Hillary Clinton Did It: The Editorial Board WALL STREET JOURNAL

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  1. traderob

    traderob

    Hillary Clinton Did It
    Her 2016 campaign manager says she approved a plan to plant a false Russia claim with a reporter.
    By The Editorial Board WALL STREET JOURNAL
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/hillar...-trump-russia-collusion-alfa-bank-11653084709

    The Russia-Trump collusion narrative of 2016 and beyond was a dirty trick for the ages, and now we know it came from the top—candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. That was the testimony Friday by 2016 Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook in federal court, and while this news is hardly a surprise, it’s still bracing to find her fingerprints on the political weapon.

    Mr. Mook testified as a witness in special counsel John Durham’s trial of Michael Sussmann, the lawyer accused of lying to the FBI. In September 2016, Mr. Sussmann took claims of a secret Trump connection to Russia’s Alfa Bank to the FBI and said he wasn’t acting on behalf of any client. Prosecutors say he was working for the Clinton campaign.


    Prosecutors presented evidence this week that Mr. Sussmann worked with cyber-researchers and opposition-research firm Fusion GPS to produce the claims on behalf of the Clinton campaign, and to feed them to the FBI. An FBI agent testified that a bureau analysis quickly rejected the claims as implausible. (Mr. Sussmann has pleaded not guilty.)

    Prosecutors asked Mr. Mook about his role in funneling the Alfa Bank claims to the press. Mr. Mook admitted the campaign lacked expertise to vet the data, yet the decision was made by Mr. Mook, policy adviser Jake Sullivan (now President Biden’s national security adviser), communications director Jennifer Palmieri and campaign chairman John Podesta to give the Alfa Bank claims to a reporter. Mr. Mook said Mrs. Clinton was asked about the plan and approved it. A story on the Trump-Alfa Bank allegations then appeared in Slate, a left-leaning online publication.


    On Oct. 31, 2016, Mr. Sullivan issued a statement mentioning the Slate story, writing, “This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow.” Mrs. Clinton tweeted Mr. Sullivan’s statement with the comment: “Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.” “Apparently” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

    In short, the Clinton campaign created the Trump-Alfa allegation, fed it to a credulous press that failed to confirm the allegations but ran with them anyway, then promoted the story as if it was legitimate news. The campaign also delivered the claims to the FBI, giving journalists another excuse to portray the accusations as serious and perhaps true.

    Most of the press will ignore this news, but the Russia-Trump narrative that Mrs. Clinton sanctioned did enormous harm to the country. It disgraced the FBI, humiliated the press, and sent the country on a three-year investigation to nowhere. Vladimir Putin never came close to doing as much disinformation damage.
     
  2. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Most of the press will ignore it, and the folks on this forum will as well (especially the ones who showed support for the garbage).

    So with the $40M that Mueller had, he never could undercover this?
     
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  3. wildchild

    wildchild

    Hillary Clinton rigged the 2016 democrat primary. The democrats did absolutely nothing about it. Then they claim Donald Trump is threat to democracy.

    They are a total joke.
     
  4. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    Rupert Murdoch's News Corp still owns the WSJ.

    Trump blatantly lied about Trump Tower Moscow planning continuing through his campaign as he had no expectation to win. Alfa is exactly the type of bank he would need for it.

    There is substantial smoke from the DNS records indicating likely data traffic. Tell anybody in IT networking there is DNS activity connected to anything and they will shrug, servers have tens of thousands of lookups. Tell them the server in question only talked to two external entities they will say its a different matter.

    https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/wo...10/cohen-trump-tower-moscow-mueller-testimony
     
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  5. elderado

    elderado

  6. ipatent

    ipatent

  7. Snarkhund

    Snarkhund

    I think Mueller had trouble finding his car in the parking lot.
     
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  8. Ricter

    Ricter

    No trouble finding a car in the flatlands though.

    Anyway... "Russia, if you're listening", help!
     
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  9. No lie there.

    He spends years and 30 million dollars and sucks all of the oxygen out of media reporting for years, then when asked about Fusion GPS he said that he never heard of them.

    Thus making him one of the few people in America who had not by then.

    WOMP!!
     
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  10. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    He could, but didn't care less.
     
    #10     May 23, 2022