Clinton email reveals: Google sought overthrow of Syria's Assad

washingtonexaminer ^ | 3/19/16 | RUDY TAKALA

[MarvinStinson]

Google in 2012 sought to help insurgents overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to State Department emails receiving fresh scrutiny this week.

Messages between former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's team and one of the company's executives detailed the plan for Google to get involved in the region.

"Please keep close hold, but my team is planning to launch a tool ... that will publicly track and map the defections in Syria and which parts of the government they are coming from,"

Jared Cohen, the head of what was then the company's "Google Ideas" division, wrote in a July 2012 email to several top Clinton officials.

"Our logic behind this is that while many people are tracking the atrocities, nobody is visually representing and mapping the defections, which we believe are important in encouraging more to defect and giving confidence to the opposition," Cohen said, adding that the plan was for Google to surreptitiously give the tool to Middle Eastern media.

"Given how hard it is to get information into Syria right now, we are partnering with Al-Jazeera who will take primary ownership over the tool we have built, track the data, verify it, and broadcast it back into Syria," he said.

"Please keep this very close hold and let me know if there is anything [else] you think we need to account for or think about before we launch. We believe this can have an important impact," Cohen concluded.

The message was addressed to deputy secretary of state Bill Burns; Alec Ross, a senior Clinton advisor; and Clinton's deputy chief of staff, Jake Sullivan. Sullivan subsequently forwarded Cohen's proposal to Clinton, describing it as "a pretty cool idea."

Cohen worked as a low-level staffer at the State Department until 2010, when he was hired to lead Google Ideas, but was tied to the use of social media to incite social uprisings even before he left the department. He once reportedly asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to hold off of conducting system maintenance that officials believed could have impeded a brief 2009 uprising in Iran.

The exchange on Syria was highlighted by Wikileaks on Saturday.

[Riley]

I got news for you brother, if everything we say here gets catalogued, we BETTER win this election.

Every thread here gets Google-spidered within SECONDS. Make up a non-word, post it, and then Google search it.

They're all over us, because their leadership believes their party talking points.

[piasa]

The Islamic state ‘rose’ long before the war in Syria. It grew inside Syria initially with the full support of Syria’s ruling Baath Party, which was attempting to restore the Iraqi Baath Party to power.

What accelerated the success of ISIS wasn’t the war in Syria, but rather before it, during the pullout of US troops from Iraq when the Obama administration decided to appease Iran. ISIS then swept into Iraq from Syria while Iran moved in on the other border. ISIS immediately charged into Iraq under the guidance of al Dhouri, and they captured al Dhouri’s home town of Mosul where he set up his own intelligence operations.

[LucyT]

Clinton email reveals: G00gle sought overthrow of Syria's Assad

G00gle in 2012 sought to help insurgents overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to State Department emails receiving fresh scrutiny this week.

Messages between former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's team and one of the company's executives detailed the plan for G00gle to get involved in the region.

"Please keep close hold, but my team is planning to launch a tool ... that will publicly track and map the defections in Syria and which parts of the government they are coming from,"

Jared Cohen, the head of what was then the company's "G00gle Ideas" division, wrote in a July 2012 email to several top Clinton officials.

! Check out article.

Thanks, Jet Jaguar.

[Cvengr]

https://aiois.com/

all-in-one

[Cvengr]

Was Google going to deploy an ISIS camera van to map their whereabouts??? (Sounds like a Hillary/Kerry brainstorming moment after the Cairo riots leading to Benghazi...)

[VerySadAmerican]

I’ve always thought the big internet companies are partners with the government if not outright owned. This is proof enough for me.

Isn’t it against the law for private companies and individuals to plot the overthrow of foreign governments?

[acapesket]

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[V K Lee]

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[Mr Apple]

As I have always said, Google is a part of the US government.

Exactly right on Mark!

[Mr Apple]

Google manipulated the U.S. election as well in favor of Obama. You do a search for anything negative on Obama and the first couple of pages were all ‘slopes’ style misleading / disinformation sites.

I'm very surprised here ...

[grey_whiskers]

Every thread here gets Google-spidered within SECONDS. Make up a non-word, post it, and then Google search it.

The protester blocking Shea Blvd on the route to the Trump rally, with her neck locked to the van door, was bathycolpian AND callipygian, or bathypgygian, or callicolpian.

[RockyTx]

how do we get this story
published more widely?

[MarvinStinson]

UCANSEE2 posted :

Wehn yuo ndee ot sya smoetihgn bda aobtu Gogloe, yuo hvae ot tlka ni cdoe.

And I cannot find any fault with that statement.

[MarvinStinson]

ISIL signifies the non-existence of Israel.

[MarvinStinson]

Their own Egyptian Google executive was a candidate for head of Egypt before thee muslim brotherhood got in.

[alexander_busek]

Clinton email reveals: Google sought overthrow of Syria's Assad

And according to my sources, my local "Piggly-Wiggly" advocated the demise of the Soviet Union.

So what?

Regards,

[Pollster1]

This sounds like a bad tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. If true, it’s on a level with Spectre, Drax, Zorin, Elliot Carver, Quantum, and various other Bond villains.

[Bobalu]

[Art in Idaho]

Thanks for the list.

[vpintheak]

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