Who Leaked the Podesta Emails? Who Hacked the DNC?

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has publicly denied that Russia was the source of the leaks and one of his associates, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray, has suggested that the DNC leak came from a “disgruntled” Democrat upset with the DNC’s sandbagging of the Sanders campaign and that the Podesta leak came from the U.S. intelligence community.

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“John Podesta was a paid lobbyist for the Saudi government,” Murray noted. “If the American security services were not watching the communications of the Saudi government’s paid lobbyist in Washington, then the American security services would not be doing their job. … His communications are going to be of interest to a great number of other security services as well.”

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In reference to the leak of the DNC emails, Murray noted that “Julian Assange took very close interest in the death of Seth Rich, the Democratic staff member” who had worked for the DNC on voter databases and was shot and killed on July 10 near his Washington, D.C., home.

Murray continued, “WikiLeaks offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to the capture of his killers. So, obviously there are suspicions there about what’s happening and things are somewhat murky. I’m not saying – don’t get me wrong – I’m not saying that he was the source of the [DNC] leaks. What I’m saying is that it’s probably not an unfair indication to draw that WikiLeaks believes that he may have been killed by someone who thought he was the source of the leaks … whether correctly or incorrectly.”

Though acknowledging that such killings can become grist for conspiracy buffs, Murray added: “But people do die over this sort of stuff. There were billions of dollars – literally billions of dollars – behind Hillary Clinton’s election campaign and those people have lost their money.

“You have also to remember that there’s a big financial interest – particularly in the armaments industry – in a bad American relationship with Russia and the worse the relationship with Russia is the larger contracts the armaments industry can expect especially in the most high-tech high-profit side of fighter jets and missiles and that kind of thing.

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"So, there are people standing to lose billions of dollars and anybody who thinks in that situation bad things don’t happen to people is very naïve.”

  Consortium News

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Neera Tanden eMail to John Podesta

"Eventually she will sound like a human."

Yeah, Neera's not going to be in the 2017 Clinton adminsitration.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Hillary and the Catholics

I didn't get that "joke" Trump made about Hillary pretending not to hate Catholics. I had to do a little research.

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan called for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to disassociate herself from anti-Catholic statements made by her campaign chairman and said the remarks were “extraordinarily patronizing and insulting to Catholics.”

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Emails released last week by WikiLeaks showed Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta and Director of Communications Jennifer Palmieri, both Catholics, in conversations with activists from two left-wing organizations. In the emails, Catholics were debased, with their beliefs being called “severely backwards.” Conservative Catholics also were accused of “an amazing bastardization of the faith,” and Rupert Murdoch was mocked for baptizing his children as Catholics in the River Jordan.

The U.S. Church’s bishops were slammed in the emails as well, referred to as “a middle ages dictatorship.”

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The statements "are just extraordinarily patronizing and insulting to Catholics,” Cardinal Dolan told ABC affiliate News Channel 13 on Monday.

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Podesta admitted to helping launch a “progressive” infiltration of the Church in another email, and he took an active role in attempting to incite a liberal Catholic revolt against the U.S. bishops.

  Life Site

Podesta is going to get buried, isn't he? And he's not alone. Neera Tanden, now Jennifer Palmieri.

“If it had been said about the Jewish community, if it had been said about the Islamic community, within 10 minutes there would have been an apology and a complete distancing from those remarks,”[said Dolan].

I'm sure he's right about that.

To be fair, however, when it comes to Cardinal Dolan, I don't think he's got a lot of indignation capital.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Leaking, Stand By

The whole of DC is going to be implicated before these emails leaks are finished. I bet the GOP elites have about shat themselves wondering when someone is going to leak their emails.



To be fair, if you read the Wikipedia bio of David Brock, you might find that you agree with either assessment.

As an aside: what email program are these people using? Those carat marks for replying are dinosaur stuff, aren't they?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Who Will Bite the Dust?

One of Hillary's loyal ass-kissers, Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, has just been exposed by another batch of Wikileaks emails.

Here's Twatwaffle Tanden - and horrible public speaker (somewhat reminiscent of Hillary herself) - sucking up for a future position in a Hillary administration - her public rhetoric:

Here's Tanden privately:

“Everyone wants her to apologize. And she should,” Tanden wrote in one September 2015 email. “Apologies are like her Achilles heel.”

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Tanden observed in the email to Podesta that “she didn't seem like a b---- in the interview” and that she would “get to a full apology in a few interviews.”

In another August 2015 email, Tanden offered this particularly tough criticism of Clinton’s handling of the email scandal.

“…[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.)”

In January 2016, after the delivery of an apparently well-crafted tweet by Podesta, the campaign chairman complained to Tanden that he wanted to tweet it earlier, but it was held up.

“Got held by who? Hillary. God. Her instincts are suboptimal,” Tanden responded.

  Fox

Somehow, I don't think she's going to make it to a Clinton administration position.  Maybe she won't be alone.  I'm looking at you, John Podesta.

Clinton’s description of herself as a moderate Democrat at a September 2015 event in Ohio causes some uproar amongst her team. In a mail from adviser Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, to Podesta in the days following the comment she asks why she said this.

“I pushed her on this on Sunday night. She claims she didn't remember saying it. Not sure I believe her,” Podesta replies. Tanden insists that the comment has made her job more difficult after “telling every reporter I know she's actually progressive”.

“It worries me more that she doesn't seem to know what planet we are all living in at the moment,” she adds.

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A May 2015 email between Podesta and Tanden appears to imply Clinton’s brothers are a source of embarrassment for the campaign.

In an email titled, ‘Glad you said no’ Tanden writes, “When H asked us to hire her old friend,” and Podesta replies, “Yup. Maybe we can rent the Queen Mary for the next 18 months and fill it with her brothers and assorted crazy hangers on sail around and around.”

  RT

They should know better. They know how vindictive Hillary is.

Maybe we shouldn't leave out Jake Sullivan.

Emails between Clinton’s foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan and Tanden from March 2016 discussed how it was “REALLY dicey territory” for Clinton to comment on strengthening “bribery laws to ensure that politicians don’t change legislation for political donations.”

Tanden agrees with Sullivan, “She may be so tainted she's really vulnerable = if so, maybe a message of I've seen how this sausage is made, it needs to stop, I'm going to stop it will actually work.”

Keep making that sausage guys.  And get better email security.

If Neera gets the end of Hillary's boot, it couldn't happen to a more deserving person.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

About Those Leaked Podesta Emails

The Clinton team has been using several methods for casting the Podesta email leaks as, if not false, at least questionable, although none of them has challenged any single reported leak as untrue. 

Politico writer Jack Shafer analyzes the situation:

One indicator that the hacked Podesta emails are legit is that they are so boring. One of my Politico colleagues who has plowed through hundreds of them looking for news calls them “The Big Yawn.” The characters in the Podesta emails come off less like Machiavellian schemers than harried politicians responding on the fly with a mixture of bravado, strategy and improvisation to unfolding events. They’re not in control. Like most everybody else in Washington, they’re reacting.

This is not to say that the emails contain no news value. From them we gain a sense of how the Clinton team works together, what Clinton said in her Wall Street speeches and more on the political sabotaging of Bernie Sanders. We learn that Clinton aide Doug Band was feuding with Chelsea Clinton at the Clinton Foundation. That Hillary Clinton has made herself expert in taking both sides of an issue. That Donna Brazile leaked CNN Town Hall questions to the Clinton campaign. That Podesta was courting Martin O’Malley in February, hoping to win his endorsement for Clinton, of petty squabbles involving Lanny Davis and Robby Mook, and that Podesta was phone buddies with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Future emails leaks may contain stronger meat. For my sake, and for the journalists assigned to wallow in them, I hope so. But so far, there is less journalistic significance in the confidential emails Team Clinton is zipping around than in the wild, prolific and quite public tweets that Donald Trump issues nearly every hour.

  Politico

However, they're only yawn material because the anti-Trump crowd wants them to be.  Yes, Trump is a dangerous man, and not someone you want as president, but that doesn't mean Hillary's not dangerous and someone you do want.  The leaked emails from Hillary's, Powell's and now Podesta's accounts are enlightening looks into how scheming, dirty and dishonest these people are.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Email Leaks Still Coming

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.