July 24, 2016

Clinton campaign manager says pro-Trump Russia behind DNC email leak


Hillary Clinton's campaign manager accused Russia on Sunday of leaking emails on purpose from the Democratic National Committee to help Republican Donald Trump in the presidential election.

Wikileaks has posted emails that including several denunciations of Clinton's primary rival, Bernie Sanders, and his supporters.

Robby Mook said Sunday on CNN's 'State of the Union" that experts are telling the campaign "Russian state actors" broke into the DNC's emails "in order to help Trump," and that other experts say these Russians are now selectively releasing the emails. Mook added: "Last week we saw that Trump made changes to be more pro-Russian and when you put all this together (it) is disturbing."

He says it's no coincidence the emails are coming out on the eve of the party's nominating convention in Philadelphia.

Last month, officials revealed that hackers thought to be working for two different Russian intelligence agencies broke into and were able to "read all e-mail and chat traffic" in the DNC's system. The hackers were all kicked out of the DNC computer system shortly after they were discovered. A spokesperson for the Russian Embassy said at the time they had no knowledge of the operation. No financial information was stolen, which indicates that the breach was not the work of criminal hackers.

Putin has complimented Trump in the past and Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's campaign chairman, has worked with Kremlin-linked figures abroad.

Trump, meanwhile, has questioned NATO's continued role and often calls for better relations with Moscow.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clin...ia-putin-trump/
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Surprise surprise!!! The corruption scenario continues to dog the shady queen Hillary and her bid for coronation.

Hillary wants the headline be how the Russians did this to her, the victim, and the NYT, CNN and DNC are pushing that theme HARD!!!

Create the Russian straw man, then shoot the Russian straw man. No government official is on record blaming the Russians. Chris Cuomo just reported the FBI is investigating this. How does he know?

The elite are running with that story, avoiding the email's content and implications of the revelation. No facts so far on that aspect of the story. Get behind who did this! they're scrambling like disturbed ants to avoid talking about the content of the emails.

Spin! spin! spin!

Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #2

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Joe McCarthy, 1950s: "The Russians are behind it." (whatever "it" was)

Hil-liar-y Xlinton, 2016: "The Russians are behind it." (the emails)

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Talk about a world of turmoil!! Check out this thread on Donna Brazile. It's changing hourly! My guess is he's going to have to resign her post at the DNC top after more emails shw her as a "player" in the scandal. For now Brazile stays at CNN. TM
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CNN Benches Donna Brazile; Wikileaks Says Email “Implicated” Her ...

UPDATED, 5:53 PM: Donna Brazile will continue to appear on CNN’ as it covers the Democratic National Convention next week, a knowledgeable source tells Deadline. Despite her being named today as the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, plans remain intact for Brazile to be among the network’s key talking-head contributors for the event. The source said, however, that she won’t be paid for her appearances. Brazile is set to take the committee’s reins after the convention, which wraps Tuesday.


PREVIOUSLY, 3:39 PM: CNN has parted ways with political commentator Donna Brazile — at least for now — in the wake of her taking the DNC reins from Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “With news of Donna Brazile stepping in as interim chair for the Democratic National Committee,” the network said, “CNN and Brazile have mutually agreed to temporarily suspend her contract as a contributor for the network effective immediately. As a valued voice and commentator, CNN will revisit the contract once Brazile concludes her role.”

CNN Benches Donna Brazile; Wikileaks Says Email “Implicated” Her ...

There is no condemnation for those who commit crimes, as long as they are in support of the agenda. Crimes by anyone, including the queen herself, while on the mission's agenda, do not amount to anything noteworthy.

But this DNC vulnerability has been linked to Hillary's private server's vulnerability for quite a while. Nobody was listening then. Well they are paying attention now!

One example:

What Russia's DNC Hack Tells Us About Hillary Clinton's Private Email Server

JUN 15, 2016, by Paul Roderick Gregory

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Indeed, the Russians might benefit from knowing more about U.S. presidential politics, but the Holy Grail of Russian intelligence is uncovering compromising material that can be used to embarrass, manipulate or blackmail foreign political leaders. Where the Post fails is in connecting the dots of the DNC breach to the possible Russian hacking of Hillary Clinton’s private server.

We know that Russian intelligence knew about Clinton’s private email account since mid-March 2013 (or well before if a planted leak is to be believed). The private Clinton email account came to light with the publication by a Kremlin-funded news service of emails sent to Clinton by her trusted advisor Sidney Blumenthal. Thereafter, the mainstream media lost interest in the story but was revived when Clinton’s private emails became the subject of congressional investigations.

The Post story is related to Clinton’s private server in three ways.

First, it shows that even a major civilian organization can scarcely protect itself from a “skilled and determined state like Russia.” If the DNC’s cyber secrets are open to Russian intelligence hackers, the odds are overwhelming that they have Clinton’s private emails as well, especially given that Clinton’s private server was a target of the highest value.

Second, the Post identifies “spearphishing” as the method of penetration of the DNC data base. From a Breitbart account we know that Clinton, by her own admission, was a victim of a “spearphishing” email, which she thought was sent by someone in her inner circle. We still do not know if this breach was by Russian intelligence or a harmless source.

Third, the DNC hack shows that a professional cyber security firm can identify security breaches and their sources with great specificity. The DNC already knows that the Russian hackers are from military intelligence and the FSB. A professional cyber security firm could have done the same for Clinton’s private server, but it has been wiped clean. And while it has been turned over to the State Department, but Clinton’s lawyer confirmed “with IT staffers that no e-mail sent or received by Clinton’s account while she was secretary of state remained on the server or backup systems associated with the system.”

If Russian intelligence had hacked Clinton’s private server in early March of 2013 (or before), the Kremlin would have the trove of “private” emails Clinton destroyed and that U.S. officialdom and the public have never seen.

So while Russia’s breach of the DNC is worrisome, Putin’s real treasure trove might just be Clinton’s private emails.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderick...r/#5c23e9c3b2a6

Here's the in-depth investigation into this DNC email hacking. Not to worry, this was done by the NYT based on the testimony of a former aide, Bryan Pagliano, who began cooperating with federal agents last fall, before he decided not to and began pleading the Fifth!!!

So....we can all trust the NYT and the Hillary hired weasel Pagliano to ferret out any possible malfeasance. TM
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NY Times Report Debunks Fox News' Fantasy That Hillary Clinton's Server Was Hacked
March 3, 2016, by TYLER CHERRY

New York Times: Security Record Of Clinton's Email Server "Showed No Evidence Of Foreign Hacking." Records of computer security logs from Hillary Clinton's private email server "showed no evidence of foreign hacking," according to a March 3 New York Times report. Times reporter Matt Apuzzo noted that Bryan Pagliano, an aide to Clinton who "provided agents the security logs ... told the agents that nothing in his security logs suggested that any intrusion occurred":

Mr. Pagliano told the agents that nothing in his security logs suggested that any intrusion occurred. Security logs keep track of, among other things, who accessed the network and when. They are not definitive, and forensic experts can sometimes spot sophisticated hacking that is not apparent in the logs, but computer security experts view logs as key documents when detecting hackers. [New York Times, 3/3/16]
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http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/03...y-that-h/209006