Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Marlowe Stern — President Obama on Campaign Hacks: ‘Very Clear Relationships’ Between Team Trump and Russia


Constitutional crisis in the making. Battle lines drawn. The full-court press is on to reverse the election.

This is going too be one heck of a reality show.

The Daily Beast
President Obama on Campaign Hacks: ‘Very Clear Relationships’ Between Team Trump and Russia
Marlowe Stern

The HIll
Reid: Russian hacking ‘as big a deal’ as 9/11, Watergate
Mark Hensch

Crooks & Liars
BREAKING: Russia Also Tilted Key Congressional Races
By Karoli Kuns

BuzzFeed
Harry Reid Says Electors Should Have Intelligence Briefing
Ben Smith

9 comments:

Malmo's Ghost said...

Obama is the biggest hack of late on this silly bs. Sound and fury signifying nothing. Left wing fake news nonsense. This manufactured narrative already running out of steam. Read Glenn Greenwald for further clarification.

This is the tenth end of the world for Trump prediction. I predict it's a colossal nothingburger ginned up by hysterical nutjobs on the left.

Ryan Harris said...

The electoral college throws the election on CIA propaganda then Obama had better declare martial law and roll out all the layers of security forces that he can muster. I don't know how it would unfold but the anger and frustration that brought DJT will multiply 10x and I don't even want to imagine the bloody mess that would ensue in the years to come. Overturn an election is the equivalent of a coup D etat by the CIA. The party in power refusing to turn over the Whitehouse... I can't imagine Obama wanting to stain his legacy.

Matt Franko said...

Obama may himself be a bit exposed legally if he knew Hilary was operating her own email server for govt work.... tho he might have just seen her as an alias "Hillary" on his device and not seen her actual address....

"Speaking of revealing, President Obama has publicly said he found out about Mrs. Clinton’s server through “news reports.” Yet the FBI notes reveal that he emailed Mrs. Clinton on her private server under a pseudonym. Ms. Abedin told the FBI that the White House was notified when Mrs. Clinton changed her email address so the President’s secure server wouldn’t exclude her emails. Was Mr. Obama fibbing too?


http://www.wsj.com/articles/james-comeys-clinton-immunity-1475017121

They are trying to generally discredit the leaks as those leaks are an entree into further civil/criminal investigations....

Matt Franko said...

I'm thinking if they can get the leaks viewed rather as a product of foreign intelligence sources they may be able to get them thrown out.. other wise they are in some trouble.... a bit more than a wrist slap....

bbbar said...

Matt, I agree that Obama is likely exposed legally and could potentially be in some very hot water, but you've seen how the deep state protects itself. It would require Trump appointing a special investigator. He's already backed off his promise to prosecute Hilary, so I don't think there's any way he goes after a former president. They'll likely skate.

Matt Franko said...

Yeah it would be like a Sandy Berger type of thing but wouldnt be a pleasant process anyway...

Although if they (RNC, Trump Campaign, DOJ) citing the leaks could subpoena ALL the emails/communications to scour them for more fraud or more involved parties, some more serious stuff might come out...

Trump doesnt want this to be the focus of his Presidency I'd think so he will probably mostly remain above the fray and assign it to RNC/DoJ to litigate and get on to the economy, etc...

Tom Hickey said...

I am not so sure. I would not be at all surprised to see Trump look backward instead of forward, like Obama didn't do. But Bush didn't try to destroy Obama either. Obama is trying to destroy Trump. No way Trump lets that go.

Matt Franko said...

Well the one thing he is probably pissed about Tom is all the debate fraud... they all sign contracts about those debates I'd have to think a case could be made the DNC and at least CNN are in breach maybe NBC...

And this from Breitbart so you know the Trump people are aware of this:

"“Presidential debate questions are extremely valuable and they are kept highly confidential before debates. If candidates could legally purchase the questions in advance, they would surely pay a small fortune,” Sukhia continued. “Federal law not only prohibits misappropriating valuable confidential information, it also makes it a crime for anyone to knowingly receive such misappropriated information.”

“A violation of the law carries a sentence of up to 10 years in Federal prison and a $5,000,000 fine,” Sukhia said."

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/11/02/law-expert-donna-brazile-clinton-campaign-may-committed-federal-crime/

10 year stretch conceivably for anyone in on it .... so that is not tiddly-winks... and who knows who all was in on it you have to get all the emails via subpoena/discovery in the fraud case...

btw Bernie is the dog not barking on this "hack" issue...

They have to get the leaks thrown out ... or at least try....

Ignacio said...

Very entertaining stuff...