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HRC Exposed Kurdish Attack Tactic Against ISIS in Email To Podesta
2016-10-14
[TownHall] A second portion of an unsecured email sent to former White House Counselor John Podesta and released in last week's Wikileaks dump, previously reported on here, shows former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussing how the Kurdish Peshmerga could launch a coordinated attack with the U.S. from the air, surprising ISIS. The email also exposes the detailed information came from on the ground intelligence in the region. Podesta is now the Chairman of Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
The teaching and training of those tactics involved (and places at risk) players other than local nationals.
According to a military source familiar with classified information, the information detailed in the email appears to be highly classified. The information was sent over Clinton's unsecured, vulnerable and non-government personal server to Podesta's Gmail account on August 19, 2014, more than a year after Clinton left the State Department in February 2013. Podesta worked at the White House from 2014-2015.

"Subject: Re: Here's what I mentioned"
Posted by:Besoeker

#22  He was running against the left's Reagan*. What excuse does Trump have, given that he's running against Hillary? After 4 years of Obamacare, he's too cheap to run ads or too lazy/distracted to raise money to run ads against it, so all independents know about him is what they hear from liberal network news and Hillary's ads, i.e. that he's a no-goodnik. For a GOP candidate, the minimum required to be competitive in any election is not some kind of secret - you need to run ads to counter liberal media attacks and your opponent's ads among voters who don't pay much attention to politics. Instead, Trump is running around giving speeches to people who already support him.

When Trump loses by a bigger margin than Romney, his excuse will be that down ticket pols deserted him. In reality, he deserted them - by running a crappy campaign, he put them in danger of defeat. He's losing not because they're abandoning him - they're abandoning him because he's losing, and they don't want to go down with the ship.

* Just how good is Obama at politics? He's got a 50% favorable rating among likely voters after 8 years of presidential overreach, and below par growth.


I agree with you about Trump being a horrible candidate, but I'm not going to talk about it until after the election, unless it's to tell you if you hated him so much you shouldn't have nominated the son of a bitch.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-10-14 22:56  

#21  Can you grasp the concept of "classified information," Zhang?

My basic point is that what the article claims to be classified information probably isn't - i.e. the author is either ignorant or misinformed and stretching the bounds of what he actually knows re the classification status of that information.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2016-10-14 20:54  

#20  Can you grasp the concept of "classified information," Zhang? Talking about times, locations and specific targets, yes. This is just a general reference to tactics used in the past - tactics discussed ad nauseam by grunts up to general officers with the media and addressed in much greater detail in books about the Afghan and Iraqi campaigns. It is also available in eye-glazing detail to anyone who can lay his hands on a current Army field manual, copies of which - bootleg or original - are undoubtedly all over Iraq.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2016-10-14 20:50  

#19  It's hopeless Pappy. But it's not just hopeless here. Sadly, it's hopeless on a national level.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-10-14 20:03  

#18  Can you grasp the concept of "classified information," Zhang?
Posted by: Pappy   2016-10-14 19:56  

#17  No reference should be made on an open system of any tactic employed or available for use against ISIS.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-10-14 19:10  

#16  The article is ridiculous. Combined arms attacks have been around since antiquity. A good number of ISIS leaders are veterans of both the Afghan and Iraqi campaigns. They know what precision airstrikes can do, in coordination with even crappy ground elements (i.e. Afghan and Iraqi troops). Hillary has screwed up in lots of ways. This isn't one of them.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2016-10-14 18:51  

#15  Yah, that Mitt Romney really kicked ass back in 2012.

He was running against the left's Reagan*. What excuse does Trump have, given that he's running against Hillary? After 4 years of Obamacare, he's too cheap to run ads or too lazy/distracted to raise money to run ads against it, so all independents know about him is what they hear from liberal network news and Hillary's ads, i.e. that he's a no-goodnik. For a GOP candidate, the minimum required to be competitive in any election is not some kind of secret - you need to run ads to counter liberal media attacks and your opponent's ads among voters who don't pay much attention to politics. Instead, Trump is running around giving speeches to people who already support him.

When Trump loses by a bigger margin than Romney, his excuse will be that down ticket pols deserted him. In reality, he deserted them - by running a crappy campaign, he put them in danger of defeat. He's losing not because they're abandoning him - they're abandoning him because he's losing, and they don't want to go down with the ship.

* Just how good is Obama at politics? He's got a 50% favorable rating among likely voters after 8 years of presidential overreach, and below par growth.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2016-10-14 18:34  

#14  Paul, why doyou think things will get ugly for HRC as we move to become Venezuela North? She will be safe - she has the Praetorian Guard (Secret Service) around her. And she can call out the military to put down any open revolts.

Of course, in the later Roman Empire, many of the emperors were murdered by the Praetorian Guard.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2016-10-14 16:45  

#13  1. HRC wins election.
2. HRC dusts of Chavez/Maduro playbook.
3. Activates Operation Venezuela North.
4. Things get really ugly for everyone, including HRC.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2016-10-14 16:28  

#12  Thing From Snowy Mountain:

Yes, even the execrable Romney has won more elections than Trump has.
Posted by: Iblis   2016-10-14 16:15  

#11  Think of it as an intelligence test for American People.

The People that elected Obama twice? We're boned.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-10-14 14:49  

#10  The women claiming to have been groped will get their check and disappear after the election.

Think of it as an intelligence test for American People.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-10-14 14:29  

#9  And yet the MSM is more concerned about destroying Trump with alleged groping scandals which is likely to never have occurred as more info comes out. The women claiming to have been groped will get their check and disappear after the election.
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-10-14 14:27  

#8   Perhaps the one thing you can say about about the establishment types - they can at least win elections. This is a task that seems to be eluding Trump.


Yah, that Mitt Romney really kicked ass back in 2012.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-10-14 14:16  

#7  Perhaps the one thing you can say about about the establishment types - they can at least win elections. This is a task that seems to be eluding Trump.

Why bring it up? Because we will be going through this again in four years, and it's important to understand at what point the process broke down - if, that is, you want to fix it. I submit that whatever happens next month, the primary process is a disaster and needs an overhaul.
Posted by: Iblis   2016-10-14 14:04  

#6  Horse, barn door. Sour grapes. Much whining.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-10-14 12:52  

#5  The only thing that will keep her out of prison is winning the presidency, and the only thing that will allow her to win the presidency is the Trump wing of the Republican Party.
Posted by: Jusotle Brown3077   2016-10-14 12:01  

#4   She should be in prison

Looks like Podesta should be as well.
Posted by: Raj   2016-10-14 11:08  

#3  And this is why, boys and girls, we don't publish classified information at the Burg.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-10-14 10:21  

#2  I wonder if this is one of the 33,000 e-mails that was deleted and not recovered by the FBI?

What a bunch of nonsense in that e-mail, a note full of nuance, incompetence, and naivete addressing an area where the third world war is going on hammer and tong with folks cutting off heads, blowing themselves up, full on genocide...
Posted by: Tennessee   2016-10-14 10:00  

#1  She should be in prison
Posted by: Frank G   2016-10-14 08:39  

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