WikiLeaks drops thousands of alleged Podesta emails

[elleblue]

But no one is really paying attention because of Trump's "locker room banter". 

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Wikileaks has dumped more than 2,000 emails it claims were hacked from top Hillary Clinton aide John Podesta’s personal email.
The group, headed by Julian Assange, announced that the emails include communications on nuclear energy and “media handling over donations to the Clinton Foundation from mining and nuclear interests.” It also includes correspondence with Clinton herself.
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It’s the latest document dump by Wikileaks that appears aimed at damaging Democrats in the final sensitive weeks before the November election, just as Clinton appeared to be seizing momentum in polls after a debate victory in late September.
The disclosure also came just minutes after embarrassing audio of Donald Trump’s comments on sexually taking advantage of women was posted by the Washington Post. It also came as the Obama administration asserted confidence that Russia was behind the leak of sensitive election documents and attempts to meddle in the U.S. election season

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[pixy0stix]

Won't the mining and nuclear interests play well with the COAL! groups? I think at this point no one actually cares.

[nsl]

The best Wikileaks can do is e-mails from a Clinton aide about stuff that every politician has probably discussed over e-mail at some point? Really? While Trump is... continuing to be Trump in every news cycle for the last month?

[OscarQ]

Pssst. HRC tell your peeps to start using Facebook messenger or Whats App. With the encryption feature on. Come on now. I mean I realize these were old emails but you need to either go old school - no emails at all - or you need to amp up your technology. Get some former NSA guy to help you. Or maybe Trump's son. I hear he's good with the cyber.

[juliej]

So, odds they were dumped to try and deflect from Trump's grab hands?

[katietornado]

LOL sorry Russia, no one gives a shit about emails about coal.

[elleblue]

Oct 7, 2016 17:27:17 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Won't the mining and nuclear interests play well with the COAL! groups? I think at this point no one actually cares.

From what I've seen, there's a whole bunch of nothing there, though obviously there's a lot to sift through so it does somewhat remain to be seen. 

[elleblue]

Oct 7, 2016 17:39:00 GMT -5 katietornado said:

LOL sorry Russia, no one gives a shit about emails about coal.

Clinton had email exchanges with the head of her campaign! And they talked about coal and other current issues!!! 

[katietornado]

Oct 7, 2016 17:40:56 GMT -5 elleblue said:

Oct 7, 2016 17:39:00 GMT -5 katietornado said:

LOL sorry Russia, no one gives a shit about emails about coal.

Clinton had email exchanges with the head of her campaign! And they talked about coal and other current issues!!! 

Just for the record, I love your sig so much.  I sent it to my millennial friend who makes fun of me because I can't keep up with the music of the youths.  I confused The WKND and Party Next Door and called them Party on the Weekend and have been ostracized ever since.

[elleblue]

Oct 7, 2016 17:36:03 GMT -5 juliej said:

So, odds they were dumped to try and deflect from Trump's TINY grab hands?

Ftfy

[elleblue]

Oct 7, 2016 17:42:42 GMT -5 katietornado said:

Oct 7, 2016 17:40:56 GMT -5 elleblue said:

Clinton had email exchanges with the head of her campaign! And they talked about coal and other current issues!!! 

Just for the record, I love your sig so much.  I sent it to my millennial friend who makes fun of me because I can't keep up with the music of the youths.  I confused The WKND and Party Next Door and called them Party on the Weekend and have been ostracized ever since.

The youths can be so cruel. I laughed so hard I cried when I first saw that pic so I had no choice but to make it my sig. 

[epphd]

I read the summary on the "uranium one" "scandal" on the wikileaks page and I still don't get it. Seems like old news. And frankly I don't give a shit what John Podesta's emails said. He's not running for President.

And, even the Daily Caller says:

The organization, which has been accused of acting in concert with Russian hackers, claims to have 50,000 emails in total from Podesta’s Gmail account but released just 2,050 of them on Friday.

Hillary Clinton’s new personal email account is copied on a handful of emails, none of which reveal anything damning.

dailycaller.com/2016/10/07/wikileaks-publishes-two-thousand-emails-from-clinton-campaign-chair-john-podesta/#ixzz4MRSAVjD2

Here's the wikileaks summary:
wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/press-release

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 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).

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): "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), 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

board of trustees, which I'm finding extremely rewarding."

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Now for some fact check of this old news, which Trump has already trotted out: www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/30/donald-trump/donald-trump-inaccurately-suggests-clinton-got-pai/

Tl;DR version: "On the most basic level, Trump’s timeline is off. Most of the donations occurred before Clinton was named secretary of state.

We rate Trump’s claim Mostly False."