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.
Fake news from a fake human.
Um, did she mean to say Constitutional Republic or is she just plain stoopid?
Trump drew crowds of many thousands to every rally
Hillary Clinton drew maybe a few dozen LOL
Trump won over 90% of the counties in the USA , a map looks like a sea of red.
The only reason Hillary Clinton won only a handful of counties is massive democrat voter fraud and illegals voting for her as seen in Detroit.
And she has the audacity to say the Russians stole the election from her. LOL. Trump destroyed Hillary and the Russians didn't hack anything. It's all a lie in a last ditch attempt at a coup about making electors not vote for Trump on the 19th of December.
We do not live in a democracy Hillary-idiot-liar. We have a Republic.
Probably back to “hate speech”.
I hate Hillary Clinton! December 19th can’t come soon enough
Yeah Hil, couldn’t be that you were a horrible candidate expecting a coronation from day one.
Well of course Hillary. You had NOTHING to do with your defeat. I mean, what’s the matter with people who wouldn’t vote for a lying, law-breaking, thief sitting on a pedestal like the Queen of the world, moving her ample rear end into the Oval Office? Shame on us deplorables!/s
It was the Strawberries!
Inauguration Day can’t come soon enough.
Well, the democracy that those progressives installed to undermine our republic does need to be undermined itself.
FIRST of all, America is a REPUBLIC...if this old bag wants a DEMOCRACY she should move OUT of America!!!
She forgot that this is a constitutional republic, not a monarchy.
Maybe Hillary is getting a bit nervous that her big donors (especially the foreign ones) may want their money back, or take it out of her hide.
“Any Idea how the Rush-unz done it? “
Not only were the Russians hacking into the DNC & Hitlery private server, but they did actually hack into the voting systems of several states, including Wisconsin, Michigan & Pennsylvania.
It’s really very easy to explain if you have a basic understanding of computers. You see, the paper ballots are printed on a matrix dot printer. Each dot is a self mobile micro chip that is wifi capable. All the Ruskies had to do was hack into each micro chip on each ballot, and move them around to show the voter actually selected Trump.
So the answer is yes, the Russians did for fact hack paper ballots. Jill Stein is really quite intelligent for picking up on this.
Her big donors are getting angry.
Good thing she didn’t say “Our Constitutional Republic” because then I would have been really scared.
Hillary, sit down. Relax.
Now, listen carefully.
Most Americans don’t like you. At all. Period.
Now, go home.
Yep and take the rapist and spoiled entitled little kitten with her.
After how she acted, what she said and did, and her freaking smug and arrogant smirk she wore the entire time she was on the campaign trail I don't feel sorry for her one bit but it must really suck to be a clinton these days. Plus their entire foundation scam is drying up. How're they supposed to maintain and pay taxes on 3 mansions and a 10 million dollar block long penthouse in Manhattan?
I bet they have millions socked away somewhere just in case something like this ever happened. Their best bet would be to sell everything and move to France or some other muslim country.
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