An illustration of madness:
Posted on 12/16/2016 6:23:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary Clinton spoke to a group of donors in Manhattan Thursday and offered them, as an explanation for her loss, two factors. One was the letter from FBI Director Comey in the final weeks of the election. The other was Russian hacking of Democratic groups, which she said was an attempt to “undermine our democracy.” From the NY Times:
“Swing-state voters made their decisions in the final days breaking against me because of the F.B.I. letter from Director Comey,” she said.
The Russians, she said, sought to “undermine our democracy” through cyberattacks on Democratic targets…
“This is not just an attack on me and my campaign, although that may have added fuel to it. This is an attack against our country. We are well beyond normal political concerns here. This is about the integrity of our democracy and the security of our nation.”
Hillary also said the hack by Russia was payback for her 2011 statement that a Russian parliamentary election had been rigged. Politico reported on that connection back in July but as I noted here, there was more involved than what Clinton said about the election. RT, a Kremlin-controlled news site, reported in December 2011 that Putin was very upset because evidence had emerged (from an email hack) that the State Department was paying an election watchdog for each problem it identified. Putin saw this as Hillary meddling in a Russian election:
Even before Russian election monitors had released their official review of the parliamentary vote, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was already out of the gate, criticizing the election process as “unfair.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had harsh words for Clinton, saying she had “set the tone for some opposition activists, gave them a signal … and [they] started active work.”
Speaking at a meeting of the Popular Front Federal Coordinating Council this week, Putin said that “representatives of some foreign states” were paying politically-active NGOs in Russia to “influence the course of the election campaign in our country.”
Meanwhile, shortly after Hillary spoke to Democratic donors in New York, the Washington Post published a piece by her former campaign chairman, John Podesta, which cranks up the outrage over the FBI’s “failure” to respond:
The more we learn about the Russian plot to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s campaign and elect Donald Trump, and the failure of the FBI to adequately respond, the more shocking it gets. The former acting director of the CIA has called the Russian cyberattack “the political equivalent of 9/11.” Just as after the real 9/11, we need a robust, independent investigation into what went wrong inside the government and how to better protect our country in the future.
As the former chair of the Clinton campaign and a direct target of Russian hacking, I understand just how serious this is. So I was surprised to read in the New York Times that when the FBI discovered the Russian attack in September 2015, it failed to send even a single agent to warn senior Democratic National Committee officials. Instead, messages were left with the DNC IT “help desk.” As a former head of the FBI cyber division told the Times, this is a baffling decision: “We are not talking about an office that is in the middle of the woods of Montana.”
That final link goes to a story which presents a more balanced picture than Podesta suggests. It’s true the FBI didn’t send anyone to the DNC initially but it did speak to someone there who sent memos up the chain about a possible hack. Those memos were apparently ignored by supervistors. When the FBI made multiple calls trying to follow up, the DNC did not call back.
Podesta’s letter demands a 9/11-style investigation of the events. Both Clinton and Podesta are framing this as an attack on America, but they are also consummate partisans. It’s fair to ask what they hope to accomplish by elevating this discussion right now. Even if you grant (which I would not) that their motives are pure, that doesn’t mean Democrats are above using this for more immediate, partisan ends like going after the scalp of the FBI Director. Given the swirl of recounts and calls to delay the vote of the electors, it’s hard to detach what Clinton and her former advisers are saying from the ongoing attempts to delegitimize the election.
Pathetic is much too kind a word. Herself really has no grasp of anything, now that the one lifeline has been swept away.
The Oval office is not a place to work out your personal life traumas, and its importance was much greater to Herself than it was to actually serve any rational agenda. I do not pretend to have any great insight to the psychology that is behind and driving Herself, but there was NEVER any clear vision of what the territory once known as “the United States of America” was supposed to become.
With Herself at the helm, it would surely have become a steaming mess, and the task of restoring even a modicum of the prestige and glory of only a few decades past is truly formidable. There are no shortcuts, the rebuild and overhaul is just going to take not merely four or eight years, but a generation.
Pray that the opportunity shall not be squandered.
Hillary and Podesta (+/-Obama and Comey and Lynch)
murdered Seth Rich and harvested children for rape..
Why is no one arrested?
Because the FAKE NEWS is on the same payroll.
Hillary’s yammer reminds me of the Emerson quote...
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
This is the woman who lied about her name, sniper fire,joining the Marines, her email server, Benghazi. The woman who didn’t mind cheating by getting debate questions prior to the debate.
The worst candidate for prez in the history of the republic, Hillaryous Rotten Criminal, is an ongoing attempt to undermine OUR republic.
ESAD Clintons
Enemies domestic ALERT!
I have been trying to get it out of my system since 1992, and I haven't succeeded yet.
I’m still waiting to see them confirm that Hillary’s email server was hacked.
ZZZZzzzzZZZZzzzz
First, it’s a republic.
Voter fraud.
Debate fraud.
Paying off Graham, Fiorina, et al.
Saudi Money.
Soros Money.
Why would the Russians release information that they could have blackmailed a President Hillary Clinton with? If the Russians did hack the DNC They would have used this information as leverage over Hillary.
The CIA and the President are lying!
When Hillary goes to bed she must lay there and wonder “How can I be the worst version of me?”. As the morning dawns, she is truly worse than the day before.
LOl, I hear ya. Thank the Mighty the witch is dead ding dong..
Deplorable.
Big crybabies! I can guarantee you that they would NOT be making a peep had the "attack" been aimed at Trump and to Hilliary's advantage. Besides, all the emails did was confirm the duplicity, conspiracy and dishonesty of the whole DNC operation. I thank God that we were spared a Clinton win. I think everyone who voted for Trump as well as some on her side agrees or will soon.
>>I know the Hildebeast will NEVER STFU, so, my question would be, when the Russian thing runs out of steam, what will be the next issue the rats and RINOs will bring up?<<
George Bush
So they based their decisions on public information. That you didnt like getting out. That painted you in a questionable light.
If only the info you liked got out right Hillary? Then people could have made a more informed decision...?
If only the dnc leaker hadnt got the imfo out. Not russian hackers.
did she not undermine Bernie in their rigged election. Karma is a bitch hey Clinton.
You undermine our Constitution and the Republic, witch.
Why can’t she just get on her broom and fly off into the sunset?
So i guess comey is really working for the russians. /s
You know after clearing her from prosecution no ordinary citizen would have been cleared from.
My father used to always quote some old commercial (in a German accent) “if you don’t smelze so good they dont buy yur product”. Seems fitting for Hillary.
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