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WikiLeaks Posts 2,000 More Emails From John Podesta (cnn.com) 377

Posted by BeauHD from the here-we-go-again dept.
WikiLeaks has released an additional 2,000 emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta -- the second leak in four days. The first leak contained thousands of emails from Podesta, including apparent excerpts from Ms Clinton's paid, closed-door speeches to Wall Street executives after leaving her position as Secretary of State. CNN reports: The emails appear to be mostly from 2015, covering a litany of policy and strategy discussions between Clinton staffers on how to handle issues of the day and the press, including the release of the book "Clinton Cash" alleging nefarious activity by the Clinton Foundation. Another email has long-time Clinton aide Doug Band referring to Chelsea Clinton as a "spoiled brat." Doug Band emailed Podesta and longtime Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills about a damning story about his consulting company, Teneo, by lashing out at Chelsea Clinton. "I don't deserve this from her and deserve a tad more respect or at least a direct dialogue for me to explain these things," Band wrote. "She is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but create issues to justify what she's doing because she, as she has said, hasn't found her way and has a lack of focus in her life." The emails also revealed that Clinton wanted to respond more forcefully to "Clinton Cash," the 2015 book that looked to connect Clinton Foundation actions and decisions made by Hillary Clinton's State Department. According to an email from another close aide, Huma Abedin, Clinton wanted to tape a straight-to-camera video responding to the allegations. Clinton campaign responded to the release by slamming the Trump campaign for "cheering on a release today engineered by Vladimir Putin," after Trump adviser Jason Miller tweeted a link to the document page with the phrase "And here...we...go."
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  • So I guess we Assange will have to release 2,000 emails every two or three days to keep this going until the election. Is Slashdot going to run one of these stories every two days?
    • I meant 50 ÷ 30. But thank god nobody reads the subjects.

    • Re:50,000 * 30 (Score:5, Insightful)

      by jandrese ( 485 ) <kensama@vt.edu> on Monday October 10, 2016 @04:53PM (#53050537) Homepage Journal
      Maybe they could wait until there was one with something actually interesting? Clinton didn't like a book that was critical of her foundation, and someone else doesn't like Chelsea. Assange is doing a major disservice to people who don't want to see Clinton elected by burying any potentially juicy details under this constant drip of boring non-news. Where is the email where Clinton brags about how she can grab any guy's dick anytime she wants because of the implication? Where is the email where she boasts about sucking at her job so badly that she doesn't have to pay taxes again?
      • could be small leaks leading up to a big one. at least, thats our hope at this point

        • Re:50,000 * 30 (Score:4, Insightful)

          by St.Creed ( 853824 ) on Monday October 10, 2016 @05:59PM (#53051041)

          I find that highly unlikely in the first place, as the timing for a "big one" is not "two months from now" but rather urgently needed by Trump *right now*. Even if they do have something, given the rather suspected source of the documents I think that if they time a really juicy email to appear right before the election it's going to be dismissed as fabricated, and proving it ain't so will take time that just isn't there.

          So: don't keep your hopes up. Clinton may be skating the edge of the law, but given the evidence so far, that's it. A bit like Trump, really, except in different areas of the law.

      • Assange has made it a point to dump material for Journalists to report on. Wikileaks my occasionally provide some commentary, but that is not the service they want and not the service they claim to provide.

        The real issue is that we have a massive media monopoly in the US. Journalism has died and entertainment took it's place. IMHO, the US DOJ should start breaking up the media monopolies. We have laws for that.

      • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

        by bongey ( 974911 )

        Dipshit, how about the Clinton Campaign giving assignments to ABC,NBC, CBS,CNN, NY Times, Bloomberg,Vox, Huffington Post , People , New Yorker, Vice , Politico.
        Hint it is call propaganda then, just like you know in Nazi germany, and Hillary has done it even better.
        You are repeating exactly what Hillary wants you to , now step into the shower.

        https://theintercept.com/2016/... [theintercept.com]
        (NOTE Glenn Greenwald is not on Faux spin news)

        The media is one of the strongest weapons in showing the world the devastating effect

  • Rules for Radicals (Score:4, Interesting)

    by s.petry ( 762400 ) on Monday October 10, 2016 @04:48PM (#53050485)

    Deny Deny Deny, Distract, Distract, Distract. Sorry folks, but if you are just now waking up you may want to go back to sleep. Politics is full of criminals and criminal actions, each trying to cover up for each other. The media has been in on the scam, as has been Department heads in charge of prosecuting wrong doing.

    It's going to take me a while to read through this lot, I'm not done with the last dump. You can bet your ass the Media won't bother with this, because 11 years ago Trump said the P word. For the people focusing on that instead of actual political corruption, you deserve what is planned by the Left.

    • Re:Rules for Radicals (Score:4, Insightful)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 ) on Monday October 10, 2016 @05:38PM (#53050881) Homepage Journal

      They are just throwing everything they have now, hoping something will stick. None of it is particularly explosive though, like the Trump tape.

      I think they realised he can't really win, and are just flailing about.

      • Hearing the media, progressives, and phony right career politicians claim doom and gloom for Trump is a narrative that benefits the left. It's obvious why they push the narrative, but I trust them with that as much as I trust them not to try and tag team Trump in debates. The left is so sure they won the USA they are playing sloppy. Remember Brexit was going to be a blowout too, and all the elites wanted to remain in the EU. I seem to remember the people of the UK getting the result that the majority wa

        • Re: (Score:2, Interesting)

          by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

          Bad news about Brexit, it's already going badly wrong and the predictions that the experts made are coming true. The Pound is lower than it's been for decades, business is not interesting.

          People are realising that their feelings aren't a substitute for expert advice. It's an huge failure of democracy, both the post-factual campaign and the fact that now our PM keeps saying "Brexit means Brexit" but no one knows what people actually voted for.

          • Re: (Score:3)

            by s.petry ( 762400 )
            Conflating issues are we? The pound being low has nothing to do with the current levels of political corruption in the UK? How about the mass of immigrants they are dealing with when jobs were already scarce? How about the massive increase in government programs to stifle free speech and spy on the populace? Oh but it's all because they left the EU, which was only half ass adopted in the UK to begin with right? Good grief.

            • Re: (Score:2)

              by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

              Explain how corruption caused the weak Pound. Explain why the Pound fell massively on the day of the result, and again when the article 50 date was set

              Immigration is a huge benefit to the UK. It's hardly a flood, just badly managed.

              • Re: (Score:2)

                by s.petry ( 762400 )
                The same way corruption is harming the US economy. Money is being funneled from the private to the public sector and dumped on crap instead of things like Infrastructure which could put people to work. In the US for example, the 1.2 Billion dollars handed to Iran for hostages could have been used for roads and money been recirculated by the public. Instead, someone in Iran has a very nice retirement package. I gave you one of the UK examples, in the Government pissing away money to stifle speech and spy

                • Re: (Score:2)

                  by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

                  I'm not disputing the wasted money, I'm saying it isn't responsible for the sudden and severe drop in the value of the Pound.

                  The UK has always been corrupt in this way. In the 80s they couldn't play certain Irish people's voices on TV. In the late 90s the internet wars started. Yet the Pound was fine, now suddenly after this vote it's crashing. Are you saying the timing if Brexit is mere coincidence?

                • In the US for example, the 1.2 Billion dollars handed to Iran for hostages could have been used for roads and money been recirculated by the public.

                  This is incorrect for several reasons [mediamatters.org].

                  • The money wasn't for the hostages. The hostages were released in exchange for the U.S. giving clemency to several Iranians convicted of dodging the sanctions.
                  • The $400 million was money the U.S. had already accepted from Iran in exchange for weapons the U.S. then refused to send.
                  • The $1.2 billion was interest on that money. The original money was held and the interest accrued in an account specifically for this purpose and did not belong to the U.S. government or its c

        • You speak of "the elites" as if that's something bad.

      • In what way is the Trump tape explosive? Did it change anyone's opinion of Trump?

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by s.petry ( 762400 )
          My opinion of Trump did not change, because I read the transcript. It should take about 10 seconds to figure out that this is manufactured hysteria. My opinion of Media and Hillary did go down slightly, but it's already so far down that I can't measure a difference.

    • During the Republican debates, Trump admitted* to bribing just about every politician on the stage. Is a pimp better than a ho?

      If he's the answer to corruption, then what's the question?

      Almost all politicians are sleazebags. We just happen to be seeing the dirty laundry this time due to the hacking. The honest ones get steamrolled by slimers because voters are easily duped, inattentive, and forget history.

      * More like bragging

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by amiga3D ( 567632 )

      But he said "Pussy!" You can't talk about grabbing pussy like that. The bad thing is he's full of shit. He can't just walk up and grab some woman's pussy without getting the shit slapped out of him unless she's a whore. I'd like to see him grab Hilliary's pussy. Right in the middle of the fucking debate. I'd pay good money to see that. I bet it'd bite his fucking hand off.

  • In Chelsea's defense (Score:5, Insightful)

    by elrous0 ( 869638 ) on Monday October 10, 2016 @04:52PM (#53050523)

    I would probably be a spoiled brat too if I had been raised by parents who taught me that political power is the only thing that matters, and that it can buy you out of any moral responsibility.

    It probably also wouldn't help if everything in my life were just handed to me because of my parents' political clout, without me ever having to actually earn anything on my own or even having get a real job that wasn't just handed to me on a silver platter.

    • If you want to talk about "white privilege" .. Chelsea is the poster child.

      • Re: (Score:3, Funny)

        by drinkypoo ( 153816 )

        If you want to talk about "white privilege" .. Chelsea is the poster child.

        There's not enough room on the poster for all the children who belong on it, but there's room to include Trump's tiny hand holding a check for a small ten million dollar loan from his father.

        • Re:In Chelsea's defense (Score:4, Interesting)

          by amiga3D ( 567632 ) on Monday October 10, 2016 @06:29PM (#53051237)

          I do understand that he paid it back. His father was pretty adamant about that. But yeah, he wasn't born into poverty by any means. Unlike so many of that set though he did manage to make a lot of money which he lost then made more then lost that and then made more. Reminds me of Ted Turner who also went bankrupt several times. Those guys are risk takers and wheeler dealers whereas Hilliary is a parasite who has become a multi-millionaire in government service. I know I trust him about -10 on a 1 to 10 scale and her about - 100 billion. He'll probably screw us over and she certainly will. It's not a good choice anywhere I look.

  • Won't make any difference (Score:3, Insightful)

    by p51d007 ( 656414 ) on Monday October 10, 2016 @05:12PM (#53050675)
    When her "good friend" Trump met with Bill Clinton, THEN he announced he was going to run, I said, ok, it's over. I started to prepare myself for her to be president (yuck!). Trump was only in this to knock out any other Republican, using his "celebrity" status, and, it worked. He got all the attention, and the others just died on the vine. Now, it won't matter if you caught Hillary on HD video, with a gun in her hand, murdering a small kid in a wheelchair, then laughing because the media would cover it up. Between the media, and the amount of illegal votes that Hillary will receive, she'd have to DROP DEAD before being sworn in, to not win the election. She's been appointed, and the elections don't really matter...their corporate masters are the ones who appoint them. The general election is nothing but a farce. And why shouldn't it be? The "public" pays more attention to the TMZ types, sports types than they do politicians, who, have a greater impact on our lives than anything else. We don't live in a democratically elected republic anymore. It's more akin to what Russia/China have, than anything else.

    • the amount of illegal votes that Hillary will receive

      I feel like you needed to explain this part a little more... wtf are you talking about?

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by amiga3D ( 567632 )

      It's a democracy. The people get the government they deserve. It's hardly surprising we have vain, lying money grubbers running things considering how many people live the same way. That is what a representative democracy is.

  • STOP THE PRESSES! SIREN! (Score:3, Funny)

    by PopeRatzo ( 965947 ) on Monday October 10, 2016 @05:37PM (#53050873) Journal

    Another email has long-time Clinton aide Doug Band referring to Chelsea Clinton as a "spoiled brat."

    Julian Assange's October Surprise. Hillary will have to drop out now that an email has been leaked from someone calling her daughter a 'spoiled brat".

    The American People must not stand for this.

    • Stop the presses! Trump likes pussy! Oh well, I guess I'm ready for open borders, mass immigration of retarded 3rd worlders and muslims, take my guns, ramp up for war with Russia over Syria, and ram the TPP up my deplorable ass #ImWithHer. If only it he had been a cum-gargling faggot he'd have been beloved by the progressive and tolerant left, but men who like pussy are unacceptable in [current year].

      • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

        by PopeRatzo ( 965947 )

        Stop the presses! Trump likes pussy!

        Admitting to sexual assault is not the same as "liking pussy".

    • Another email has long-time Clinton aide Doug Band referring to Chelsea Clinton as a "spoiled brat."

      Julian Assange's October Surprise. Hillary will have to drop out now that an email has been leaked from someone calling her daughter a 'spoiled brat".

      The American People must not stand for this.

      Yes, Pay No Attention! Move Along, Citizen!

      Because if there's one partial dump of all the 30K emails being released that *don't* have loads of stunningly criminal/corrupt activity in nearly every single email, then that completely exonerates Clinton/DNC on any of the other criminal/corrupt activities already revealed and anything to be revealed in future email dumps.

      But hey, thanks for Correcting The Reco

  • Once upon a time, Wikileaks mattered... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by mce ( 509 ) on Monday October 10, 2016 @06:06PM (#53051103) Homepage Journal

    ... because it revealed things that truly matter to the freedom of the people of the US and the world. And yes, even because in doing so it put some people's lives in danger for what it and its supporters consider to be a good cause. Not everyone agrees to the latter, but at least the debate about what was right and/or wrong fundamentally mattered to the citizens of this world and will continue to matter for decades to come.

    Nowadays, Wikileaks has degraded itself to being a mere tool in Assange's personal revenge vendetta against Hillary Clinton. He doesn't care about right or wrong (anymore).. All that he wants these days is to damage his personal enemy by any means possible and if achieving that implies potentially handing over the US nuclear arsenal and its economic power - and therefor the entire world - to a raging lunatic, then apparently so be it.

    Now, if these leaks there would actually reveal a substantiated serious accusation... But no...The fact that Wikileaks now thinks that it must inform the world of the galactically shocking fact that someone finds Chelsea a spoiled brat says more about Assange's character and insignificance than it says about the Clintons..He used to get media attention by doing things that mattered. It seems that he as run out of such things, but can't accept that he too doesn't matter anymore and the media therefore moved on to other hunting grounds..

    I'm no fan of Trump, but even if I were one, I would still hold the same opinion of what Assange is doing. Who wants to be president because someone considers the daughter of one's opponent to be a spoiled brat?

  • I can't wait to see how his regular fan boyz are going to rationalise this.

  • Media works for Clinton Glenn Greenwald (Score:3, Informative)

    by bongey ( 974911 ) on Monday October 10, 2016 @06:59PM (#53051395)

    The media is basically taking marching orders from the Clinton Campaign.
      https://theintercept.com/2016/... [theintercept.com]

    Its going to be on this, and no none of the below are going to break it.

    The media is one of the strongest weapons in showing the world the devastating effects of corruption and shining a light on those who would use their entrusted power for personal gain. An independent and free media is a cornerstone of democracy and a crucial component of a healthy governance system.
    Clinton has corrupted this and turned it into a propaganda arm for her campaign.
    ABC,NBC, CBS,CNN, NY Times, Bloomberg,Vox, Huffington Post , People , New Yorker, Vice , Politico taking assignments from her campaign.

    This should scare the hell out of the american people if they know their history.

    Note some journalist declined her invitations , they are real journalists.

    Glenn Greenwald broke the who Snowden story open and the NSA spying on everyone.
    Glenn hates trump and hillary both but at least he is ethical.
    #mediagate

  • I call BS on blaming the Russians (Score:3)

    by dcavanaugh ( 248349 ) on Monday October 10, 2016 @07:25PM (#53051551) Homepage

    Assuming the Russians have ALL of Hillary's emails (to be expected with her defenseless email server), why wouldn't they want her to win? How hard would it be to blackmail her into becoming Putin's puppet? If she loses the election, they squander the value of the work. If the Russians have a preference in this election, it's for a candidate who is easily controlled. Trump is utterly unpredictable, so it's hard to imagine why the Russians would work to promote him.

    If (the original) Guccifer was a FSB asset, no way would he be extradited to the US. Based on what he revealed about Hillary's server, it could have been hacked by the Geek Squad from Moscow Best Buy.

    No matter who these people turn out to be, they weren't the idiots who deployed the server, nor did they force Hillary to use it.

    Blaming the Russians is just a political ploy to set expectations low. Don't expect anyone to get caught. Problem is, blaming the Russians isn't any more plausible than blaming the Benghazi attack on a YouTube video.

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