The stench surrounding Hillary is so bad not even mainstream media can
completely cover it up.
Moreover, leaked emails prove reporters and Wall Street executives are
part of that stench.
Here is a synopsis, some even from mainstream media.
On October 9, Glenn Greenwald and the Intercept reported New Email Leak Reveals Clinton Campaign’s Cozy Press
Relationship.
Internal strategy documents and emails among Clinton staffers shed light
on friendly and highly useful relationships between the campaign and various
members of the U.S. media, as well as the campaign’s strategies for
manipulating those relationships.
At times, Clinton’s campaign staff not only internally drafted the stories
they wanted published but even specified what should be quoted “on
background” and what should be described as “on the record.”
One January 2015 strategy document — designed to plant stories on Clinton’s
decision-making process about whether to run for president — singled out
reporter Maggie Haberman, then of Politico, now covering the election for the
New York Times, as a “friendly journalist” who has “teed up” stories for
them in the past and “never disappointed” them.
Given more than 24 hours to challenge the authenticity of these documents
and respond, Merrill [campaign press secretary] did not reply to our emails.
Haberman declined to comment.
All presidential campaigns have their favorite reporters, try to plant
stories they want published, and attempt in multiple ways to curry favor with
journalists. These tactics are certainly not unique to the Clinton campaign
(liberals were furious in 2008 when journalists went to John McCain’s Arizona
ranch for an off-the-record BBQ). But these rituals and dynamics between
political campaigns and the journalists who cover them are typically carried
out in the dark, despite how significant they can be. These documents provide
a valuable glimpse into that process.
Greenwald provides a list of 38 questionable reporters at ABC, Bloomberg,
CBS, CNN, Huffington Post, MSNBC, New Yorker, New York Times, People,
Politico, Vice, and Vox.
NBC Tweet
That tweet links to Wikileaks Memo Detailing ‘Bill Clinton, Inc.’ Likely to Haunt
Clinton.
Financial Times
The Financial Times reports Trump revels in email leak showing aide hit at Clinton
instincts.
The Clinton campaign has blamed Russia for hacking into Mr Podesta’s
emails and accused Mr Trump of being too cosy with Moscow.
With less than two weeks until election day, Mrs Clinton did not address
the WikiLeaks disclosures. Her campaign stuck to its policy of not commenting
on “stolen” emails while noting that Russia has in the past doctored
documents.
New York Times
The New York Times reports Donations to Foundation Vexed Hillary Clinton’s Aides, Emails
Show
In the years before Hillary Clinton announced she would run again for
president, her top aides expressed profound concerns in internal emails about
how foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton’s own
moneymaking ventures would affect Mrs. Clinton’s political future.
The emails, obtained by hackers and being gradually released by WikiLeaks
this month, also are revealing how efforts to minimize potential conflicts at
the foundation led to power struggles and infighting among aides and Mrs. Clinton’s
family.
One top aide to Mr. Clinton, Douglas J. Band, noted in an email that the
former president had received personal income from some foundation donors and
“gets many expensive gifts from them.”
Chelsea Clinton accused her father’s aides of taking “significant sums of
money from my parents personally,” of “hustling” during foundation events to
win clients for their own business, and of even installing spyware on her
chief of staff’s computer.
Hillary Clinton, another email showed, had promised to attend a Clinton
Foundation gathering in Morocco at the behest of its king, who had pledged
$12 million to the charity. Her advisers worried that would look unseemly
just as she was beginning her presidential campaign in earnest.
“She created this mess and she knows it,” a close aide, Huma Abedin, wrote
of Mrs. Clinton in a January 2015 email.
Julian Assange Comments
Citigroup Exec Picks Obama’s Cabinet
The New Republic reports The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn’t About Hillary
Clinton.
The most important revelation in the WikiLeaks dump of John Podesta’s
emails has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton. The messages go all the way
back to 2008, when Podesta served as co-chair of President-elect Barack
Obama’s transition team. And a month before the election, the key staffing
for that future administration was almost entirely in place, revealing that
some of the most crucial decisions an administration can make occur well
before a vote has been cast.
Michael Froman, who is now U.S. trade representative but at the time was
an executive at Citigroup, wrote
an email to Podesta on October 6, 2008, with the subject “Lists.” Froman
used a Citigroup email address. He attached three documents: a list of women
for top administration jobs, a list of non-white candidates, and a sample
outline of 31 cabinet-level positions and who would fill them. “The lists
will continue to grow,” Froman wrote to Podesta, “but these are the names to
date that seem to be coming up as recommended by various sources for senior
level jobs.”
The cabinet list ended up being almost entirely on the money. It correctly
identified Eric Holder for the Justice Department, Janet Napolitano for
Homeland Security, Robert Gates for Defense, Rahm Emanuel for chief of staff,
Peter Orszag for the Office of Management and Budget, Arne Duncan for
Education, Eric Shinseki for Veterans Affairs, Kathleen Sebelius for Health
and Human Services, Melody Barnes for the Domestic Policy Council, and more.
For the Treasury, three possibilities were on the list: Robert Rubin, Larry
Summers, and Timothy Geithner.
This was October 6. The election was November 4. And yet Froman, an
executive at Citigroup, which would ultimately become the recipient of the
largest bailout from the federal government during the financial crisis, had
mapped out virtually the entire Obama cabinet, a month before votes were
counted. And according to the Froman/Podesta
emails,
lists were floating around even before that.
Citi Email to Obama’s Transition Team
John —
Attached are three documents:
— A list of African American, Latino and Asian American candidates, broken
down by Cabinet/Deputy and Under/Assistant/Deputy Assistant level, plus a
list of Native American, Arab/Muslim American and Disabled American
candidates. We have much longer lists for most of the groups, and the lists
will continue to grow as we reach out further and more openly, but these are
the names to date that seem to be coming up as recommended by various sources
for senior level jobs. (I have tried to include member of Barack’s campaign
and Senate policy staff, as well as participants in the Transition project,
as appropriate.)
— While you did not ask for this, I prepared and attached a similar
document on women.
— At the risk of being presumptuous, I also scoped out how the Cabinet-level
appointments might be put together, probability-weighting the likelihood of
appointing a diverse candidate for each position (given one view of the short
list) and coming up with a straw man distribution. (Obviously, multiple
permutations of this are possible. This was just one example to show how it
might pan out.)
Let me know when you’d like to discuss. I am around this morning until
about 11:30.
— Mike 212-793-1987
WND discusses 26 WikiLeaks bombshells on Hillary you need to know.
Secret speeches to Wall Street
Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches to Goldman Sachs and other financial
firms, a point of contention during this year’s primary, were the subject of
an email to Podesta. Excerpts from some of the speeches had been flagged by
Clinton’s research team, including the necessity of having “both a public and
a private position” on issues. It was just part of “making sausage” in the
political arena, she said, that certain positions on issues needed to be kept
hidden from the public.
Some “flags” in Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches were noted in a Jan. 25
email from campaign research director Tony Carrk to top Clinton advisers,
including Clinton’s declaration that “My dream is a hemispheric common
market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy
that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and
opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.” Countless establishment
media outlets parlaying themselves as “fact checkers” tried to downplay this
email by saying it was “mostly about trade,” not immigration, as if the words
“open borders” were never mentioned. But the email exchange also shows how
Hillary’s about-face on the TPP trade deal was mere pandering to Bernie
Sanders’ voters and had no basis in reality in terms of how she really feels
about trade deals.
In a speech at Goldman-Black Rock on Feb. 4, 2014, Carrk pointed out,
Clinton admitted she’s “Kind Of Far Removed” from middle-class struggles due
to “The Economic, You Know, Fortunes That My Husband And I Now Enjoy.”
Clinton, in other speeches, boasted of her ties to Wall Street, an issue
primary opponent Bernie Sanders continually raised. Clinton still has refused
to release transcripts of her paid speeches while blasting Donald Trump for
not releasing his tax returns.
Working in tandem with ‘friendly’ media
WND reported Tuesday emails showing reporters, editors and contributors
not just advocating for Hillary Clinton but apparently colluding with the
campaign.
Univision Chairman Haim Saban urged the Clinton campaign to hit Donald
Trump harder over immigration.
The New York Times giving the campaign veto power over which interview
quotes could be used in a profile of the candidate.
The Boston Globe tried to time a Clinton opinion piece to do the most good
in New Hampshire.
CNBC’s John Harwood urged Clinton campaign chairman Podesta to watch out
for then-GOP candidate Dr. Ben Carson.
Democratic National Committee official and CNN contributor Donna Brazile
apparently tipped off the Clinton campaign to a potentially difficult CNN
town-hall question on capital punishment during the Democratic Party primary
season. Brazile adamantly denies it.
Mountains of Sleaze
There are mountains of this kind of sleaze. This post would be several
miles long if I included everything.
Wall Street for Hillary
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
