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Showing Original Post only (View all)Anyone who doubts wikileaks is working w/ Putin: read KURT EICHENWALD Now. [View all]
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 Putinand, somehow, Donald Trumpseem to believe. And that should raise concerns not only about Moscows 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 storyand how much Putin and his Kremlin cronies must have been dancing with delightI 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 Newsweekthe magazines 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 Americas 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 investigationthe tenth inquiry into the tragedy.
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The Russians have been obtaining American emails and now are presenting complete misrepresentations of themfalsifying themin 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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Anyone who doubts wikileaks is working w/ Putin: read KURT EICHENWALD Now. [View all]
kpete
Oct 2016
OP
That's much more polite than the "I fucking told you so," OP I was going to post. nt
msanthrope
Oct 2016
#48
Trump Tower probably has a Cold War era teletype machine that receives news feeds from the Kremlin.
Chiyo-chichi
Oct 2016
#20
In the interests of national security, I wonder if Hill is thinking of requesting they both....
Hekate
Oct 2016
#12
At this point, Wikileaks has quite a lot of explaining to do. Although it's stooges
KittyWampus
Oct 2016
#22
And Russian propaganda is as inept as Trump himself. They were made for one another!
randome
Oct 2016
#17
Wikileaks is putting up documents that may have been altered AND WITHHOLD DOCUMENTS FROM RUSSIA
KittyWampus
Oct 2016
#24
Anyone else think Russia might try to cause a international crisis if Trump loses? Nt
maryellen99
Oct 2016
#47
If anyone criticizes President Hillary Clinton, will they be accused of being a Russian spy?
davidn3600
Oct 2016
#52
Perhaps if they have advance knowledge of hacked falsified emails from Russian hackers
wishstar
Oct 2016
#54