A new trove of internal Democratic National Committee emails, stretching back to April 2016, released by Wikileaks show that the organization’s senior staff chafed at Bernie Sanders’s continued presence in the presidential primary. Staffers were also irritated by criticism that they were biased towards Hillary Clinton.
In May, chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (DWS) reacted to an MSNBC anchor criticizing her treatment of Bernie Sanders during the Democratic presidential primary by trying to force her to apologize.
On May 18th, DNC staffer Kate Houghton forwarded to Wasserman-Schultz a Breitbart News story highlighting remarks by MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski in which she called for the chairwoman to step down over perceived bias against Sanders during the presidential primary.
Wasserman-Schultz reacted angrily, writing that this was the “LAST straw” and instructing communications director Luis Miranda to call MSNBC president Phil Griffin to demand an apology from Brzezinski.
Miranda noted that Wasserman-Schultz had reached out to NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd on the subject earlier. You can see that email below:
Later in the day, Miranda sent a follow up email to Todd laying out a memo trying to convince him that Wasserman-Schultz was not in fact unfair to Bernie Sanders. Todd asked him if a call with Brzezinski was really a “good idea.”
Miranda tried to de-escalate the situation, telling him that “if Mika just doesn’t like [Wasserman-Schultz], I’m not sure it’s worth either of their time”:
Annoyance at Bernie Sanders and his fans is a reoccurring theme in the emails.
Three weeks prior to the Democratic primary in California, the largest primary of the contest, DNC staffer Mark Paustenbach, the organization’s national press secretary, sent an email to Miranda pitching an anti-Bernie story that the candidate “never got his act together, that his campaign was a mess”:
A day earlier, Miranda complained that Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, had “no backbone” for complaining that DNC head Wasserman-Schultz shared some responsibility for divisiveness in the party.
Paustenbach was trying to respond to a press inquiry about a raucous Nevada state convention where the news media and opponents of the Sanders campaign complained that there was violence, including thrown chairs, that didn’t actually happen:
When Sanders campaign chair Jeff Weaver appeared on cable news to defend the conduct of Sanders backers at the Nevada convention, Wasserman-Schultz reacted harshly, writing: “Damn liar. Particularly scummy that he barely acknowledges the violent and threatening behavior that occurred.” There was no apparent effort made to actually investigate the claims against Sanders.
As early as the end of April, the DNC was mocking up emails to message to their base about the end of Sanders’s campaign. Eric Reif, a digital staffer at the organization, sent around an email template that would be used by chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz:
DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker, however, mocked as “#bernieclickbait” the idea that the DNC was tipping towards Hillary Clinton:
The emails also show internal pushback on major Sanders causes such as holding more debates and ending superdelegates.
On May 2nd, a public relations staffer named Erik Smith sent an email to DNC officials updating them on the positions of both Democratic campaigns on a May debate in California. According to Smith, the Clinton team stated that they would not participate in a debate unless it was DNC-sanctioned:
On May 18, Wasserman-Schultz sent an email to communications staff listing out talking points defending her decision to schedule only a handful of debates during the primary season:
But Miranda reacted in a mocking tone to Sanders welcoming a debate in California, which the Clinton campaign had already agreed upon earlier in the primary season:
A day earlier, Fox News editor Bill Sammon forwarded a note to the DNC in which he offered both remaining Democratic candidates a chance for a televised debate in California.
That email was a follow up to one he wrote on May 13, formally requesting that the DNC sanction a debate in California. “Given that the race is still contested, and given that you sanctioned a final trio of debates, the last of which has not yet been held, we believe a final debate would be an excellent opportunity for the candidates to, as you said when you announced these debates, ‘share Democrats’ vision for the country,'” he wrote.
“I don’t really think this makes sense. The RNC would never do an MSNBC debate for the same reason that we shouldn’t do this one,” Wasserman-Schultz responded the same day.
On May 19, Miranda appeared on Fox News and told the network they were “negotiating” for another debate, and that they “know the interest is there.” The day before, Amy Dacey, the CEO of the DNC, signed off on that messaging. Although Sanders and Fox News both agreed to debate, the DNC and Clinton campaigned never sanctioned the debate and it never happened.
After Maine Democrats passed a resolution seeking to eliminate superdelegates, DNC Vice Chair for Civic Engagement and Voter Participation Donna Brazille called it “another lunacy.” Dacey wrote that “they have no jurisdiction” to try to eliminate superdelegates:
I don’t “just” want all of these actors at the DNC gone, I want them never to step foot inside any Campaign related or Elected Leader’s office again! They should never again work for or on any campaign or election or for any governmental office. They are all fine examples of the LACK of ETHICS in the United States’ political systems.
I am hoping the light shed on these people treating the public like ignorant pawns while they play a high stakes game with our future will provide a wake up call…grow the F up you micromanaging petty punks and put your energy and brains into making this a better country for everyone.
Nice thing about the leaks is they show the limits of DNC influence. Hope that many of the paranoid conspiracists of the right read and understand the emails.
Squabbles make it clear that DNC doesn’t buy out or directly control MSM, only try to spin things in the direction they wish. There’s also no record of insane conspiracies that speculate that democratic party pays off professors for climate change results, etc.
I guess if people are set enough on their conspiracy, they’ll just speculate that all these secret deals are done some other way… despite all these day to day secret emails being exposed.
Well this is not a shock. Staffers attempts to make a male look like a pig is not news to men since Obama took office. That staffer needed no instruction to flat out lie. DNC was liked her bogus Craigslist, but didn’t have the guts to admit it wasn’t real.
Hilary now can face her faillure.
WIkileaks proved that DNC is corrupt ,Clinton is no leader, not a real leader.
Wikileaks help put trump +5, +7 in National Polls.
3 months from now. Clinton is toast.
will be a record landslide and will likely split the dem party.
While they (she) made a mockery of Bernie’s campaign she also made a mockery of the people of the United States who believe in our system…
TRUTH – JUSTICE – THE AMERICAN WAY
If true believers would just click their heels a few more times…
Censored by Twitter — #DNCLeak & #DNCLeaks
Twitter Censors Big Spreadsheet of All Things
Worksheet: DNC
Top 20 Amounts By Full Name
select sum(amount) as total_amout, full_name from dnc group by full_name order by total_amout desc limit 20;
$532,200.00;”Laufer, Marsha”
$504,800.00;”Laufer, Henry”
$333,000.00;”Eychaner, Fred”
$308,600.00;”Simons, James”
$234,000.00;”Lefebvre, Dale”
$200,000.00;”Richard Milanovich”
$191,900.00;”Underwood, Alicia”
$178,200.00;”Berns, Justin”
$177,300.00;”Rollins, Ruth”
$177,200.00;”Potarazu, Sreedhar”
$173,400.00;”Merck, Friedrike”
$155,000.00;”Whitney, Kate”
$148,200.00;”Snowdon, Edward”
$148,200.00;”Kaempfer, Jw”
$142,400.00;”Rose, Adam”
$142,400.00;”Bittel, Stephen”
$140,850.00;”Boskind, Paul”
$138,799.33;”Bastian, Bruce”
$136,600.00;”Lowe, Christopher”
$135,510.00;”Tobias, Andrew”
That’s a lot of free speech…
#twitshit or #twittershitter
twitter works for wallstreet, do not believe otherwise.
what a scam.
Poor Hillary is claiming again that she is the target of a vast rightwing conspiracy.
Only this time, it’s Putin that is shooting at her in the helicopter.
She has her shills out in force already this A.M. with code words Putin and Russia. Operation SQUIRREL!
I can’t vote for Bonnie or Clyde.
In keeping with the RNC/DNC theme I think I will vote for Pat Paulsen.
There should be many protests for all the issues that are nationwide for all Americans to sign and protest together! This is just another issue that needs it’s own protest. Unfortunately there can be no proper protest until a organization arises to organize national protests.
Change has to be on our minds. We made/got none all these years which makes us look stupid. Change will not be had because there is not a single organization to organize national protesting. That means all Americans sent a letter for a protest on an important issue telling them/is where it’ll be and that we will be there to show our dedication and hope. There should be many protests for all the issues that are nationwide for all Americans to sign and protest together!!!
one of the worst emails mentioned Bernie Sanders supporter plants sent to gather intel. That really disgusted me.
One more reason Assange is under house arrest; thanks Obama; the prosecutor and persecutor of more whistleblowers than all the presidents before you. A corporate lawyer who kept on serving the corporations in the White House. Obamacare, your signal achievement, catastrophic, high deductible insurance for the poor subsidized by the poor taxpayers. Daily murders around the world while those who stole trillions are making more than ever. Never thought I could say this but you are not even an improvement over Bush II. The pregnant pauses in your speeches are to all the dim witted to absorb what you said. 330 million people and this is the best you can do; America1
The republithugs tried to do to Trump what the democreeps did to Senator Sanders but had enough swagger and money and understood his voters well enough to win. This tells me Sanders could have accomplished not much change had he become POTUS. It also tells me that there is a possibility that Trump might actually be able to make substantial change happen. Forget the red meat rhetoric for red necks; Trump is no conbot; he is much more liberal than the average Democrat let alone Republican. Free tradeglobalixation has to go and if anyone can do it without blood in the streets; it would be Trump. Is he a crooked businessperson, of course, would you buy his products if they were made in America by Union workers paid fair wages—not too likely. He stated, that he knows the system better than anyone so he alone can change it. Of course, thatès true, whether he would or could, who knows but Hillary is more of the same screwing over of the working class.
Thanks to Wikileaks, Wasserman-Schultz has resigned as chairwoman of the DNC. Unfortunately, she accomplished her purpose, which was to ensure that nobody but Hillary Clinton had a chance at the democrat nomination. Hopefully, her lack of remorse over her heavy handed behavior will aid in her failing to be reelected in November. But given the level of stupidity, ignorance and masochism in the electorate, I would not be surprised if she is returned to office.
Oh bullshit. He’s with Kissinger, he’s with the head of Palantir, he’s with the Let’s-let-Zika-overrun-America-so-we-get-more-lower-IQ-voters faction of the Republican Party. And he’s with Putin, who might well have had a hand in the hack. There’s no hope for us there.
Strip Shultz of her delegate vote and give to an alternate
To me, the first thing that is striking about this is the amount of the archive that is from Politico.com. Fully 6.5% of the entire archive, including spam, contains the word “politico” (or “politicoinfluence”, for an extra 15 hits). And these Politico messages all carry sponsorships. So for example, there are messages in there from Politico Influence that are sponsored by the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America pushing for some kind of federal standards on marijuana testing of drivers. (As you may recall, this is a contentious topic because of the relative lack of increased risk for stoned drivers relative to drunk drivers, and the length of time that marijuana can technically be detected) It strikes me as surprising that such a relatively obscure sponsorship in such a relatively obscure company gets such a powerful bully pulpit.
This article shows how rigged the political process is that only allows for either side of a two party tarnished corporate coin to control a sham of a democracy.
In an earlier article placed on The Intercept it was pointed out how the AP owed the Clintons for legislator benefiting them and their payoff was declaring Hillary the winner in time to cut down of California Primary voting turn out the night before the election.
And then the below was appropriately pointed out:
Glenn Greenwald
June 7, 2016, The Intercept – Perfect End to Democratic Primary: Anonymous Superdelegates Declare Winner Through Media
“It’s true that the party’s governing rules are deliberately undemocratic; unfair and even corrupt decisions were repeatedly made by party officials to benefit Clinton; and the ostensibly neutral Democratic National Committee (led by the incomparably heinous Debbie Wasserman Schultz) constantly put not just its thumb but its entire body on the scale to ensure she won.”
Guess what? It’s a violation of the 4th Amendement, it’s not a leak” “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated….” By calling this a leak you are sanctioning the Russian promotion of Donald Trump. If somebody broke into your house, stole your personal belongings and then publicized them, or if police entered your house without a warrant, gathered some illegal drugs and prosecuted you, would you really think that was okay? Only massive hypocrites who are essentially sanctioning Nixon’s Watergate break-in by calling this a leak would go along with this story and play right into the hands of Agent Orange and Vlad! Wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Although I don’t think “the Russians” were behind this “leak”.
I think you’re at one extreme and they’re at the other. I don’t believe in not looking at leaks. But when a leak comes out, we need to always bear in mind that someone is trying to pull us around. When we read a privacy-invasive thing, we’re aspiring to be omniscient like God; it’s a natural instinct in any creature made in God’s image. But to do so properly we must aspire also to have the sympathy of God, and to try to look at each thing we see in a favorable light.
“DNC Staffers Mocked the Bernie Sanders Campaign, Leaked Emails Show”
Who has “leaked” the emails? Is no distinction to be made between a hacker and a whistleblower? If not, that’s bad news for whistleblowers. (Wikileaks is publishing, not leaking, the emails.)
I agree with Buxtehude that I don’t see anything much here. At BEST you can make out a case that one or two people at DNC were biased, which is a bad thing, but it’s politics and crap like this happens. It’s not like they were plotting to keep Bernie from getting stuff done; if anything they at least believed he wasn’t doing it right.
If no where else in the whole damn world, people at The Intercept ought to be able to realize that just because somebody gets hacked and their dirty laundry aired doesn’t mean we automatically have to line up against them. Otherwise we just are supporting a system where whoever hires or otherwise wins the support of the most spies and hackers wins. We have more than enough of _that_ already.
Well played Julian.
I’m surprised that one of the Clintons didn’t try to buy you off with your freedom.
That is what they do.
The whole world knows that the Clintons cheat.
The most despicable thing about this is the complicity of the (free, ha ha.) press.
CNN, CBS and the other corporately owned news media are nothing more than parrots of the elites.
The DNC and the RNC are Cartels and represent nobody but he rich.
Nothing much will come of this because the Press and the DNC Cartel won’t allow it to.
I just hope that Julian has reserved a kill shot.
Why are the headlines, including here, screaming that the DNC “mocked” Sanders? It goes way deeper than that and leaves the impression that his campaign was in fact “a mess”, instead of the real story, DNC plotters planning to portray it that way in the press, which is greatly more serious.
And I just answered my own question. The game now is to play down what is at minimum a serious insult to a long moribund democracy, a breach of trust by a formerly great party now the vehicle of hack plutocrats who have no ethical or legal problem rigging an election..
Move along folks. Nothing to see here. You got Trump and Clinton. Freedom.
Well-known local dipshit poster Karl exposes a brilliant “plot” by Bernie, that his whole campaign was just there to “bring the 18-30 vote into the Dems tent”.
Yay verily, he doth it like the pied piper…. I heard this from plenty idiots on the left too, but Karl enjoys being a punching bag.
Wonder why the DNC blew the brilliant plan, then, Karl. Cause if that was the “big plan” then….it Wasn’t a real bright move getting Albright and Lewis and Huerta and alllllllll those fuckin’ commenters and columnists into spreading allllllll those shitty lies and slander over all those young people (and everybody else who supported Sanders).
Some conspiracy, right? I suppose it was in hopes that they would be more likely to vote for Hillary afterwards right, after being called misogynists and short-attention-span millenials and ingrates who want free stuff and young women who just wanted to meet boys? Please sir, can I have some more porridge in my face?
OH YEAH Karl and all the dumb cynics who have posted the same shit here from the left forgot all that stuff.
“Well-known local dipshit poster Karl exposes a brilliant “plot” by Bernie… blah, blah, blah”
Vic (aka Mona the coward) is still mad because I revealed that this sockpuppet’s entire shtick is to attack others. It never has a single cogent argument of its own. In taking exception to this particular point, it also faults the opinions of Chris Hedges, Ralph Nader, and Governor Ventura Who, like myself, also predicted that Sanders would endorse Clinton at the end of his run like a good little party man.
You must stay up all night inventing this crap!
This Karl persona is really a nutjob. He’s some sort of rightwing, racist weirdo, but ultimately has an incoherent worldview. And he promiscuously accuses myriad of others of being me.
I mean, I know I have a capacity to get under people’s skin and even drive them to fits of pique or rage, and that sort of thing, but this is really unusual.
“We are all Mona!”
Everyone is in Karl’s mind, when he doesn’t think of us we disappear.
It is amazing how many puppets are deemed necessary to rise up in defense of their master Mona when she is exposed by a sole contrarian (such is the nature of those whose worldview is solely shaped by consensus opinion). Doug, Vic, and Willy… what a surprise (not).
Sanders himself said he’d support whoever the Democratic Party nominee was ages ago! I love it when people go AHA! I TOLD YOU SO!!! like they’ve cracked the code.
From Luis Mirand to Wasserman Schultz (Doc ID 5049):
“Clinton campaign is a mess, they’re afraid of their own shadow and didn’t like that we engaged. I happen to think they’re wrong and it explains why they’re hobbling along unable to close it out.”
To which DWS replies:
“Let’s take this offline. I basically agree with you.”
before it vanishes from any search…
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/democratic-national-committee-emails-opposed-sanders
wha…. billionaire funded website the Intercept, which claims to be all about civil liberties, great champions of privacy, is publishing stolen emails on the web and violating people’s civil liberties, their private opinions… wha… wha… oh, wait, I forgot, I said billionaire funded, didn’t I? Billionaire funded website that wants money out of politics… the very definition of hypocrisy is at it again, working hard for Agent Orange, as if it’s all fun and games. Not fun and games for those waiting for deportation or those waiting to get the hell bombed out of them in Muslim countries, Vladimir Putin’s Agent Orange has said time and again. But pretty fun and okay, if you’re a hypocritical organization, funded by the mega, mega wealthy and considering yourself safe because of your class and race and perhaps living in another country. Oh, right, it’s okay when you do it via the Russians, but not okay with the NSA does it.
Oh look! It’s the semi-regular Hillary shill showing up again. Such a fool that he thinks a web site can violate anyone’s civil liberties. An imbecile who also believes that all that the DNC emails reveal are “opinions.”
This tool also spews about “class and race,” and has the utter gall to warn of: “those waiting to get the hell bombed out of them in Muslim countries.” A Hillary Clinton fanatic actually wrote that.
Well said Mona!
Lol. No one had a problem when the Sarah Palin emails were hacked….
Besides, Intercept didn’t hack the emails….
This is just taking $hillary’s love for transparency to….new heights
hillary shillary shellery hellery
couldn’t get a real job
didnt want one enner wee
ditched her hubby for mo the money
pimped by wallstreet her favorite honey
sold her soul for all she could
gave up the fight and all the good
now she squawks like the penguin she is
doing the bidding of wallstreet biz
slanders the saints and sanders as well
americans she demands to worship in hell
her wars her lies and deceipts her claim
while trampling America to make it her fame
her deeds of past, then good now a scam
to capture your vote, your life, her sham.
… add on if you please
“jurisdiction”. “narrative” basically they “know” the “truth” and are just trying to convince us dumb rubes. sounds like hillary alright.
also funny how hillaretards talk about how “touchy” and “thin skinned” trump is then let this venomous cunt run their “machine”. she needs to get her “scummy” ass out of government and into some soulless private sector job where she can’t do as much damage.
We don’t need Wikileaks to prove the globalist-financed Hillary C. and the entrenched Democratic Party hierachy continue their long history of oppressing minorities (and majorities) with
1) self-aggrandizing rhetoric
2) anti-family bias
3) policies that promote baby genocide
4) social engineering as policy
Their inner-city governance has been worse than criminal.They continue to see themselves as masters and others as their slaves.
Did anyone counsel Chelsea to get an abortion? Margaret Sanger fan Hillary C. and the Democratic Party are a perpetual stain on American History.
Vote Jill Stein in and Hillary out.
That photo : )
DWS is straight from central casting, right? She’s like the mean new HR director sent from corporate to downsize the satellite office. Can’t even pretend to cheerfully endure the Q&A part at the end of the power point.
Venereal Jerkules learned the word “boisterous” the other day and is peppering posts with it left and right, I mean right and right.
More bullshit about Sanders the outsider vs Hillary “the establishment” Clinton. Wake up!!! Sanders was in the game to bring the 18-30 vote into the Dems tent, pure and simple. Nader, Hedges, and, even Jesse Ventura saw Sanders’ “ah shucks” defection as nothing more than a DNC strategy from a year out. Sanders is a career politician – he knows what his role is. If any disillusioned Sanders backer votes for Hillary, then they are simply reinforcing the DNC perception that such manipulations are an effective mean to assure that certain segments of the voter demographic can be targeted for manipulation via a faux progressive candidate. The 18-30 demographic would have been unreachable given Hillary’s dog ugly appeal to youthful voters – even her pseudo self-deprecating Saturday night live skits couldn’t mask her utterly corrupt soul. Of course, the DNC will have its shills pitching for a hold-you-nose vote for Clinton on websites such as this by reminding you that the alternative is Trump asking for the nuclear launch codes. Fuck Clinton, Sanders, and the DNC. Jill Stein’s position on student debt alone is more sane than anything coming from the dempubs. Don’t allow yourself to become a party to the two party insanity that is being shoved down your throat – a third party candidacy is only impossible because YOU believe it is.
Karl, I gotta say, your comment is bull’s eye accurate…it should be dispersed widely!
Thank you!
I actually think it is possible Sander’s wasn’t a planned insurgent but actually an un-planned problem for the DNC’s plan to crown hillary. They spent a whole lot of time trying to discredit and battle Sanders, all the while he talked about what he would do to end their corrupt system. That didn’t help the Dems, none of this has. The only reason the DNC has any room to even feel okay about this election system is the fact that they are running against Drumpf.
“I actually think it is possible Sander’s wasn’t a planned insurgent but actually an un-planned problem for the DNC’s plan to crown hillary.”
understatement of the year
There are two primary considerations for the DNC when fielding a particular candidate for president:
1. The primaries
2. The general election
In her 2008 bid for president, Clinton’s polling revealed that, by May of that year, she was trailing behind Obama in every demographic except women age 50 or older. Think about that for a moment… A black junior senator from Illinois with no name recognition was able to become the front runner against Hillary Clinton by running as a progressive, party outsider – does this sound familiar? If one tracks Clinton’s demise in that election cycle, it becomes abundantly clear that Hillary was incapable of connecting even with the majority of white voters, easterners, or the majority of women – her strongest demographics; the more that she opened her mouth, the less liked she became. Conversely, Obama hired a very savvy public relations firm who micro-managed his progressive public image to perfection.
In 2016, the DNC decided to once again throw their weight behind Clinton in the primaries with an eye to overcoming the obvious personal shortcomings that plagued her in 2008. And again they chose to field a progressive party “outsider” whose message would act both as a foil for Clinton’s stay-the-course message and a lightening rod for her rising opposition in the republican party. Even though the DNC has been in a very strong position to shape the 2016 primary contest between Clinton and Sanders, Clinton’s polling once again has revealed that she is perceived as being dishonest an unlikable even though she was joined at the hip with Obama. Even the mainstream media was in her corner for most of the primary – ignoring and/or dismissing primary results that revealed her deficiencies. Yet an aging, “progressive” senator with no sex appeal managed to come from no where by once gain engaging the very demographics that failed Clinton in 2008 – chief among these is the 18-30 demographic.
Was the DNC concerned that Sanders might repeat Obama’s 2008 meteoric feat? Obama proved that there is always a risk that the party favorite (insider) might not fare well with the voters. Thus the choice of Sander’s as a progressive “outsider” would have to be closely managed by the DNC to limit his role to that which was intended. All of this talk about the DNC conspiring against Sanders simply reveals a very effective party strategy to assure all intended outcomes. Pledged delegates were the primary mean by which Sander’s aspirations were kept in check. Limiting the number of debates was another (keep the bitch from talking to much). And limiting the number of significant party member endorsements (e.g. Warren) was the third. Bottom line: Clinton won the nomination and Sander’s dutifully delivered the demographics that Clinton once again alienated with her I am Obama 2.0 campaign (which incidentally worked brilliantly on the African American demographic and woman whose age, education, and income mirrored her own).
Bernie Sanders voted with Hillary Clinton 92.5 percent of the time!!! Again, Sanders voted with the democrats 98 percent of the time throughout his career. Sanders merely provided the illusion of choice, nothing more.
Well our lack of a proportional representation system certainly doesn’t help third party-candidates. A lack of faith isn’t the only reason it’s difficult by any means.
I will be voting for Jill Stein, but really the only useful thing to advocate for if we’re tired of mainstream democrats and republicans is the adoption of a proportional representation system.
exactly
If one does not act upon one’s own beliefs, one is no longer one’s self.
When the people of the US get money out of politics, Bernie and the people win. And the more money you have in politics, THE MORE YOU LOSE. Which is the same as saying “the more money running in a democratic decision, the more bankrupt democracy is”. So the question becomes, How much money is it going to take to get money out of politics?
“DNC Staffers Mocked the Bernie Sanders Campaign, Leaked Emails Show”
Who has “leaked” the emails? Is no distinction to be made between a hacker and a whistleblower? If not, that’s bad news for whistleblowers. (Wikileaks is publishing, not leaking, the emails.)
This is not really news to those of us who loved the primary campaign waged by Senator Sanders. While I do not think we are really likely to feel drawn to Trump’s campaign, I do think we detest the party for its own self-serving corruption. So perhaps we will write in our candidate’s name and if that serves Trump, too bad.
There needs to be more focus on who really leaked these emails and why.
Guciffer 2.0 released these documents months ago.
They were suppressed until the convention.
Hillary just lost another ‘hold your nose’ vote.
330,000,000 Americans and this is the crap we get from both sides.
Perfect recipe for a revolution? After following the Arab Spring revolution from Tunisia to Syria I realize all revolutions are a direct consequence of Government corruption.
We put kids in jail for petty offences but there is another set of rules for the crimes of BOTH Presidential candidates.
I don’t recommend violence for any solution.
DT has the spirit of America in his heart. It is palpable.
Hillary looks like a vampire rising from a coffin at sundown. That makes DWS playing Renfew, and she looks the part, crunch crunch.
All of this master minding around hillary will end in grand embarrassment when don wins. The corporations operating the marionettes will deserve him.
If this doesn’t change anything at the DNC, nothing will. But, then again, this only confirms what has been evident for a long time, and why many of us have chosen to leave (for me, I had been a registered Democrat for almost 40 years).
But given the abject failure of the MSM to provide critical coverage of BOTH Trump and Clinton, I doubt the story will have any legs. Thanks to the Intercept for filling in the gaping holes of our so-called institutions of journalism.
These are the ugly people who said that “not voting for Hillary awarded a place in hell”? Yea, go for it! This is the same SecofState Clinton tactic to oust democratic PresZelaya of Honduras! Ugly. CrookdClinton makes Trump look good and smart,
Hillary must have tired of being a woman and a partner some time back. Her fetish for that war criminal guy approaches sexual perversion. Maybe they do bondage and torture while yelling “punish me more”. She was instrumental in the privitisation/theft of Pemex, and probably the impetus for the coup of Pres Zelaya and the subsequent murders of activists wanting to protect the Honduras from the savage rape by US corporations and privitisation interests.
She is beginning to take on the expression of Joseph Stalin.
If these emails are the best examples Jilani could find of the DNC’s supposed tilt towards Clinton over Sanders, I’d say their release actually proves the opposite. Looks like the DNC staffers were bending over backwards to make sure the Sanders campaign was getting it’s work done. And just being irritable and crabby about somebody doesn’t mean you’re stacking the deck for someone else. I liked both candidates, still do, and these snippets of emails don’t go anywhere near showing actual bias by the DNC to Clinton.
Just more firepower for Trump at the debates! He’s got so much shit to lay on her
he’ll never have to go back to the first one, because they’ll not have 1000 debates~~
Tim “Mr. MoneyBacks” Kaine ~ more encore firepower for Trump~
Debbie Wassermanly ShitzforBrains’ crew must have been hired from Christie’s staff.
I am willing to consider supporting Dr Jill Stein for the presidency.
Now if we could just see HRC’s Wall St. speeches. . .
Sanders should take back his endorsement due to the recent email revelation.
DNC (Hillary) like RNC is the establishment which should be dismantle and bring back the power to the people.
Fixed is fixed. Inside is inside. Trump is abhorrent.
He’s obviously worse.
But both choices are sh*t. Releasing these emails doesn’t ‘help’ Trump.
It’s their collusion and corruption that is doing that.
These vile scumbags should be drummed out of the Party. They have confirmed the belief that the entire Democratic nominating process was rigged from the start. They’ve been exposed for the cockroaches they are. The convention is going to be riven and if Clinton losses, you’ll know why. These amateur hour asshats should have been cleaned out a long time ago. Slime.
So Debbie Washyerhairshmutz gets offended by something in the news. She calls MSLSD and dictates to the (supposed) news station what to report to squash unfavorable information.
Not a real big surprise, but at least the MSM could stop pretending it’s not so.
offended in a very erdoganly way? She used to seem like a very nice person. But something happened and the democratic party got monster syndrome from some mutant virus from one of hillary’s travels. I think maybe this virus causes one to disavow the human race.
#rescindtheendorsement. There should be NO allegiance, after the proof we Bernicrats have been waiting for, has finally apoeared. Add the primary election fraud, which everyone is afraid to address, and which Bernie won easily …Bernie IS the presumptive nominee. The DNC and HC have subverted the will of the people, and the media has enabled it. It is HOT in Philly tonight.
How can any Sanders voter support the harpy after this email dump? How can Sanders himself continue on with the charade of supporting the war criminal/corporate candidate? People should vote for Stein to ensure she gets a considerable following or even vote for Trump, whose positions on militarism and the corporate “trade” elimination of the rule of law are well to the left of the DNC ticket. Kaine only yesterday spoke up for the trade pact and, therefore, corporate arbitrators eliminating all anti-corporate regulation. Hillary’s bloody fingerprints, meanwhile, are all over the destruction of the Khaddafi regime and its replacement by instability and barbarism. By the way, the barbarians she supported as one of their crimes committed a mass-murder of ethnic Africans Khaddafi had settled in Libya as “mercenaries.” Khaddafi had settled them as part of his belief in African unity. The massacre was reported in the BBC and elsewhere until it became too inconvenient for the lamestream press. It has still been alluded to recently in reports from consortiumnews’ Robert Parry and others. Hillary’s responsibility for the raghead takeover of Libya makes her responsible for their crimes against humanity, including this mass murder. All Trump has to do is stress this fact to eliminate her racial “firewall” in the coming election.
Between the formidable forces of the Clinton machine and the DNC, Sanders had little chance of reaching his goal (which to be honest, was always a pipe dream). However, if you, even have a passing thought that the narcissistic man-boy, who cannot form a complete sentence on his own, would lead our country to anywhere other than its demise, than you must not be a true Democrat (or anyone with critical thinking skills). A vile troll perhaps? Certainly not someone that is concerned for the future of our great nation. Our United States. So go away, Troll. Go live your miserable life away from ours. We are on to you.
Yes, Crookd Clinton and her CrookdCrew because she sullies everything, including the Dems and Primaries. All this for ONE TERM? There is no need for a rwconspiracy with CrookdClinton around. Same for Honduras Zelaya removal coup– she and PresObama continue ForeignAid instead of stopping– to legitimize the B$CEOs and they kickback the $ to the ClintonFoundation! Read the clintonemail.com to see if there is Classified?
People should consider Jill Stein or Gary Johnson for the presidency.
If Trump wins, I look forward to being one of the many accused of standing behind Sanders and being willing to “burn down the house” in order to usher in what looked to be our first truly progressive liberal candidate. While I myself will hold my nose and vote HRC (possibly to asphyxiation, as that is what may be required), many will not. If the the chips fall badly, it will be, “If it weren’t for those meddlin’ Nader kids,” all over again.
Of course we forget, and these letters remind me, that they too were willing to “burn down the house” to elect the first woman president, even if this wasn’t “the” woman president to elect. That is, it’s clear that many on the left, or at least so-called left, thought it so important to make this milestone, they would be damned if anything would stop them. Even, for instance, ignoring that there was an almost palatable rebellion taking place on both sides of the aisle against status-quo insider politics – the almost literal description of what Hillary is: the ultimate insider candidate.
No instead, they would choose a candidate that was almost uniquely qualified to simultaneously turn off and rile the once fringe, but now mainstream, masses of dispossessed gnashing their teeth at the status quo.
That’s not to say you can entirely blame them – it is certainly time that this nation had its first woman president, and if we lived in the same country we did 20 years ago, Hillary is as qualified as any candidate we’ve had (an understatement really). However, these are not ordinary times, and while she may pull it off, she’s the wrong person for the job in the context of the politics of the day – a master of manipulative neoliberal beltway elite coming to bloom when much of the world, rightly so, is looking to hoist on pikes exactly the same type.
I understand why many of my peers support Hillary, it makes sense in a sort of “head in the sand”, we’re still living by normal rules, mentality. But the peasants with pitchforks are at the gate, and her candidacy is the DNC equivalent of “let them eat cake”.
Well put.
If the Democratic establishment actually wants to win the election — as opposed to wanting to ensure that a socialist like Sanders doesn’t win more than caring about which party wins — they made a huge mistake by choosing Clinton. And make no mistake, Clinton was anointed by the elite well before this process ever began. Sanders would have had a much better chance of beating Trump; in fact, he’d probably have won in a landslide. With Clinton, Trump has a real chance to win, because Clinton is so hated by so many. So is Trump, so who knows how this will turn out. But considering the other evil shits this country has elected in my lifetime alone (Nixon, Reagan, and Bush/Cheney), I’d bet on Trump at this point.
as much as i would like to see a third party win, i see what you see and i bet Trump wins by a landslide. I think the slaughter will be so bad that we will get a third party when the dem party splits after getting womped.
One of the best comments here. Thanks for pointing out the following:
“Of course we forget, and these letters remind me, that they too were willing to ‘burn down the house’ to elect the first woman president, even if this wasn’t ‘the’ woman president to elect. ”
It’s the older generations (50’s and up, even some in their 40’s) who insist on doing the “stroll” when the times call for “street jazz.”
Sorry to prick your balloon, pal, but the “older generation” includes me, aged 67, and I am a Marxist and hate capitalism and the two-party (really one-party) system. Contrary to your little ageist tantrum, far from doing the “stroll” I have been doing the punk/street/jazz thing probably since before you were born. Hillary Clinton is a war criminal and hawk from a long line of the same. Anybody who supports her is supporting more war and death and–yes–more austerity and destruction of constitutional rights at home.
There is really little excuse for any sympathy for Bernie Sanders after his boisterous endorsement of Hillary Clinton
No one stays in politics as long as Bernie has unless they aren’t actually a politician, and there are no messiahs regardless. From what I saw he is being consistent with the politics he promoted all along. Yes, one of promoting strong progressive change, but also one that avoided divisiveness.
I can’t say I don’t find his endorsement discomforting, but not only would be doing otherwise divisive, the fact is Trump *is* someone to worry about. Oh sure, they’re playing it up as much as they can, in part because they have a candidate that can’t be elected on anything more than, “At least not Trump!” but still it’s hard to say, “Trump is an ok alternative.”
Sure, maybe Trump leads to the armageddon, causing a complete dissolution and revivification of our political system on better terms, but that is not a gamble I at least am willing to take – particularly as a father. From what I can see most of the people who are willing to lead just such a revolution, aren’t the ones I’d want to be running a revolution.
Don’t get me wrong, sometimes I wonder, but I certainly don’t consider it a sellout that Sanders isn’t willing to take the gamble any more than I am.
What really surprised me is Bernie Sander’s disaffection with the BLM folks and the Islamist people who all chose to vote for Hillary Clinton. How do you explain that? I for one think that the minorities are a lot more sensitive about the way they are treated than what we credit them with due to their different looks and beliefs.
In a democracy we have to respect the judgment of people. By that token, Trump has millions of more supporters than most people who malign him. Surely, all can’t be wrong, and I’m pretty sure most if not all all have the same information (mostly unflattering I would think) about him to make their individual decisions.
I believe you believe that. Because you are just that unhinged in your authoritarian and racist eccentricity.
@Mona:
Despite your self-adulation I doubt if you are anything but a kind soul.
I think you should update you general awareness of events, news and opinions of the world outside and beyond the mediocre offerings of your unworthy apprentice.
The following two links will help you somewhat.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/why-black-voters-dont-feel-the-bern-213707
https://www.thenation.com/article/african-american-voters-have-a-good-reason-to-support-hillary-clinton/
@Mona:
Despite your self-adulation I doubt if you are anything but a kind soul.
I think you should update you general awareness of events, news and opinions of the world outside and beyond the mediocre offerings of your unworthy apprentice.
The following two links will help you somewhat.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/why-black-voters-dont-feel-the-bern-213707
@Mona:
The second link …
https://www.thenation.com/article/african-american-voters-have-a-good-reason-to-support-hillary-clinton/
politico has Chelsea Clinton on their board of directors.
sanders cares about minorities,always has.clinton uses them,panders to them,but could not care less about them.she has the wool pullen over many eyes.
General Handgrenade, another lyin’ Trumptroll…
It’s okay to behave badly here, and I will still respect you for belonging to the human species. But remember to put on your best with the police, or else you stand no better chance than Freddie Grey and the rest. Police only see good and bad.
“Police only see good and bad”–and blue
You may want to check your facts Hercules. Bernie won the Islamic vote.
And instead of kicking out a BLM activist that PAID to attend a Hillary fundraiser, Bernie handed them a microphone to speak at his rally & met with many BLM activists in a one on one situation.
Really tired of the hillbot lies.
Bernie Sanders is no doubt a good human being. But he would have been totally corrupted should he have become the POTUS. One of the main duty of the president is to sign off on drone strikes, and sometimes the list contains names of US citizens, which is a very sensitive thing. I will give Hillary the credit to be ruthless enough about the drones, but given her leaky disposition, I would think ISIS, Yemenis, Somalis or Pakis would know beforehand her targets and place innocent people there to discredit us. Trump is going to stop all this nonsense. We will sell all the drones at a profit to China and encourage them to clean up their neighborhood.
All said and done, I think Bernie betrayed you and a lot of other folks by jumping into Hillary’s bed. Shame!
Clinton is far more likely to cause Armageddon than Trump is. She’s far more militaristic. Trump wants to make deals, not wars.
Your hysterical parental fear is just another evil we all have to deal with. You people’s brains and guts go down the toilets once you have kids. Stand up for the right thing — which is NOT Clinton — and quit using your kids as an excuse to vote for a neoliberal corporate warmonger.
Which candidate is the candidate threatening to not assist NATO allied countries in need? Oh that’s right, Trump. It’s definitely a good idea to help Russia come to power… <<<Sarcasm
I’ll correct you with your kind permission.
Clinton has a proven record of destroying Libya, interfering in Syria, accepting money from Wall Street in exchange for favors, and a lot of other mischief. Even Allahu Akbar must be disappointed that his favorite people are not coming to him as a result of death at the hands of a female.
So you should have said – “Clinton is far more likely to cause Armageddon than anybody else in the whole world.”
Comparing her to Trump is unfair to both. He had done nothing remotely similar, and she has done little else.
Too true. Thank you.
aint that right.
We’re looking at Jill Stein and Gary Johnson.
But then there are these 250,000,000 people south of the border in poverty. And then we have this drug cartel gang problem merging with the RECONQUISTA and GRUPO BETA thing.
Ah ha but Bernie did not endorse Clinton by name. He said that he would do whatever it took to defeat Trump in the election………………
But he did hug and kiss her a lot … What for?
Just learned that Verizon or someone is buying yahoo.. Boy, do I feel stupid for believing in captain half-teeth Marissa Meyer. She was our leader, she pledged she would get us (YAHOO) out of this mess, Did she work for Roger Ailles, Because she never was like totally hot, but hot just the same. What is her golden parachute? I like Eva Peron!!!
Bernie supports her… it’s DONE
Why wouldn’t they be sick of Sanders and his Whackadoodle supporters? The worst decision DWS made was to let Bernie run as a Dem in the first place. Read the Politico article quoting statements made by Sanders own former staffers after the CA primary. Bernie Sanders was calling most of the shots…some of the most destructive things that were done by his campaign were his decisions and came out of his well known vindictive, angry, petty, personality. Look it up “Inside the Bitter Final Days of the Sanders Revolution.” Of course the DNC was sick of him…he had sued the party, his supporters where dumping vitriol on Clinton, were attacking anyone who said anything remotely not positive about Bernie….from Elizabeth Warren to Anne Rice to John Lewis. Only the politically inexperienced and ignorant weren’t sick of him. And that bullshit story The Intercept ran about the Bernie Bros not being real….guess what, once again, Greenwald was full of it.
I am absolutely NOT shocked by this. The DNC actively worked to undermine the Sanders campaign. I’m looking forward to the evidence of PROSECUTE-ABLE actions by the DNC (under the direction of Debbie Wasserman Schultz) coming out.
With the release of the hacked DNC emails today, which proved beyond any reasonable doubt the DNC colluded with the MSM and HRC campaign to sabotage Bernie Sanders campaign from the start. With only a few days left until the democratic convention, I’m encouraging everyone to click on the link below to let the DNC as well as the super delegates know if they don’t vote for the rightful democratic nominee, Bernie Sanders, we the voters will be leaving the Democratic Party to register as a green or independent voter, and will be voting for Jill Stein of the Green Party in November’s general election. What was done by the DNC, the MSM and the HRC campaign was basically silence the voters voices by installing a candidate who was not chosen by the people. Thus, taking our democratic right to vote away from the voters.
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If you’re NOT a Bernie delegate, please register as a green or independent voter BEFORE the democratic convention. If the super delegates see a massive number of voters leaving the Democratic Party, it may cause them to reconsider their vote for Hillary.
If you ARE a Bernie delegate, please wait until AFTER the convention. If Bernie’s NOT the nominee, then please leave the Democratic Party to register as a green or independent voter.
Lastly, in November, with the exception of Bernie endorsed candidates, please vote AGAINST EVERY incumbent running for reelection (both democrat and republican), by voting for the Green Party candidate on the ballot for ALL down ballot races. Both parties are corrupt and need to be removed from office and replaced with representatives who respect our democracy by actually enacting laws for our benefit instead of the benefit of special interests. If there’s no green candidate on the ballot, vote for the independent candidate on the ballot.
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Bernie should rescind his endorsement and his delegates should go to the convention ready to fight for his nomination. Total lack of integrity!
The egregious treatment of a candidate revered, followed and honored by millions of Americans is not only dishonorable, unethical and illegal, it is also just plain dumb. Because of D.W. Schultz’s arrogant behavior, and superdelegates’ irresponsible ignoring of this behavior, the Democratic Party has sent the message to millions of citizens that the party doesn’t give a damn about the will of the people , including their political choice. At 80, I have always claimed to be a Democrat. I and many others will change that. There are several law suits challenging the disenfranchisement of millions of Americans, and one, Trust Vote, has proof that Bernie Sanders actually won this election. The party doesn’t consider my defection important. We shall see. No longer will two parties control this oligarchy. We will restore democracy.
Clearly the DNC was biased against Sanders…However, they were annoyed that anyone called them out on it.
Hysterical.
And, this is just the first installment. Pass the popcorn.
bernitdown, wasserman/ Clinton understudy is(are) “particularly scummy” and basically personify dnc corruption as if shill isn’t enough. this election is waaayyy to important to let these vermin to steal it. that would be an American tragedy.
as usual GREAT WORK by the intercept.
did you even bother to read the report?
Oh man, all those commenters here who claimed the Intercept had sold out and was just helping Hillary during the R convention…..
here the D convention hasn’t even started yet and already at least 3 embarrassing stories in the last 24 hours
YAAAAY! Thank You!!!!
Wow, is this the best you got, because if anything I think this exonerates the DNC. Acting insulted and aggravated at every mention of being biased is what they should be if they’re trying to be unbiased. If they were calm and like “so what we’re biased who cares” then that would be a story. But being mad about it?
Even as far as the debates. It sounds more like rationalization of their own incompetence. Like Democrats just instinctively sabotage themselves rather than any particular malice toward Sanders. Of course they’re annoyed at Sanders and his demands. They expressed that openly. But it’s not like they didn’t reach out to the Clinton people, and it does look like they are, in fact, different people.
Nah nah. If this is the best you got, then now I’m thinking DWS is just not very good at her job.
Well of course you would come to the conclusion that DWS is just not very good at her job. So let’s elevate the party to the highest office in the land based on being incompetent.
Do you realize how stupid you sound accepting mediocrity from the professional political class, that we are about to elevate to the highest office in the country if not the world,to run our government?
Sorry your standard are so low.
But saying DWS is incompetent and bad is not the same as saying she blatantly rigged it to favor Clinton.
Dietrich – You are delusional at best, and probably paid by Correct the Record.
I agree completely!!
Did you know Debbie was a Clinton 2008 co-chair, Dietrich?
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Yea but look at the emails. The one directly after “But Miranda reacted in a mocking tone to Sanders welcoming a debate in California, which the Clinton campaign had already agreed upon earlier in the primary season:”
Like they’re talking about the Clinton and Sanders campaign as if they’re both totally separate from their own organization. If anything it sounds even-handed between the two groups.
Even if DWS wants Clinton to win (and I don’t think anyone disputes that), if these are supposed to be the emails that show how the DNC favored Clinton, they just don’t do that.
The other article about the DNC planning to attack Sanders on his religion is far more damning, but that may not even have been about Sanders. This article, though? This is practically praise by faint damning.
In addition to her work as Clinton’s chief lackey, she has been a major player in helping legalized loansharks get their teeth into the US populace. They are all scum and have to be defeated to clean out the system, much like the blairite filth must be eliminated from the Labour party.
DWS incompetence is an old story. Although installed to gain political capital from women and jewish demographics, she managed to annoy Obama from the beginning by complaining about how her attempt at nepotistic sinecure was thwarted.
I would opine that Wasserman has been vexing to elected officials for a long time and that any inferred sleights to her by Sen. Sanders are more likely motivated by earned animus than ineptitude
6/8 — Sanders met with Obama. Last sentence in the relevant WH press release is for “…continuing the conversation with Senator Sanders about how to build on the extraordinary work he has done to engage millions of Democratic voters…”. Given the timing and context, it is an oblique way of saying that DWS had to be dealt with expediently and that it was a good time to do it.
6/16 — Brandon Davis was installed as the DNC’s chief of staff making DWS titular chair only.
IOW, this had been building for a long time.
“It might may no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.”
If this is your definition of the word “exonerate,” for the love of the gods, please, NEVER WORK FOR THE INNOCENCE PROJECT!
My *goodness*, the DNC’s Primary Theater has been thorough this season.
But it is important to continue the Kabuki, I suppose… to continue pretending that Sanders was not a willing sheepdog for the Megathatcher from the very beginning.
Bernie Sanders needs to run as independent that would show the day and see what’s what !
turn the page. vote Jill Stein.
Wasserman-Schultz was clearly in the “Clinton uber alles” camp, from her first decision, and that disadvantaged Sanders and his well-considered and well-thoughtout ideas and proposals. We knew her marching orders to the DNC, from the external effects they had. I still am left wondering if HRC will support all these “Trade” agreements, with their provisions for diminishing national governments’ interests in favor of corporate interests.
Read Ha-Joon Chang’s excellent “23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism” and compare the two candidates’ values against that standard of a clear and rational debunking of all the “neoliberalism” economic standards promulgated over the past half century. Chang and Sanders are sounding the alarm to those of us who will listen.
I will hold my nose and vote for HRC, but not because she’s the BEST candidate, but rather she is merely BETTER than the offered alternative…and, as a committed Democrat, that’s sad to have to accept.
She will support TPP and all the rest, effectively going back on her word. This has been confirmed by a campaign insider and Robert Reich in the past 2 weeks. If anyone still thinks Hills will keep her promises they need their heads examined. And there other choices than Clinton.
No she isn’t, she is as bad and in some ways worse.
To say she is the lesser evil is to wilfully ignore her past actions.
How about doing the right thing, the morally clean and honourable thing, and voting for Stein or writing Bernie in instead?
Kind of bizarre to write in Bernie when he endorsed Clinton.
If you don’t like the corrupt democrats, then vote progressive people in with state/local elections and primaries. Voting outside the party like Stein doesn’t actually do anything.
Kinda of how powerful Bernie’s message is, and a measure of the damage he has done to her on the Democratic Party, by truthfully attacking them on their policies and actions.
the more votes stein gets the more fed. money the green party receives,wrong
again.it does actually do alot.
the lesser evil is still evil we have to break the 2 party system as they are essentially the same. control the 99% and keep the sweet war/wall st money rolling in. please watch the fbi donkey comey listing the reasons to prosecute Clinton before he let his boss lynch off the hook. it’s disgusting and the first time this has ever been done.
@HappyElderGeek-I’m questioning your national affiliation? You must not be an American! If so, than offer HRC to run your country into the ground. She is a monster! She was fired from her congressional staff position investigating “Watergate” for, among other things, she tried to deny Nixon his right to legal counsel. Nixon believed as POTUS he was above the law and he was wrong. Nothing good can explain HRC’s “above the law” conduct as Secretary of State, specifically her illegal, unsecured and personal methods of communication while doing the country’s business. It’s gives the impression she was giving access to unauthorized eyes, maybe you. How is anyone to know? Pull your head out of your ass unless you a foreigner than I don’t care……
Hey Geek, you’re kidding, right? How could you possibly vote for that stinking piece of garbage? Ever hear of Jill Stein or Gary Johnson?
“I still am left wondering if HRC will support all these ‘Trade’ agreements, with their provisions for diminishing national governments’ interests in favor of corporate interests.”
Of course she will support the trade agreements. She has always done so in the past.
I caucused for Bernie and am disappointed with the choice but Hillary, admittedly deeply flawed, is so much better than the alternative that voting for 3rd party in protest (as I have a few times) is simply unconscionable. I can’t say this more emphatically: TRUMP MUST LOSE. I could write an essay on why but given the Washington Post’s editorial, it would be superfluous.
I’m done with the DNC, they are the biggest goddamn a-holes.
Well, for the last little while, folks have been referring to MSNBC as MSDNC. Looks like those folks were deadly accurate.
With Donald Trump, a totally dangerous jerkoff, running for the Repubs, THESE are the idiots in opposition?
Hillary belongs in prison.
Your corrupt govt. protected her!
You must love corruption
Opposition? Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump represent the same establishment
Nothing really that shocking here. It’s what lots of Bernie supporters, like me, suspected. It is nice to see it out in the open though. Good work.
That opening paragraph wins my personal award for “Best Ironic Juxtaposition in a Pair of Sentences” this year. I doubt it will be topped soon.
The campaign is still early and there are smart wry people at TalkingPointsMemo.com.
My fave headline so far is “Sanders tests Wasserman”, an unsubtle (I hope) reference to the antique “Wasserman Test” for spirochetes.
Such animus only surfaces when someone like Sanders threatens your cushy paycheck.
I hope she loses to Tim Canova.
Vote the lesser of two evils? Which one would that be? Totally disgusted.
Does it occur to anyone on this website that these emails might be hard to read on some devices?
TRANSCRIBE THEM PLEASE.
Haha!
Get a BlackBerry Passport and such problems will be a thing of the past.
Not hard to read. Be smarter: simply save it as a photo and go look at it in documents.
Use a real computer.
Nice reporting, Zaid.