(Stillness in the Storm Editor) The following is a compilation of articles discussing the sixth and seventh Wikileaks emails, some 10,000 out of 55,000. Hackers allegedly associated with the group Anonymous said the remaining batch of emails in the Wikileaks store is so damning that the Clinton campaign is all but finished. Time will tell.
by Staff Writer, October 14th 2016
WikiLeaks has released a sixth batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta. The leak contains a total of 1,812 messages and highlights links with George Soros, discusses the email scandal and Hillary’s difficulty with apologizing.
The whistleblowing site released two batches of emails yesterday, with today’s leak bringing the total number of emails released to around 9,000.
RELEASE: The Podesta Emails Part 6 (almost 2000 new emails) https://t.co/wzxeh7hZLU #HillaryClinton #PodestaEmails #PodestaEmails6 pic.twitter.com/HYdHE0DG4C— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 13, 2016
Podesta’s Twitter account and email was hacked on Wednesday after the fifth Wikileaks email release.
Clintons won’t forget
In November 2014, Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook emailed Podesta about the urgency of pushing a bill to move the Illinois primary out of March, refers to a “lifeline to a moderate Republican candidate.”
“Our preference would be for them to move all the way to May, but if they at least move to April 12 or April 19 they will have the day to themselves and presumably garner a lot of coverage,” says Mook. “They will also be influencing a big northeast primary day on April 26.”
Illinois was offered “a bonus of 10% extra delegates if they move to April and 20% if they move to May,” but didn’t change the date as it had already done so in 2008.
“They don’t really care about being helpful and feel forgotten and neglected by POTUS,” Mook writes. “The key point is that this is not an Obama ask, but a Hillary ask. And the Clintons won’t forget what their friends have done for them.”
The 2016 Illinois primary remained in mid-March. Clinton won 25,000 votes and 2 delegates more than Bernie Sanders, while Trump carried the majority of Republican delegates.
BREAKING: #Wikileaks releases batch 5 of #PodestaEmails https://t.co/s4pAfyXg1f pic.twitter.com/DuJIzgN0YS— RT America (@RT_America) October 12, 2016
On February 27, 2016 Deputy Director of State Campaigns Brynne Craig emailed Bill Clinton’s office requesting he call Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy to thank him for endorsing Hillary.
“We were hoping WJC could call him and thank him for his continued support of HRC. As you can imagine a lot of people are hitting him for not endorsing Sanders,” Craig says.
The attached call sheet for Bill Clinton detailed Leahy coming under pressure from locals attacking him for “not listening to the people who elected him.”
“The goal is to express YOUR and Hillary’s gratitude to and support for Senator Leahy, and to ensure he remains a committed Hillary superdelegate independent of the electoral outcome in Vermont.”
Hillary’s Achilles heel
After Clinton gave an interview to NBC’s Andrea Mitchell on September 4, 2015, Podesta, Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s director of communications, and Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, discussed the former secretary of state’s almost apology for her use of a private email server.
“I actually cried a little bit with relief,” Palmieri says.
The “press takeaway was the whine of but ‘she really didn’t apologize to the American people’,” Podesta says.
“Everyone wants her to apologize,” Tanden says. “And she should. Apologies are like her Achilles heel. But she didn’t seem like a bitch in the interview. And she said the word sorry. She will get to a full apology in a few interviews.”
Tanden says she “definitely recommend[s] having her [Clinton] beat up a punching bag (or a staffer but that is unpleasant) before she goes on. She really needs to exorcise the injustice of it all.”
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— Zach Haller (@zachhaller) October 13, 2016
The emotional connection
Clinton’s lack of “emotional connection” to voters is revealed as worrying to Democrats in an email from Steve Hildebrand, former deputy national campaign director for Barack Obama, to Podesta. “Hillary has got to get away from Washington speak and begin immediately to find an emotional connection to regular Americans,” Hildebrand warns.
“She needs to have a greater understanding of what people and families are going through every day. And, then she needs to find an emotional connection. This has to turn around now,” he says in an email from January 2016, titled ‘Some unsolicited advice’.
Podesta responds saying he is “aiming in the same direction” but would not mimic Bernie Sanders’ tactics. “Bernie has gone decidedly negative and personal and like most things maybe he can get away with it. But we live with a double standard, so I think it’s a mistake to follow him down that path.”
Soros influence
The influence of philanthropist George Soros over the Democratic Party is demonstrated.
In July 2015, Jacqueline Carozza from the office of George Soros emailed Podesta about arranging a meeting with with Mr and Mrs Soros and Podesta during their time in Southampton over the summer.
“Please let me know which dates suit you best to come for a visit and hopefully we can coordinate a mutually convenient time for your stay,” Carozza says. “Please note that Mr. and Mrs. Soros will begin their summer in Southampton the weekend of July 4th and wrap up Labor Day weekend.”
Also, in an email from 2008 the Obama campaign team take his advice on how to tackle John McCain. The team discuss a way to tackle Soros’s concerns in a manner that pleases him.
“If you ask him to think about additional funds stress that the message operation is multiplatform. Not primarily broadcast TV,” an advisor at Soros Management Fund tells Andy Stern, referencing Soros’s dislike of television advertising.
At the time of the email Soros is said to have contributed $2.5m to the party out of a commitment of $5m.
Those emails
One email reveals that Clinton’s motivation for releasing 55,000 emails was not because she wanted the public to “learn more about the incredible department I was proud to lead.”
Nick Merrill, Clinton’s travelling press secretary, tells Cheryl Mills “I’d take out ‘That’s why’ in the next sentence. You know, because it’s not why…”
Tackling Trump
On March 1, 2016, Podesta received an email from Robert Wolf, chairman of the consulting company 32 Advisors, regarding a conference call about the primaries taking place that day.
Republican pollster Frank Luntz predicts Trump and Clinton would capture the party nominations and that the match-up between them was “closer than any national polls” because of Trump’s appeal to blue-collar democrats “even though Clinton does much better with all women & minorities.”
The unspecified “executives” on the conference call say “all-out war against Trump will start in DC because of down ticket,”Wolf writes, adding that the call had “more people on than any before which is a sign that execs are now nervous Trump is real.”
“Trump’s Campaign” #WikiLeaks part 6 of Podesta Emails just released. Yesterday it was Catholics & Latino’s. Who’ll B in Deplorable Basket?— Jan Ingve (@janingve) October 13, 2016
In yet another example of the cozy relationship between the media and the campaign, Brent Budowsky, a columnist for the Hill emailed Podesta in December 2015 to recommend Bill Clinton ignore Trump and the attacks he would levy against him.
“Trump is very predictable. The media is very predictable, they will megaphone Trump taking cheap shots at WJC. My suggestion would be for WJC to have ready a litany of ‘responses’,” he says.
“The media is about as popular as the bird flu, but no need to attack the media to make the point…..WJC can deflect with a light touch,” Budowsky says. “Make the bastard look like a dwarf, in the way only a former president can,” he added.
Sensitive Bill questions
In a January 2016 email chain about debate prep for the January 14 debate, the team brought up the need for a review of “the sensitive WJC [William Jefferson Clinton] related questions.”
“Is this accomplishable or will it be too weird?” Karen Dunn, lawyer and former counsel for Obama for America asks Huma Abedin. “Maybe the WJC stuff will come up during this session but if not, better done in a smaller group. Plus, our smaller group may want to meet after this anyhow?”
Abedin suggests the small Bill Clinton team meet at Clinton’s house. “#2 small group agenda item could take a while….” she says.
BREAKING: Wikileaks release 1,200 more emails in latest batch of #podestaemails https://t.co/FQPiVkeCx5 pic.twitter.com/w8mI00SIxU— RT America (@RT_America) October 12, 2016
Bill’s big birthday gift
In a 2012 email between Clinton Foundation staffers, Ami Desai discussed meeting with Ambassadors from Qatar, Brazil, Peru, Malawi and Rwanda in Washington.
Qatar “would like to see WJC ‘for five minutes’ in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC’s birthday in 2011,” Desai says.
Bernie and Wall Street
In an email chain starting on March 13, 2016, Gary Hirshberg, chairman of one of America’s biggest dairy producers, Stonyfield, wrote to Podesta with concern over proposed GMO labeling legislation.
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Rather than focusing on public health, Hirshberg is more concerned on how the proposed Vermont bill “blatantly validates Bernie’s entire campaign message about Wall Street running our government.”
In response, Podesta asks if the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack “signed off on this.”
I can’t imagine what this election would b like without @wikileaks #PodestaEmails6 The corruption & collusion is unreal #NextFakeTrumpVictim— Mrs Bill Clinton (@LisaPizza9) October 13, 2016
The Stonyfield chairman then writes that Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) should “keep pushing for something that is less damaging than [Pat] Roberts but which will still fall short of a real path to mandatory labeling,” and that “she agrees that the passage of such a bill could unfortunately give Bernie a major PR fundraising and political opportunity.”
Pat Roberts, a Republican Senator from Kansas, is the Senate Agriculture Committee chairman. The compromise on GMO labeling was reached in June.
1/16th Apache
Clinton’s team joke about their lack of diversity in a 2015 email. “Robby claims he’s 1/16th Apache, so we should be all set,” says Nick Merrill in a mail to members of Clinton’s campaign. Mook adds that the team is a “Lotta white guys.”
“We were hoping WJC could call him and thank him for his continued support of HRC. As you can imagine a lot of people are hitting him for not endorsing Sanders,” Craig says.
WikiLeaks emails reveal Bill Clinton’s $1M ‘birthday’ present from Qatar
By Douglas Ernst, October 13th 2016
The WikiLeaks document dump of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta has revealed Qatar’s previous desire to give her husband a $1 million “birthday” present.
Thousands of emails leaked by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s nonprofit organization continue to embarrass Democrat presidential hopeful Mrs. Clinton. The latest email thread shows an aide discussing conversations with ambassadors from Qatar, Brazil, Peru, Malawi, and Rwanda while in the nation’s capital.
“[Qatar] would like to see WJC ‘for five minutes’ in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC’s birthday in 2011,” an employee at The Clinton Foundationsaid to numerous aides, including Doug Brand. “Qatar would welcome our suggestions for investments in Haiti — particularly on education and health. They have allocated most of their $20 million but are happy to consider projects we suggest. I’m collecting input from CF Haiti team.”
The documents, which U.S. intelligence blames on Russian state actors, are just a few of roughly 50,000 WikiLeaks says it has on Mr. Podesta.
Mr. Podesta’s leaked conversations come on the heels of an ABC News story on special attention Mrs. Clinton’s State Department gave to emails identifying “FOBs” (friends of Bill Clinton), after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
“I think when you look at both the State Department and the Clinton Foundation in Haiti, that line was pretty faint between the two,” Jake Johnston, a Haiti analyst for the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research, told the network Tuesday. “You had a lot of coordination and connection between the two, obviously. And I think that raises significant questions about how they were both operating.”
by Staff Writer, October 14th 2016
WikiLeaks has released a seventh tranche of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, John Podesta, comprising 2,000 emails.
RELEASE: The Podesta Emails Part 7 https://t.co/2yG9TNArqi #HillaryClinton #imWithHer #PodestaEmails #PodestaEmails7 pic.twitter.com/NfTC3VK1mU— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 14, 2016
The latest leak follows the release of around 9,000 emails via the WikiLeaks website, including messages highlighting Hillary’s email scandal, Wall Street connections, and handling ‘backroom deals’.
Earlier leaked emails suggested that Clinton knew Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) received “clandestine”support from Saudi Arabia and Qatar – both major allies of the US in the Middle East.
They also showed that in 2013, Clinton admitted that the largest share of donations to the Clinton Foundation came from abroad, and that the new DNC chair leaked Bernie Sanders’ campaign strategy plans to the Clinton campaign.
Podesta’s Twitter account and new email account were hacked on Wednesday after the fifth WikiLeaks email release.
Benghazi
The new releases include further details on handling Hillary’s email scandal, as well as the hearing by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs into the 2012 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi.
In a 2015 email sent to Podesta about Hillary’s Benghazi hearing, the sender suggests turning the focus from Clinton to the “Congressional Republicans” and their “totally skewed and misplaced priorities”.
“I believe this challenge could be potent enough to garner a headline – and have Hillary Clinton stand up for Americans rather than for herself while putting Republicans much further on the defensive,” the email reads.
Hillary’s emails
It wouldn’t be a Hillary leak without a mention of the infamous email scandal.
While discussing possible responses for Clinton’s traveling press secretary Nick Merrill, campaign spokesman Brian Fallon writes “in preparation for the possibility that the State Department may acknowledge as soon as today that there were 16 Sid [Blumenthal] emails missing from the 55k pages of material produced by HRC”.
“On-the-record: ‘Hillary Clinton has turned over 55,000 pages of materials to the State Department, including all emails in her possession from Mr. Blumenthal’,” Fallon notes.
“Off-record: If pressed on whether we are essentially admitting the possibility that she deleted some emails: Look, we do not know what these materials are, or where they came from. Just take a look at them: many of the documents are not even formatted as emails. For all we know, it could be that, in the course of reproducing his emails after his account was hacked, Sid misremembered which memos he actually forwarded to her and which he did not.”
Other emails in Friday’s leak suggest spinning Clinton’s email scandal to show that “all the Republicans have the same or similar ‘problems’.”
Handling the media
In one email chain, Podesta recommends staging “an intervention” to deal with a New York Times reporter’s queries about ‘gig’ economy companies – companies that hire short-term or temporary workers.
In another, Podesta asks what he’s being “accused of” by a Washington Post journalist writing about financial donations to a lobby group founded by Podesta, the Center for American Progress (CAP).
In May 2015, Clinton’s director of communications Jennifer Palmieri emailed national finance director Dennis Cheng to complain about media leaks. The leaks concerned Clinton reportedly doing meetings for the Democratic Super PAC, Priorities USA.
“So afraid that NYT is going with this story on Priorities whether we like or not,” Palmieri writes. “They have sources about the meetings. Honestly, it sounds like Priorities staff was yapping.”
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Sources:
https://www.rt.com/usa/362641-wikileaks-podesta-emails-six/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/13/wikileaks-emails-reveal-bill-clintons-1m-birthday-/
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