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In doing so, Band also detailed a circle of enrichment in which he raised money for the Clinton Foundation from top-tier corporations such as Dow Chemical and Coca-Cola that were clients of his firm, Teneo, while pressing many of those same donors to provide personal income to the former president...

The memo, made public Wednesday by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, lays out the aggressive strategy behind lining up the consulting contracts and paid speaking engagements for Bill Clinton that added tens of millions of dollars to the family’s fortune, including during the years that Hillary Clinton led the State Department. It describes how Band helped run what he called “Bill Clinton Inc.,” obtaining “in-kind services for the President and his family— for personal travel, hospitality, vacation and the like.”

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Cheryl Mills, who at the time was serving as Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department, was deeply involved in the foundation’s proceedings. ...Band outlined that Kelly, his Teneo co-founder, had served simultaneously between 2009 and 2011 as an unpaid economic envoy to Northern Ireland appointed by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and as head of a separate consulting company whose clients included Coke, UBS and Dow. Kelly’s multiple roles came together during one State Department event in 2010, when then-Secretary Clinton recognized Dow, among other companies, for creating jobs in Northern Ireland and thanked Kelly for his work on the issue. ...

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With furious Democrats - and the Clinton Campaign - now openly blasting the FBI's reopened investigation (as Republicans take delight for once in having a government agency reinforce their side of events), the question turns to just what emails were found on Weiner's laptop, and how damaging their contents are for the FBI to take the unprecedented step of "intervening" in a major political event just days before the national election.

We first laid what was the most likely explanation yesterday, when we showed several examples of Huma Abedin emails being sent from her work email account to her personal account at humaabedin@yahoo.com, courtesy of a Judicial Watch FOIA release. Of the more than 160 emails in the latest Judicial Watch release, some 110 emails – two-thirds of the total – were forwarded by Abedin to two personal addresses she controlled. The Washington Times reported in August 2015 that the State Department had admitted to a federal judge that Abedin and Mills used personal email accounts to conduct government business in addition to Clinton’s private clintonemail.com to transact State Department business.

One email from May 15, 2009, was sent by Abedin from her State Department email to her personal email. Abedin was archiving in her personal email account an email Hillary Clinton sent her from Clinton’s private email server at HDR22@clintonemail.com. Abedin was asked to print out attachments to an email Mills sent via a private address the previous day to Clinton involving “timetables and deliverables” for her review via Alec Ross, a technology policy expert who then held the title of senior adviser for innovation to Secretary Clinton.

However, while forwarding Hillary's emails to her personal email server for "convenience" is one thing, what is more troubling is the amount of redaction involved in these emails which migrated to the open email account, which as we now know ended up in Anthony Weiner's computer: in the above example, the two pages of timetables and deliverables attached to the email were 100 percent redacted, with “PAGE DENIED” stamped across the first redacted page.

An argument can be made that the extensive redaction confirms confidential material was part of the transmission.

This is a nuanced point being pushed by Hillary Clinton supporters such as Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald, who in an article yesterday tried to make a case citing "sources" (even though the FBI said that nobody has seen the content of the Weiner/Abedin emails), that "no emails being examined by FBI were to or from Clinton."

No emails being examined by FBI were to or from Clinton. All of this has to do with procedures followed by an aide. https://t.co/mcsBi7j7XU
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 29, 2016

It remains to be seen just what is in the emails, although whether Hillary sent emails with confidential content herself, or directed, or simply allowed her closest aide, Huma Abedin to forward such emails to her outside unsecured email address (where they subsequently ended up on Anthony Weiner's notebook), is what this latest case will be all about and how it will be defended and prosecuted in the media, by the water coolers and perhaps, in court.

However, we do know one thing: according to the NYT, the number of Huma emails that made their way to Weiner's PC was staggering:

The F.B.I. is investigating illicit text messages that Mr. Weiner, a former Democratic congressman from New York, sent to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. The bureau told Congress on Friday that it had uncovered new emails related to the Clinton case — one federal official said they numbered in the tens of thousand

Which brings up two more critical questions: i) when she was questioned by the FBI over the summer, did Huma reveal and admit the existence of these "thousands" of emails located on a personal, home computer, and ii) will the FBI be able to comb through everything in the next 10 days ahead of the election? If the answer to the second question is no, will the US presidential election really take place with one candidate currently under FBI investigation, one which could potentially lead to impeachment proceedings within weeks or days of her being elected president?

Still, the biggest irony in this latest debacle is that it was largely predicted by Donald Trump himself back in August of 2015.

It came out that Huma Abedin knows all about Hillary’s private illegal emails. Huma’s PR husband, Anthony Weiner, will tell the world.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2015

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FBI Found "Tens Of Thousands Of Emails" Belonging To Huma Abedin On Weiner's Laptop = ZH
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Signym, you can't seriously believe any of this will change the inevitable election outcome.
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The final update of our poll tracker is similar to the first. As the public head off to vote, opinion is split evenly and a tenth still say they have not decided. While Wales wavers, most other components of our tracker have stayed persistently stubborn in their relative positions. For all the campaigning neither the Remain nor the Leave camps have convinced voters of their cause. A high overall turnout will likely benefit Remain, as young people and richer old folk are keener on the union, but a big turnout is far from guaranteed

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Signym, you can't seriously believe any of this will change the inevitable election outcome.
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Well, you never know. This is what they were saying about Remain before Brexit took the vote:

The final update of our poll tracker is similar to the first. As the public head off to vote, opinion is split evenly and a tenth still say they have not decided. While Wales wavers, most other components of our tracker have stayed persistently stubborn in their relative positions. For all the campaigning neither the Remain nor the Leave camps have convinced voters of their cause. A high overall turnout will likely benefit Remain, as young people and richer old folk are keener on the union, but a big turnout is far from guaranteed

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It never ceases to amaze me how you're always on the wrong side of an argument, always taking the side of the most reprehensible.

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What do you think about AG Lynch taking the 5th when asked by Congress what she knows about Obama's Iran ransom payments?

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Yanno, I think that the FBI tried mightily to sweep the emails under the rug. With the unprecedented number of criminal immunities given out for a crime that supposedly nobody would ever prosecute, and the allowance that these protected witnesses could destroy evidence (literally take a hammer to hard drives and thumb drives, if necessary) that the FBI hadn't even seen, Comey MADE SURE that it would be impossible to prosecute Hillary for mishandling evidence, or prosecute for ... what are those words, again?... "conspiracy" and "obstruction of justice"?

By god, he did his best. He stood up in front of the nation, and after laying out an extremely strong case for how Hillary dealt with classified emails extremely carelessly ... the word "negligence" springs to mind ... he laid his reputation on the chopping block and protected her reputation by sacrificing his. Wow, whatta guy. One could hardly ask for more.

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Yesterday, we reported that the FBI has found "tens of thousands of emails" belonging to Huma Adein on Anthony Weiner's computer, raising questions how practical it is that any conclusive finding will be available or made by the FBI in the few days left before the elections

Now, according to the WSJ, it appears that Federal agents are preparing to scour roughly 650,000 emails that, as we reported moments ago were discovered weeks ago on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, to see how many relate to a prior probe of Hillary Clinton’s email use, as metadata on the device suggests there may be thousands sent to or from the private server that the Democratic nominee used while she was secretary of state, according to people familiar with the matter.

As the WSJ adds, the review will take weeks at a minimum to determine whether those messages are work-related emails between Huma Abedin, a close Clinton aide and the estranged wife of Mr. Weiner, and State Department officials; how many are duplicates of emails already reviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and whether they include either classified information or important new evidence in the Clinton email probe, which FBI officials call “Midyear.”

And, as we further reported earlier today, the FBI has had to await a court order to begin reviewing the emails, because they were uncovered in an unrelated probe of Mr. Weiner, and that order was delayed for reasons that remain unclear.

More stunning is just how many emails were found on Weiner's computer. And while one can only imagine the content of some of the more persona ones, the WSJ writes that the latest development began in early October when New York-based FBI officials notified Andrew McCabe, the bureau’s second-in-command, that while investigating Mr. Weiner for possibly sending sexually charged messages to a minor, they had recovered a laptop with 650,000 emails. Many, they said, were from the accounts of Ms. Abedin, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Need get this asap to them although I'm sure cvc [Chelsea Clinton] won't believe it to be true bc she doesn't want to Even though the facts speak for themselves.

John, I would appreciate your feedback and any suggestions I'm also starting to worry that if this story [hustling funds WJC] for gets out, we are screwed. Dk [Declan Kelly] and I built a business. 65 people work for us who have wives and husbands and kids, they all depend on us. Our business has almost nothing to do with the clintons, the foundation or cgi in any way. The chairman of ubs could care a less about cgi. Our fund clients who we do restructuring and m and a advising the same just as bhp nor tivo do. These are real companies who we provide real advice to through very serious people. Comm head for goldman, dep press secretary to bloomberg, former head of banking, and his team, from morgan stanley for asia and latin am.

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Well, it's a useful comparison. The UK "establishment" - made of the London banking center and other large banks like RBS, government financiers, the BBC in lockstep with government, and Eurocrats - were all sucking pretty heavily on the teat of international integration. They removed almost all decision-making power from the British national government, making it impossible for the government to develop a separate policy on anything from fishing rights to immigration.

The "establishment" here is also backing Hillary. Hillary herself in a self-admitted "open border" person, and she represents the interests of big international banks like Goldman Sachs and JPMChase, international elites and their "wealth management" firms, international pharma, international activists like George Soros (promoter of "color revolutions" everywhere), and IP-rentiers (Silicon Valley elite and international agribusiness) who are looking to use international trade agreements like TTP and TTIP to enforce their monopolies and expand their markets. (And no, she will not significantly oppose TTP and TTIP. They'll just put lipstick on that pig and pass it later.) So she does not represent the national interests of the USA any more than the EU represents the national interests of Britain.

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1) They have found out something about Hillary that is so godawful that even if she is elected she will be indicted as the first event of her Presidency and so the DNC is strategizing how to dump Hillary.

2) Or they have found out something about Hillary that is so godawful that Comey himself is worried about being indicted.

3) Despite all of the poll-rigging and vote-rigging, Trump is winning and Comey is looking to ensure his future job.

4) Or ETA: Comey is facing a revolt by the rank-an-file FBI who are getting to the point of leaking even more damaging information, and he's trying to get ahead of it.

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If Obama really wanted to make a difference, he would have needed to fire about 2,000 people out of the various agencies that he supposedly heads.

Same with Trump. IF Trump wins the election, he would need to appoint a seriously loyal and smart Cabinet, who would then go about firing the corrupt officials that have exposed themselves. And then appoint a whole 'nother group of hopefully less corrupt people. I work in a government agency; the corruption - where it occurs- happens at the top. There are probably some really sharp people who could be promoted.

Also, he would need some awesome security people to protect him from "suicide", "lone gunmen", "heart attacks" and "plane accidents". (Yanno, the CIA specialties.)

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Here's a few key phrases:

Criminal enterprise.

Money laundering.

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Well, it's a useful comparison. The UK "establishment" - made of the London banking center and other large banks like RBS, government financiers, the BBC in lockstep with government, and Eurocrats - were all sucking pretty heavily on the teat of international integration. They removed almost all decision-making power from the British national government, making it impossible for the government to develop a separate policy on anything from fishing rights to immigration.

The "establishment" here is also backing Hillary. Hillary herself in a self-admitted "open border" person, and she represents the interests of big international banks like Goldman Sachs and JPMChase, international elites and their "wealth management" firms, international pharma, international activists like George Soros (promoter of "color revolutions" everywhere), and IP-rentiers (Silicon Valley elite and international agribusiness) who are looking to use international trade agreements like TTP and TTIP to enforce their monopolies and expand their markets. (And no, she will not significantly oppose TTP and TTIP. They'll just put lipstick on that pig and pass it later.) So she does not represent the national interests of the USA any more than the EU represents the national interests of Britain. - SIGNY

I've heard 'pundits' say basically the same. I'd like to believe that voters are sick and tired of the 'system' and want real change, but with half of all Americans receiving some form of Govt. assistance, it doesn't seem likely that they want anything to change. - RIVER

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Well, probably because Obama paid ransom payments - SIGNY

How can a US Attorney General under oath plead the Fifth? The highest law enforcement officer in the land won't testify because she fears she will incriminate herself? That, along with the Bill Clinton meeting during his wife's investigation seem like grounds for immediate impeachment.- RIVER

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1) They have found out something about Hillary that is so godawful that even if she is elected she will be indicted as the first event of her Presidency and so the DNC is strategizing how to dump Hillary.

2) Or they have found out something about Hillary that is so godawful that Comey himself is worried about being indicted.

3) Despite all of the poll-rigging and vote-rigging, Trump is winning and Comey is looking to ensure his future job.

4) Or ETA: Comey is facing a revolt by the rank-an-file FBI who are getting to the point of leaking even more damaging information, and he's trying to get ahead of it.

5) OR ....? - SIGNY

As much as I am pleased about this development I think it's not in the best interests of democracy. It's very un-American to perpetrate a stunt like this on any candidate so close to an election.- RIVER

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If Obama really wanted to make a difference, he would have needed to fire about 2,000 people out of the various agencies that he supposedly heads. Same with Trump. IF Trump wins the election, he would need to appoint a seriously loyal and smart Cabinet, who would then go about firing the corrupt officials that have exposed themselves. And then appoint a whole 'nother group of hopefully less corrupt people. I work in a government agency; the corruption - where it occurs- happens at the top. There are probably some really sharp people who could be promoted. Also, he would need some awesome security people to protect him from "suicide", "lone gunmen", "heart attacks" and "plane accidents". (Yanno, the CIA specialties.)- SIGNY
2,000 people? How'd you come up with that number? That's sounds like a Stalin-esque purge. Replacing 200 top officials seems more reasonable.- RIVER

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“The main reason behind successful immigration should be painfully obvious to even the most dimwitted of observers: Some groups of people are almost always highly successful given only half of a chance (Jews*, Hindus/Sikhs and Chinese people, for example), while others (Muslims, blacks** and Roma***, for instance) fare badly almost irrespective of circumstances. The biggest group of humanity can be found somewhere between these two extremes – the perennial overachievers and the professional never-do-wells.”- HRC

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It’s only when you step outside the circle of madness that you can see how ridiculous this is. If nobody had ever seen a Hillary email before, uncovering a trove of them on the laptop of the estranged husband of one of her key aides might be a big deal.

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FBI Mutiny? Bureau Unexpectedly Releases Documents Related To 2001 Probe Into Clinton Foundation

In what appears to be an unexpected, and very surprising, disclosure, moments ago the FBI released 129 pages of heavily redacted records from its 15-year-old investigation into the Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton's 11th hour pardon of financier Marc Rich (less than a week before the election).

William J. Clinton Foundation: This initial release consists of material from the FBI's files related to the Will... https://t.co/Y4nz3aRSmG

— FBI Records Vault (@FBIRecordsVault) November 1, 2016

According to the FBI, "this initial release consists of material from the FBI's files related to the William J. Clinton Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. The bulk of these records come from a 2001 FBI investigation into the pardon of Marc Rich (1934-2013), aka Marcell David Reich, by President Clinton in 2001; it was closed in 2005. The material is heavily redacted due to personal privacy protections and grand jury secrecy rules."

The commentariat is, in a word, shocked by what this symbolic, and impromptu release means, with some wondering if it is payback for Clinton’s blasting of the FBI.

A day after #HillaryClinton blasted the @FBI, the bureau releases 129 documents from it's 2001 probe into #BillClinton's Marc Rich pardon https://t.co/HacetE5OY0

— Tom Fitzgerald (@FitzFox5DC) November 1, 2016

A cookie for anyone who can offer a cogent defense of the timing here. https://t.co/paRuAQePTf

— Dara Lind (@DLind) November 1, 2016

Some are even calling it the first November surprise:

November surprise https://t.co/F3aTy1IEoe

— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) November 1, 2016

As the Washington Examiner notes, it was not immediately clear what prompted the FBI to publish the files Tuesday. However, the bureau posted the documents on the section of its website dedicated to records released through the Freedom of Information Act.

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Crushing the hope-filled "it's just a backup of what they have already seen" narrative of a campaign clutching at straws to defend their candidate, and confirming Fox News Bret Baier's earlier reporting, CBS News reports that the FBI has found new, non-duplicate emails related to Hilary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
Sources earlier described to Fox News' Bret Baier as an "avalanche of evidence..."
And tonight we are getting further clarification, from US Officials, as to what that evidence consists of (via CBS News)

These emails, CBS News’ Andres Triay reports, are not duplicates of emails found on Secretary Clinton’s private server. At this point, however, it remains to be seen whether these emails are significant to the FBI’s investigation into Clinton. It is also not known how many relevant emails there are.

This is a major problem for the surrogates, lawyers, life-long friends, and defenders of the status quo as it destroys the narrative that has been painted suggesting these emails found on Weiner's laptop are merely backups of what law enforcement officials have already seen (and found no intent in).

But what is most intriguing is the question of whether the missing 33,000 'personal' emails 'deleted' by Bryan Pagliano in the full knowledge of Hillary Clinton (according to Wikileaks emails), are also on the estranged husband of Clinton right-hand-lady Huma Abedin's laptop.

As Federal law enforcement officials concluded to CBS News tonight: "These emails have never been seen before"

Fox's Bret Baier summed up what happens next... "I pressed again and again on this very issue... The investigations will continue, there is a lot of evidence. And barring some obstruction in some way, they believe they will continue to likely an indictment."

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I was going to organize these by topic, and link and cite them, but I don't have time.

Ladies and gentlemen, straight from dnc/ Wikileaks (which didn't come from Russia), hillary's server (and evidence indicates hillary's private server may have been hacked by up to 5 separate entities), and the Weiner docs - for you perusing pleasure:



An internal investigation has reportedly been launched by the FBI into one of its automated Twitter accounts after a series of documents were released.
The Twitter bot ‘FBI Records Vault’ had not been in use for over a year, but suddenly released several documents on October 30.
The FBI is now investigating the account, according to Judd Legum, editor of Think Progress. TP is a project of the Center for American Progress, the Democratic think tank founded by John Podesta, campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton.
The account’s puzzling activation was referred to the FBI’s Inspection Division for an “investigation” by Candice Will, the assistant director for the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility. Following the investigation, it will then be referred back to Will’s department for “adjudication,” according to Legum.
A complaint is said to have been filed by Jonathan Hutson, a former employee of the Center for American Progress and a public-relations consultant, leading to the investigation.
Another FBI official, Nancy McNamara was said to have confirmed receiving Hutson’s complaint, the Think Progress report said. Legum also stated that the investigation contradicts the FBI’s official position on the Twitter bot’s activity.
“Per the standard procedure for FOIA, these materials became available for release and were posted automatically and electronically to the FBI’s public reading room in accordance with the law and established procedures,” said the FBI statement.
Documents leaked included a 129-page report on Bill Clinton’s financier Marc Rich, who the former president pardoned despite Rich’s corrupt past, as well as Donald Trump’s father, Fred, who was described as a “philanthropist.”
The disclosures happened after FBI Director James Comey released a letter to Congress last week, confirming that emails found on a computer owned by Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her husband Anthony Weiner could be linked to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.


“it is almost unprecedented to see a cover-up as extensive as Hillary’s. A secret meeting between Bill Clinton and the Attorney General; the FBI ignoring all evidence and initially clearing Hillary to near rebellion of the whole of the FBI, attested to by Rudolf Giuliani whose reputation as a federal prosecutor is unquestioned; the Clinton “pay for play” foundation. The Masters are troubled that this is getting out of hand.” The record shows that “the Masters do not usually have to go to such lengths to protect their own. They did manage to save Bill Clinton from the Monica Lewinsky perjury and keep him in the presidency. The Masters were not attacked in this case. They even got away with the 1987 cash settlement crash and the theft surrounding the Lehman debacle. In all these cases there were no overarching challenges to their control, as we see now open to the public by Trump. They antagonized and insulted the wrong man.”


However, in a leaked document from the latest round of Podesta emails, we learn that the Clinton campaign may have been strategizing how to "rig" the primaries as early as 2014.
In a March 2014 email from Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook to Cheryl Mills, David Plouffe and John Podesta, the democrat recounts a conversation he had with Jeffery Berman, Barack Obama's 2008 delegate guru, who would later be hired by the Clinton campaign to run the math for her primary campaign.
A quick reminder on Jeffrey Berman: as Mother Jones wrote in July 2015, when news of his hire by Clinton first emerged, "Berman brings expertise on the byzantine rules of caucus delegate counting, but he's also known as a prominent lobbyist for a project fiercely opposed by environmentalists: the Keystone pipeline."
"Hillary Clinton has hired a former lobbyist for the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline," The New Republic's Rebecca Leber wrote, "further upsetting environmentalists who have long been wary of her commitment to fighting climate change." As the Huffington Post noted, the firm Berman worked for, Bryan Cave, received $980,000 from TransCanada for lobbying work from 2009 to 2011. Berman was part of the team lobbying for the pipeline, and TransCanada paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for his share of the work.


In the Podesta email, Mook explains how Berman planned to coordinate the schedule for Democratic primaries to maximize benefit for Hillary Clinton "if she gets a significant primary challenger." In such a case, Mook writes, “we need to consider changing course and getting N.Y., N.J. and maybe others to move their dates earlier to give her hefty early wins,” Mook wrote.
And the punchline of the proposed strategy:
“We may need allies to help in this process but we’re going to look at each state one step at a time, limiting as much as possible the perception of direct intervention by the principals.” As the Observer further notes, other emails released by WikiLeaks confirmed the debate schedule was coordinated to the Clinton campaign’s preference. A recent thread revealed then-DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was directed to hold phony meetings with other Democratic candidates to provide the Clinton campaign and DNC with plausible deniability that they were coordinating with one another.


With countless hours of media, and Clinton campaign, speculation and accusations that the source of hacked Wikileaks Democratic emails including the Podesta files, is none other than Russian president Vladimir Putin, either directly or indirectly, Julian Assange has decided to close the book on that particular loose end, and as RT reports, in a John Pilger Special, to be broadcast by RT on Saturday courtesy of Dartmouth Films, Assange categorically denied that the troves of US Democratic Party and Clinton work and staff emails released this year have come from the Russian government.
“The Clinton camp has been able to project a neo-McCarthyist hysteria that Russia is responsible for everything. Hillary Clinton has stated multiple times, falsely, that 17 US intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That’s false – we can say that the Russian government is not the source,” Assange told the veteran Australian broadcaster as part of a 25-minute interview.


It's looking increasingly like there is an ongoing mutiny underway within the FBI as the Wall Street Journal is reporting that, according to "officials at multiple agencies", FBI agents felt they had adequate evidence, including "secret recordings of a suspect talking about the Clinton Foundation", to pursue an investigation of the Clinton Foundation but were repeatedly obstructed by officials at the Department of Justice.


Donna Brazile has drawn a lot of heat in recent weeks after WikiLeaks posted her now infamous email in which she revealed that "from time to time" she received debate questions in advance that she was seemingly happy to share with the Hillary campaign. Although there don't appear to be any new leaked debate questions in today's WikiLeaks dump, there is this response from Hillary's Director of Media Planning, Betsaida Alcantara, who seemingly shared Hillary's canned "Death Penalty" response with Donna for help on how to craft the answer.
Of course it only seems reasonable for the campaign to seek Donna's input given that she noted when she originally leaked the debate question that the "death penalty" question was one that "worries me about HRC."


Among the more prominent exchanges released in the latest, 27th, Wikileaks release of Podesta emails is a thread from March 2016 which discusses a Politico article tilted "Clintonites: How we beat Bernie on trade", and which reports that “Clinton faced internal pressure from her Brooklyn headquarters to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal she helped craft as secretary of State.”
Senior Clinton strategist, Joel Benenson, is quoted in the piece as saying:
“Voters agree that we have to compete and win in a global economy and that means we have to make things in the United States that we can sell to 95 percent of the world’s consumers who happen to live outside of the United States. What the data from the exit polls says is these voters were more aligned with her fundamental view of trade.” Clinton instead pushed back on Sanders’ opposition to the Export-Import Bank, and doubled down on the idea that America needs to compete and win in the global economy."We engaged with him on trade more forcefully," Benenson said. In the end, "I guess he came off as an economic isolationist.”
“Is Joel off reservation? Does he not get that this story makes Hillary seem politically craven at best or a liar at worse? Or if this is campaign position, can I object?”


Roughly at the same time that the WSJ reported of what is now a clear "civil war" between (and within) the FBI and the DOJ, Fox News anchor Bret Baier reported that the FBI's investigation into the Clinton Foundation that has been going on for more than a year has now taken a "very high priority." He added that FBI agents have interviewed and re-interviewed multiple people on the foundation case, which is looking into possible pay for play interaction between then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
The FBI's White Collar Crime Division is handling the investigation, which will continue, as "there is a lot of evidence. And barring some obstruction in some way, they believe they will continue to likely an indictment."


Let's set aside Hillary Clinton as an individual and consider her as the perfection of a corrupt political system. As I noted yesterday, Politics As Usual Is Dead, and Hillary Clinton is the ultimate product of the political system that is disintegrating before our eyes.
The corruption of pay-to-play and the commingling of public and private influence is not the failing of an individual--it is the logical conclusion of a thoroughly corrupt political system.


Authorities now believe there is about a 99 percent chance that up to five foreign intelligence agencies may have accessed and taken emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server, two separate sources with intimate knowledge of the FBI investigations told Fox News.
The revelation led House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul to describe Clinton’s handling of her email system during her tenure as secretary of state as “treason.”
“She exposed [information] to our enemies,” McCaul said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning. “Our adversaries have this very sensitive information. … In my opinion, quite frankly, it’s treason.”


As far as the Clinton machine is concerned, an interlocking influence peddling pile up is the norm. John Podesta also happens to be the founder of the Center for American Progress – a George Soros operation and prime recruiting ground for Obama administration officials, including US Treasury operatives who decided which elite Too Big To Fail (TBTF) financial giants would be spared after the 2008 crisis. DCLeaks.com, for its part, has connected Soros Open Society foundations to global funding rackets directly leading to subversion of governments and outright regime change (obviously sparing Clinton Foundation donors.)
Exhibit A is this WikiLeaks bombshell; Peter Kadzik, who’s now in charge of the Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into the 650,000 emails found on the laptop shared by Clinton’s right-hand woman Huma Abedin and her estranged, pervert husband Anthony Wiener, is a Clinton asset.
Not only Kadzik was an attorney for Marc Rich when he was pardoned by Bill Clinton; Podesta – as also revealed by WikiLeaks - thanked Kadzik for keeping him “out of jail”; and it was Kadzik who gave Podesta a secret heads up on the Clinton email investigation.


It's looking increasingly like there is an ongoing mutiny underway within the FBI as the Wall Street Journal is reporting that, according to "officials at multiple agencies", FBI agents felt they had adequate evidence, including "secret recordings of a suspect talking about the Clinton Foundation", to pursue an investigation of the Clinton Foundation but were repeatedly obstructed by officials at the Department of Justice.
Secret recordings of a suspect talking about the Clinton Foundation fueled an internal battle between FBI agents who wanted to pursue the case and corruption prosecutors who viewed the statements as worthless hearsay, people familiar with the matter said.
The roots of the dispute lie in a disagreement over the strength of the case, these people said, which broadly centered on whether Clinton Foundation contributors received favorable treatment from the State Department under Hillary Clinton.
Senior officials in the Justice Department and the FBI didn’t think much of the evidence, while investigators believed they had promising leads their bosses wouldn’t let them pursue, they said.
Despite clear signals from the Justice Department to abandon the Clinton Foundation inquiries, many FBI agents refused to stand down. Then, earlier this year in February 2016, the FBI presented initial evidence at a meeting with Leslie Caldwell, the head of the DOJ's criminal division, after which agents were delivered a clear message that "we're done here." But, as the WSJ points out, DOJ became increasing frustrated with FBI agents that were "disregarding or disobeying their instructions" which subsequently prompted an emphatic "stand down" message from the DOJ to "all the offices involved."
As 2015 came to a close, the FBI and Justice Department had a general understanding that neither side would take major action on Clinton Foundation matters without meeting and discussing it first. In February, a meeting was held in Washington among FBI officials, public-integrity prosecutors and Leslie Caldwell, the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division. Prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York—Mr. Capers’ office—didn’t attend, these people said.
The public-integrity prosecutors weren’t impressed with the FBI presentation, people familiar with the discussion said. “The message was, ‘We’re done here,’ ” a person familiar with the matter said.
Justice Department officials became increasingly frustrated that the agents seemed to be disregarding or disobeying their instructions.
Following the February meeting, officials at Justice Department headquarters sent a message to all the offices involved to “stand down,’’ a person familiar with the matter said.
The FBI had secretly recorded conversations of a suspect in a public-corruption case talking about alleged deals the Clintons made, these people said. The agents listening to the recordings couldn’t tell from the conversations if what the suspect was describing was accurate, but it was, they thought, worth checking out.
Despite the warnings, FBI agents continued to press forward leading to a tense August 12th call between a "senior DOJ official" and the FBI deputy director, Andrew McCabe, which ended abruptly when McCabe bluntly asked "are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?"
In subsequent conversations with the Justice Department, Mr. Capers told officials in Washington that the FBI agents on the case “won’t let it go,” these people said.
As a result of those complaints, these people said, a senior Justice Department official called the FBI deputy director, Mr. McCabe, on Aug. 12 to say the agents in New York seemed to be disregarding or disobeying their instructions, these people said. The conversation was a tense one, they said, and at one point Mr. McCabe asked, “Are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?’’ The senior Justice Department official replied: ”Of course not.”
With that, it seems that we're starting to get a little more insight into why the FBI didn't "follow protocol" by alerting the DOJ before sending their most recent letter to Congress announcing the re-opening of Hillary's email investigation.
Meanwhile, Fox News reported earlier this evening that "sources" claim to have an "avalanche of evidence" in their case against Hillary and that "barring obstruction" they would continue to push for an indictment. The next 5 days should be very interesting.

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Originally posted by Riverlove:

Yeah ok, but like yanno, like she's a WOMAN, and she's a DEMOCRAT.

All that silly stuff Kiki and Signy report here didn't happen, and even if some or all of it did happen, so what, she's like HISTORIC, yanno?

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Welcome to the no spin zone.

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