Hillary Clinton Emails Show Weirdly Close Relationship Between State Department And Google

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Hillary Clinton Emails Show Weirdly Close Relationship Between State Department And Google
A new batch of Hillary Clinton's infamous emails have appeared on Wikileaks, and among them there's one name that appears a bunch and that's Jared Cohen, director and founder of Google Ideas and previous staff member at the State Department. As CBS 5 notes, Cohen was a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton before going to Google/Alphabet to become a close advisor to executive chairman Eric Schmidt and serving as an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.


The connection between Google and then Secretary of State Clinton is kind of a pet topic that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has written about before. Assange describes Cohen as "a fast-talking 'Generation Y' ideas man at State under two US administrations, [and] a courtier from the world of policy think tanks and institutes, poached in his early twenties." Assange has suggested, after personally meeting with Schmidt and Cohen in 2011 while under house arrest, that the pair were engaged in doing "back-channel diplomacy" on behalf of Washington, and specifically for Clinton. And, he says, "Google’s geopolitical aspirations are firmly enmeshed within the foreign-policy agenda of the world’s largest superpower."


Cohen can be found forwarding SF Chronicle articles to Clinton's team back in June 2010, and as CBS 5 shows, discussing a “defection tracker” with Clinton's team in 2012, which would be an online tool to "publicly track and map the defections [from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government] in Syria and which parts of the government they are coming from."

In an effort to dispel the many rumors and discussions about impropriety in Clinton's email archive, the Clinton campaign has put together this in-depth FAQ on the topic. Clinton and her team have said that among the 62,320 sent and received emails in her Gmail account, 30,490 of these emails were provided to the State Department, "and the remaining 31,830 were private, personal records."
http://sfist.com/2016/03/22/hillary_clinton_emails_show_weirdly.php

[DanTex]

1. Horrible! Hillary has advisors that used to work for Google!

I think Bernie fans will only be happy once the government is staffed only with ignoramuses.

[grasswire]

2. what are you afraid of?

You try so furiously to quash every article about the Clintons.

[DanTex]

3. Afraid? Nothing. Just laughing at the increasingly bizarre and desperate Hillary-bashes that are

popping up these days. My hypothesis is that it's correlated to her 300 delegate lead. What do you think?

[frylock]

10. Apparently we'll get that government you described with a Hillary Clinton administration.

[AZ Progressive]

4. There have been conspiracy theories before that suggest that Google's rise was supported by the CIA

That in fact Google is really an arm of the Federal Government or at least subservient to it.

[pinebox]

5. I've not heard those

Seems rather odd and strange

[leveymg]

6. The NSA and the other agencies operate like Google. They collect, datamine and create profiles.

There is bound to be some overlap and similar misuses of these powers. Nothing in this article and other attempts to explain details surprises me at all.

Of course, google can't target a drone firing a Hellfire missile through your nearest window. Let's hope not, yet.

[Wilms]

7. His wiki page is a good read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Cohen

[KoKo]

8. From Wiki..."White House was furious with him"...

Cohen was one of the few members of Policy Planning kept on by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He played a role in helping shape counter-radicalization strategies and advised on US policy towards Iran and the Middle East. Beginning in April 2009, Cohen aided delegations focused on connecting technology executives with local stakeholders in Iraq, Russia, Mexico, Congo, and Syria.

In the midst of the June 2009 protests in Iran, Cohen sought to support the opposition in Iran. He contacted Twitter, requesting that the company not perform planned maintenance that would have temporarily shut down service in Iran, because the protestors were using Twitter to maintain contact with the outside world. According to The New Yorker Ryan Lizza, “The move violated Obama’s rule of non-interference, and White House officials were furious." In an interview with Clinton, she “did not betray any disagreement with the President over Iran policy,” but “cited Cohen’s move with pride.”[19]

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Cohen was among the early adopters of social media in the U.S. government. In April 2010, Cohen had the third largest number of Twitter followers in the US government, behind Barack Obama and John McCain.[9][11] By Sept 2013, he was not in the top 20.[21]
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Cohen left the State Department's Policy Planning staff on 2 September 2010.[22] On 7 September 2010, Cohen became an adjunct senior fellow at The Council on Foreign Relations focusing on counter-radicalization.[22] He was hired as the first director of Google Ideas, a new branch within Google in mid-October 2010.[23]

[FlatBaroque]

9. The NSA/CIA should just stop pretending and move Google and Facebook HQ into their

Langley offices.

[KoKo]

11. lol's..you mean own up to it that "They" are Already There.....

Look, I don't think all of our intelligence community is embedded and against the rest of us. Its just that we always need to question when Corporate Interests and Constitutional Rights of Average Americans start working together as they have been for many decades now.

There are always the good people who Whistle Blow. Sadly, what happens to them means that it puts the "fear" into the younger ones coming up who seek jobs with either Govt. or Google/Facebook and the rest. But...we have to still work and hope that things will get better going forward.