Russia used the Observer, Jared Kushner's publication, as a conduit to feed FAKE Clinton foundation
documents to the media along with Russian propaganda spin (designed to alienate Bernie supporters)
(NOTE: I'm posting this here because Jared Kushner is being proposed as a special advisor to his father-in-law, so this relates to current events)
The documents were fed to the Observer by Guccifer, who US intelligence says was a Russian operative.
Jared published a series of stories about the supposed Clinton foundation documents, starting on October 4, as if they were credible. (I'm not going to include links to his propaganda. Anyone interested can google it.)
But The Hill analyzed the documents on October 4 and immediately exposed them as a hoax.
Kushner’s Observer also previously published other leaks from Guccifer, i.e, from Russian intelligence.
In September, Hillary’s campaign had already pointed out the link between Russian intelligence and Kushner’s paper, in connection with another Guccifer (i.e., Russian) leak. Mother Jones published a story about that but it seems to have gotten little attention at the time.
And now, according to reports, DT wants to appoint Jared Kushner, the conduit for Russian leaks, as a special advisor.
MOTHER JONES:
Sept 7, 2016:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/trump-clinton-russia-hack-kushner-observer
Is the newspaper owned by Trump's son-in-law a cyberwar battleground?
A Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman says a new article in the New York Observer establishes a "direct link" between the Donald Trump campaign and the hacker or hackers who have recently penetrated the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and other high-profile Democratic officials.
On Tuesday, the Observer published a piece maintaining that the DCCC had coordinated—presumably improperly—with the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2015. The story, written by a freelance contributor named Michael Sainato, cited "an internal DCCC memo" leaked to the Observer from Guccifer 2.0—the handle of the hacker or hackers who have successfully targeted these Democratic committees. The Observer is owned by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who has been a top adviser to the Republican presidential nominee.
Shortly after the post went up, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted:
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In an email to Mother Jones, Fallon elaborated on his tweet: "Guccifer 2.0 is known to be the Russians. And now that they are leaking materials obtained from their hacking to Trump adviser Jared Kushner's newspaper, that's a pretty direct link between Trump and the Russians behind this hack."
October 4th, The Hill
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/299236-alleged-guccifer-20-hack-of-clinton-foundation-raises-suspicions
A new posting from the hacker alias Guccifer 2.0 purported to be documents stolen from the Clinton Foundation appears to be a hoax.
Guccifer 2.0 — believed to be a misinformation campaign operated by Russian intelligence — posted an 860-megabyte file on Tuesday afternoon that he claimed was donor information he hacked from Clinton Foundation servers.
A sampling of the posted documents include a spreadsheet of big bank donations, a list of primarily California donors, an outdated spreadsheet of some Republican House members — and a screenshot of files he claimed to have obtained, one of which was titled “Pay to Play.”
But there are a number of red flags that suggest the documents are in fact from a previous hack on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), not a new hack on the Clinton Foundation.
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sorry for hollering but d*mn is just so unacceptable. 
