RUSSIA TODAY: REDACTED: 'CLINTON EMAIL COVER-UP THROWBACK TO SOVIET TIMES'

RUSSIA TODAY ^ | OCTOBER 25, 2016 | RUSSIA TODAY

[Trump_vs_Evil_Witch]

With just two weeks left till the presidential election, hardly a day seems to go by without the word email cropping up in another news story about Hillary Clinton.

Julian Assange ...is not an idiot. In fact, there has been a steady drip--drip-drip, much in the tradition of the Edward Snowden leaks that have slowly been released by the Intercept over the years. And that is a far more effective way to let the public and journalists process this information.

Very clearly, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have decided that they are going to release these things day by day so that people have a chance to carefully consider them before the election (…)

[Trump_vs_Evil_Witch]

Julian Assange is a contemporary hero, VOTE TRUMP so Assange can get a fair trial and his well deserved freedom

[GOP Poet]

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[Paladin2]

H->! is a Rooskie Bot run directly by Putin. Pass it on....

[caww]

Wiki leaks already stated many times now that their source for the e-mail leaks was not a Government entity rather Whistle-blowers.....so this insane blabbering it's Russia is just Hillary's way of preventing her staff from commenting as well as herself.....which is why they aren't. The idea is nobody would blame them for not commenting if it's Russia doing the act.

For the uninformed and ignorant it will work.

[caww]

Hillary’s distraction of blaming Russia is just the soke screen to excuse from commenting on her e-mails.....she’s avoiding, and so is the press,... Hillary’s and Oabama’s crimes against this country, from refusing to enforce immigration laws, targeting opposition groups with multiple agencies, corruption in the VA, the Secret Service, the FEC, the FCC, the Labor Relations Board, etc., etc, all which clearly has shown every citizen now that the federal government has thrown the rule of law into the gutter, and agencies are now simply organs for state control.....and the left is entirely wedded to the Hillary Media.

Her e-mails are serious and dangerous to this country as well as her actions and lack of responding.....her run is nothing more than to prevent her arrest if she wins.

[JediJones]

Yep and her sycophant supporters are all over comment threads on the internet pushing the Russian Conspiracy Theory.

[ETL]

Obviously, Hillary is an evil, leftist, crooked witch, but why do you keep posting from this known Moscow-controlled Putin propaganda news source, RT/Russia Today?

[clearcarbon]

I wonder how many felony clinton supporters believe that the “drip-drip-drip” will magically cease after election unless that administration immediately moves against free speech.

[ETL]

FYI: Mikhail Lesin, co-founder of the Russian government-controlled news outlet "Russia Today" (RT), which the FR Putinistas often link to in their threads, was found dead in a Wash DC hotel this past November (2015).

Word is he had had a falling out with Putin and was about to become an informer, a 'snitch'. Putin's Russia is very much like the Mafia.

RT (Russia Today) and the other Moscow-controlled media outlets reported at the time that there were no signs of foul play--that he died of a heart attack.

However, when the autopsy report came out 5 months later (May 2016) it was revealed that he actually was murdered. Beaten to death by a blunt object.

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Mikhail Yuriyevich Lesin (July 11, 1958 – November 5, 2015) was a Russian political figure, media executive and an adviser to president Vladimir Putin.[1]

In 2006 he was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", one of Russia's highest state decoration for civilians.

Mikhail Lesin was nicknamed the Bulldozer because of his ability to get virtually all Russian media outlets under The Kremlin's control.[2]--wikipedia
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"RT [Russia Today] has been called a propaganda outlet for the Russian government[10][11][12] and its foreign policy[10][11][13][14] by former Russian officials[15] and by news reporters,[16] including former RT reporters.[17][18][19]

It has also been accused of spreading disinformation.[20][21][22]

The network states that it offers a 'Russian perspective' on global events.[24]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_%28TV_network%29
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RT = RUSSIA TODAY

Nov 2015...

Vladimir Putin's media Svengali who was found dead in DC hotel was 'murdered for being an FBI informant'

• Millionaire Mikhail Lesin, 57, was found dead in $240-a-night in Washington DC last Friday [Nov 6, 2015] and police are investigating

• The pro-Putin 'propaganda channel' he set up, RT [Russia Today] , claimed he 'had been suffering from a prolonged unidentified illness'

• But DC police have made no such finding

  "Nicknamed the 'Bulldozer', Lesin was one of the key props of the Putin presidency, personally masterminding a wide-ranging media crackdown which has left the vast majority of Russian TV stations and newspapers obedient to the Kremlin."

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3315994/Vladimir-Putin-s-media-mastermind-dead-DC-hotel-murdered-FBI-informant-alive-claim-Russians.html#ixzz3rOUopg7Q

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  The following article is from last December (2014)

  "Mikhail Lesin has stepped down as head of major state-controlled media holding Gazprom-Media, the company said late last week.

  Gazprom-Media, whose holdings include independent radio station Ekho Moskvy, said Lesin's resignation was due to family reasons, Russian media reports said Friday.

  The holding's board of directors will finalize his resignation at an upcoming meeting, Gazprom-Media was cited by Ekho Moskvy as saying. No replacement has been named.

  Earlier, a flurry of reports of Lesin's imminent resignation appeared on Russian news wires, all based on undisclosed sources and giving divergent accounts of the motive.

  Forbes Russia cited sources in the media and government as confirming the resignation, with one of the individuals claiming that the decision was made personally by President Vladimir Putin."

  http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/513690.html
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  From 2013...

  The Ominous Return of Putin's Media Enforcer

  Vladimir Kara-Murza
  October 18, 2013

  The recent return of Vladimir Putin's longtime eminence grise, Vladislav Surkov, to the Kremlin was widely discussed in the media. Much less noticed was the appointment of Mikhail Lesin, Putin's former information minister, as the new head of Gazprom-Media, Russia's largest, and de facto state-run, media group, which incorporates several broadcast, print, and online outlets.

  Lesin's return to a senior position is no less symbolic than that of Surkov, and says a lot about the Kremlin's plans for Russia's few remaining uncensored media.

  Lesin was a central figure in the early Putin years, spearheading the Kremlin's effort to silence the country's independent television, the first step in the consolidation of authoritarian rule.

  The first target was NTV, at that time Russia's largest and most popular independent TV channel, whose hard-hitting news broadcasts, talk shows, and satirical programs criticized the government over growing corruption and the war in Chechnya and gave airtime to the opposition.

  In June 2000, a month after Putin's inauguration, NTV's founder and majority shareholder, Vladimir Gusinsky, was arrested and placed in Moscow's infamous Butyrka prison.

  While he was there, the information minister made an offer: Gusinsky could have his freedom if he agreed to transfer his media holdings to Gazprom, the state-owned energy monopoly.

  On July 20, 2000, while still under a prosecutorial recognizance, Gusinsky signed a deal to sell his media outlets to Gazprom that included "Annex 6," which provided for the "termination of the criminal prosecution against Mr Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinskiy in connection with the criminal case initiated against him on 13 June 2000, his reclassification as a witness in the said case and suspension of the precautionary measure prohibiting him from leaving [the country]." "Annex 6" was personally signed by Information Minister Mikhail Lesin.

  In its 2004 ruling, the European Court of Human Rights found the NTV owner's arrest to have been politically motivated and in violation of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, emphasizing in particular that "the facts that Gazprom asked the applicant to sign the July agreement when he was in prison, that a State minister [Lesin] endorsed such an agreement with his signature, and that a State investigating officer later implemented that agreement by dropping the charges strongly suggest that the applicant's prosecution was used to intimidate him."

  In the end, Gusinsky refused to give up NTV (once out of Russia, he annulled the deal as having been signed under duress). The offices of Russia's largest independent television channel were forcibly taken over by Gazprom-installed security guards in the early hours of April 14, 2001. TV6, a smaller independent channel that sheltered former NTV journalists, was shut down by the authorities in January 2002. The journalists found another short-lived home in TVS, Russia's last nationwide independent television channel, which was taken off the air in June 2003. By this time, the regime no longer cared for appearances and saw no need to hide behind "legal" decisions of obedient courts: the TVS signal was switched off by a direct order of Information Minister Mikhail Lesin, who cited 'viewers' interests" as the reason for the decision.

  After this state campaign against major media outlets, Lesin left the spotlight, only occasionally surfacing in the news, for instance, when he co-founded RT [Russia Today], the Kremlin's English-language propaganda mouthpiece.

  His return as the new director general of Gazprom-Media could signal another attack on media pluralism in Russia. A likely target could be Ekho Moskvy radio, which, unlike other Gazprom-Media outlets (including the present pro-Kremlin NTV), continues to maintain an independent editorial line and invite opposition leaders to its studios. Many in the Russian media community took Lesin's appointment as a grim sign.

  Interestingly, Lesin may become one of the first senior Putin regime officials to face consequences for his involvement in human rights abuses. Earlier this year, civil society groups reportedly proposed Lesin's name for inclusion in the US blacklist under the Magnitsky Act, which provides for visa bans and asset freezes for Russian officials involved in human rights violations.

  The next update of the US list may come in December. Meanwhile, sources in the European Parliament indicate that Lesin may be placed on a European Union visa blacklist. This would come as bad news to Putin's media enforcer: according to the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, Lesin owns a 2 million, euro estate in Finland's Turku Archipelago, purchased through a company registered in the British Virgin Islands. This would indeed be a timely and appropriate message, that helping a dictatorship to muzzle the free media and enjoying the comfort of the Western world are no longer compatible.

  http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/vladimir-kara-murza/ominous-return-putins-media-enforcer
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  UPDATE: MAR 2016...

  Mikhail Lesin, Ex-Putin Aide, Died of Blunt Force Trauma in Washington: Autopsy

  by Alastair Jamieson and Alexey Eremenko
  Mar 11 2016

  A former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin found dead in a Washington hotel room was killed by a blunt force trauma to the head, U.S. authorities said Thursday.

  Mikhail Lesin, 57, was found dead on the floor of his room in Dupont Circle on November 5.[2015]

  Autopsy results show that he died from “blunt-force injuries of the head,” according to a joint statement Thursday from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and Office of the Chief Medical Examiner reported by NBC Washington, but the exact manner of death was undetermined.

  Also contributing to his death were “blunt-force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities and lower extremities,” the statement said.

  Russian media originally reported that Lesin, a former government minister, had suffered a heart attack. ...”

  http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/mikhail-lesin-ex-putin-aide-died-blunt-force-trauma-washington-n536456
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  "Russian media originally reported that Lesin, a former government minister, had suffered a heart attack. ..."

[caww]

....”her sycophant supporters are all over comment threads on the internet pushing the Russian Conspiracy Theory”....

Well Hillary wants a confrontation with Russia...and Obama’s administration has set the stage for that...they’ve been blaming Russia for everything because the word went out to do so form the Ukrainian uprising til today.....”The ORder for media and otherwise”....so here we are.

IMO “what difference does it make” who gave the info to Assange........it’s what her e-mails are revealing of her corruption, the state dept and the Clinton foundation........and all we’ve seen thus far that should be pointing a defined finger at Hillary and a response from her.....she’s not......because they are all intent on sliding her over the finish line so she’ll be protected fro being prosecuted.....once she’s in it’s over.

[ETL]

"When he [Mikhail Lesin] quit Gazprom Media in December [2014], a move seen as a shock, he cited ‘family reasons’ although there were unconfirmed claims he had fallen out with other influential figures close to Putin. ..."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3315994/Vladimir-Putin-s-media-mastermind-dead-DC-hotel-murdered-FBI-informant-alive-claim-Russians.html
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From 2014...

"Mikhail Lesin has stepped down as head of major state-controlled media holding Gazprom-Media, the company said late last week [DEc 2014].

Gazprom-Media, whose holdings include independent radio station Ekho Moskvy, said Lesin's resignation was due to family reasons, Russian media reports said Friday.

The holding's board of directors will finalize his resignation at an upcoming meeting, Gazprom-Media was cited by Ekho Moskvy as saying. No replacement has been named.

Earlier, a flurry of reports of Lesin's imminent resignation appeared on Russian news wires, all based on undisclosed sources and giving divergent accounts of the motive.

Forbes Russia cited sources in the media and government as confirming the resignation, with one of the individuals claiming that the decision was made personally by President Vladimir Putin."

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/513690.html

[1rudeboy]

Source?

[1rudeboy]

RT tweeted that the Russians are not responsible. Go figure.

[caww]

I wrote...’Wiki-leaks’....and Assange spoke of this as well....now if you want to discover when and where they stated this google it....it was questionable from the very beginning these would come out....even in his video.

[ETL]

"On Friday, November 6 [2015], RIA Novosti reported that Lesin died of a heart attack citing a spokesman for the family as saying: "Today, Mikhail Lesin died ... His death came supposedly from a heart attack."[35][38]

RT [Russia Today] reported the next day that the cause of death was a heart attack.[31][39][40][41]

https://web.archive.org/web/20161026095000/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lesin

[ETL]

"[RT (Russia Today) founder, Mikhail] Lesin was a central figure in the early Putin years, spearheading the Kremlin's effort to silence the country's independent television, the first step in the consolidation of authoritarian rule.

The first target was NTV, at that time Russia's largest and most popular independent TV channel, whose hard-hitting news broadcasts, talk shows, and satirical programs criticized the government over growing corruption and the war in Chechnya and gave airtime to the opposition.

In June 2000, a month after Putin's inauguration, NTV's founder and majority shareholder, Vladimir Gusinsky, was arrested and placed in Moscow's infamous Butyrka prison.

While he was there, the information minister made an offer: Gusinsky could have his freedom if he agreed to transfer his media holdings to Gazprom, the state-owned energy monopoly. ..."

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/vladimir-kara-murza/ominous-return-putins-media-enforcer

[MarchonDC09122009]

You know, you bring to light the important point that Russia Today is the Russian government’s propaganda mouth piece for western audiences.

They have for the most part, mastered the appearance of being an independent somewhat objective-conservative news source that is one of the few to expose US corruption.
Putin realizes that Russia greatly benefits from the relatively inexpensive investment of propaganda outlets, that deliver toxic cognitive dissonance to demoralize, fracture and eliminate US moral authority.

He and others would say that the fact that the US has become so corrupt, decadent and a danger to the world that threatens financial and geopolitical stability, foreign propaganda should be the least of our worries.
Our greatest threat surface is internal, not external.
It is hard not to agree with that.

I never thought I’d see the day American’s would be so starved for objective news, we would come to rely on Russian gov’t backed news outlets to cover stories our own news will not.

Our fourth estate / fifth column are a shameful traitorous lot.

[ETL]

I never thought I’d see the day American’s would be so starved for objective news, we would come to rely on Russian gov’t backed news outlets to cover stories our own news will not.

First, hardly no-one is even aware that RT is a state-run media outlet. And even those who are likely have no clue as to the 'details' provided above.

Second, as to 'covering stories our own news will not', since they are a Moscow-controlled news source, they can hardly be considered a credible source of news and information. Just the simple fact that they had stated in the days, weeks, and months after his death, that the RT founder described above, died of a heart attack--that there were 'no signs of foul play', when a later autopsy revealed he had been savagely beaten with a blunt object to his head, neck, and, I think, torso, should, in the mind of anyone with a working brain in their head, immediately eliminate them as a valid source of information. Indeed, they were specifically set up to spread disinformation, cover Putin's evil doings, and promote his big picture agenda (of restoring the Soviet Union and then-some with eventual control of the oil/gas-rich strategic Middle East). People really need to wake the hell up already and understand the big picture of what's going on.

[ETL]

Trump and certainly his VP, Mike Pence, get what's going on with KGB/FSB Putin...

Here's Pence from the Oct 5th, 2016, first VP debate...
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“When Donald Trump and I observe that, as I’ve said, in Syria, in Iran, in Ukraine, that the small and bullying leader of Russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration, that’s stating painful facts. That’s not an endorsement of Vladimir Putin — that’s an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.”

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Also from the Oct 5, 2016 first VP debate...

QUIJANO (Moderator): I want to turn now to Syria. Two hundred fifty thousand people, 100,000 of them children, are under siege in Aleppo, Syria. Bunker buster bombs, cluster munitions, and incendiary weapons are being dropped on them by Russian and Syrian militaries. Does the U.S. have a responsibility to protect civilians and prevent mass casualties on this scale, Governor Pence?

PENCE: The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo. Hillary Clinton’s top priority when she became secretary of state was the Russian reset, the Russians reset.

After the Russian reset, the Russians invaded Ukraine and took over Crimea.

And the small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of America — the greatest nation on Earth — just withdraws from talks about a cease-fire while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begins — look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.

It begins by rebuilding our military. And the Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We’ve got to work with Congress, and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.

But about Aleppo and about Syria, I truly do believe that what America ought to do right now is immediately establish safe zones, so that families and vulnerable families with children can move out of those areas, work with our Arab partners, real time, right now, to make that happen.

And secondly, I just have to tell you that the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength.

And if Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo.

There’s a broad range of other things that we ought to do, as well. We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.

QUIJANO: Governor, your two minutes are up.

PENCE: We’ve just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they’re dealing with a strong American president.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/us/politics/vice-president-transcript.html

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And....

PENCE: What we’re dealing with is the — you know, there’s an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates.

And the truth of the matter is, the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared a few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East.

And all the while, all we do is fold our arms and say we’re not having talks anymore.

To answer your question, we just need American strength. We need to — we need to marshal the resources of our allies in the region, and in the immediate, we need to act and act now to get people out of harm’s way.