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#PodestaEmails34:
Wikileaks releases second batch on Election Eve
WikiLeaks
RT,
8
November, 2016
On
the day before the election, WikiLeaks released the 34th email batch
of its Podesta Emails series. This latest leak included 888 emails
written to or from Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman
John Podesta.
In
one leaked email,
dated August 21, 2015 and with the subject line "Needy
Latinos and 1 easy call," John
Podesta writes to Hillary Clinton, "A
few calls you might consider making."
Podesta
then names Fedrico Pena, Bill Richardson and South Carolina
Governor Jim Hodges. The first two are presumably the "needy
Latinos."
Pena,
former secretary of the US Department of Transportation under
President Bill Clinton, was covered extensively in the email. Podesta
goes on to say that Pena's "Cabinet
stints ripped up his family," and
that Pena "gave
everything to the cause and no time to his family, he went through a
messy divorce in the late 90's and was left really down and felt like
no one reached out to him then so he felt pretty cut off from Clinton
World."
Podesta,
passing along all of this information after speaking with former
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, gives Clinton four steps in
completing a call with Pena, writing, "1)
you really enjoyed seeing Cindy at the Chambers event and appreciate
her support. 2) ask him how he's been doing 3) ask about his views on
the race and what she should be doing in Colorado 4) ask that he
consider publicly supporting you."
Batch
of 8,263 DNC emails were released by Wikileaks late Sunday night
- One email discusses how CNN inquired with the DNC about questions to ask during interviews with Ted Cruz and Trump for Wolf Blitzer
- An email dated April 28 entitled 'Cruz on CNN' reads 'CNN is looking for questions. Please send some topical/interesting ones'
- Another email asks if DNC staffers 'want to offer Jake Tapper questions to ask us' during another interview on the network
- Tapper has said the email was 'misconstrued' and his staffer was wanting to find out if the DNC guest being booked had anything to say
- Separate DNC email chain found appears to show Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank asked the DNC for help with research for a column
- The column he wrote was about Trump and featured a list of things the presidential candidate said that he deemed as 'outrageous'
7
November, 2016
The
Democratic National Committee tried to provide CNN anchor Wolf
Blizter with questions to ask Donald Trump, the latest WikiLeaks
email dump has revealed.
Among
the batch of 8,263 emails released on Sunday night, one shows that
staff working for the network hosts asked DNC staffers what questions
they should put to the Republican candidate.
They
also asked for advice when it came to an appearance from former
candidate, Ted Cruz.
An
email dated April 28 entitled 'Cruz on CNN' reads 'CNN is looking for
questions. Please send some topical/interesting ones.'
That
email was sent from DNC research director Lauren Dillon to other
officials and staffers.
Days
before that, on April 25 she asked for questions from officials and
staffers for an interview that CNN's Wolf Blitzer would be conducting
with Trump.
Among
the recently released batch of 8,263 emails, one email shows the
Cable News Network inquiring with DNC staffers for questions to ask
during an interview Wolf Blitzer (above) would conduct with Donald
Trump
Among
the recently released batch of 8,263 emails, one email shows the
Cable News Network inquiring with DNC staffers for questions to ask
during an interview Wolf Blitzer (above) would conduct with Donald
Trump
On
April 24, DNC research director Lauren Dillon sent the above email to
staffers saying Blitzer is interviewing Trump ahead of his foreign
policy address. The subject line reads 'Trump Questions for CNN'
An
email (above) dated April 28 entitled 'Cruz on CNN' reads 'CNN is
looking for questions. Please send some topical/interesting ones.'
That email was sent from Dillon to other officials and staffers
'Wolf
Blitzer is interviewing Trump on Tues (sic) ahead of his foreign
policy address on Wed,' Dillon wrote in the email that was entitled
'CNN questions for Trump.'
Numerous
questions were submitted by a group of DNC staffers and officials for
68-year-old Blitzer to ask the billionaire.
However,
in a follow-up email, she informed the group of staffers that the
Trump interview ended up being cancelled.
'CNN
said the interview was cancelled as of now but will keep the
questions for the next one Good to have for others as well,' Dillon
wrote in the email.
DNC
deputy communications director Christina Freundlich responded to
Dillion's email with 'Boo', seemingly showing that she was
disappointed.
Blitzer,
who has been working at CNN since 1990, did end up interviewing the
real estate mogul on May 4.
That
interview took place right after both Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich
dropped out of the Republican presidential race as candidates.
A
CNN spokeswoman told the Daily Mail Online the emails are 'completely
unremarkable'.
'When
preparing for interviews we are regularly sent suggestions from rival
campaigns and political parties, both solicited and unsolicited,' she
said.
'Casting
a wide net to ensure a tough and fair interview isn't just common
media practice, it's smart.'
In
a separate conversation dated on April 28, Jason Seher, a writer for
Jake Tapper's (above) show on CNN, emailed Pablo Manriquez, a former
DNC media booker thanking him
In
that same email chain, he said he needed to know 'asap if we want to
offer Jake Tapper questions to ask us'
In
a separate conversation dated on April 28, Jason Seher, a writer for
Jake Tapper's show on CNN, emailed Pablo Manriquez, a former DNC
media booker thanking him for 'facilitating Luis coming on today, and
bearing with us through a meelee (sic) of GOP nonsense and
cancellations and all that. Any particular points he'll want to make?
We're gonna stay Dem focused...'
In
responding, Manriquez said he would include Dillon and Christina
Freundlich into the conversation to see 'if there's any newsworthy
(opposition) Luis can drop'.
Freundlich
previously worked for the Iowa Democratic Party before she caused
outrage when she took a selfie smiling in front of a deadly New York
City fire in March 2015. She was hired as a spokeswoman for the DNC
in July 2015.
Manriquez
then sent a message to several staffers and wrote, 'Window closing on
this. Need to know asap if we want to offer Jake Tapper questions to
ask us.'
The
Tapper email had been published by Wikileaks before in a separate set
of leaks.
At
the time Tapper responded that the emails did not suggest bias
because there were similar communications with every other aspect of
the political spectrum.
'One
critic suggests that this betrays a certain 'coziness' with
Democratic officials,' he wrote on his blog.
'I
disagree – we work very hard to make The Lead and State of the
Union fair and I think we have developed a reputation for good
nonpartisan journalism; I think the staffer was just being collegial.
'Some
days we have GOP nonsense/booking issues, some days we have
Democratic nonsense/booking issues.
'That
said, it's a good lesson for everyone in journalism and beyond that
emails get hacked and things get misconstrued.
"Any
particular points he'll want to make?" is a fairly standard
question – producers and reporters ask it all the time of
Democrats, Republicans, everyone, to make sure we don't miss out on
news-making opportunities.
'Have
we asked that question of Trump campaign staffers? Absolutely. Of RNC
staffers? Absolutely. Of Sanders campaign staffers? Absolutely. And
on and on.'
The
emails suggest that the DNC staff took the message as going further
than that, believing it was an invitation to provide questions.
The
latest email release by Wikileaks comes two days before the
presidential election.
The
release also follows criticism the Cable News Network faced after
emails showed that DNC interim chairwoman Donna Brazile, who worked
at the network as an on-air contributor, leaked questions to the
Clinton campaign for a debate and a town hall event.
Another
DNC email chain found in this huge batch of emails released by
Wikileaks appears to show that Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank
asked the DNC for help with research for a column he wrote about
Trump in April 2016.
His
column titled, 'The Ten Plagues of Trump,' featured a list of things
the Republican presidential candidate said that he deemed as
'outrageous.'
The
email was titled 'research request: top 10 worst Trump quotes?' as
Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker wrote, 'Milbank doing a
Passover-themed 10 plagues of Trump.'
Walker
was provided with a list of things that could be used to help
Milbank.
One
of the 'plagues' listed by Milbank in his column was 'Blood' and
focused around the quote from Trump regarding Fox News anchor Megyn
Kelly.
'You
could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of
her wherever,' Trump said.
The
internal DNC emails suggest that the columnist asked for a list that
he possibly used to assist him in writing the column, as eight of the
plagues match up with suggestions that were sent by the DNC.
#Podesta33:
WikiLeaks releases latest batch of emails from Clinton campaign char
RT,
7
November, 2016
WikiLeaks
has published its 33rd tranche of emails from the hacked account of
Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta.
The
whistleblowing organization has now published more than 55,600 emails
in a series of daily online releases which it said were building
towards the November 8 presidential election.
Emails
released Sunday included messages accusing Chelsea Clinton of using
Clinton Foundation funds for her wedding as well as leaked
transcripts of Bill Clinton’s fundraising speeches.
RT
BREAKING: #PodestaEmails32 : WikiLeaks releases latest batch of emails from Clinton campaign chair
WikiLeaks
has claimed its email publishing servers suffered a sustained DoS
attack after it released #DNCLeak2 over
the weekend.
BREAKING: WikiLeaks email publication servers under targeted DoS attack since releasing DNC leak2 - @WikiLeaks
Assange:
Clinton is a cog for Goldman Sachs & the Saudis (JOHN PILGER
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT)
Goldman
Sachs speeches
In
an email from
January 23, 2016 Clinton Research Director Tony Carrk quoted the
Democratic presidential nominee apparently expressing little appetite
for prosecuting rogue Wall Street bankers.
In
the mail to Clinton campaign Director of Communications Jennifer
Palmieri, Press Secretary Brian Fallon and Podesta, Carrk said he was
sending excerpts from Clinton’s Goldman Sachs speeches.
“I'm
not interested in, you know, turning the clock back or pointing
fingers,” Clinton
is reported to have told Tim O’Neill, formerly of SJU Wall Street
Trading Room and Credit Suisse, following a paid speech.
Clinton
apparently then went on to recommend that the financial sector take a
leading role in setting out regulations for their own troubled
industry: “The
people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who
work in the industry. There's nothing magic about regulations, too
much is bad, too little is bad.”
Less
than one year earlier, Democratic media adviser Mandy Grunwald
suggested to Podesta in another communicationleaked
Monday that Clinton should take a conciliatory tone with regard to
Wall Street.
“I
would include something from the Maggie Haberman piece on HRC's
Goldman Sachs speech,” writes
Grunwald.
“Something
like, "When HRC recently spoke to bankers at Goldman Sachs,
instead of holding them accountable for their activities that crashed
the economy, she told them that banker bashing was foolish and had to
stop. She said "soothing" that we all got into our economic
problems together."
‘Illegal
ivory’ as leverage on China
Hillary
Clinton directed her
now-campaign chair Podesta to use reports of illegal elephant tusk
smuggling by Chinese government officials as “leverage” during
a 2014 White House visit to the nation.
Three
days before President Obama’s visit to Beijing in November 2014,
the former secretary of state highlighted a NY Times article on
how Chinese delegates reportedly smuggled home poached ivory from
Tanzania.
A
message from Clinton’s hrod17@clintonemail.com opens by praising
Podesta’s “teasing” of
reporters and “flashes” of
a smile at a recent press conference before asking the then-White
House adviser to raise the ivory story with China’s president
directly.
“On
China, I know
you’ll be in Beijing next week, so am sending a news
report about how Xi’s official party on its visit to Tanzania
loaded up their planes w poached ivory, likely w full knowledge of
[President Jakaya] Kikwete’s government,”Clinton
writes.
“Please
raise this issue directly w XI, both because it is critical on the
merits but also because it's another way you can gain some leverage
with the Chinese.”
The
email subject line was, “Below
is what I sent POTUS on election and China poaching.”
A ‘fact
sheet’ provided
by the White House regarding Obama’s visit shows discussions
centered on the ebola crisis, economic relations, and a “shared
vision for Afghanistan.” An
effort to work together to “stop
the trade in illegal wildlife products” is
also mentioned.
Clinton
‘totally blew’ crime question
New
York Mayor Bill de Blasio thought Clinton “totally
blew” a
debate question about her support for a controversial federal crime
bill passed by her husband.
In
a March 2016 email,
de Blasio was less than impressed with Clinton’s attempt to pass
off a question on mass incarceration to her Democratic rival Bernie
Sanders back in March.
“Hillary
was fantastic on the gun control answer, then totally blew the mass
incarceration question,” de
Blasio wrote to Podesta.
The
question was posed during a live CNN debate by anchor Don Lemon, who
asked Clinton why black people should trust her to end a pattern of
mass incarceration when she supported a 1994 law which many blame
for “locking
up a generation of black men.”
Clinton
began her answer by reminding people that Sanders also supported the
bill, a tactic which appears to have irked Mayor de Blasio.
“Why
on Earth did she say ‘Are you going to ask Senator Sanders that
question?’ instead of just addressing the issue,” de
Blasio wrote.
“When
she makes it about her, she loses the high ground. Stating the
obvious, I know, but she keeps doing it…”
Podesta
brothers plan to influence India on NGO clampdown
Podesta
sought to enlist the help of his lobbyist brother to influence an
Indian Intelligence Bureau crackdown on Greenpeace and a key donor,
the Ford Foundation, Monday’s leaked
emails reveal.
Correspondence
between John and Tony Podesta from May 2015 show the pair planned a
lunch with the Indian ambassador to discuss a “very
serious situation” facing
Greenpeace in which the Indian government accused the group of
financial irregularities. The claims eventually led to
the cancellation of
its license to operate there.
The
bid to influence India’s decision-making came at the request of
Karen Sack, managing director of conservation group Ocean Unite, who
asked if John Podesta could get in touch with his brother at The
Podesta Group.
“Apparently
The Podesta Group has the contract for the Republic of India in the
US, but Kumi [Naidoo, Greenpeace executive director] has no way to
reach Tony or another principal,” Sack
writes.
John
Podesta forwarded the “small
request” to
his brother, highlighting Kumi Naidoo’s large following globally.
“Want
to talk to the head of Greenpeace? Kumi Naidoo is a very well known
South African with a big international following, but I think the GOI
[Government of India] likely to stick it to them.”
He
also explained he was trying to use his influence to help the Ford
Foundation charity, which had similarly “got
on the wrong side of GOI”.
However, he expressed a belief that their issue “can
be more easily resolved.”
A
reply from Tony Podesta proposes a lunch with an Indian ambassador as
well as confirmation he would be “happy” to
talk to Greenpeace.
A
leaked July 2015 email about funding shows Podesta describing global
charity the Ford Foundation as a “mainstay” for
the Center for American Progress think-tank, which he founded in
2003.
Clinton’s
emails could ‘either win 49 states, or lose 49 states’
As
previously reported,
in March of 2015, Clinton’s camp were debating whether Hillary
should make a joke about her“email
situation”.
Staffers
were “nervous” about
the “potentially
nuts” move
and, in freshly
leaked correspondence,
sought advice from Philippe Reines – a former senior adviser from
Clinton’s days as Secretary of State and someone who was likely
privy to the contents of said mails.
“Trust
me, most of the email themselves are funnier than any joke we can
come up with. Read in total by America she would either win 49
states, or lose 49 states. I go back and forth,” said
Reines.
“But
I would not make a joke just for the sake of making a joke, because
email retention = Benghazi,” he
warned.
“We
can’t jam State to release them at this point, but if Dan
[Schwerin, Clinton’s speech writer] can think of a light way to say
“I am proud of the work we did at State and hopefully at some point
everyone will be able to read what’s in them as a way to better
understand that work…” Reines
suggested.
HuffPo
a clandestine mouthpiece for Democrats?
A
social action group classified The Huffington Post as a means by
which to surreptitiously peddle pro-Democrat messages back in 2008,
according to a leaked email by strategist Susan McCue.
In
April 2008, McCue – president of Message Global, a self-described
social action group – recounted a conversation she allegedly had
with Arianna Huffington. The email was about a progressive media
project and was sent to John Podesta, David Brock of Media Matters
and Tom Mazzie of MoveOn.org.
According
to McCue, who was formerly chief of staff for Nevada Senator Harry
Reid and once listed by GQ
Magazine among
the 50 most powerful people in Washington, Huffington was interested
in allowing her publication to become a political mouthpiece.
“I
spoke w Arianna abt PMUSA Board [Progressive Media USA] and will send
her more info. She is enthusiastic abt the project but asks if she’s
more useful to us not being on the Board and, instead, using Huffpo
to echo our message without any perceived conflicts,” McCue wrote.
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