused on personnel issues," the email read. He "laid out a detailed case against the [former Treasury Secretary] Bob Rubin school of Democratic policymakers, was very critical of the Obama administration's choices, and explained at length the opposition to Antonio Weiss," an investment banker whom Warren helped block from getting a top Treasury Department job.


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Clinton staffer approved to leave the office early on Dec. 13, 2015

Leaked emails revealed that Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta approved a request from Clinton staffer Shirley Gaines to leave the office early to pick her in-laws up from the airport. In an email from Podesta to Gaines on December 5, he replies "No problem. -JP" when asked by Shirley if it would be alright for her to leave around 3pm on the 13th. She mentions that it's possible they would just take an Uber from the airport and she would inform Podesta of any change in plans. Additional emails did not include further updates on this request, or any details confirming that Gaines actually left the office early on Dec. 13.

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lol

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Clinton chairman received email with no attachment

Leaked emails revealed that Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta received an email from office assistant Debbie Lawler that was supposed to include a document attached to the email. The email sent from Lawler to Podesta at 2:35pm on July 14, 2015, with the subject line "Conference Agenda," included the following from Lawler:

"John, please find attached the detailed agenda for the July 20 conference. Please let me know if you have any questions. - Deb"

Podesta responded at 4:27pm as follows: "No attachmt. -JP"

The leaked emails released by WikiLeaks last Friday included a response from Lawler of "So sorry!" along with the previously referenced conference agenda attachment, a PDF file detailing a two day Media and Campaigning Insights conference at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, DC on July 20 and 21. The agenda begins with Breakfast at 7:30am, followed by keynote speaker [read more at link]

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Clinton campaign almost hired lawyer who sorted her personal server emails

As Hillary Clinton kicked off her presidential bid last year, her top aides apparently halted a plan to have the campaign hire Heather Samuelson, the lawyer who did the bulk of the screening of Clinton’s emails. In an April 4, 2015 email exchange, campaign manager Robby Mook informs campaign chairman John Podesta that Marc Elias, the top outside lawyer for Clinton’s bid, is in the process of adding Samuelson to the payroll.

“Elias is emailing me about her salary. Was there a decision about whether to bring her on?” Mook asks Podesta, in an email with the subject line, “Heather.”

“Last I left the conversation, no decision other than to put off for now,” Podesta replied.

“Elias thinks we are supposed to hire her and I haven't said he shouldn't,” Mook responds.

That prompted Podesta to add: “Probably slow down.”

Samuelson became controversial among GOP lawmakers and drew media attention after critics questioned the process used to separate the batch of work-related emails Clinton gave to the State Department from another set of allegedly personal ones that Clinton decided to erase. The decision has dogged Clinton throughout the campaign, including at Sunday night’s debate, where Donald Trump raised the issue again.

Samuelson, who worked in the Obama White House counsel’s office and later as White House liaison at the State Department, was expected to join the campaign early last year. A December 2014 email from Mook indicates Samuelson was involved in a team aides called “self research”—dredging up details on Clinton that opponents might use to attack her.

POLITICO reported last September that a bar listing for Samuelson showed her having moved to Brooklyn. She never appeared to join the campaign payroll. The same bar directory now shows her back in Washington.


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EMAIL: CNN Jake Tapper congratulated Podesta on WH appointment
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/email-cnn-jake-tapper-congratulated-podesta-wh-appointment/

“Hey john,” the December 2013 email was titled.

“Congratulations on the pending appointment… I don’t suppose you’d want to come on my show on CNN to talk about what you home to accomplish?” Tapper wrote.

“Happy holidays,” he ended.

The Washington Post reported at the time:

John D. Podesta, who was chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and is one of the Democratic Party’s most experienced strategists, is joining the White House to help President Obama salvage what has become a difficult second term.

Podesta, who has been an outside adviser to Obama since leading his presidential transition after the 2008 election, will formally join his inner circle as White House counselor for a year, according to sources familiar with the move.

It’s just one big happy family in the elite corridors of Washington, DC, isn’t it?

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BILL CLINTON ‘LOSING IT’

Bill Clinton has long had a soft spot for New Hampshire, the state that made him the “Comeback Kid” and helped propel him to the Democratic nomination in 1992. So when it seemed on Feb. 7 that Hillary Clinton was set to lose the state’s primary by a large margin, Bill did not take the news well.

“He’s losing it bad today,” Bill Clinton chief of staff Tina Flournoy wrote. “I’m not with him. If you’re in NH please see if you can talk to him.”

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders went on to beat Clinton in the Granite State 60-to-38 percent on Feb. 9.

Bill Clinton wasn’t alone in his despondency.

Neera Tanden, an activist and past adviser to Hillary Clinton, wrote to Podesta on Feb. 4: “What is wrong w the people of Nh?”

COZY WITH THE PRESS

The alleged Podesta emails show a particular level of comfort with certain members of the news media.

CNBC correspondent John Harwood emailed Podesta numerous times, on some occasions to request an interview and other times to offer advice. On May 8, 2015, Harwood wrote an email with the subject line “Watch out.”

“Ben Carson could give you real trouble in a general [election],” Harwood wrote before linking to video clips of an interview Harwood did with the former pediatric neurosurgeon.

In a July 2015 email, New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich emailed communications director Jennifer Palmieri several chunks of an interview he did with Hillary Clinton, and seemingly asked permission for the “option to use the following” portions. Palmieri suggested he cut a reference Clinton made to Sarah Palin and remove Clinton’s quote, “And gay rights has moved much faster than women’s rights or civil rights, which is an interesting phenomenon.”

Palmieri ended one email: “Pleasure doing business!”

In a January 2015 memo, former Politico reporter Maggie Haberman, who now works for The New York Times, was described as having “a very good relationship” with the campaign.

“We have had her tee up stories for us before and have never been disappointed,” the memo said.

HOPING FOR TRUMP

Hillary Clinton allies were apparently hoping the Republican primary electorate would nominate Donald Trump as the GOP candidate for president.

Media commentator Brent Budowsky wrote to Podesta on March 13 that “Right now I am petrified that Hillary is almost totally dependent on Republicans nominating Trump.”

“…..even a clown like Ted Cruz would be an even money bet to beat and this scares the hell of out me…..” Budowsky wrote.

A Democrat National Committee strategy document from April 7, 2015 also wrote about “elevating the Pied Piper candidates,” identified as Trump, Cruz and Carson.

WALL STREET SPEECHES

Campaign research director Tony Carrk emailed top Clinton advisers on Jan. 25 with some “flags from HRC’s paid speeches” that were given during the time between her tenure as secretary of state and when she announced her presidential candidacy. Clinton has not released transcripts of those speeches despite numerous calls from her primary and general election opponents.

Among the red flags is Clinton admitting she’s “Kind Of Far Removed” from middle-class struggles due to “The Economic, You Know, Fortunes That My Husband And I Now Enjoy.” That speech was delivered to employees at Goldman-Black Rock on Feb. 4, 2014.

In a line that came back to bite her in Sunday night’s presidential debate, Clinton discussed needing “Both A Public And A Private Position” during a speech for National Multi-Housing Council in April 2013.

In other speeches, Clinton boasts of her ties to Wall Street, admits she needs Wall Street funding and says insiders are needed to fix problems on Wall Street. Sanders was a particular critic of Wall Street and so-called “economic inequality” during his protracted primary campaign against Clinton.

In another speech, Clinton said her “dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.”

SANDERS STRATEGY

Throughout the alleged Podesta emails, aides debate tactics against Clinton’s main 2016 primary rival, Sanders. Carrk forwarded a 71-page, nearly 50,000-word opposition research file on Oct. 28, 2015, picking apart nearly every policy and position of Sanders. “Attached are some hits that could either be written or deployed during the next debate on Sanders,” Carrk wrote.

On Jan.6, campaign adviser Mandy Grunwald and Palmieri debated how to respond to Sanders’ attacks on Clinton’s ties to Wall Street.

“I liked messing with Bernie on wall street at a staff level for the purposes of muddying the waters and throwing them off their game a bit,” Palmieri wrote. “But don’t know that it is most effective contrast for her. Seems like we are picking the fight he wants to have.”

Grunwald replied: “Bernie wants a fight on a Wall Street. We should not give him one.”

ALLIES' SUPPORT FOR ISIS?

An alleged email sent from Hillary Clinton's account to Podesta on Aug. 17, 2014, noted that ISIS was receiving financial and logistical support from Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

“While this military/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to [ISIS] and other radical Sunni groups in the region,” the email said.

It's unclear whether the email was actually authored by Clinton.

The Clinton campaign, meanwhile, has blasted WikiLeaks over the release, while ramping up its accusations that the group is working with the Russian government.

"It is absolutely disgraceful that the Trump campaign is cheering on a release today engineered by Vladimir Putin to interfere in this election, and this comes after Donald Trump encouraged more espionage over the summer and continued to deny the hack even happened at Sunday's debate," spokesman Glen Caplin said in a statement. "The timing shows you that even Putin knows Trump had a bad weekend and a bad debate. The only remaining question is why Donald Trump continues to make apologies for the Russians."

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WikiLeaks: State Dept. Told Clinton What Emails it Was About to Release

The State Department provided Hillary Clinton's campaign with detailed information about emails it was about to release in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, according to emails released by WikiLeaks.

The emails referenced speeches by former President Bill Clinton (referred to by his initials as "WJC") and did not include emails from Hillary Clinton.

Cllinton aide Heather Samuelson wrote an email March 17, 2015 about the State Department's upcoming releases, according to the WikiLeaks hacks.

All—DOS is soon releasing another round of documents and email traffic (not hers) in response to Judicial Watch's FOIA request on DOS's process for reviewing WJC's speaking engagements. It's 116 pages with approx. 50 sponsor/subsponsor requests. No objections by DOS in this batch, but some lengthy internal discussions among DOS officials that I highlighted below."

State Department spokesman John Kirby said that it is standard to share documents that are subject to FOIA requests with outside agencies if those agencies have "propriety information" in the documents.

Bill Clinton received invitations to speak in Turkey and Canada, according to the emails. He declined the Turkey invitation and accepted the Canadian one.

The Daily Caller reported that in previous WikiLeaks releases, the Obama administration is shown to have coordinated with Clinton's campaign on talking points regarding Clinton's use of a private email server.

The Washington Post editorial board looked at the WikiLeaks emails and praised the Democratic candidate for how she appears in them.

The Hillary Clinton that emerges is a knowledgeable, balanced political veteran with sound policy instincts and a mature sense of how to sustain a decent, stable democracy," the board wrote.

The emails WikiLeaks released apparently come from the account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon slammed the WikiLeaks on Twitter:

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/emails-show-private-public-clinton-193128431.html
Emails show how private and public Clinton statements clash

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785902515707645952

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/wikileaks-email-hack-clinton-donna-brazile-229609

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Podesta fretted over hitting after Sanders on guns

Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta was hesitant to hit Bernie Sanders on his gun control record during the Democratic primary, as the chairman feared “blowback” from Hillary Clinton’s own supporters.

In a hacked email exchange from March, Podesta and other Clinton aides debated whether to challenge Sanders as part of a gun violence an op-ed they were drafting to run in the New York Daily News.

Podesta questioned the tactic, writing: “Should we directly hit Sanders in this NYDN oped right now? I’m a bit skeptical.”

Campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri acknowledged that it was “maybe ... too hard” in the op-ed, but she suggested the campaign set up “some measure of contrast” on the issue between Clinton and Sanders, who had previously voted against some gun control measures. Palmieri wrote that it was part of a strategy to critique Sanders “occasionally,” despite Clinton’s lead in the race, so the attention was not just on her and Donald Trump.

“My theory is that we do not want to be in a one on one with Trump — but want to hit him occasionally,” Palmieri wrote. “In which case, we also need to be hitting Sanders occasionally so we can credibly say we are not only focused on the general.”

Podesta wrote back: “Interestingly, I am worried about blowback from our supporters.”

Palmieri, in turn, suggested an op-ed with “less contrast,” and an aide responded confirming that he would “tone down the contrast and recirculate.”

An op-ed that ran 10 days after the exchange did mention Sanders by name, citing the Vermont Senator’s votes that the National Rifle Association agreed with to argue the gun violence issue “highlights a genuine difference in the Democratic presidential primary.”


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http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/11/nytcnbcs-john-harwood-advises-clinton-campaign-gloats-about-provoking-trump-at-debate/
NYT/CNBC’s John Harwood Advises Clinton Campaign, Gloats About Provoking Trump At Debate


CNBC John Harwood Advises Campaign [And he was debate moderator?!]...




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[hater]

John Hardwood :lmao Wsj "journalist" :lmao

WSJ is basically a CIA mouthpiece

[Reck]

Wikileaks is becoming a self parody with all these useless material.

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785902515707645952

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/27/27fe709237a1c8818c0a66bdb8305228f711b2a964ba2247b9 77f46a91822f19.jpg

[ducks]

Wikileaks is becoming a self parody with all these useless material.

what is coming out in 2 weeks?
drip drip drip drip drip

[baseline bum]

what is coming out in 2 weeks?
drip drip drip drip drip

Can you believe that motherfucker not knowing how to stir a rissoto?

[ducks]

A new batch of emails released by Wikileaks reveals that Hillary Clinton Press Secretary Brian Fallon said that Hillary Clinton would create an executive order to have stricter gun control.

http://americanmilitarynews.com/2016/10/wikileaks-release-reveals-hillary-clintons-press-secretary-says-clinton-plans-executive-order-for-gun-control/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=alt&utm_source=colddeadhands

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A new batch of emails released by Wikileaks reveals that Hillary Clinton Press Secretary Brian Fallon said that Hillary Clinton would create an executive order to have stricter gun control.

http://americanmilitarynews.com/2016/10/wikileaks-release-reveals-hillary-clintons-press-secretary-says-clinton-plans-executive-order-for-gun-control/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=alt&utm_source=colddeadhands

ducks man, when should I put in the stock? And do I really have to stir it the entire time?

[ducks]

Clinton aide wanted MoveOn to 'get over' Elizabeth Warren presidential bid

Philippe Reines, a top State Department advisor to Hillary Clinton, was peeved with liberal activist group MoveOn.org in 2014 for pushing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to enter the presidential fray, according to hacked emails released by Wikileaks Tuesday.

He also wanted to know if Clinton's allies had "Hollywood friends" who could tell the group to "cool it."

“Making noise is one thing,” Reines wrote to John Podesta, now Clinton’s campaign chairman, and others. “Spending seven figures is another. She voted for the war, you punished her already, get over it. I don't know who funds them, but don't we have Hollywood friends with ties to MoveOn who can tell them to cool it?”

After it was clear that Warren would not run, the organization continued to be a thorn in Clinton's side. It backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders during much of the Democratic primary race, before eventually endorsing Clinton in June.


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Podesta gave Reid staffer ‘very hard time’ for advising Sanders

Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta told colleagues he confronted a Democratic Senate staffer who was advising Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary, according to hacked Clinton campaign emails released by Wikileaks on Tuesday.

Wikileaks released an email exchange between Podesta and Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, about Faiz Shakir, a staffer for Senate minority leader Harry Reid and former CAP employee.

Tanden had forwarded an email to Podesta, which she recieved from CAP staffer Judd Legum, with the subject line “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,” the email from Legum to Tanden read.

“You know about this? Jesus,” Tanden wrote to Podesta on February 29.

Podesta responded: “Yes. Gave him a very hard time. I have to say this does not go down easy with me. Wish him well in life,”

Shakir declined to answer questions about his interactions with Podesta.

“I don't want to [legitimize] the hacking of John's purported emails, so I'm going to refuse comment,” Shakir wrote in an email in response to questions about the interaction with Podesta on Tuesday.

A source with knowledge of the interactions said that Shakir stopped working with Sanders’ campaign shortly after the interaction with Podesta.


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[ducks]

Clinton aide wanted MoveOn to 'get over' Elizabeth Warren presidential bid

Philippe Reines, a top State Department advisor to Hillary Clinton, was peeved with liberal activist group MoveOn.org in 2014 for pushing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to enter the presidential fray, according to hacked emails released by Wikileaks Tuesday.

He also wanted to know if Clinton's allies had "Hollywood friends" who could tell the group to "cool it."

“Making noise is one thing,” Reines wrote to John Podesta, now Clinton’s campaign chairman, and others. “Spending seven figures is another. She voted for the war, you punished her already, get over it. I don't know who funds them, but don't we have Hollywood friends with ties to MoveOn who can tell them to cool it?”

After it was clear that Warren would not run, the organization continued to be a thorn in Clinton's side. It backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders during much of the Democratic primary race, before eventually endorsing Clinton in June.




Podesta gave Reid staffer ‘very hard time’ for advising Sanders

Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta told colleagues he confronted a Democratic Senate staffer who was advising Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary, according to hacked Clinton campaign emails released by Wikileaks on Tuesday.

Wikileaks released an email exchange between Podesta and Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, about Faiz Shakir, a staffer for Senate minority leader Harry Reid and former CAP employee.

Tanden had forwarded an email to Podesta, which she recieved from CAP staffer Judd Legum, with the subject line “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,” the email from Legum to Tanden read.

“You know about this? Jesus,” Tanden wrote to Podesta on February 29.

Podesta responded: “Yes. Gave him a very hard time. I have to say this does not go down easy with me. Wish him well in life,”

Shakir declined to answer questions about his interactions with Podesta.

“I don't want to [legitimize] the hacking of John's purported emails, so I'm going to refuse comment,” Shakir wrote in an email in response to questions about the interaction with Podesta on Tuesday.

A source with knowledge of the interactions said that Shakir stopped working with Sanders’ campaign shortly after the interaction with Podesta.







Trump asks voters to check out WikiLeaks hack of Podesta emails

Donald Trump pounced on the latest release of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s hacked emails, saying they clearly show the Democratic nominee shouldn’t be allowed to win in November.

“I hope people are looking at the disgraceful behavior of Hillary Clinton as exposed by WikiLeaks. She is unfit to run,” Trump tweeted.


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[Reck]

^ :wow

Hillary dun now

[baseline bum]

Clinton aide wanted MoveOn to 'get over' Elizabeth Warren presidential bid

Philippe Reines, a top State Department advisor to Hillary Clinton, was peeved with liberal activist group MoveOn.org in 2014 for pushing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to enter the presidential fray, according to hacked emails released by Wikileaks Tuesday.

He also wanted to know if Clinton's allies had "Hollywood friends" who could tell the group to "cool it."

“Making noise is one thing,” Reines wrote to John Podesta, now Clinton’s campaign chairman, and others. “Spending seven figures is another. She voted for the war, you punished her already, get over it. I don't know who funds them, but don't we have Hollywood friends with ties to MoveOn who can tell them to cool it?”

After it was clear that Warren would not run, the organization continued to be a thorn in Clinton's side. It backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders during much of the Democratic primary race, before eventually endorsing Clinton in June.




Podesta gave Reid staffer ‘very hard time’ for advising Sanders

Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta told colleagues he confronted a Democratic Senate staffer who was advising Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary, according to hacked Clinton campaign emails released by Wikileaks on Tuesday.

Wikileaks released an email exchange between Podesta and Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, about Faiz Shakir, a staffer for Senate minority leader Harry Reid and former CAP employee.

Tanden had forwarded an email to Podesta, which she recieved from CAP staffer Judd Legum, with the subject line “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,” the email from Legum to Tanden read.

“You know about this? Jesus,” Tanden wrote to Podesta on February 29.

Podesta responded: “Yes. Gave him a very hard time. I have to say this does not go down easy with me. Wish him well in life,”

Shakir declined to answer questions about his interactions with Podesta.

“I don't want to [legitimize] the hacking of John's purported emails, so I'm going to refuse comment,” Shakir wrote in an email in response to questions about the interaction with Podesta on Tuesday.

A source with knowledge of the interactions said that Shakir stopped working with Sanders’ campaign shortly after the interaction with Podesta.







Trump asks voters to check out WikiLeaks hack of Podesta emails

Donald Trump pounced on the latest release of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s hacked emails, saying they clearly show the Democratic nominee shouldn’t be allowed to win in November.

“I hope people are looking at the disgraceful behavior of Hillary Clinton as exposed by WikiLeaks. She is unfit to run,” Trump tweeted.


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ducks bro, do you put in on a medium heat, or is high better?

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Clinton aide stopped watching The Daily Show after Trevor Noah's second week as host

Philippe Reines, a top State Department advisor to Hillary Clinton, lost interest in Comedy Central's The Daily Show after watching the first two weeks of episodes hosted by Trevor Noah, according to an email released by WikiLeaks this past Friday.

According to an email to two other Clinton staffers in which the group was discussing the comedic merits of The Daily Show's new host, Reines "wanted to give it a shot but knew that it wouldn't be as good without [Jon] Stewart," the previous host of The Daily Show. Hillary Clinton's opinion on Noah's work could not be determined from the leaked emails.

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Can you believe that motherfucker not knowing how to stir a rissoto?


ducks man, when should I put in the stock? And do I really have to stir it the entire time?


ducks bro, do you put in on a medium heat, or is high better?

:lmao

[Spurminator]

BREAKING: Emails show Clinton staffers openly hoping for Clinton victory

According to emails released by WikiLeaks, several Clinton staffers engaged in a chain of emails where they openly advocated for a Clinton victory during the Democratic primary race.

The emails revealed clear favoritism on the part of Clinton aides, advisors and staff members while she competed with Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination for President. The emails also imply that supporters of Bernie Sanders were making the wrong choice in the Primary, and some emails included discussions on how to convince Bernie supporters to change their minds.

Among the more damning emails was from campaign chairman John Podesta, who wrote to several staffers: "Look, we all like Bernie but she just has a more realistic agenda. So much of his platform just isn't feasible."

Another email from Campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri outlined potential advertising campaigns designed to target Bernie Sanders supporters with pro-Hillary messages.

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[ducks]

Podesta on 'Valerie': 'She watches too much Morning Joe'

Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta complained that someone named Valerie — likely White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett — watches too much “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, in a September note to White House chief of staff Denis Richard McDonough.

According to hacked emails posted by WikiLeaks, Podesta was checking in to see if there was any “grumpiness” after Clinton’s appearance on “Face the Nation,” where she spoke about the economy, Obamacare and the Defense Department.

“Trying to calibrate whether we are threading the needle ok with you guys after Valerie getting her nose out of joint on Keystone,” Podesta wrote. “(She watches too much Morning Joe by the way; they are the only people who viewed her comments on being frustrated with the delay as a frontal attack on POTUS.)”


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[ducks]

Clinton aide stopped watching The Daily Show after Trevor Noah's second week as host

Philippe Reines, a top State Department advisor to Hillary Clinton, lost interest in Comedy Central's The Daily Show after watching the first two weeks of episodes hosted by Trevor Noah, according to an email released by WikiLeaks this past Friday.

According to an email to two other Clinton staffers in which the group was discussing the comedic merits of The Daily Show's new host, Reines "wanted to give it a shot but knew that it wouldn't be as good without [Jon] Stewart," the previous host of The Daily Show. Hillary Clinton's opinion on Noah's work could not be determined from the leaked emails.

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FAKE AND NOT FUNNY!

[ducks]

BREAKING: Emails show Clinton staffers openly hoping for Clinton victory

According to emails released by WikiLeaks, several Clinton staffers engaged in a chain of emails where they openly advocated for a Clinton victory during the Democratic primary race.

The emails revealed clear favoritism on the part of Clinton aides, advisors and staff members while she competed with Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination for President. The emails also imply that supporters of Bernie Sanders were making the wrong choice in the Primary, and some emails included discussions on how to convince Bernie supporters to change their minds.

Among the more damning emails was from campaign chairman John Podesta, who wrote to several staffers: "Look, we all like Bernie but she just has a more realistic agenda. So much of his platform just isn't feasible."

Another email from Campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri outlined potential advertising campaigns designed to target Bernie Sanders supporters with pro-Hillary messages.

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FAKE AND NOT FUNNY!

[ducks]

Clinton chairman received email with no attachment

Leaked emails revealed that Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta received an email from office assistant Debbie Lawler that was supposed to include a document attached to the email. The email sent from Lawler to Podesta at 2:35pm on July 14, 2015, with the subject line "Conference Agenda," included the following from Lawler:

"John, please find attached the detailed agenda for the July 20 conference. Please let me know if you have any questions. - Deb"

Podesta responded at 4:27pm as follows: "No attachmt. -JP"

The leaked emails released by WikiLeaks last Friday included a response from Lawler of "So sorry!" along with the previously referenced conference agenda attachment, a PDF file detailing a two day Media and Campaigning Insights conference at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, DC on July 20 and 21. The agenda begins with Breakfast at 7:30am, followed by keynote speaker [read more at link]

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FAKE AND NOT FUNNY!

[baseline bum]

FAKE AND NOT FUNNY!

ducks man, do you finish your rissoto with parmesan reggiano? What about a cheaper substitute?

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http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/11/media/donna-brazile-wikileaks-question/index.html
Wikileaks mystery: How did town hall question get to Clinton campaign?

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http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/11/media/donna-brazile-wikileaks-question/index.html
Wikileaks mystery: How did town hall question get to Clinton campaign?

the russians?

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http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/11/media/donna-brazile-wikileaks-question/index.html
Wikileaks mystery: How did town hall question get to Clinton campaign?

Every time I make it comes out fucking soupy. What's your secret?

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Kim Dotcom
Kim Dotcom – Verified account ‏@KimDotcom

Wikileaks is just getting started. HillaryClinton realDonaldTrump

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Kim Dotcom
Kim Dotcom – Verified account ‏@KimDotcom

Wikileaks is just getting started. Hillary (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=3641)Clinton real (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=6855)DonaldTrump

Damn I like that fat slug Kim Dotcom for being a straight up pirate but he wrong here for sure.

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http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/blog/leaked-emails-show-clintons-team-should-read-a-catechism/

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What most political commentators can agree on is that, in any other universe, these leaks would be disastrous for a presidential campaign. But set up against the bombastic scandals unearthed regarding her opponent, these disclosures appear relatively benign in voters’ eyes. Nor do they seem to be of any particular interest to the Trump campaign. “Republican nominee whose campaign wasn’t collapsing upon itself,” writes New York Magazine’s Eric Levitz (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/if-trump-werent-a-monster-clintons-speeches-would-matter.html). “But, for the party’s current standard-bearer, attacking Clinton for her husband’s decades-old sexual behavior in a bid to absolve himself for his own degeneracy appears to take precedence.”http://qz.com/806691/what-to-make-of-wikileaks-latest-information-trove-on-hillary-clinton/

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http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/blog/leaked-emails-show-clintons-team-should-read-a-catechism/
From the link:
<Really? Do you know what the original, first, Church that goes all the way back to the last supper even is, friends? That’s right- the Catholic Church. Pray, tell then, what is the real “faith” here that the Catholic Church is apparently “bastardizing.”>

What a raft of bullshit. Try telling where and when the Catholic Corporation was really founded.

The Roman Emperor Constantine established himself as the head of the church around 313 A.D., which made this new "Christianity" the official religion of the Roman Empire. The first actual Pope in Rome was probably Leo I (440-461 A.D.)

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https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14680688_1190744387685500_8649801644960560402_n.jp g?oh=ac7be912cdfbf12c400aad560eed9677&oe=586A7670

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From the link:
<Really? Do you know what the original, first, Church that goes all the way back to the last supper even is, friends? That’s right- the Catholic Church. Pray, tell then, what is the real “faith” here that the Catholic Church is apparently “bastardizing.”>

What a raft of bullshit. Try telling where and when the Catholic Corporation was really founded.

The Roman Emperor Constantine established himself as the head of the church around 313 A.D., which made this new "Christianity" the official religion of the Roman Empire. The first actual Pope in Rome was probably Leo I (440-461 A.D.)




ofcurse this is not on cnn

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WikiLeaks dropped on Wednesday morning the fourth installment of its trove of Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta’s hacked emails.

The messages released so far — which Clinton's campaign has neither verified nor denied the authenticity of — have provided an unprecedented glimpse into the inner workings of the Clinton camp.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/live-blog-updates/2016/10/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-emails-wikileaks-000011#ixzz4MsnAbneX
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Clinton aide says Sanders has ‘really dumb plans for Wall Street’

Jake Sullivan, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, said Bernie Sanders “has really dumb plans for Wall Street” in an email contained in the hack of John Podesta’s emails.
Clinton’s aides were debating how to best contrast their candidate with Sanders in Nevada, and they disagreed on the best strategy.

Sullivan was pushing to draw a sharper contrast on their Wall Street plans, while Mandy Grunwald advised against it.

“If you want to make the question of the campaign, who will best stand up to Wall Street, Sanders is the answer and he'll give you $35 million reasons why,” Grunwald said. “We have good strong things to say about our plans and we have a great whack on the GOP. I don't know why we would choose to fight this out on Sanders best turf.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/live-blog-updates/2016/10/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-emails-wikileaks-000011#ixzz4MsnI4vQ6
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Clinton camp eager to link Monsanto to Flint crisis

Ron Klain celebrated House Republicans adding a paragraph to a chemical safety bill that could shield biotechnology company Monsanto from a legal liability for a toxic chemical that only it manufactured — because Hillary Clinton’s campaign could tie it to the lead crisis in Flint, Michigan, to score political points.

In a March 1 email exchange, Neera Tanden, Hillary Clinton’s 2008 policy director, flagged a New York Times report.

“You guys are probably all over this, but hitting House R's for making it easier for Monsanto to get away w/ poisoning people with PCB's may resonate after what happened in Flint,” she wrote.

“Just sending in,” she noted, pasting the link below. “A single paragraph in the sweeping legislation could shield the company from costly liability for making the now-banned chemicals known as PCBs.”

Klain, Vice President Joe Biden’s former chief of staff who President Barack Obama named the nation’s Ebola czar, simply replied “This is great” in a response to Tanden that also copied Jake Sullivan, John Podesta, Karen Dunn and Sara Solow.

“We are tweeting and doing statement,” Sullivan said. “KC is it out yet?”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/live-blog-updates/2016/10/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-emails-wikileaks-000011#ixzz4MsnOOhgk
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Podesta: ‘Promise to shoot me’ if end up like Sid

Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, advised a former Clinton staffer to “promise to shoot me” if he ever ended up like longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal.

In a May 2015 email exchange, Neera Tanden, Clinton’s policy director for her 2008 campaign, told Podesta that “Sidney sure is the gift that keeps giving!”

“It always amazes me that people like Sid either completely lack self awareness or self respect,” Podesta replied. “Maybe both. Will you promise to shoot me if I ever end up like that?”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/live-blog-updates/2016/10/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-emails-wikileaks-000011#ixzz4MsnaqVvI
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Palmieri warned against optics of focusing on Trump and ignoring Sanders

Hillary Clinton’s team didn’t want voters to think she jumped the gun by pivoting her attention towards Donald Trump instead of Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary.

In the fourth installment of hacked emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s inbox released by WikiLeaks on Wednesday, Clinton’s team discussed placing an op-ed in the New York Daily News about gun control as part of efforts to appear focused on Sanders as her main opponent, rather than Trump.

“Should we directly hit Sanders in this NYDN op-ed right now? I'm a bit skeptical,” Podesta wrote in an email to staff on March 17, 2016.

Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri suggested that focusing too much on Trump could be perceived negatively among voters in the Democratic primary contest.

“My theory is that we do not want to be in a one on one with Trump - but want to hit him occasionally. In which case, we also need to be hitting Sanders occasionally so we can credibly say we are not only focused on the general,” she replied.

But not everyone was on board.

“Is an op-ed the best way to do a contrast? The contrast isn’t really news, is it? We’ve said it all before about him,” Clinton strategist Joel Benenson wrote.
Palmieri reiterated the importance of showing contrast between Clinton and Sanders on guns, a contentious policy issue the two candidates jabbed each other on throughout the primary.

“I think we should do the oped bc NYDN really cares about it and they offered us the space. So good politics on a few fronts. Point of oped is. It to do contrast,” she wrote.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/live-blog-updates/2016/10/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-emails-wikileaks-000011#ixzz4Msnp401t
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Neera Tanden emailed Alexrod 'to yell at him'

Neera Tanden shared her frustration with David Axelrod in an angry 2015 email to the former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, according to hacked emails released Wednesday by Wikileaks.

Tanden, Hillary Clinton’s 2008 policy director and president of the Center for American Progress, described the email exchange with current Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, adding that Axelrod responded with "w a lot of bs."

“i emailed him to yell at him about his continual quotes,” Tanden wrote Podesta in the June 17, 2015 email. “I very clearly said I was not emailing on behalf of anyone else, I'm just frustrated. He responded w a lot of bs. But I thought I should let you know.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/live-blog-updates/2016/10/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-emails-wikileaks-000011#ixzz4MsnwmJhY
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Abedin: ‘Can we survive not answering questions from press[?]”

In May 2015, Clinton campaign vice chairwoman Huma Abedin asked Hillary Clinton’s advisers on the presidential campaign whether she could “survive not answering questions from press” at major policy-unveiling events during the first leg of the campaign.

“Can we survive not answering questions from press at message events[?]” she wrote. “Her dinkins speech and immigration message broke through because we didn’t take questions. Her community banks message got lost because she answered questions about the foundation and emails.”

“In the fall, starting to do avails at message events, interviews, and q and a with press but having had a series of policy proposals already announced and reported on that she could point to,” Abedin continued.

Podesta, chairman of the Clinton campaign, disagreed.

“If she thinks we can get to Labor Day without taking press questions, I think that’s suicidal,” Podesta wrote. “We have to find some mechanism to let the stream out of the pressure cooker.”

Abedin clarified that she wanted Clinton to be available to the press but wanted to avoid answering off-topic questions at events that are designed to earn coverage for her policy positions and other campaign messages.

“not suggesting no q and a at all,” she wrote, instead suggesting “maybe just having a straight message event and take questions from real people” and taking questions from the press the following day “so that shes not stepping on her own message.”

Throughout 2016, Clinton faced criticism from the press and from Republican nominee Donald Trump for largely avoiding formal press conferences at which reporters could ask questions on any topic. At the beginning of September, Clinton took questions from the traveling press on her campaign plane, ending a 275-day streak of avoiding press gaggles and press conferences.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/live-blog-updates/2016/10/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-emails-wikileaks-000011#ixzz4Mso5M3Zd
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De Blasio ripped Clinton debate answer on mass incarceration

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was quick to criticize Hillary Clinton on her answer to a question about mass incarceration during a Democratic primary debate against Bernie Sanders.

Newly released emails by WikiLeaks on Wednesday show de Blasio’s frustration about one aspect of Clinton’s longstanding political strategy: Her tendency to make a question all about herself.

“Hillary was fantastic on the gun control answer,” the New York City mayor started in an email on March 6, 2016 to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, whose emails have been subjected to a four-day hack, before launching his critique. “…then totally blew the mass incarceration question.”

“Why on Earth did she say "Are you going to ask Senator Sanders that question?" instead of just addressing the issue. When she makes it about her, she loses the high ground. Stating the obvious, I know, but she keeps doing it...,” he wrote in reference to the primary debate in Flint, Mich. on the same day.

Podesta, acknowledging de Blasio’s concern, responded, “Very fair. She's better in her speeches but reverts in this format. Since we have another debate in 3 days we can work on it.”

De Blasio’s tendency to interject himself into Clinton’s political orbit dates back to her U.S. Senate bid in New York, where he served as her campaign manager.

Earlier this week, WikiLeaks released other emails suggesting a functional but strained relationship, which led de Blasio to request more “direct access” to the former secretary of state.

In an email exchange with senior campaign officials on Nov. 18, 2014, top Clinton confidant Huma Abedin provided a status update to staffers on “progressive friends,” including de Blasio.

“I stay in touch with him and his team a lot. He has recently asked to have increased direct access to her so he can tell his progressive partners what she thinks about issues important to them,” Abedin wrote.

“He also thinks he can be most helpful to her if he has that kind of relationship. He wants to be seen as the loudest progressive voice for her and in order to do that he needs access. In the next 6 months, someone else will have to inherit this relationship because it will not be tenable for HRC.”


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Trump criticizes ‘dishonest media’ for not covering hacked Podesta emails

Donald Trump criticized the “dishonest media” for not covering the latest document dump of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s hacked emails, less than 15 minutes after WikiLeaks announced its fourth such trove.

“Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by Wikileakes,” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning, misspelling the name of the organization. “So dishonest! Rigged system!”

WikiLeaks formally announced the release of more of Podesta’s emails via Twitter at 8:38 a.m., just 14 minutes before Trump complained.

The Clinton campaign has declined to confirm the authenticity of any of the emails. Podesta, however, told reporters Tuesday that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies are investigating the hack.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/live-blog-updates/2016/10/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-emails-wikileaks-000011#ixzz4MsoNLXnU
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Clinton aides miffed at Trumka’s praise of Biden

Senior advisers to Hillary Clinton privately fumed at AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka’s well-worn praise of Joe Biden – saying on a “Meet the Press” appearance that the vice president has been “fighting for working people his whole life.”

“It implies that HRC has not,” wrote Clinton aide Ann O’Leary in a Sept. 6 email to Nick Budzinski, part of a new batch of hacked emails obtained and disseminated by Wikileaks. “Is there anything we can do to get him to add something nice about HRC? If he says it and then says HRC has too - or gives an example of her fighting for the first responders after 9/11 or something, I think it will help the perception that there is a labor record contrast between the two.”

Budzinski agreed about Trumka.

“He is annoying,” he said. “I'd like to just call the AFLCIO and talk to Mike Podhorzer about this. Let me know if anyone disagrees.”


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http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-shift/2016/10/wikileaks-and-the-15-minimum-wage-216788
WikiLeaks and the $15 minimum wage

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sorry ducks, i overslept.

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Seriously, does Politico have an article on every single email that was released? They must have hired a truckload of interns for this.

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-12/wikileaks-releases-another-1193-emails-john-podesta-fourth-data-dump
lol he has released less then 7 thousand and has 50 thousand!

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-12/wikileaks-releases-another-1193-emails-john-podesta-fourth-data-dump
lol he has released less then 7 thousand and has 50 thousand!

Politico better hire more interns

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article107567957.html
Miami Herald explores how our emails reveal Univision chairman involved in Clinton influence campaign

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Email from drafter of US Democrats Super Delegate system on @SenSanders #PodestaEmails4
https://t.co/RQXsmAKY0J

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Ad for Hillary Clinton secretly written by Heat Street 'journalist' Louise Mensch
https://t.co/BHAdbGPYqH

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Hillary Clinton decided on Tim Kaine as VP in July 2015. "A little unseemly."
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2986#efmABHAB3AB6ACN

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How Clinton 'friends' cashed in on Haiti earthquake
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/hillarys-state-dept-gave-special-attention-friends-bill-42745387?cid=share_twitter_widget

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https://twitter.com/hashtag/PodestaEmails4?src=hash

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https://twitter.com/hashtag/PodestaEmails4?src=hash

ducks man, how do you keep from burning the rissoto when you're doing it on high heat?

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Podesta is running for which Presidency?

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An exchange Tuesday night between CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway highlighted an inherent tension in the Trump campaign’s recent push to put Bill Clinton’s sexual history at the forefront of the 2016 campaign:

Does settling a lawsuit imply some guilt?
Cooper pressed Conway on that question when she brought up the story of Paula Jones, who eventually settled (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/jones111498.htm) a sexual harassment lawsuit with then-President Bill Clinton in 1998 for $850,000. The President, as part of that settlement, offered no apology and admitted no guilt for what Jones said were unwanted sexual advancements.

“It's part of the strategy to remind people of who Hillary Rodham Clinton actually is. If others aren't going to hold her account for her full record, then, yes, we will,” Conway said of the Trump campaign’s new strategy to associate Hillary Clinton with her husband’s behavior as governor of Arkansas and as President.

“He settled a sexual harassment case for $850,000 with Paula Jones in 1998 dollars. The last time I didn't sexually harass someone, I didn't pay him $850,000,” she said.

“Your candidate has settled numerous lawsuits without admitting any guilt on a whole number of things,” Cooper responded. “Are you implying that settling a lawsuit is implying guilt? Because if so, it means your candidate is guilty of an awful of lot of things, no?” :lol

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cooper-conway-interview-settling-lawsuits?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Holy shit, that's good stuff.

A Dem settling a lawsuit means he's guilty. A Repug settling 1000s of lawsuits means he's not guilty :lol

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