ICYMI-- Paul Ryans SuperPAC Just Got Caught Working With Putins Stolen Emails In House Races

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Paul Ryan’s SuperPAC Just Got Caught Working With Putin’s Stolen Emails In House Races
http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/12/15/paul-ryan-just-got-working-russian-hackers-rig-house-races/



By Grant Stern
Published on December 15, 2016


The Republican Party benefited from Russian hackers’ theft of emails outside of the race for the White House, and a New York Times report is detailing exactly how the GOP did it. The Congressional Leadership Fund Super PAC (CLF) linked to GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan created a series of ads across multiple states using hacked emails from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) which is the main party legislative fundraising vehicle. Russian hackers made it all possible, and their assistance was indispensable in the Republican party’s national political campaigns this year, even though Democrats urged their counterparts to avoid collaborating with the Putin regime against American interests for their own partisan political advantage. The Times reports:

“This is not a traditional tit-for-tat on a partisan political campaign, where one side hits the other and then you respond,” said Kelly Ward, executive director of the D.C.C.C. “This is an attack by a foreign actor that had the intent to disrupt our election, and we were the victims of it.”

The thefts occurred last spring when a staffer clicked on a phished email this past spring by the Russian group called Guccifer 2.0, and first resulted in the doxing of home addresses for Democratic legislators and later, much much worse. Even House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi was forced to change her personal cellphone number after it became flooded with abusive and threatening messages, as were numerous Democratic Congresspeople.

Then the hackers began to interfere in Democratic Congressional primary campaigns with targeted releases, .........................................


“The DCCC told us that the FBI informed leadership that it was a Russian hack......................


“It’s a shame that no Democrat got to speak about the issues important to the voters, because the news media was focused on the importance and contents of the leaked documents.” Juan Penalosa managed Democrat Joe Garcia’s congressional campaign against Taddeo and told Occupy Democrats exclusively, “Be it Annette Taddeo, Hillary Clinton or Joe Garcia they all wanted to speak with voters about the issues, but were forced to respond to media reports that ultimately voters didn’t care about.”

The Taddeo campaign’s entire opposition research book was compromised and so were the DCCC’s internal studies of the candidate’s strengths and weaknesses – known as ‘self-oppo’ research profiles – were also pilfered and disseminated in ways damaging to the Democrats’ campaigns. ......................................

The Russian hackers also played kingmaker in the blogosphere, dishing stolen documents to small time Republican bloggers in Florida and New Hampshire, one of whom shared his twitter conversations with the New York Times:


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Guccifer 2.0 targeted the chair of the DCCC, New Mexico’s Ray Lujan, the Democrats sent a letter to his Republican counterpart on Aug. 29 arguing that “the NRCC’s use of documents stolen by the Russians plays right into the hands of one of the United States’ most dangerous adversaries,” and if the National Republican Campaign Committee continued using the materials, the GOP “will be complicit in aiding the Russian government in its effort to influence American elections.”

[cilla4progress]

1. Whatever it takes to win

Including cheating. Winning is all.

[Turbineguy]

2. The Republican Party

"... one of the United States’ most dangerous adversaries..."

[Maraya1969]

7. +1,000

[uponit7771]

3. You know, Ryan ON A AUDIO RECORDING joking about Benedict Donald and Rohbacher taking ...

... money from the Russians sits ill with me because it said way too calmly ... like they KNOW this is the shit that goes on.

I wouldn't doubt if the Russians had some USSC wives on their payrols too ... some sKrange isht

[emulatorloo]

4. He wasn't joking about it. He told the guy to STFU who said Trump and Rohbacher were on Putin's

payroll. Then Ryan told the rest to keep quiet about the "family"

[Greybnk48]

6. The guy was Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R) CA.

He said "honest to God they were taking Putin money." So he's known for ages that this coup is happening and has agreed to cover it up.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. All those leaks from so called Person's in the know

are coming true. Got to make a contribution to the Iron Man in order to make sure he has funds to run with this.


Man O man,make my day!


Paulie going to look good in Orange. Damn.

[sharedvalues]

8. DCCC hack! Underreported.

Russia stole voter data from the DCCC.
This hack is more consequential than the stolen DNC emails. And it's been underreported.

[blue-wave]

9. Oh boy!!

It's also catching up to Ryan. What is that I'm hearing.....President Hatch????

[oasis]

10. K and R

[burrowowl]

11. k&R