Pelosi: My nonexistent campaign computer was not hacked

The Hill ^ | September 1, 2016 | Mike Lillis

[maggief]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday refuted claims that Democratic campaign memos, leaked this week by a hacker group, originated from her personal computer.

The story can't be true, her office said, because Pelosi doesn't have a personal computer at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) headquarters, which was infiltrated earlier this summer by hackers thought to be tied to Russian intelligence.

Pelosi has long warned that the hackers, who also tapped into files held by the Democratic National Committee, were attempting to sway the outcome of November's elections by embarrassing Democrats with a slow drip of leaked documents. It's a warning her office amplified on Thursday. “This attempt by Russia to influence our election has no place in our democracy,” Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said in an email.

“In addition, Leader Pelosi does not have a personal computer at the DCCC so no hacked, dumped or doctored documents can be attributed to her computer.”

Posted online Wednesday by the hacking group Guccifer 2.0, the documents included memos related to party fundraising, immigration reform, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and campaign staff guidelines. In a short introduction, the group claimed the documents came from “a folder from the Nancy Pelosi’s PC.”

There was also a November memo to DCCC staff advising Democratic candidates on how to approach activists affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, whose aggressive protest tactics had disrupted a number of events staged by the Democratic presidential contenders in previous months.

Among the suggestions posed by the DCCC, Democrats were advised to “listen to their concerns” but avoid public discussions.

[ColdOne]

I don’t remember, but when they released all those cell phone numbers....wasn’t passwords on it too? She had one didn’t she?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

My understanding was that the DNC hack allowed them to hack into other computers not necessarily at the DCCC.

Isn't this how other hacks work?

You hack one celeb's cell phone and that allows you to get enuf info to hack their bff's cell phones as well?

[Conservative Gato]

Here comes more lies and deceptions.

The leaked Benghazi talking points document must be hitting its mark.

CGato

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Maybe she doesn’t understand how the Internet works. She wouldn’t have to have a PC at the DCCC office in order to have those emails hacked if they were sent through their server.

[maggief]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/08/13/sf-congressional-leader-pelosi-hackers-attacks/

August 13, 2016

EDGARTOWN Mass. (CBS/AP) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi warned fellow Democrats on Saturday to change their cellphone numbers and not let family members read their text messages after personal and official information of Democratic House members and congressional staff was posted online.

Pelosi told Democratic lawmakers that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and other Democratic Party entities were the target of “an electronic Watergate break-in.”

As a result, a mix of personal and official information of Democratic members and hundreds of congressional staff, purportedly from a hack of the DCCC, was posted online, Pelosi said.

Pelosi said she was flying from Florida to California when she heard about the posting of information such as cell phone numbers

“Upon landing, I have received scores of mostly obscene and sick calls, voicemails and text messages,” Pelosi said in her letter to colleagues. “Please be careful not to allow your children or family members to answer your phone or read incoming text messages. This morning, I am changing my phone number and I advise you to do so as well. ”

[maggief]

I think you are spot on.

[SparkyBass]

Oh, what joy, how many different ways can the statment...

“In addition, Leader Pelosi does not have a personal computer at the DCCC”

be parsed using legalese? Does not? Did not? Currently vs the past? Personal computer vs non-official portable workstation?
Oh, The truth is always hidden amongst the lies

[Zarro]

The Russians are trying to embarrass Democrats, Nancy? Why, that’s YOUR job!

[Hoffer Rand]

Please tell me she really didn’t say that. No, on second thought, I believe she did. I just have trouble believing any journalist with any degree of tech savvy would swallow that line. Hope they had knee pads on...

[katana]

Am I reading this right? Ms. Pelosi believes it would have been necessary for her personal computer to be physically present in the offices of the campaign committee in order to be hacked? If so ...

Bwaahahahhaaahaa (hack, cough) haaahahahhaa !!!

[Paine in the Neck]

Pelosi's dad was tied at the hip with organized crime types in Bal'mer. She knows the code:

Never write when you can speak.
Never speak when you can nod.
Never nod when you can wink.

She may have staff dumb enough to leave a computer trail but she's too canny.

[spintreebob]

I get emails from Pelosi asking me, Bob, to send money.
Do you mean those emails aren’t really from her ?
My ego has been impressed that she knows me by my first name.

The same with many other politicians. They all send such personal, intimate emails telling me it is them personally asking me for money.

[Hoffer Rand]

She probably also thinks they have to use a screwdriver and take the panel off to access the HD.

[Louis Foxwell]

Let me get this straight. It is un-American to divulge the corrupt practices of politicians.

[PghBaldy]

I am preaching to the choir, I know...

I read this as her admitting they are legit. She is using such lawyerly language she is trying to trick people into thinking they are fake, or she was not hacked. She is lying and trying to hide the dirty secrets that are being revealed.

[Arthur McGowan]

REFUTED does not mean DISPUTED.

[Secret Agent Man]

She doesn’t need to have a dedicated personal computer just for her at the DCCC. I am sure it is a networked site with logins for folks to use on servers right there.

The dumbest and lamest of weak lies to be spewed out today.

[TigersEye]

Nanzi, you’re nutz.

[UCANSEE2]

Nancy Pelosi is proof that Democrat voters are dumb enough to swallow a line like that.