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Saw and mostly agree. Would debate the level of seriousness in the impropriety.
Here's the Greenwald opinion you asked for
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-gre...a-impropriety/
Glenn Greenwald: WikiLeaks Emails Clearly Show Serious Media Impropriety
Saw and mostly agree. Would debate the level of seriousness in the impropriety.
Hillary Clinton backers worried about Clinton Foundation scandals
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016...-scandals.html
A little collusion?
They just cut Assange's internet connection
Guess they were a little worried about what was coming next.
Control corrupt/ biased media through media. It's not a new idea. Keep these articles flowing. Unsubstantiated claims by Brietbart and others water this down.
He needs to get his name off of the leaks. Attention seeking for profit . Others need to release stuff. If he is serious about doing the public a favor he would cut ties with this stuff. He has got way too much baggage IMO.A little collusion?
They just cut Assange's internet connection
Guess they were a little worried about what was coming next.
Clinton team debates donations from lobbyists repping foreign interests
For five days in April 2015, the Clinton campaign seemed torn: should it accept bundled campaign donations from lobbyists for foreign governments?
"This is really a straight up political call," wrote Clinton lawyer Marc Elias in a chain that included campaign manager Robby Mook and senior aides John Podesta, Huma Abedin and Jennifer Palmieri. "One middle option is to take case by case. If, for example, they are [foreign government agents] registered for Canada, we may not case. If for N. Korea we would."
The hacked emails stolen from Podesta’s gmail account and posted by Wikileaks on Sunday show that aides were concerned about cracking down too harshly on lobbyist contributions -- for fear of being mocked, as Barack Obama was.
"Marc made a convincing case to me this am that these sorts of restrictions don't really get you anything...that Obama actually got judged MORE harshly as a result," Mook wrote. "He convinced me. So...in a complete U-turn, I'm ok just taking the money and dealing with any attacks."
Palmieri jumped in, "Take the money!!"
The decision was a tricky one, according to the emails, in part because the campaign already was accepting help. At one point, adviser Dennis Cheng wrote: "We do need to make a decision on this ASAP as our friends who happen to be registered with FARA are already donating and raising." FARA refers to the federal statute requiring registration of agents for foreign governments.
"A total ban feels arbitrary and will engender the same eye-rolling and ill will that it did for Obama," Elias said.
Another adviser, Karuna Seshasai, noted that 27 prospective bundlers were FARA-registered and more were signing up "daily." They also included some prominent Clinton allies, including Podesta's brother Tony. Seshasai noted that Tony Podesta's ties to Iraq, Azerbaijan and Egypt were worth reviewing, along with other bundlers with ties to Libya and the United Arab Emirates.
Jesse Ferguson, a Clinton communications aide, suggested that the campaign should consider how much money it would forfeit if it implemented a strict ban.
"Is there anyway to ballpark what percent of our donor base this would apply to (aka how much money we're throwing away) Cost benefits are easier to analyze with the costs." he wrote.
Cheng noted that the sum might be significant -- and that it would be hard to explain how the campaign takes contributions from corporate lobbyists -- and the Clinton Foundation takes contributions from foreign governments "but now we wont."
"I feel like we are leaving a good amount of money on the table (both for primary and general, and then DNC and state parties)," he wrote.
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Clinton advisers frustrated she wouldn't apologize for emails
Hillary Clinton’s top aides worried privately that the candidate’s resistance to apologizing for the email controversy would create “a character problem.”
According to a new batch of hacked emails stolen from campaign chairman John Podesta’s gmail account and released Sunday by Wikileaks, adviser Neera Tanden lamented Clinton’s inability to simply convey remorse.
“I know this email thing isn't on the level. I'm fully aware of that. But her inability to just do a national interview and communicate genuine feelings of remorse and regret is now, I fear, becoming a character problem (more so than honesty),” adviser Neera Tanden wrote to Podesta on Aug. 22, 2015 in a note led, “Emails – My thoughts.”
Tanden’s email came just days after a federal judge ruled that Clinton violated government policy by using a private server in her role as secretary of state.
Tanden emphasized that Clinton must show sincerity in her admission of regret.
“I see no downside in her actually just saying, look, I'm sorry. I think it will take so much air out of this.”
“She always sees herself bending to ‘their’ will when she hands over information, etc. But the way she has to bend here is in the remorse. Not the ‘if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't do it.’ A real feeling of - this decision I made created a mess and I'm sorry I did that,” Tanden wrote.
She went on to add that Clinton’s judgment – an attack Republicans have used against her throughout her campaign – is not the real concern.
“No one thinks she doesn't have the judgment to be president - she's not reaffirming a negative characteristic in saying sorry. She needs to do that - I see no way of moving on until October otherwise. Anyway, that's my advice.”
Podesta agreed, saying: “Jen and I are in the same place,” likely referring to communications director Jennifer Palmieri. “Trying to figure out how to get her there and best way to execute.”
Clinton’s resistance to apologizing plagued her campaign for months. Earlier hacked emails provide a glimpse into aides’ discomfort with Clinton’s inability to admit wrongdoing over emails.
“Apologies are like her Achilles heel. But she didn’t seem like a in the interview. And she said the word sorry. She will get to a full apology in a few interviews,” Tanden wrote in Sept 4, 2015.
Clinton did not apologize until Sept. 8, when she said in an interview with ABC: “As I look back at it now, even though it was allowed, I should have used two accounts. That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility.”
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Clinton team debates donations from lobbyists repping foreign interests
For five days in April 2015, the Clinton campaign seemed torn: should it accept bundled campaign donations from lobbyists for foreign governments?
"This is really a straight up political call," wrote Clinton lawyer Marc Elias in a chain that included campaign manager Robby Mook and senior aides John Podesta, Huma Abedin and Jennifer Palmieri. "One middle option is to take case by case. If, for example, they are [foreign government agents] registered for Canada, we may not case. If for N. Korea we would."
The hacked emails stolen from Podesta’s gmail account and posted by Wikileaks on Sunday show that aides were concerned about cracking down too harshly on lobbyist contributions -- for fear of being mocked, as Barack Obama was.
"Marc made a convincing case to me this am that these sorts of restrictions don't really get you anything...that Obama actually got judged MORE harshly as a result," Mook wrote. "He convinced me. So...in a complete U-turn, I'm ok just taking the money and dealing with any attacks."
Palmieri jumped in, "Take the money!!"
The decision was a tricky one, according to the emails, in part because the campaign already was accepting help. At one point, adviser Dennis Cheng wrote: "We do need to make a decision on this ASAP as our friends who happen to be registered with FARA are already donating and raising." FARA refers to the federal statute requiring registration of agents for foreign governments.
"A total ban feels arbitrary and will engender the same eye-rolling and ill will that it did for Obama," Elias said.
Another adviser, Karuna Seshasai, noted that 27 prospective bundlers were FARA-registered and more were signing up "daily." They also included some prominent Clinton allies, including Podesta's brother Tony. Seshasai noted that Tony Podesta's ties to Iraq, Azerbaijan and Egypt were worth reviewing, along with other bundlers with ties to Libya and the United Arab Emirates.
Jesse Ferguson, a Clinton communications aide, suggested that the campaign should consider how much money it would forfeit if it implemented a strict ban.
"Is there anyway to ballpark what percent of our donor base this would apply to (aka how much money we're throwing away) Cost benefits are easier to analyze with the costs.
Cheng noted that the sum might be significant -- and that it would be hard to explain how the campaign takes contributions from corporate lobbyists -- and the Clinton Foundation takes contributions from foreign governments "but now we wont."
"I feel like we are leaving a good amount of money on the table (both for primary and general, and then DNC and state parties)," he wrote.
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10/16/2016 10:30 AM EDT
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Clinton advisers frustrated she wouldn't apologize for emails
Hillary Clinton’s top aides worried privately that the candidate’s resistance to apologizing for the email controversy would create “a character problem.”
According to a new batch of hacked emails stolen from campaign chairman John Podesta’s gmail account and released Sunday by Wikileaks, adviser Neera Tanden lamented Clinton’s inability to simply convey remorse.
“I know this email thing isn't on the level. I'm fully aware of that. But her inability to just do a national interview and communicate genuine feelings of remorse and regret is now, I fear, becoming a character problem (more so than honesty),” adviser Neera Tanden wrote to Podesta on Aug. 22, 2015 in a note led, “Emails – My thoughts.”
Tanden’s email came just days after a federal judge ruled that Clinton violated government policy by using a private server in her role as secretary of state.
Tanden emphasized that Clinton must show sincerity in her admission of regret.
“I see no downside in her actually just saying, look, I'm sorry. I think it will take so much air out of this.”
“She always sees herself bending to ‘their’ will when she hands over information, etc. But the way she has to bend here is in the remorse. Not the ‘if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't do it.’ A real feeling of - this decision I made created a mess and I'm sorry I did that,” Tanden wrote.
She went on to add that Clinton’s judgment – an attack Republicans have used against her throughout her campaign – is not the real concern.
“No one thinks she doesn't have the judgment to be president - she's not reaffirming a negative characteristic in saying sorry. She needs to do that - I see no way of moving on until October otherwise. Anyway, that's my advice.”
Podesta agreed, saying: “Jen and I are in the same place,” likely referring to communications director Jennifer Palmieri. “Trying to figure out how to get her there and best way to execute.”
Clinton’s resistance to apologizing plagued her campaign for months. Earlier hacked emails provide a glimpse into aides’ discomfort with Clinton’s inability to admit wrongdoing over emails.
“Apologies are like her Achilles heel. But she didn’t seem like a in the interview. And she said the word sorry. She will get to a full apology in a few interviews,” Tanden wrote in Sept 4, 2015.
Clinton did not apologize until Sept. 8, when she said in an interview with ABC: “As I look back at it now, even though it was allowed, I should have used two accounts. That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility.”
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10/15/2016 03:52 PM EDT
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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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Email hacks reveal Clinton campaign's transparency problems
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/email-...ency-problems/
Emails show Clinton's response to LGBT backlash
https://www.yahoo.com/news/emails-sh...075827431.html
45 minutes
ducks must be loading up the next delivery.
Another batch released today, should be more damning than the previous.
In the meantime check out the undercover video James o'keefe released today.
Wtf happened to james okefe? He looked like a child just couple years ago and now looks like an old man
You remember that Hannah Giles from his first video that exposed ACORN, the chick dressed like a ? Dang
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No, what this says is she will go to a fundraiser to make Soros happy. Candidates sometimes do things like this for their donors.
lol Jared Wynad
[QUOTE=Spurminator;8752989]O'Keefe's latest video has exposed she'll do much more than just go to a fundraiser to make Soros happy. Clinton is nothing but a ing puppet.
they are all puppets except trump he is an outsider
"Clinton is nothing but a ing puppet."
All politicians are puppets, s for their BigDonors. But for you, only Hillary is?
Into the Maelstrom.
O'Keefe did it to himself.
Podesta congratulates White House on ‘sending the Keystone body to the morgue’
John Podesta congratulated White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough in November of last year on “finally sending the Keystone body to the morgue,” one day after President Barack Obama announced that he would reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline following a seven-year review.
In the emailed dated Nov. 7, Podesta wrote, “Congrats on finally sending the Keystone body to the morgue. Thought it ended up playing well and his statement was great. I've described it as I hate this chicken issue; now let me tell you what I think about the important issues of climate change and clean energy. Seriously, it was really good.”
The prior day, Obama delivered remarks from the White House, in which he said the project would have undercut America’s global leadership on fighting climate change.
McDonough replied that he was generally happy with the news coverage, but offered one caveat.
“Thought stories today were good, but for some former WH staff saying all sorts of things, mostly untrue. Thanks, Bill D.!” he wrote, possibly referring to former Obama chief of staff Bill Daley, who had been vocal about Keystone.
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Podesta floated Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg as running mate contenders
It was just one day after Hillary Clinton swept through the March 15 primaries against Bernie Sanders when John Podesta emailed her a list of 39 names to be considered for vetting as her eventual running mate, according to an email released on Tuesday morning.
The list includes business moguls like Bill Gates, longtime allies like Terry McAuliffe, and rivals like Bernie Sanders (who was at the bottom of the list).
"We put together the attached notional teams of 'report writers' (confidential profiles/public record vet) and 'vettors' (deep-dive/oppo-book), and want to run it by you before we execute on the list," Podesta wrote. "Cheryl [Mills], Robby [Mook], Jake [Sullivan], Huma [Abedin], Jennifer [Palmieri] and I also did a first cut of people to consider for VP. I have organized names in rough food groups."
Here's the list, as organized by Podesta:
Javier Becerra
Julian Castro
Eric Garcetti
Tom Perez
Ken Salazar
Tammy Baldwin
Kirsten Gillibrand
Amy Klobuchar
Claire McKaskill
Jeanne Shaheen
Debbie Stabenow
Elizabeth Warren
Michael Bennet
Sherrod Brown
Martin Heinreich
Tim Kaine
Terry McAuliffe
Chris Murphy
Tom Vilsack
Steve Benjamin
Corey Booker
Andrew Gillum
Eric Holder
Deval Patrick
Kasim Reed
Anthony Foxx
John Allen
Bill McCraven
Mike Mullen
Mary Barra
Michael Bloomberg
Ursula Burns
Tim Cook
Bill Gates
Melinda Gates
Muhtar Kent
Judith Rodin
Howard Schultz
Bernie Sanders
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Clinton aides struck Israel from early stump speech
Hillary Clinton’s aides debated whether to include a shoutout to Israel in an early version of her stump speech, ultimately concluding that it wasn’t worth the possible blowback from Democratic activists.
According to a hacked email chain that begins on May 15, 2015, Clinton’s top policy aide, Jake Sullivan, found himself at odds with the former secretary of state’s political advisers when he suggested adding “a sentence on standing up for our allies and our values, including Israel and other fellow democracies, and confronting terrorists and dictators with strength and cunning.”
“I though this was largely for her TP with public events not fundraisers. Do we need Israel etc for that?” communications adviser Mandy Grunwald responded.
“We def need the etc. I think good to have Israel too,” Sullivan replied.
Chief strategist and pollster Joel Benenson chimed in: “Why would we call out Israel in public events now? The only voters elevating FP at all are Republican primary voters. To me we deal with this in stride when an if we are asked about FP.”
“She was Secretary of State,” Sullivan shot back.
“I'm w Joel,” wrote campaign manager Robby Mook. “We shouldn't have Israel at public events. Especially dem activists.”
Sullivan responded: “I won't fall on sword over Israel but we need more than climate in that paragraph.”
Speechwriter Dan Schwerin suggested using the following basic paragraph to outline her foreign policy, “and then she can drop in Israel when she's with donors”:
“Fourth and finally, we have to protect our country from the global threats that we see, from terrorists to dictators to diseases – and the ones that are still over the horizon. We have to assert confident American leadership to shape global events rather than be shaped by them. That includes taking on global warming and those who continue to deny that it exists. And it means always standing up for our allies and our values, especially our fellow democracies.”
“I'm fine w that,” said Mook.
“Good,” added Benenson.
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Clinton aides thought the press would 'shift away' from covering her emails
Hillary Clinton’s campaign drafted a four-week plan to shape press coverage ahead of the official announcement of her presidential run, detailed to the point of when she would tweet and what stories her aides would pitch to reporters to distract them from the brewing controversy over her use of a private email server.
According to a hacked email exchange published by WikiLeaks, communications aide Jesse Ferguson sent campaign manager Robby Mook the memo that outlined the plans on March 13, 2015. She announced her presidential bid a month later, on April 12.
While it’s not clear if the memo was implemented as drafted, it shows the care Clinton aides took to micromanage every aspect of her rollout.
Noting that reporters “will write about her regardless of whether we choose to make news or not,” even though Clinton hadn’t yet announced plans to run, the memo advocated a proactive approach to dealing with the press in hopes of driving a positive message about her campaign. In particular, given the scrutiny surrounding Clinton’s private email server and her family foundation, the campaign wanted to “give” reporters assigned to following the former secretary of state “something to cover other than the unhelpful stories about the foundation, emails, etc.”
Besides keeping reporters busy, the memo called for putting Republicans “on defense” and “forc[ing] them to take bad positions” on issues, along with drumming up enthusiasm for Clinton’s candidacy among Democrats, as the campaign’s “strategic objectives” pre-launch.
To do that, Ferguson offered a range of suggestions. There were general plans, like challenging the actions of Republicans in Congress and enlisting supporters to write op-eds highlighting her agenda, and thoughts on overall strategy, like what tone to set on Twitter (“We want to ramp up HRC’s social media activity with simple commentary on articles of note, news of the day, and humor”).
Then the memo got into granular detail. It offered a “timeline of potential activities” leading up to the campaign launch, starting with actions that had already been taken (like a March 11 tweet about a letter Republicans signed on Iran), and then laid out plans for future messaging.
For example, according to the memo, on March 17, Clinton would respond to the Republican budget plan (“could be a joint online action with other Democratic leaders, a conference call with activists, a stop by at some location effected [sic] by Republican budget cuts or something of the like. At minimum, it would be a statement and a tweet”). Over the week of March 23, aides would arrange to meet with Washington reporters off-the-record and also pitch journalists stories about campaign staffing. Clinton, meanwhile, would commemorate the fifth anniversary of the 2010 healthcare overhaul (there would maybe be an event, and definitely a tweet).
The memo also acknowledged that the campaign might need to address news regarding Clinton’s position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and any disclosed public records.
The memo’s authors, apparently, were optimistic that this strategy would work: On March 18, it proposed that aides “start pushing and pitching the background story that press coverage on HRC has shifted away from covering the situation with emails.”
The press, of course, is still covering the fallout from the email controversy some 19 months later.
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