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GOP Operative Sought Clinton Emails From Hackers, Implied a Connection to Flynn
WSJ ^ | 29 June 2017 | Shane Harris

Posted on 06/29/2017 5:21:00 PM PDT by Rockitz

WASHINGTON—Before the 2016 presidential election, a longtime Republican opposition researcher mounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen from Hillary Clinton’s private server, likely by Russian hackers.

In conversations with members of his circle and with others he tried to recruit to help him, the GOP operative, Peter W. Smith, implied he was working with retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clintonemails; collusionfail; fakenews; flynn; mikeflynn; petersmith; russia; russianhackers; trumprussia
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Apparently WSJ knew this was such crap that they made it subscriber only. THIS IS THE LATEST SMOKING GUN in the Trump/Russia saga. Chuckle...

ZeroHedge summarizes it here.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-29/comey-friend-unveils-smoking-gun-story

but FR says no thanks to ZH posts.

1 posted on 06/29/2017 5:21:00 PM PDT by Rockitz
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Let me guess: anonymous sources have revealed....


2 posted on 06/29/2017 5:28:27 PM PDT by PGR88
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Meanwhile, the WSJ confirms that Smith died last month at the age of 81

cripes...It's all hearsay and double hearsay.
3 posted on 06/29/2017 5:33:49 PM PDT by stylin19a
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So wizzj is now saying that Hiterly’’s negligence with her State Department server in a toilet was hacked by Russians?


4 posted on 06/29/2017 5:35:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: stylin19a

Did he whisper it on his deathbed?

Where’s Bob Woodward when you need him?


5 posted on 06/29/2017 5:37:47 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: stylin19a

How convenient that the only source for the supposed Flynn connection died last month, huh?


6 posted on 06/29/2017 5:39:47 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Rockitz

Vince Foster told me that both Hillary and Bill are Russian spies.


7 posted on 06/29/2017 5:44:07 PM PDT by dgbrown
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To: dgbrown

I got that beat.

Many years ago my brother told me that while he was drinking with ol’ man Rodham’s law partner in Chicago, that when ol’ man Rodham found out Hillary was a lesbian, it broke his heart.


8 posted on 06/29/2017 5:48:53 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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I would say que the “Ah not this sh!t again” graphic but the story goes on to say there’s no proof Hillary’s deleted emails were official business. Why are we aloud to post wsj with crap like this if we can’t zero hedge? (Directed to the post of forgot name.)


9 posted on 06/29/2017 5:51:08 PM PDT by enduserindy (I always smile when my competition doubles down on stupid.)
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Good read. I’d add the notion there’s no proof of Hillary’s deleted emails were official business makes the wsj article pure bs hit peice journalism and vote trading wsj for zero hedge.


10 posted on 06/29/2017 6:01:04 PM PDT by enduserindy (I always smile when my competition doubles down on stupid.)
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I’m sure that was just one of her covers as an agent.


11 posted on 06/29/2017 6:01:08 PM PDT by dgbrown
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The short version: Some dude went looking for the 30,000 missing Clinton e-mails (if he was in cahoots with whoever had them, he wouldn't have to hunt for them), and the results of the search were he found nothing.

Any connection this dude might have had with Flynn (probably none) tends to distance him from the mystical Russian hackers who "got the goods."

12 posted on 06/29/2017 6:10:42 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Rockitz

The fakest of fake news.


13 posted on 06/29/2017 6:22:36 PM PDT by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: Cboldt

You forgot “He died.”


14 posted on 06/29/2017 6:22:59 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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-- You forgot "He died." --

I thooght that was an obvious part of the Russian-connection coverup. Team Trump had to knock off the bag man!

15 posted on 06/29/2017 6:27:10 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Rockitz

Good. That’s precisely what Flynn SHOULD be doing.


16 posted on 06/29/2017 6:27:12 PM PDT by BlueCat
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Good. That’s precisely what Flynn SHOULD be doing.


17 posted on 06/29/2017 6:27:12 PM PDT by BlueCat
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To: Cboldt; Sidebar Moderator; Admin Moderator

Forgive me. I should have posted this in Humor.....


18 posted on 06/29/2017 7:00:33 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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ZH analysis:

“Of course, the goal of the story is to paint some sinister plot that involved Smith and Michael Flynn enlisting the help of some Russians to hack the 2016 election...thus ‘proving’ the collusion angle.

Unfortunately, the story seems to prove the exact opposite which is, if Flynn was really running around on some wild goose chase looking for Hillary’s missing 30,000 emails by chatting up hackers on a message board then we have to assume that means he wasn’t in any way connected to the original hack which ended up on WikiLeaks.”

Collusion FAIL!!!


19 posted on 06/29/2017 7:15:01 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Rockitz

WSJ is connected to Fusion GPS...


20 posted on 06/29/2017 7:16:46 PM PDT by piasa
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