Anyone who doubts wikileaks is working w/ Putin: read KURT EICHENWALD Now.
The Putin/Trump connection. One manufactures disinformation, w/in hours, the second is reading it at campaign rally.Anyone who doubts wikileaks is working w/ Putin: read how my words falsely became those of a Clinton confidante.
Updated | I am Sidney Blumenthal. At least, that is what Vladimir Putin—and, somehow, Donald Trump—seem to believe. And that should raise concerns not only about Moscow’s attempts to manipulate this election, but also how Trump came to push Russian disinformation to American voters.
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To understand the full importance of the story—and how much Putin and his Kremlin cronies must have been dancing with delight—I have to quote the top few paragraphs:
In a major revelation from the second batch of WikiLeaks emails from Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta it was learned that Hillary's top confidante Sidney Blumenthal believed that the investigation into Benghazi was legitimate because it was "preventable" and the result of State Department negligence.
In an email titled "The Truth" from Hillary's top confidante Sidney Blumenthal, the adviser writing to undisclosed recipients said that "one important point that has been universally acknowledged by nine previous reports about Benghazi: The attack was almost certainly preventable" in what may turn out to be the big October surprise from the WikiLeaks released of emails hacked from the account of Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta.
Then came the money quote: "Clinton was in charge of the State Department, and it failed to protect U.S. personnel at an American consulate in Libya. If the GOP wants to raise that as a talking point against her, it is legitimate," said Blumenthal, putting to rest the Democratic Party talking point that the investigation into Clinton's management of the State Department at the time of the attack was nothing more than a partisan witch hunt.
Those words sounded really, really familiar. Really familiar. Like, so familiar they struck me as something I wrote. Because they were something I wrote.
The Russians were quoting two sentences from a 10,000 word piece I wrote for Newsweek, which Blumenthal had emailed to Podesta. There was no mistaking that Blumenthal was citing Newsweek—the magazine’s name and citations for photographs appeared throughout the attached article. The Russians had carefully selected the “of course” paragraph, which mentions there were legitimate points of criticism regarding Clinton and Benghazi, all of which had been acknowledged in nine reports about the terror attack and by the former Secretary of State herself. But that was hardly the point of the story, “Benghazi Biopsy: A Comprehensive Guide to One of America’s Worst Political Outrages.” The piece is about the obscene politicization of the assault that killed four Americans, and the article slammed the Republican Benghazi committee which was engaged in a political show trial disguised as a Congressional investigation—the tenth inquiry into the tragedy.
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The Russians have been obtaining American emails and now are presenting complete misrepresentations of them—falsifying them—in hopes of setting off a cascade of events that might change the outcome of the presidential election. The big question, of course, is why are the Russians working so hard to damage Clinton and, in the process, aid Donald Trump? That is a topic for another time.
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http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635
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Wow...the idea of the efforts of propaganda and misinformation that are being manufactured and placed by foreign interests (in this case Russia), it's being used then by Trump who is hungrily fed by Wikileaks and Breitbart and that even in a live debate that Trump is using that false info against Hillary as he voices support for Russia (especially in regards to Syria and what the Russians are doing there).....it's chilling. Then tie in the money trail....
I personally don't trust anything coming from rapist Assange, not anything from any Wickileaks document and I especially don't trust anything coming out of Russia, where tRump's "boyfriend" Putin lives and runs his dictatorship.
Blumental emailed the entire Newsweek story to Podesta. The Newsweek story had what appears to be damning comments about Benghazi.
Still following?
The damning comments, though, are in a story written by an editorialist whose point was that Republicans were on a baseless witch hunt and that there wasn't anything actually to the Benghazi story.
So the Russians hack this email and give it to Wikileaks. The part that's released to the public, though, isn't the whole email: it's just that one quote, taken out of context from an article, which was ITSELF taken out of context from a hacked email.
The first place any of this appeared was in Sputnik, a Russian-government news agency. Literal propaganda, not even quasi-propaganda like RT.
At best Trump is scouring Russian propaganda for anti-Clinton news. It looks like his team is actually being fed the propaganda, based on the quickness of timing.
I hope that's both clear and accurate 
Kurt Eichenwald seems to be making a mountain out of a molehill in an effort to promote a CT.
I guess if Kurt Eichenwald says what people want to hear, they will believe it.
