‘Right now I’m not anxious about the Russians.
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Global affairs analyst Vladimir Frolov told The Moscow Times that the primary objective of a Kremlin-sponsored leak, which he calls “possible and even plausible”, “wouldn’t be to influence the campaign but to retaliate against and discredit Clinton for what they see as a smear campaign against Putin”.
Turning his attention to the decision of Debbie Wasserman Schultz to step down as DNC chairman, Podesta said she has done what she needed to do, but pointed out that she has worked hard for the past five years.
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Sunday accused Russian Federation of hacking recently-leaked Democratic National Committee emails in the hopes of helping Republican Donald Trump get elected.
The Democratic National Convention takes place from Monday, July 25 until Thursday, July 28 at Wells Fargo Centre in Philadelphia.
Last week, the Trump said that, if elected president, he might not aid North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies who haven’t made substantial financial contributions to the military alliance.
Even with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the GOP and its defense and foreign policy leaders warned against the threat posed by a revanchist Russian Federation.
“We can say with some degree of confidence that they don’t like Hillary”, Rumer said. Mook did not provide evidence to back up this claim.
“I think we need to get to the bottom of these facts”, Mook said on Sunday.
Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall (7/23/16) released a rather paranoid rundown the day of the leaks on how Putin was conspiring with Trump (a fairly good debunking of which can be found here), soon after dismissing the substance of the leaks as Russian propaganda white noise.
‘I’ve got no information or no idea, ‘ he stated.
He changed the subject to Trump and the threat he believes the Republican nominee, now polling ahead in a CNN’s tracking, presents to the country’s well being.
Democratic Party officials have said that they suspect Russian intelligence agencies are behind the hack in an effort to boost the election prospects of Donald Trump. If there really was hard evidence of state-sponsored involvement, “the Federal Bureau of Investigation would nearly certainly have been involved” from the get-go, he said. The American voters want to see less government; that is the big thing.
The New Jersey Senator said, ‘It’s time that we unify and elevate our nation for the long term strength of our country as we face challenges overseas and here at home.
The Huffington Post reports that emails obtained by Wikileaks show that the DNC favored Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders.
The FBI announced on Monday that it has formally opened an investigation into the hack of the Democratic National Committee.
As for Mook’s suggestion that the Russians leaked the emails to help elect Donald Trump, Manafort called it “pure obfuscation” on the part of the Clinton campaign.
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In separate emails, Meloy addressed a concern raised by Munoz about whether the DNC and Meloy’s LGBT Engagement division were reaching out to LGBT young people and young people in general to ensure that they vote for the Democratic presidential nominee and other Democratic candidates in the states in the November general election. “Dave Aitel, CEO of security firm Immunity Inc, put it in blunt terms in a column for Ars Technica: “[The leak] meets the definition of an act of cyberwar, and the U.S. government should respond as such”.
