Wikileaks dump: John Podesta email dump

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as Roy reminds us, this "civilized political establishment" has never existed. That Trump is an odious character does nothing to change this fact.

"Forget the genocide of American Indians,

forget slavery,

forget Hiroshima,

forget Cambodia,

forget Vietnam,"

Roy said to Cusack, lamenting the historical amnesia — both willful and not — of the powerful and the punditry.

"I can't understand those people who believe that the excesses are just aberrations."

Excesses, in Roy's view, are embedded in the very concept of empire.

"Isn't the greatness of great nations directly proportionate to their ability to be ruthless, genocidal?" Roy writes. "Doesn't the height of a country's 'success' usually also mark the depths of its moral failure?"

http://www.commondreams.org/views/20...-crimes-empire

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Clinton criticized staff for sending over "poll-tested" speech lines
Just days before her first major campaign rally, Hillary Clinton vented to her staff for feeding her "poll-tested lines that don't work," according to hacked emails posted by Wikileaks.

Clinton speechwriter Dan Schwerin described a call from the candidate in which she "expressed a fair amount of frustration with how things are going."

"She said we've given a series of very good policy speeches and in between we just keep giving her poll-tested lines that don't work, like make the middle class mean something," Schwerin said in the June 8, 2015 email with the subject line "HRC Reactions."

Schwerin appears to be referring to a speech Clinton would later deliver on Roosevelt Island in New York on June 13, when she held the first official rally of her presidential bid. Clinton, according to Schwerin, insisted on including in her theme "Four Fights," which she would then connect to Franklin Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms."

"[O]h, and by the way, she had to come up with it herself because we didn't give her anything better," he noted. "I can probably graft on a light "four fights" structure onto the second half without actually changing much at all. The front half is the challenge as was evident on the call last night when there was still so little consensus."


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Clinton lawyer sought to cast doubt on Broaddrick's rape allegation
A tweet in January in which an Arkansas woman reiterated her claim that Bill Clinton raped her in 1978 prompted a longtime personal lawyer for the Clintons, David Kendall, to gather material casting doubt on the allegation, according to a hacked email released Saturday.

“I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away,” retired Arkansas nurse Juanita Broaddrick wrote on Twitter on January 6, 2016.

Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta apparently spoke with Kendall about the issue that night, with Kendall sending Podesta an email the following day en led, “History of Juanita Broaddrick Allegations.”

Kendall attached several do ents and said he was pulling his old files on the case to get more information. The memos he attached show that in 1998 Broaddrick signed an affidavit denying that the alleged rape ever took place. The affidavit was filed to try to head off a subpoena for Broaddrick’s testimony in connection with Paula Jones’ sexual harassment suit against Bill Clinton.

However, when Independent Counsel Ken Starr began looking into the episode, he offered Broaddrick immunity and she reversed course, saying that the rumors Clinton raped her were true. “Starr was seeking more evidence against the President, any way he could, and he immunized Broaddrick to protect her from any prosecution for perjury if she now changed her story. Voila! She did,” Kendall wrote.

Kendall also sent along a statement he issued in 1999, when NBC News aired an interview in which Broaddrick maintained the rape had occurred. In the statement, the Clinton lawyer denied any rape occurred, but seemed to leave open the possibility of a consensual encounter.

"Any allegation that the president assaulted Mrs. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false," Kendall said then. Bill Clinton was asked about the incident at a press conference and deferred to his lawyer's statement.

Broaddrick, who appeared with other Clinton accusers and Donald Trump prior to this week’s presidential debate, also asserts that Hillary Clinton threatened her to keep quiet about the incident. Kendall’s email does not address that claim.


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Bloomberg aide suggested the former NYC mayor wanted to be Hillary Clinton’s secretary of state
A former aide to Michael Bloomberg suggested the former mayor was hoping to be secretary of state in a Hillary Clinton administration, according to hacked emails released Saturday by WikiLeaks.

In an email exchange between Bloomberg aide Howard Wolfson and Clinton ally Neera Tanden, Wolfson affirmed Bloomberg was not running — despite a New York Post article led “NY Dems push Bloomberg to run for president” published months after the former New York City mayor rejected rumors he would launch a presidential campaign of his own.

Tanden, who runs the liberal think tank the Center for American Progress, said she was relieved and asked if there’s a foreign policy position that Bloomberg would consider under a possible Clinton administration.

Is there something Mike Bloomberg would want to do in his life in an Admin? Is like Ambassador to China way too small?”

Wolson responded candidly: “Secty of state Which ain't gonna happen,” he wrote.

Tanden forwarded the email chain to Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta, who has been the recipient of WikiLeaks’ release of their week-long hack of his personal email account.

“Something to know for down the road,” she wrote.

Bloomberg, a moderate Republican mayor but staunch Donald Trump critic, later spoke at the Democratic National Convention, condemning Trump and asking fellow Republicans to join him in supporting Clinton.

When POLITICO reached out to Bloomberg, a response came from Wolfson: "I think Mike made it pretty clear that the job he wanted was the top job.”

(Wolfson clarified the "top job" he referred to was President of the United States.)


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Clinton team mulled joint Bill Clinton-George W. Bush immigration interview
In the month before Hillary Clinton launched her campaign, her husband's team was mulling sitting Bill Clinton down with predecessor George W. Bush to for a Univision interview on immigration.

Hacked emails released by WikiLeaks show Bill Clinton's chief of staff Tina Flournoy and Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be communications director Jennifer Palmieri — along with Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta — considered former president George W. Bush to be something of an ally on the subject, at least enough that they thought about doing a joint interview with Univision's Jorge Ramos.

"Actually, I'm ok with this, but would need some prep," wrote Podesta of the proposal for the former commanders-in-chief to sit down in May.

"Seems that with his brother out there as a candidate, it is higher stakes for 43 to be talking about immigration, partic w/ WJC," wrote Palmieri.

Flournoy's response: "43 is soooooo good on it. Really good. At least he has been when I’ve seen him talk about it with 42." (43 is a reference to Bush, the 43 president, and 42 is reference to Bill Clinton.)

The interview, however, never happened — and before long Donald Trump entered the race with a speech in which he denounced some Mexican immigrants as “murderers" and "rapists."


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Annie Karni
10/15/2016 11:58 AM EDT
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Clinton, Sanders teams both wanted Larry David's endorsement
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both courted the endorsement of comedian Larry David -- who played Sanders better than Sanders throughout the primary on “Saturday Night Live" -- and he declined to get on board with either team, according to hacked emails released Saturday by WikiLeaks.

“can you figure out whether he's for her or Bernie?” Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta emailed his colleague Sara Latham on Oct. 22, 2015, a week after David played Sanders in "Saturday Night Live's" parody of the first presidential debate.

Latham responded that deputy communications director Kristina Schake was going to ask director Rob Reiner, a longtime Clinton supporter, “before we ask someone like [Hollywood agent Michael] Kives who has a big mouth.”

Schake followed up with disappointing news. “Rob spoke to Larry who said he isn't endorsing anyone because he is going to keep playing Bernie on SNL,” she wrote. “Bernie's campaign contacted him right after the skit to ask him to endorse and he declined.”


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Bill Clinton pressured FDA to get dying donor access to experimental cancer drug
Former President Bill Clinton, Sen. John Kerry and other top Democrats pressured FDA and a pharmaceutical company to get a top donor access to an experimental cancer medicine, according to hacked emails released by Wikileaks Saturday.

In 2008, Clinton and Kerry, along with former Sens. Max Baucus and Tom Harkin, worked Washington lobbyists, board members and shareholders for the drug company Biogen, helping to arrange conversations between then-FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach and company CEO James Mullen. They were working to get Dallas fundraiser Fred Baron access to Biogen’s drug Tysabri to treat his bone marrow cancer.

They also reached out to top Biogen shareholders and Democratic donors with connections to the Mayo Clinic, the hospital he was being treated at.

Baron’s wife Lisa Blue Baron pushed for the politicians help, threatening to take out a full ad in the Boston Globe against the Massachusetts based company if it didn’t assist, the emails reveal.

The effort appeared to help persuade FDA’s to provide assurances to the drug company that they would turn a blind eye to any negative effects experienced by Baron when evaluating the drug, but Biogen continued to say no.

It’s unclear why the drug, which was already FDA approved for multiple sclerosis, couldn’t have been provided to Baron without FDA or the company’s approval. Doctors are legally allowed to use FDA approved treatments for conditions not approved by FDA.

Ultimately it was Nancy Pelosi — who worked with FDA and the Mayo Clinic to get the drug administered without the company’s consent, according to the Dallas Morning News but it was unsuccessful in saving Baron’s life.

Baron, a prolific fundraiser best known for providing John Edwards with money to conceal his affair, died October 30, 2008 at age 61.

The disclosure comes amid a nationwide push for “Right-to-Try” laws that allow terminally ill patients to skirt FDA’s compassionate use process when requesting access to experimental medicines. More than half the states have passed such laws with huge bipartisan support, but in late September Senate Majority leader Harry Reid blocked Sen. Ron Johnson’s effort to get a similar law through the Senate.


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Kyle Cheney
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10/15/2016 03:43 PM EDT
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The staff army behind a Clinton tweet
How many campaign staffers does it take to craft a 140-character message about Puerto Rico? Up to 11, if you're Hillary Clinton.

Four years after Democrats mocked Mitt Romney's army of tweet-minders, Clinton's team deployed 11 people to hone a single tweet on Puerto Rico's debt crisis.

"Our goal with the tweet is to be empathetic to Puerto Ricans, make clear we are in this together b/c their health and well-being is ours and b/c many Americans hold PR municipal bonds as part of their retirement portfolios," wrote adviser Ann O'Leary. "We don't want to suggest a bailout, but we do want to suggest that we should partner to solve the problem"

Cc'ed on the email were senior aides Jake Sullivan, Amanda Renteria, John Podesta, Robby Mook, Milia Fisher, Dan Schwerin, Teddy Goff, Katie Dowd and Lauren Peterson. Later Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri was added.

O'Leary's suggested tweet: "Puerto Rico's debt crisis is not theirs alone. We must partner to find smart solutions to stabilize & grow PR's economy and help people thrive."

Renteria replied that the tweet lacked a "sense of the 'underlying problems' -- and she recommended adjustments.

Campaign manager Robby Mook suggested reaching out to the campaign's Puerto Rico allies to weigh in.

Again, Renteria replied. "Am doing. Been on phone for the last hour on and off."

"Tweet is good but we should do a statement tomorrow too," she said. "We will see. Weighing in is imp right now. Then a thoughtful statement with compassion and being smart will be better than what others have done."


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WikiLeaks releases transcripts of Clinton Goldman Sachs speeches
By CNN
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn...hes/index.html

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Clinton lawyer sought to cast doubt on Broaddrick's rape allegation
A tweet in January in which an Arkansas woman reiterated her claim that Bill Clinton raped her in 1978 prompted a longtime personal lawyer for the Clintons, David Kendall, to gather material casting doubt on the allegation, according to a hacked email released Saturday.

“I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73....it never goes away,” retired Arkansas nurse Juanita Broaddrick wrote on Twitter on January 6, 2016.

Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta apparently spoke with Kendall about the issue that night, with Kendall sending Podesta an email the following day en led, “History of Juanita Broaddrick Allegations.”

Kendall attached several do ents and said he was pulling his old files on the case to get more information. The memos he attached show that in 1998 Broaddrick signed an affidavit denying that the alleged rape ever took place. The affidavit was filed to try to head off a subpoena for Broaddrick’s testimony in connection with Paula Jones’ sexual harassment suit against Bill Clinton.

However, when Independent Counsel Ken Starr began looking into the episode, he offered Broaddrick immunity and she reversed course, saying that the rumors Clinton raped her were true. “Starr was seeking more evidence against the President, any way he could, and he immunized Broaddrick to protect her from any prosecution for perjury if she now changed her story. Voila! She did,” Kendall wrote.

Kendall also sent along a statement he issued in 1999, when NBC News aired an interview in which Broaddrick maintained the rape had occurred. In the statement, the Clinton lawyer denied any rape occurred, but seemed to leave open the possibility of a consensual encounter.

"Any allegation that the president assaulted Mrs. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false," Kendall said then. Bill Clinton was asked about the incident at a press conference and deferred to his lawyer's statement.

Broaddrick, who appeared with other Clinton accusers and Donald Trump prior to this week’s presidential debate, also asserts that Hillary Clinton threatened her to keep quiet about the incident. Kendall’s email does not address that claim.


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Ken Starr
Ken F'N Starr?

My God ducks, get a clue...
And do you read any of your carpet bombing posts? Is anything striking a target?

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Clinton dissed environmentalists in private meeting with unions
Hillary Clinton dismissed climate activists in withering terms during a meeting with labor unions last year, saying the environmentalists pressing her to renounce fossil fuels should "get a life," according to allegedly hacked emails released Friday by WikiLeaks.


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https://gma.yahoo.com/clinton-team-r...231510446.html
Three months after Hillary Clinton announced her presidential bid last year, a key ally, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, wrote to a top Clinton campaign aide, in a purportedly hacked email released on the WikiLeaks website.

Granholm offered, as she put it in her subject line, “a humble suggestion” to the campaign.

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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to be Secretary of State in a Hillary Clinton White House, according to emails published Saturday by WikiLeaks.

A June 3, 2015, email from Clinton adviser Neera Tanden asked former Bloomberg spokesman and Clinton ally Howard Wolfson whether the ex-mayor was considering a presidential run, The New York Post reports.
http://nypost.com/2016/10/15/bloombe...emails-reveal/

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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to be Secretary of State in a Hillary Clinton White House, according to emails published Saturday by WikiLeaks.

A June 3, 2015, email from Clinton adviser Neera Tanden asked former Bloomberg spokesman and Clinton ally Howard Wolfson whether the ex-mayor was considering a presidential run, The New York Post reports.
http://nypost.com/2016/10/15/bloombe...emails-reveal/

That position is going to go to Warren.

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Wikileaks emails REVEALS Hillary campaign pushing Muslim Obama narrative!
http://therightscoop.com/wikileaks-e...ama-narrative/

HOT TOPIC Secret Reason Media Refuses To Cover Hillary’s WikiLeaks Releases Just Got Exposed
http://www.proudcons.com/secret-reas...t-got-exposed/

Leaked Email: Israeli Officials See Obama as ‘Weak,’ ‘Pro-Muslim,’ ‘Anti-Israel’
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/

Hacked emails show Clinton toned down Benghazi testimony
http://hsrd.yahoo.com/RV=1/RE=147767...8hHlwkPimrNHA-

WikiLeaks: Liberal Journalist Troubled by Secretary Clinton 'Doing Gossip Emails With Sid Blumenthal'
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/...n-doing-gossip

Emails show calculations behind Clinton trade deal waffling
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016...-waffling.html

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...ails/92014368/
Four of the juiciest leaked Podesta emails

Clinton and DNC face new email attacks in wake of Wikileaks dump

https://www.yahoo.com/news/clinton-a...ail&soc_trk=ma

Podesta to Tom Steyer in leaked email: ‘I didn’t expect to get f---ed by you’
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-env...et-f-ed-by-you

Rigged Debates: Wikileaks Emails Confirm Media in Clinton’s Pocket

http://observer.com/2016/10/rigged-d...intons-pocket/

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New FBI files contain allegations of 'quid pro quo' in Clinton's emails
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016...ns-emails.html

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Seven more Hillary Clinton scandals exposed by WikiLeaks

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/20...xposed-wikile/

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WikiLeaks emails show Clinton campaign collected data to discredit Bill Clinton accuser
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...fae_story.html

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http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...odesta-concern

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-1...otal-now-12073

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