Podesta essentially gave up his email due to committed by him blunder: sending his password to the
attacker. As such it was far from high-end hacking, which can be attributed to intelligence
agencies. It is more like a regular, primitive phishing expedition
which became successful due to Podesta blunder. So this is not hacking but phishing
expedition... That makes big difference.
The fact that emails were downloaded to Wikileaks is of secondary importance.
Complete ignorance of the part of Podesta elementary security protocols (never click on the link
in email is one of such rules) and incompetence of his staff (and himself) s what should be in the
center of the story. He did not even configured two factor authentication for his account.
In the aftermath of one of the most memorable (c)october shocks in presidential campaign history,
Wikileaks continues its ongoing broadside attack against the Clinton campaign with the relentless
Podesta dump, by unveiling another 596 emails in the latest Part 22 of its Podesta release, bringing
the total emails released so far to exactly 36,190, leaving less than 30% of the total dump left
to go.
RELEASE: The Podesta Emails Part 22
#PodestaEmails
#PodestaEmails22
#HillaryClinton
https://t.co/wzxeh70oUm
pic.twitter.com/QnWewcpPbf
- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks)
October 29,
2016
As usual we will go parse through the disclosure and bring you some of the more notable ones.
* * *
In a February 2012
email from Chelsea Clinton's NYU alias, [email protected]
, to Podesta and Mills, Bill and Hillary's frustrated daughter once again points out the "frustration
and confusion" among Clinton Foundation clients in the aftermath of the previously noted scandals
plaguing the Clinton consultancy, Teneo:
Over the past few days a few people from the Foundation have reached out to me frustrated or
upset about _____ (fill in the blank largely derived meetings Friday or Monday). I've responded
to all w/ essentially the following (ie disintermediating myself, again, emphatically) below.
I also called my Dad last night to tell him of my explicit non-involvement and pushing all back
to you both and to him as I think that is indeed the right answer. Thanks
Sample: Please share any and all concerns, with examples, without pulling punches, with John
and Cheryl as appropriate and also if you feel very strongly with my Dad directly. Transitions
are always challenging and to get to the right answer its critical that voices are heard and understood,
and in the most direct way - ie to them without intermediation. Particularly in an effort to move
more toward a professionalism and efficiency at the Foundation and for my father - and they're
the decision-makers, my Dad most of all
* * *
A February 2015 email
from Neera Tanden lashes out at David Brock of the Bonner Group, profiled in this post: "
Money Laundering Scheme
Exposed: 14 Pro-Clinton Super PACs & Non-Profits Implicated ." As a reminder, the Bonner Group,
as we showed last month, may be a money laundering front involving various SuperPACs and non-profit
institutions:
In the email Tanden says that:
"Brock/Bonner are a nightmare: Really, Suzie Buell isn't giving to the superpac? I wonder how
that got in this story "
Big donors holding off making pledges to pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC ",
and concludes by saying that " Sometimes HRC/WJC have the worst judgement ." In retrospect,
she is right.
* * *
Speaking of "donor advisor"
Mary Pat Bonner , the
following
email from March 2009 hints at potential impropriety in shifting money from one
democratic donor group to another, the
Center for American Progress :
I have moved all the sussman money from unity '09 to cap and am reviewing the others . I will
assess it and keep you informed
Something else for the DOJ to look into after the elections, perhaps?
* * *
And then there is
this email from August 2015 in which German politician Michael Werz advises John Podesta that
Turkish president Erdogan "is making substantial investments in U.S. to counter opposition (CHP,
Kurds, Gulenists etc.) outreach to policymakers" and the US Government.
John, heard this second hand but more than once. Seems Erdogan faction is making substantial
investments in U.S. to counter opposition (CHP, Kurds, Gulenists etc.) outreach to policymakers
and USG. Am told that the Erdogan crew also tries to make inroads via donations to Democratic
candidates, including yours. Two names that you should be aware of are *Mehmet Celebi* and *Ali
Cinar*. Happy to elaborate on the phone, provided you are not shopping at the liquor store.
The email :
This should perhaps explain why the US has so far done absolutely nothing to halt Erdogan's unprecedented
crackdown on "coup plotters" which has seen as many as 100,000 workers lose their jobs, be arrested,
or otherwise removed from Erdogan's political opposition.
The daily dump continues. In the now traditional daily routine, one which forces the Clinton campaign
to resort to ever more stark sexual scandals involving Trump to provide a media distraction, moments
ago Wikileaks released yet another 1,803 emails in Part 12 of its ongoing Podesta Email dump, which
brings the total number of released emails to 18,953.
RELEASE: The Podesta Emails Part 12 https://t.co/wzxeh70oUm
#HillaryClinton
#imWithHer
#PodestaEmails
#PodestaEmails12
pic.twitter.com/druf7WQXD5
- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks)
October 19,
2016
As a reminder among the most recent revelations we got further insights into Hillary's desire
to see Obamacare "
unravel" , her contempt for "doofus" Bernie Sanders, staff exchanges on handling media queries
about Clinton "flip-flopping" on gay marriage, galvanizing Latino support and locking down Clinton's
healthcare policy. Just as notable has been the ongoing revelation of just how "captured" the so-called
independent press has been in its "off the record" discussions with John Podesta which got the head
Politico correspondent, Glenn Thrush, to admit he is a "hack" for allowing Podesta to dictate the
content of his article.
The release comes on the day of the third and final presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton
and Donald Trump, and as a result we are confident it will be scrutinized especially carefully for
any last minute clues that would allow Trump to lob a much needed Hail Mary to boost his standing
in the polls.
As there is a total of 50,000 emails, Wikileaks will keep the media busy over the next three weeks
until the elections with another 30,000 emails still expected to be released.
* * *
Among the initial emails to stand out is this extensive exchange showing just how intimiately
the narrative of Hillary's server had been coached. The
following September
2015 email exchange between Podesta and Nick Merrill, framed the "core language" to be used in
response to questions Clinton could be asked about her email server, and the decision to "bleach"
emails from it. The emails contain long and short versions of responses for Clinton.
"Because the government already had everything that was work-related, and my personal emails
were just that – personal – I didn't see a reason to keep them so I asked that they be deleted,
and that's what the company that managed my server did. And we notified Congress of that back
in March"
She was then presented with the following hypothetical scenario:
* "Why won't you say whether you wiped it?"
"After we went through the process to determine what was work related and what was
not and provided the work related emails to State, I decided not to keep the personal ones."
"We saved the work-related ones on a thumb drive that is now with the Department of Justice.
And as I said in March, I chose not to keep the personal ones. I asked that they be deleted, how
that happened was up to the company that managed the server. And they are cooperating fully with
anyone that has questions."
* * *
Another notable
email reveals the close relationship between the Clinton Foundation and Ukraine billionaire Victor
Pinchuk, a
prominent donor to the Clinton Foundation , in which we see the latter's attempt to get a meeting
with Bill Clinton to show support for Ukraine:
From: Tina Flournoy < [email protected]
>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 9:58:55 AM
To: Amitabh Desai
Cc: Jon Davidson; Margaret Steenburg; Jake Sullivan; Dan Schwerin; Huma Abedin; John Podesta
Subject: Re: Victor Pinchuk
Team HRC - we'll get back to you on this
> On Mar 30, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Amitabh Desai < [email protected]
> wrote:
>
> Victor Pinchuk is relentlessly following up (including this morning) about a meeting with WJC
in London or anywhere in Europe. Ideally he wants to bring together a few western leaders to show
support for Ukraine, with WJC probably their most important participant. If that's not palatable
for us, then he'd like a bilat with WJC.
>
> If it's not next week, that's fine, but he wants a date. I keep saying we have no Europe plans,
although we do have those events in London in June. Are folks comfortable offering Victor
a private meeting on one of those dates? At this point I get the impression that although I keep
saying WJC cares about Ukraine, Pinchuk feels like WJC hasn't taken enough action to demonstrate
that, particularly during this existential moment for the county and for him.
>
> I sense this is so important because Pinchuk is under Putin's heel right now, feeling a great
degree of pressure and pain for his many years of nurturing stronger ties with the West.
>
> I get all the downsides and share the concerns. I am happy to go back and say no.
It would just be good to know what WJC (and HRC and you all) would like to do, because
this will likely impact the future of this relationship, and slow walking our reply will only
reinforce his growing angst.
>
> Thanks, and sorry for the glum note on a Monday morning...
* * *
We find more evidence of
media coordination with
Politico's Glenn Thrush who has an off the record question to make sure he is not "fucking anything
up":
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: 2015-04-30 17:06
Subject: Re: sorry to bother...
Sure. Sorry for the delay I was on a plane.
On Apr 30, 2015 9:44 AM, "Glenn Thrush" <
[email protected] >
wrote:
> Can I send u a couple of grafs, OTR, to make sure I'm not fucking
> anything up?
* * *
Another notable moment emerges in the emails, involving Hillary Clinton's selective memory. Clinton's
description of herself as a moderate Democrat at a September 2015 event in Ohio caused an uproar
amongst her team. In a
mail from Clinton
advisor Neera Tanden 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.
* * *
We also get additional insight into Clinton courting the Latino minority. A November 2008
email from Federico
Peña , who was on the Obama-Biden transition team, called for a "Latino media person" to be added
to the list of staff to appeal to Latino voters. Federico de Jesus or Vince Casillas are seen as
ideal candidates, both of whom were working in the Chicago operations.
"More importantly, it would helpful (sic) to Barack to do pro-active outreach to Latino media
across the country to get our positive message out before people start spreading negative rumors,"
Peña writes.
* * *
Another email 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."
* * *
One email suggested,
sarcastically, to kneecap bernie Sanders : Clinton's team issued advise regarding her tactics
for the "make or break" Democratic presidential debate with Sanders in Milwaukee on February 11,
2016. The mail to Podesta came from Philip Munger, a Democratic Party donor. He sent the mail using
an encrypted anonymous email service.
"She's going to have to kneecap him. She is going to have to take him down from his morally
superior perch. She has done so tentatively. She must go further," he says.
Clearly, the desire to get Sanders' supporters was a key imperative for the Clinton campaign.
In a September 2015
email to Podesta , Hill columnist Brent Budowsky criticized the campaign for allegedly giving
Clinton surrogates talking points to attack Bernie Sanders. "I cannot think of anything more stupid
and self-destructive for a campaign to do," he says. "Especially for a candidate who has dangerously
low levels of public trust," and in light of Sanders' campaign being based on "cleaning up politics."
Budowsky warns voters would be "disgusted" by attacks against Sanders and says he wouldn't discourage
Podesta from sharing the note with Clinton because "if she wants to become president she needs to
understand the point I am making with crystal clarity."
"Make love to Bernie and his idealistic supporters, and co-opt as many of his progressive issues
as possible."
Budowsky then adds that he was at a Washington university where " not one student gave
enough of a damn for Hillary to open a booth, or even wear a Hillary button. "
* * *
One email focused
on how to address with the topic of the TPP. National Policy Director for Hillary for America
Amanda Renteria explains, "The goal here was to minimize our vulnerability to the authenticity attack
and not piss off the WH any more than necessary."
Democratic pollster Joel Benenson says, "the reality is HRC is more pro trade than anti and
trying to turn her into something she is not could reinforce our negative [sic] around authenticity.
This is an agreement that she pushed for and largely advocated for."
* * *
While claiming she is part of the people, an email exposes Hillary as being "
part of the system
." Clinton's team acknowledges she is "part of the system" in an email regarding her strategies.
As Stan Greenberg told Podesta:
" We are also going to test some messages that include acknowledgement of being part
of the system, and know how much has to change ,"
* * *
Some more on the topic of Hillary being extensively coached and all her words rehearsed, we find
an email which reveals that
Clinton's words
have to be tightly managed by her team who are wary of what she might say. After the Iowa Democratic
Party's presidential debate in November 2015 adviser Ron Klain mails Podesta to say, "If she says
something three times as an aside during practice (Wall Street supports me due to 9/11), we need
to assume she will say it in the debate, and tell her not to do so." Klain's mail reveals Sanders
was their biggest fear in the debate. "The only thing that would have been awful – a Sanders break
out – didn't happen. So all in all, we were fine," he says.
The mail also reveals Klain's role in securing his daughter Hannah a position on Clinton's team.
"I'm not asking anyone to make a job, or put her in some place where she isn't wanted – it just needs
a nudge over the finish line," Klain says. Hannah Klain worked on Clinton's Surrogates team for nine
months commencing in the month after her father's mail to Podesta, according to her Linkedin.
CuttingEdge
X_in_Sweden
Oct 19, 2016 9:18 AM
Is Podesta authorised to be privy to confidential information?
Only Hillary sends him a 9-point assessment of the ME with this at the top:
Note: Sources include Western intelligence, US intelligence and sources in the region.
I would assume Intelligence Services intel based assessments would be a bit confidential, Mr
Comey? Given their source? Nothing to see here, you say?
Fuck Me.
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/18917
Bubba Rum Das
samjam7
Oct 19, 2016 9:02 AM
I love this...Assange is incommunicado, yet the data dumps keep coming!
Horse face looks like such a fool to the world as a result; & due to John Kerry's stupidity which
is drawing major attention to the whole matter; Americans are finally beginning to wake up & pay
attention to this shit!
Looks like the Hitlery for Prez ship is starting to take on MASSIVE amounts of water!
I believe they are beyond the point where any more news of 'pussy grabbing' will save them
from themselves (and Mr. Assange)!
Oh, yeah...-And THANK YOU, MR. O'KEEFE!
css1971
Oct 19, 2016 9:04 AM
Dems!! Dems!! Where are you. You need 2 more bimbos to accuse Trump of looking at them!!
- You have more paedophile charges to lay on Assange.
- You have violence to cause at Trump, Stein and Johnson rallys.
- You have mass vote rigging campaigns to orchestrate!!!
DEMS you need to get that nose to the grindstone!!
Hobbleknee
GunnerySgtHartman
Oct 19, 2016 8:48 AM
Fox is controlled opposition. They dropped the interview with O'Keefe after he released the
latest undercover report on Democrat voter fraud.
JackMeOff
Oct 19, 2016 10:16 AM
Wonder what "docs" they are referring?
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17978
monad
Oct 19, 2016 1:14 PM The FBI had no difficulty convicting Obugger's crony Rod Blagegovitch.
The new lowered expectations federal government just expects to get lucre + bennies for sitting
on their asses and holding the door for gangsters. Traitors. Spies. Enemies foreign and domestic.
Amphisbaegenic pot boiling.
california chrome
Oct 19, 2016 11:03 AM
With Creamer's tricks effective in Obama's re-election, it now makes sense why Obama was so
confident when he said Trump would never be president.
Trump is still ahead in the only poll I track. But i conduct my own personal poll on a daily
basis and loads of Trump supporters are in the closet and won't come out until they pull the lever
for Trump on election day.
http://graphics.latimes.com/usc-presidential-poll-dashboard/
whatamaroon
Oct 19, 2016 1:04 PM
https://pageshot.net/qLjtSLje2gBJ1Mlp/twitter.com
,
This supposedly directly implicates Podesta and voter fraud. If it will open here
...