Posted on 11/03/2016 2:32:42 PM PDT by Ray76
In the final presidential debate on Oct. 19, Clinton said documents released by WikiLeaks were part of Russian espionage on the U.S.
Clinton was citing the Oct. 7 statement from the U.S. intelligence community saying it was “confident that the Russian government directed the recent compromises of emails from U.S. persons and institutions.”
Analysts say, however, that the ability to determine who cyber attackers are, where they’re located and sometimes who ordered their operations is rarely definitive and comes in degrees of confidence.
Beyond the government’s headline assertion that Russia is to blame, “it’s important to parse the public statement pretty closely,” said Susan Hennessey, a national security fellow at the Brookings Institution. “They’re being really careful in their word choice.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pbs.org ...
Do you trust this administration to tell you the truth?
I think it was Seth Rich
It is surprising that PBS is asking the question.
A liberal think tank founded by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta took millions from an environmental nonprofit with links to laundered Russian money and a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Podesta's "The Center for American Progress (CAP)" got $5.25 million over five years from the Sea Change Foundation, according to a leaked 2014 tax filing sent to Podesta’s hacked Gmail account. WikiLeaks has published more 44,000 hacked emails online from Podesta’s personal account.
The Sea Change Foundation came under scrutiny from Republican lawmakers in 2014 for taking $23 million in 2010 and 2011 from a Bermuda-based shell company based out of the offices of a law firm with extensive ties to “Russian money laundering, a friend and advisor of Vladimir Putin, Russian oil production, and more,” according to a 2015 report by the Environmental Policy Alliance (EPA).
Klein Ltd was formed by Wakefield Quin (WQ) lawyers Nicholas Hoskins and Marlies Smith. Sea Change invested $80 million into hedge funds run by founder Nate Simons, which are run by WQ senior counsel Roderick Forrest. Hoskins and and Forrest held “directorship positions in the ‘IPOC Group,’ owned by Russian minister of telecommunications and longtime Putin friend Leonid Reiman,” according to EPA.
A British Virgin Islands court ruled the IPOC Group was part of a Russian money laundering scheme. Hoskins, Smith, Forrest, and Wakefield Quin administrator Penny Cornell “also have extensive ties to investments in the Russian energy sector,” EPA reported. Wakefield Quin operates at least one holding company, called Spectrum Partners Ltd, that’s heavily invested in Russia’s oil and natural gas sector.
Spectrum has a “Russia Absolute Fund” that’s got 53 percent of its assets invested in the Russian oil and gas industry. EPA noted that “Spectrum partnered with Marcuard Holdings to form Marcuard-Spectrum, a Moscow-based investment firm to operate hedge funds in Bermuda such as Marcuard Spectrum Ltd” in 2002.
Podesta's CAP’s tax filings, uncovered by The Washington Free Beacon, show the liberal think tank got $1 million from Sea Change in 2014. The Free Beacon reported the “unredacted filing lists nine donors, all of which are charitable foundations, that together gave CAP more than $23 million in 2014.” Simons, Sea Change’s founder, is also a major bundler for Clinton’s presidential campaign. Simons has benefited from green energy subsidies and gives millions to environmental groups that pressure lawmakers to keep such subsidies in place.
Clinton’s campaign pitched Simons to become a “climate policy donor” in 2015, according to a leaked email from Podesta’s hacked account. The list of potential donors included hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer, green building pioneer Daniel Tishman and Bloomberg Philanthropies environmental program head Antha Williams.
LINK http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/10/31/wikileaks-tax-form-reveals-john-podesta-continued-ties-to-russian-energy-company-after-claiming-he-divested/
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PODESTA FAMILY GORGING AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH
-- Podesta's brother Tony is under FBI investigation
--Podesta's SIL Heather was raking it in while he was A TAX-PAID EMPLOYEE AT THE STATE DEPT.
-- Podesta’s daughter's Megan's CALI FINANCIAL OUTFIT was the holding place for his Russian energy company STOCK.
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RECAP---A leaked Jan. 3, 2014 document shows that Podesta transferred more than 25,000 of 75,000 shares of Joule Technologies---a Russian-connected firm---to Leonidio Holdings LLC.
Leonidio Holdings, LLC, is listed w/ an address at his daughter's Megan Rouse’s Shannon Court home in Dublin, California. Rouse operates Megan Rouse Financial Planning from that same address.
The inference is to money laundering, perhaps tax evasion. Suggests that Megan Rouse's father, John Podesta, hid stocks connected to Russia.
Documents show that Podesta received 75,000 shares of Joule Unlimited Technologies......an outfit which was linked to alleged money laundering by the Russian government, according to media reports.
I hacked them. Like with a cough.
Heck, the Uranium scandal between Hillary and Russia “trumps” everything.
Circa 2010--Ex-Pres Clinton in Moscow having a laugh w/ Putin.
Clinton pockets 500,00 dollar speaking fee as strategic US uranium
deposits were sold off to Russia, facilitated by then-Secy Clinton.
"Hahahaha. US national security? Hahahahaha. No problem, Vlad."
No one hacked anything. It someone on the inside, most likely a disgruntled government employee who is sending out these emails.
Yes, but he died on the streets of DC.
The idea it was Russia is pure and utter BS. My guess is intelligence agencies are highly politicized at the top levels, and were more than eager to make Russia the bad guy. Grasping at straws.
The USA has something like 17 different intel-gathering agencies
There’s not one among them where some high-level apparatchik wants to keep a file on the Clintons? Especially when Podesta/Clinton/Abedin and crew make is so damn easy to hack them?
Podesta is a perfect target too. Plenty of valuable dirt on the Clinton machine, but otherwise is an insider and no-name that the public doesn’t care about.
Its X-Files stuff.
BBB
PBS is doing a drunkard’s walk on this issue.
The hacks were done inside the buildings by Americans in both cases.
USA!
Please list names of all 17 departments that claim Russia is responsible
I was thinking along the same lines, that OBS even now starting to back away from these claims.
Here is a clip from the debate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=smkyorC5qwc#t=1705
The Intelligence Community is comprised of sixteen agencies with the Director of National Intelligence as the head.
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/about/organization
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/intelligence-community/members-of-the-ic
On October 7, 2016 the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a Joint Statement on Election Security.
The DNI-DHS statement does not claim there is evidence that Russia did in fact direct or conduct attacks, but that DNI & DHS believe attacks are "consistent with methods and motivations".
Methods and motivations are not proof of actions.
Did Russian intelligence hack the DNC? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/19/politics/election-day-russia-hacking-explained/index.html
Or did someone click on spam and get sucked into ordinary cyber-crime?
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