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originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
Pretty certain discussing operations is top secret and should not be going on over gmail?
We’re down to a skeleton >> staff at Camp Phoenix as folks redeploy to the states or move within >> Afghanistan. Amazingly, I am now the senior USAF Captain in the legal >> office. In a matter of weeks I’ve seen three go home and as a result >> I’m no longer the new guy; I’m the experienced veteran.
/podesta-emails/emailid/11484
originally posted by: butcherguy
Another, where Hillary's people describe Chelsea as being just like her mother.... stabbing people in the back.
link to tweet
originally posted by: oddnutz
Feb 15, 2015 9:52 PM, "Cheryl Mills" wrote: Here is Robby's List of the top 10 or so positions: >>>
>>> Exec Chair - Podesta >>>
>>> States Director - Marshall >>>
>>> Political Director - Hispanic Woman >>>
>>> Finance Director - Dennis Cheng >>>
>>> National spokesperson - Karen Finney >>>
>>> Manager - Mook >>>
>>> Digital and Technology Director - Teddy >>>
>>> Data/Analytics - Elan >>>
>>> Communications/Research - Jen >>>
>>> COO - TBD >>>
>>> Policy - Jake >>>
>>> Strategist - Joel Beneson [thought Jim and Mandy also count] >>>
>>> >>> >>> 12 positions: >>> >>> 4 POC (2 Black; 1 Asian; 1 Hispanic) >>> >>> 4 Women (assuming COO is a white woman) >>> >>> 6 White Men >>> >>> >>> >>> 33% diverse >>> >>> 33% women >>> >>> 50% white men
originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
An excerpt from Mills:
They are >> trying to be better partners to the foundation and save some of their >> resources -- not an unreasonable thing for them to choose to do given >> where >> they are, how much they've made and how little they have saved. Folks >> seem >> to be forgetting that and part of my role here is to offer a clea-reyed >> picture of their expenses and their needs -- so they can layer on their >> wants and their choices.I am quite sure if he knows you won't come w/o >> your sister, he'll do it b/c that is who he is. And we shouldn't blame >> him >> for the other personnel choices he makes that may not seem in his best >> financial interest either.
/podesta-emails/emailid/11118
For anyone who says that Bill and Hillary are not entwined with the foundation and that they do not personally benefit from it, that sure sounds like they are pretty deeply integrated with the foundation to me.
originally posted by: ketsuko
Hillary was considering Hip-Hop outreach with Q-tip. I wonder if they were going to discuss the "deep" meaning of "Do It"? Or do you suppose the language would be too shocking and deplorable since it's sort of locker room talk to music?
originally posted by: ketsuko
Ouch! This one is the epitome of "Quick! Pick a token so they think we care ..." Is this when the bottle of hot sauce came to reside in her purse?
originally posted by: ketsuko
They really are going scorched earth because they have alienated their voter base.
originally posted by: ketsuko
Even non-violent Islam is a problem!
Clinton Refugee Plan Could Bring In 620,000 Refugees In First Term At Lifetime Cost Of Over $400 Billion
WASHINGTON— An analysis by the Subcommittee on Immigration and The National Interest finds the refugee plan of presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton could cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has announced her desire to admit at least 65,000 refugees from Syria – on top of the existing refugee flow already entering the United States. What Clinton has not explained, however, is that in addition to the clear national security implications related to accepting more refugees, there are massive financial costs that would be borne by federal, state, and local governments.
Assuming Clinton's desire to bring in 65,000 Syrian refugees is in addition to the Obama Administration's current goal of admitting 10,000 this fiscal year (out of 85,000 total refugees), that would amount to an increase of 55,000 refugees. 55,000 on top of 85,000 totals 140,000 refugees. The Obama Administration's target for FY 2017 is actually 100,000 refugees, meaning that adding 55,000 refugees to that would result in 155,000 refugees each year. Due to statutory flaws in our Refugee Admissions Program, the number could be as high as Hillary Clinton desires. Assuming her goal is to admit 155,000 refugees each year during a hypothetical first term in office, a Clinton Administration would admit at least 620,000 refugees in just four years – a population roughly the size of Baltimore. www.sessions.senate.gov... -billion
originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
Here is one of them in action:
From: Robert Creamer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 11:56 AM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Reminder -- Trump Rapid Response/Bracketing Call -- Today - Tues - May17 - 1PM Eastern
Reminder -- Trump Rapid Response/Bracketing Call -- Today - Tues - May17 - 1PM Eastern
And here he is referenced in another DNCleaked email:
Discussed with Creamer, et. al. today.
Oh, those catchy signs they have in the audience?
We should come up with signs to pass out. A few ideas (throw some ideas down here if you have them):
* Reject the Trump-Ryan Agenda
* Donald Trump: Dangerous, Divisive, Disgraceful (my favorite)
* Dump Trump * Love Trumps Hate (HFA tagline)
* Say No to Bigotry / Say No to Trump
* Trump = Make America Hate Again (2nd choice)
/dnc-emails/emailid/8350
In 2011, the State Department cleared an enormous arms deal: Led by Boeing, a consortium of American defense contractors would deliver $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns over the kingdom's troublesome human rights record. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, Saudi Arabia had contributed $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, and just two months before the jet deal was finalized, Boeing donated $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to an International Business Times investigation released Tuesday.
The Saudi transaction is just one example of nations and companies that had donated to the Clinton Foundation seeing an increase in arms deals while Hillary Clinton oversaw the State Department. IBT found that between October 2010 and September 2012, State approved $165 billion in commercial arms sales to 20 nations that had donated to the foundation, plus another $151 billion worth of Pentagon-brokered arms deals to 16 of those countries—a 143 percent increase over the same time frame under the Bush Administration. The sales boosted the military power of authoritarian regimes such as Qatar, Algeria, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman, which, like Saudi Arabia, had been criticized by the department for human rights abuses. www.motherjones.com...
Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department
Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation, according to an IBTimes analysis of State Department and foundation data. That figure -- derived from the three full fiscal years of Clinton’s term as Secretary of State (from October 2010 to September 2012) -- represented nearly double the value of American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the State Department during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term.
The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration. These extra sales were part of a broad increase in American military exports that accompanied Obama’s arrival in the White House. The 143 percent increase in U.S. arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors compares to an 80 percent increase in such sales to all countries over the same time period.
American defense contractors also donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state and in some cases made personal payments to Bill Clinton for speaking engagements. Such firms and their subsidiaries were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of Pentagon-negotiated deals that were authorized by the Clinton State Department between 2009 and 2012.
Information about high-level corruption involving the rulers of Washington's closest ally in north Africa was brought to the attention of the US consulate in Casablanca, Morocco's commercial capital, by a businessman in 2009, leading diplomats to describe "the appalling greed" of those close to King Mohammed VI.
According to the US report, decisions involving Omnium Nord Africain (ONA), a holding company owned by the king, are made only by the king and two of his powerful associates. "To have discussions with anyone else would be a waste of time," the head of the company is quoted as saying.
Royal involvement in business is a hot topic in Morocco but public discussion of it is sensitive. The US embassy in Rabat reported to Washington in a separate cable that "corruption is prevalent at all levels of Moroccan society". www.theguardian.com...
King of Morroco paid 12 million for access to Clinton through CGI
originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
a reply to: ReAdY2AsCeNd
And not just the Moroccon government:
A liberal human rights organization and several Republican lawmakers, for instance, are criticizing the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation for accepting donations from a Moroccan government-owned mining company, whose seven-figure sponsorship of this week’s gathering came amid growing scrutiny of foreign-government contributions to the charity.
...
The Morocco conference offers the latest examples of the Clinton Foundation accepting money from foreign entities. The event is sponsored by an array of global corporations, including the state-owned Office Cherifien des Phosphates, or OCP, which has given between $1 million and $5 million overall to the foundation and whose sponsorship of the Morocco conference was first reported by Politico.
...
“OCP’s operations in Western Sahara are only appropriate under international law if they are acting in the best interests of the people of Western Sahara, and right now they are not,” said David McKean, a senior program officer at the center. “The fact that OCP carries out its operations in Western Sahara so publicly seems intended to send the message that they feel they can do so with impunity.”
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Other money comes from Akwa Group, a Moroccan conglomerate that focuses on oil and gas, and Channel IT, a telecom company founded in Nigeria that has extended its reach to 19 countries in Africa and the Middle East. Channel IT — which hosted a welcome reception for CGI attendees Tuesday in Marrakesh — is led by wealthy entrepreneur Bassim Haidar, a regular at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, who has signed on with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and bills himself as “Lebanon’s First Astronaut.”
WaPo
Looks like several Moroccon/African energy companies also.
Looks like Morocco has been courted for some time:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ (MACP) — In remarks delivered September 24 at the closing session of this year's Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that Morocco will host the first iteration of CGI Middle East & Africa in the spring of 2015.
...
Citing the 118 commitments totaling more than half a billion dollars that were made over the course of CGI Asia in 2008 and CGI Latin America in 2013, Secretary Clinton noted "what we can achieve when we take the show on the road and reach new partners." Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative, an initiative of the Clinton Foundation, convenes global leaders to create and implement innovative solutions to the world's most pressing challenges.
"That Morocco was selected to host CGI's first-ever Middle East & Africa conference speaks to Morocco's regional leadership, stability, and strong private and public sector actors that are ready and willing to take on the leading issues of the day," said former US Ambassador to Morocco Edward M. Gabriel
PrNewswire
I wonder if former Ambassador Gabriel is one of the Ambassadors noted in the DNC leaks?
originally posted by: jadedANDcynical
Back in 2012, Hillary was pretty adamant about speaking with the King of Morocco:
From: Hanley, Monica R [mailto:[email protected]
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 06:33 PM
- The King of Morocco has not gotten back to us with a time but ops will try again when its a reasonable hour for the Moroccans.
H responded:
--call w King should be scheduled so keep working w Huma
/clinton-emails/emailid/16798
Oh, btw, she was also working on setting up a call with Eric Holder in this email chain and here, at least, indicates that she understands how to secure communications:
--I will speak to Holder. Does he need to speak secure? I can do either.
The cables gave the public a recent window into the strategies and motivations of US officials as they expressed them to each other, not as they usually expressed them to the public. In the case of Syria, the cables show that regime change had been a long-standing goal of US policy; that the US promoted sectarianism in support of its regime-change policy, thus helping lay the foundation for the sectarian civil war and massive bloodshed that we see in Syria today; that key components of the Bush administration's regime-change policy remained in place even as the Obama administration moved publicly toward a policy of engagement; and that the US government was much more interested in the Syrian government's foreign policy, particularly its relationship with Iran, than in human rights inside Syria.
A December 13, 2006 cable, "Influencing the SARG [Syrian government] in the End of 2006,"1 indicates that, as far back as 2006 - five years before "Arab Spring" protests in Syria - destabilizing the Syrian government was a central motivation of US policy. The author of the cable was William Roebuck, at the time chargé d'affaires at the US embassy in Damascus. The cable outlines strategies for destabilizing the Syrian government. In his summary of the cable, Roebuck wrote: www.truth-out.org...
Vice President Biden Condemned US Allies for Recklessly Arming Syrian Extremists
Statements from Vice President Joe Biden and the former director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), along with revelations from Wikileaks cables, all suggest that the U.S. government and its allies recklessly armed the same Syrian extremists that would later form ISIS.
In a 2014 speech at Harvard University, Biden outright admitted that supporting the Turkish regime that funneled weapons to terrorist groups that happened to be enemies of Bashar al-Assad was the catalyst for the rise of ISIS.
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In a July 2015 episode of Head to Head, Former DIA director Michael Flynn told Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan that the DIA memo predicting the rise of an Islamic State in Syria not only was reviewed, but that the administration’s backing of jihad extremists was “a willful decision.”