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| Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America is run |
| 2016-11-01 |
| [Guardian] The emails currently roiling the US presidential campaign are part of some unknown digital collection amassed by the troublesome Anthony Weiner, but if your purpose is to understand the clique of people who dominate Washington today, the emails that really matter are the ones being slowly released by WikiLeaks from the hacked account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta. They are last week’s scandal in a year running over with scandals, but in truth their significance goes far beyond mere scandal: they are a window into the soul of the Democratic party and into the dreams and thoughts of the class to whom the party answers. The class to which I refer is not rising in angry protest; they are by and large pretty satisfied, pretty contented. Nobody takes road trips to exotic West Virginia to see what the members of this class looks like or how they live; on the contrary, they are the ones for whom such stories are written. This bunch doesn’t have to make do with a comb-over TV mountebank for a leader; for this class, the choices are always pretty good, and this year they happen to be excellent. They are the comfortable and well-educated mainstay of our modern Democratic party. They are also the grandees of our national media; the architects of our software; the designers of our streets; the high officials of our banking system; the authors of just about every plan to fix social security or fine-tune the Middle East with precision droning. They are, they think, not a class at all but rather the enlightened ones, the people who must be answered to but who need never explain themselves. Con't. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 The real crimes aren't the server(s), emails or classifications. They're bad, but can be glossed over. The real crimes (that they REALLY wanted to cover up but may have some problems doing so now) are the Clinton Foundation's briberies, collusions, pay-to-play, skimming, laundering and disbursements. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2016-11-01 15:56 |
| #7 David Kendall of Willams & Connolly LLP has an drive containing classified material |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2016-11-01 11:21 |
| #6 One major sign points to HRC's email luggage being one of the upcoming wikileaks releases -- none have been in the Podesta releases. Yes, if wikileaks is strategic about this, they will wait until this Friday to see how the ruling class attempts to hide HRC's crimes, before they shine the light on these cockroaches. |
| Posted by: Former European 2016-11-01 10:47 |
| #5 an attempt [by] the powers-to-be |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-11-01 09:06 |
| #4 I'v got a feeling but I don't know. 1. WikiLeaks might just have Hillary's 33,000 deleted emails and about to release them. 2. Might be that these 33,000 emails were also on the Weiner-Huma computer and Assange is just waiting to see whether there will be an attempt the powers-to-be to bury these emails. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-11-01 09:05 |
| #3 LinkedIn Yes, Except that they eat their young and throw each other under the bus occasionally. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-11-01 07:56 |
| #2 More like LinkedIn: Read these emails and you understand, with a start, that the people at the top tier of American life all know each other. They are all engaged in promoting one another’s careers, constantly. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-11-01 07:36 |
| #1 You mean like an oligarchy? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-11-01 06:48 |