2022 is the Year, not the day. Because it’ll be going on in 2023.
Ask youself why he put a Never Trumper in charge?
Posted on 04/08/2022 8:13:41 PM PDT by bitt
Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta was interviewed by none other than Special Counsel John Durham!
A new batch of court filings that were brought to the public’s attention by Technofrog reveals Special Counsel John Durham interviewed Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta along with several other members of the Clinton campaign.
Podesta claims to have no part in the Clinton Russian Collusion case but Durham believes otherwise hence why Podesta was interviewed.
As of now the content of the interview have yet to be released but that could change as the investigation continues to thicken. ~~~~~~~
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1511888439444185094?
New filing highlights Special Counsel John Durham's focus on the Hillary Clinton campaign –
John Podesta and high ranking Hillary for America officials have been interviewed
The DNC and Clinton Campaign/HFA have been producing documents after receiving grand jury subpoenas.
NYTimes.com
By Amy Chozick
Oct. 11, 2016
John Podesta Says Russian Spies Hacked His Emails to Sway Election
In his first remarks since WikiLeaks began releasing thousands of his hacked emails, John D. Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, said Tuesday that Russian intelligence officials intent on swaying the election to Donald J. Trump had been responsible for the illegal breach into his account.
“I’ve been involved in politics for nearly five decades,” Mr. Podesta told reporters aboard the Clinton campaign plane. “This definitely is the first campaign that I’ve been involved with in which I’ve had to tangle with Russian intelligence agencies,” he added, “who seem to be doing everything that they can on behalf of our opponent.”
Without verifying the authenticity of the emails, Mr. Podesta said that he had spoken with the F.B.I. “as a victim” of hacking. The Obama administration, like Mr. Podesta, believes the Russian government has been trying to help Mr. Trump with its hacking, including the theft of emails of the Democratic National Committee this year.
Mr. Podesta said Mr. Trump had “essentially adopted lock, stock and barrel” a foreign policy that would favor the interests of President Vladimir V. Putin.
Mr. Podesta also cast blame on Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks and an avowed critic of Mrs. Clinton. He said WikiLeaks had strategically released the first batch of his emails Friday afternoon to distract attention from the damaging video that had just emerged of Mr. Trump making lewd comments about women.
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“It wasn’t any coincidence, I think, that within minutes of the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape coming out, they decided that this was their countermove,” Mr. Podesta said.
The hacked emails have not done much to help Mr. Trump in the polls, but they have proved to be a persistent distraction. Earlier on Tuesday, some newly released emails suggested that a senior Clinton campaign aide had been in touch with government officials about the release of her State Department emails, exchanges that prompted accusations of collusion from Republicans on Tuesday.
The timing of the release of Mrs. Clinton’s State Department emails was critical information for her aides, who were devising strategy on how to respond to any story lines that could emerge. But the communication between the campaign and the Justice Department appeared to have simply been updates on a court case related to the emails, information that was publicly available.
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Brian Fallon, the campaign’s press secretary, told other campaign aides in May 2015 that he had just received information about a case from someone at the department.
“DOJ just filed a briefing saying the gov’t proposes releasing HRC’s cache of work-related emails in January 2016,” Mr. Fallon wrote.
“Get out!???” replied Cheryl D. Mills, a lawyer and longtime adviser to Mrs. Clinton.
The correspondence came months before the F.B.I., which is part of the Justice Department, opened an investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s handling of classified emails at the State Department. In July, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said Mrs. Clinton had been “extremely careless” but recommended no charges, which the Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, accepted.
Who is Julian Assange? Mr. Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks. He rose to international prominence with the release of leaked diplomatic and military files in 2010 provided by Chelsea Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst. In 2016, during the U.S. election, WikiLeaks published Democratic National Committee emails stolen by Russia.
How did Assange’s legal troubles begin? In 2012, Mr. Assange fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London as he fought extradition to Sweden over a rape inquiry. The charges were later dropped, and he remained in the embassy for seven years, until he was ejected in 2019.
What are the criminal charges brought on by the U.S.? After his expulsion from the embassy, the U.S. unsealed an indictment against Mr. Assange and sought his extradition. Prosecutors have accused him of violating the Espionage Act for his role in the 2010 disclosures and of participating in a hacking conspiracy. (He is not charged for the publication of the D.N.C. emails in 2016.)
Why does his case raise media freedom issues? The solicitation and publication of government secrets is a journalistic-style activity, whether or not Mr. Assange counts as a journalist. That raises novel First Amendment issues and could establish a precedent constraining investigative journalism about military, intelligence and diplomatic matters.
Where is Mr. Assange now? After he was expelled from the embassy, he was sentenced to 50 weeks in jail in London for for breaching bail conditions related to the rape inquiry; he has remained in prison while the U.S. extradition case is pending.
Can the U.S. extradite him? In January, a court rejected the U.S. extradition request on the grounds that Mr. Assange might be driven to suicide by American prison conditions. The Trump administration appealed, and the Biden administration later made assurances of humane treatment. On Dec. 10, a higher court ruled that Mr. Assange can be extradited. His lawyer said they will seek to appeal.
Though the information Mr. Fallon passed on reflected no internal Justice Department thinking, the connection between a senior Clinton aide and the department stoked accusations that the Obama administration had conspired with Mrs. Clinton’s camp.
The correspondence released Tuesday showed “a level of collusion which calls into question the entire investigation into her private server,” said Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Mr. Trump’s campaign. Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, Mr. Trump’s running mate, also brought it up at two events in Iowa.
The day after Mr. Fallon’s exchange on the Justice Department’s court filing, he provided additional information to other campaign aides on the case. “DOJ folks inform me there is a status hearing in this case this morning,” he wrote. “So we could have a window into the judge’s thinking about this proposed production schedule as quickly as today.”
Mr. Fallon declined to comment on the exchanges. A Justice Department spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment.
Keep Sandy Berger in mind...
Ask Podesta about his email concerning making Seth Rich an example.
John Podesta threatened to “make an example” of Seth Rich according to a grisly Podesta email
published by WikiLeaks – and brand new evidence has all but confirmed
Seth Rich’s murder was a political assassination ordered by the
Democratic National Committee.
Per Podesta email
” I think we have to make examples now of people who have violated the trust
> of HRC and the rest of the team. People going forward need to know there
> are stiff consequences for leaking, self-promotion, unauthorized talking
> with the press. “
Who’s the Never Trumper?
Thanks for filling in that background info!
What’s truly amazing is how long all of this has been going on. The other aspect of this that puzzles me is exactly why the Clintonistas thought the “Russian conspiracy” claim would help them, since it was improbable on its face. For one thing, if the Russians were trying to help anybody, it would have been Hillary, whose ineptitude in dealing with them as SOS made it clear that she’d be equally useless as President.
But it’s pretty impressive to see how tangled this is and how many people have been involved in it over the years.
Early on he and his brother were forced to close down their business.
But has anyone seen John Durham in person? I’ve seen the same 3 photos everywhere. But if he were a real person, wouldn’t there be more than just 3 photos of the guy? Does he never appear in public?
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Anybody know where durham’s grand jury is empaneled?
Is there only one GJ working the investigation
Podesta is so OILY that he will slip out of Durham’s grasp easily.
“Who killed Seth Rich, Mr. Podesta”?
Dems LIE and PROJECT.....period!
That’s very true. The Dems are also very good with the “best defense is a good offense” tactic.
Not to mention, “who’re you gonna believe, your lying eyes?” They just simply get a narrative and stick with it, no matter how much it clearly conflicts with reality. That one is the Stalin “Big Lie” tactic.
I got a snicker out of the link as posted (weloverump). It does work & goes to ‘welovetrump’. With DemonRats like Podesta, the one without the ‘t’ is appropriate.
The whole sordid story.
Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against Trump
in 2016 to Stop Putin. The Bet Backfired Badly.
Real Clear Investigations ^
Posted on 3/10/2022, 8:11:28 AM by FarCenter
Six years ago, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, the Ukrainians bet that a Hillary Clinton presidency would offer better protection from Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though he had invaded Crimea during the Obama-Biden administration, whose Russian policies Clinton vowed to continue.
Working with both the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, Ukrainian government officials intervened in the 2016 race to help Clinton and hurt Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation that’s been largely ignored by the press. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, where officials worked hand-in-glove with a Ukrainian-American activist and Clinton campaign operative to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on – and even investigate — their political rival.
Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers – including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election.
As it worked behind the scenes to undermine Trump, Ukraine also tried to kneecap him publicly. Ukraine’s ambassador took the extraordinary step of attacking Trump in an Op-Ed article published in The Hill, an influential U.S. Capitol newspaper, while other top Ukrainian officials slammed the GOP candidate on social media.
Politico.com
By KENNETH P. VOGEL and DAVID STERN
01/11/2017
<>Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire; foreign aid billions threatened
<>Kiev scrambles to make amends with president-elect Trump after working to boost Clinton.
<>President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, and the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the presidential race.
Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.
A Politico investigation found
<><>Ukrainian govt officials helped Hillary and trashed Trump, questioning his fitness for office.
<><>They disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption
<><>They suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election.
<><>They helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services, according to U.S. intelligence officials. They reportedly briefed Trump last week on the possibility that Russian operatives might have compromising information on the president-elect. And at a Senate hearing last week on the hacking, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said “I don’t think we’ve ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we’ve seen in this case.”
There’s little evidence of such a top-down effort by Ukraine. Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country — not to mention its ongoing strife with Russia — would render it unable to pull off an ambitious covert interference campaign in another country’s election.
And President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, along with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the race.
“I’ve been told by some people who post at freerepublic that John Durham is deep state and will close shop soom after January 20, 2021. If that is so, why would John Durham interview John Podesta?”
There may be some entity (or cell) within the Democrats that simply wants to clear out the entire Skunk Cabbage clan, perhaps Obama or some other power base and then claim that the party’s now clean (or at least cleaner, since they still have to purge the Bidens).
podesta, I plead the fifth, next!
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