To: James Comey, Director, FBI
From: Mitch Berg, Concerned Citizen
Re: Re-opened Email Investigation
Director Comey,
Just a reminder; drapes don’t have shoes.
That is all.
Open Letter To FBI Director Comey
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Fan. Blades. Poop.
Message to democrat automatons:
Duck!
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Message to voters; if you vote for Democrats, you are voting for criminals. I noticed that one of the Wikileaks threads–the one that admitted that Obama knew about Hillary’s email system–showed a number of people using gmail for official government business.
Sorry, that’s grounds for an independent prosecutor to see how widespread the rot is. I’m guessing that if we penalized government officials consistently for failure to retain government records, we’d have to cut government a lot simply because of a lack of personnel.
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“Google in a court filing this week wrote:
All users of email must necessarily expect that their emails will be subject to automated processing.Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient’s assistant opens the letter, people who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their emails are processed by the recipient’s [email provider] in the course of delivery. Indeed, ‘a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties.
So what does Google mean by “automated processing” and “opening”? Well it turns out that if someone from a different service emails one of Gmail’s 425 million users, Google opens that message and scans it looking for keywords — even when the message is a non-Gmail user and has not agreed to Google’s legal terms. It then uses those keywords to target advertisements at you and your contacts.”
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I have acquired a mailing sent out this week by Democrats attacking Regina Barr in the Inver Grove/Mendota Heights area. Pictures a sign that says:
“HUUUGE GUN SHOW TODAY TERRORISTS & DANGEROUSLY MENTALLY ILL WELCOME”
and makes several references to “the gun lobby”.
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You must check out Iowahawk’s commentary on this.
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Reprobate Democrats love early voting for the same reason time share seminars are held in rooms with only one door.
By the time you learn its a big scam, it’s too late
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Director Comey has placed his thumb on the scales of the presidential election with a few days to go. This was timed to perfection. Yawn…..
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If the Clinton criminal had not obstructed the investigation at every turn, she would already be in federal custody. This disaster, lake all those surrounding anything a Clinton touches is entirely of her own making.
Personally, I’m happier with this turn of events since it gets the job done while giving us more opportunity to watch reprobate leftists roll around and foam at the mouth in agony.
Emery, you were lamenting…?
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I think the best thing that can come out of this is finality. With the election nearing, and certain Republicans gearing up to spend their appointments going after Clinton should she become President, it would be good if we can leave this behind with some very specific lessons learned and new attitudes about protocol. And, I’m holding my breath, that the legislative branch does not go on wasting the American people’s votes on their own specific agenda to unseat a potential democratic president.
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Conservatives — or Trump supporters — were saying that Comey put his thumb on the scale back in July when he said that there was clear evidence of crimes committed by Clinton, but said:
“In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.
As a result, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case.”
The Clintons corrupt every thing that they touch.
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So, yesterday, Comey made this statement about the new Hillary email discovery:
“In previous congressional testimony, I referred to the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had completed its investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s personal email server. Due to recent developments, I am writing to supplement my previous testimony.
In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.”Shortly after this came rumors that the Clinton campaign was reaching out to friendly journalists to “correct the record.” on the Comey statement. Within hours we got this from Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald:
“The disclosure by the Federal Bureau of Investigation late on Friday, October 28 that it had discovered potential new evidence in its inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s handling of her personal email when she was Secretary of State has virtually nothing to do with any actions taken by the Democratic nominee, according to government records and an official with knowledge of the investigation, who spoke to Newsweek on condition of anonymity.
The revelation that the FBI has discovered additional emails convulsed the political world, and led to widespread (and erroneous) claims and speculation. Many Republicans proclaimed that the discovery suggests Clinton may have broken the law, while Democrats condemned FBI Director James Comey for disclosing this information less than two weeks before the election, claiming he did it for political purposes.
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The truth is much less explosive. There is no indication the emails in question were withheld by Clinton during the investigation, the law enforcement official told Newsweek, nor does the discovery suggest she did anything illegal. Also, none of the emails were to or from Clinton, the official said. Moreover, despite the widespread claims in the media that this development had prompted the FBI to “reopen” of the case, it did not; such investigations are never actually closed, and it is common for law enforcement to discover new information that needs to be examined.”Here are some of the other stories Eichenwald has written for Newsweek:
How I Got Slimed By Russian Propagandist Site Sputnik
This isn’t the first time Moscow’s falsehoods have been pushed in the U.S.Donald the Destroyer
The Republican nominee’s destructive behavior has victimized cities, businesses, investors, partners and even members of his own family.Dear Mr. Trump, I’m Not Sidney Blumenthal
The Republican nominee for president pushed Russian propaganda about Benghazi to American voters.How Donald Trump Supporters Attack Journalists
A Trump supporter sent Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald an epileptogenic video that triggers seizures.Donald Trump’s Tax Records
He is not a self-made man.How Trump Ditched U.S. Steel Workers in Favor of China
With their industries besieged by imports, key swing states were deprived of untold millions of dollars as Trump chose China.Miami Herald: Shame For Deceiving Readers on Trump
Paper’s decision to republish GOP candidate’s self-serving and untrue account of his support for the Cuban embargo is incomprehensible.Donald Trump Still Won’t Tell the Truth About Cuba
The GOP nominee and his surrogates have tried to undermine Newsweek’s cover story, which shows how one of Trump’s companies violated the Cuban trade embargo. They have left all the facts unchallenged.Donald Trump’s Castro Connection
Through Trump Hotels, the GOP nominee secretly conducted business in Cuba, ignoring American laws. Later, he falsely told Cuban-American voters he would never spend money on the island so long as Fidel Castro remained in power.Exclusive: Trump Either Lied to GOP or Broke the Law
Newsweek obtained a deposition that shows Donald Trump committed perjury. Or lied.
Ironically, if I had to guess, I would say that Eichenwald’s frequently cited source is none other than Sydney Blumenthal.
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Interesting fact: 20 years ago, Comey was a deputy special counsel to Kenneth Starr on the Senate Whitewater Committee.
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Conservatives need to get the message out about this election…..this is why we need to reduce the size and ;power of the government. Do you want either of these people controlling your life?
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DG,
Clearly, you never even look at this comment section after you post comments.
You need to respond to this question, and respond to it in detail, before I’m going to entertain any more of your comments.
And I’m also still waiting for the auctioning off of Salem Twin Cities assets that you assured us (via your neighbor, the “expert”!) was imminent.
So – I’ll await answers on both questions.
Not one comment of yours will see daylight until you do this.
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And I gotta add, DG – I wish I COULD post your comment on this thread, because it was an absolute howler. Proof positive that your idea of “fact checking” is seeing whether a story jibes with “Think Progress” and MSNBC’s narrative.
Every. Time.
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Issie: Only one candidate is under criminal investigation in this election.
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I voted for Darrell Castle. He is not under any kind of investigation.
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Lost in all this is why Hillary kept a private server. According to Politifact, she never used a state.gov email account. She never sent a single message from sate.gov, or received a single message directly from state.gov (maybe she had incoming forwarded to her private account?).
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/19/politifact-sheet-hillary-clintons-email-controvers/
I lease an Amazon AWS private server (it’s cheap). At one time I looked into running an smtp daemon on it, but I gave up after RTFM. It’s difficult to set up, it is easy to have security problems even when it is not compromised, if you don’t restrict the people who can use it to a white list. Hint: if you have a .edu address, do not assume that legitimate users on your domain aren’t hackers or running infected PC’s. If you lease a server, and do not secure it properly, and your server is compromised, your ISP may suspend you. Then you have no more email until it is straightened out.
I have a friend who is pretty computer savvy. He is paranoid and set up his own smtp daemon on a leased server. It took him several years to come up with a white list / black list scheme that worked for him.
Setting up your own email server is not a convenience. Even if you are paying a pro to manage it, you are still going to deal spend more time on dealing with it than you would if you depended on the email provided by your employer. You are going to have to tell the email manager what your policies are. For instance, how you want to balance ease of access versus security.
Politifact never seems to be able to state a valid reason for Hillary’s use of a privately managed email server. “privacy concerns” is a bland statement. We all have privacy concerns. If Hillary’s “privacy concerns” were so great she was unable to do her job properly, maybe she shouldn’t have accepted the nomination.
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I am not technically illiterate; at one point in the last two decades I was considerably less so.
Back then, I thought about setting up my own email and web server.
And, as you say, I R the FM. And read it again.
And left it to the pros. It was a high-impact, non-trivial job.
And that was back when the security landscape was considerably more benign.
No non-geek casually sets up their own email servier.
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So, the big news today in the leftist media is Loretta Lynch advised Comey not to send his letter to congress.
Curious….
Given that she had a clandestine meeting with the perps husband aboard her private plane, does the reprobate left really think this bit of information helps their cause?
As vile, as detrimental to America the left is, they are pretty skilled at their skullduggery, while the Clntons get caught at every turn. Since Clinton took the drivers seat the wheels have really been falling of their honey wagon.
Is this because of an influx of Clintonites into the wheelhouse, or is the reprobate left tossing monkey wrenches behind the scenes?
Is this the result of
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I’m wondering if Comey isn’t sticking a fork in the eye of O’s DOJ. Probably was Lynch that told him that no AG staff were going to charge Hill, and there wasn’t going to be any Special Prosecutor appointed. Reports have it that the DOJ pushed hard to have him not send the newest letter to congress. Maybe he knows that WikiLeaks has some of the info from wienie’s computer and that might be their big new surprise that they’ve said is yet to come. Possibly Preet Bharara and his team have seen damaging evidence on the seized computer but DOJ is trying to put ta foot on their necks.
It’s going to be really intriguing to see how this all sorts out.
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Supposedly Comey had no other choice. He had to make the announcement or it would have been leaked, maybe on the eave of the election. And Comey had promised congress that he would reopen the case if new evidence came up.
So ugh.
If Comey had said nothing, some agent would have leaked and Comey would have had to confirm or deny, and if he confirmed, congress would be pissed because he hadn’t told them about the new evidence.
I’m also hearing rumors that the laptops of Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were not destroyed per their agreement with the FBI. The agents charged with destroying them refused to do it because it would be destroying evidence, which is illegal. Come to think of it, the news reported that their had been an agreement to destroy the laptops when the FBI was through with them, but I don’t remeber it being reported that the laptops had been destroyed.
Everyone is covering their ass.
If Hillary is elected, get ready for four more years of this. The woman is corrupt and out of control, and has demonstrated poor judgment in matters of following the law and national security. There are probably another half dozen Clinton scandals boiling up out of the muck.
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No non-geek casually sets up their own email servier.
This geek has been running email servers since 1984 and all I have to say is that even I don’t like doing it. Back then the difficulty was routing between the various domains with non-standard names (for example, the UK used to do everything backwards, as usual), weird gateways into various other nets, etc. But viruses and whatnot weren’t an issue. These days the routing is standardized, but the payloads are dangerous. The ‘nets standards were based in friendly days when you knew almost everybody concerned so trust wasn’t an issue. These days, that’s not the case.
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Everyone is covering their ass.
Care to take a bet that the email trove was maintained by Wiener as a way to cover his ass? Given his other activities it’s ironic that about the only time Weiner’s ass is covered is when he’s dealing with Hillary. Then again, looking at Hillary, I’d have to say that’s one time you do want your ass covered.
Interestingly enough, the word is out that Wiener is cooperating with the FBI which is why the FBI didn’t need a warrant to search the Hillary emails. Given what he’s facing for sexting with a underage person he must think there’s some gold in that there archive that can get him a deal.
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I petsonally think wikileaks blackmailed Comey because Im guessing they had some very, very, damning emails on him. He released this to prevent a probe into him. Or at least delay one.
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Okay, here is Count Fosco’s guide to safely exchanging messages via the internet.
1) Lease a server. Only ssh logins with a key file are allowed.
2) Distribute keys on 128KB 8.5″ floppy disks.
3) Destroy floppy disks.
4) Don’t exchange messages via internet, instead call people up on a real telephone and talk to them. Use code words, like ‘clams’=dollars, ‘packages’=contraband. If possible, talk in a wise guy accent.
A: Hey.
B: Hey.
A: You got them packages?
B: If you got the clams I got the packages.
A: Eddie’s?
B: Fuck that place. Out in back my place instead.
A: Don’t think I like that.
B: Fuck you then.
A: Okay. Got it. Fifteen minutes. I’m bringing friends.
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I agree that Director Comey found himself in a box on this matter. At some point ‘someone’ in the FBI would have leaked this info which would have made him (Comey) look even more partisan.
In the end, this will only matter to the 5%-10% of low information (undecided) voters who sit on the fence until they enter the voting booth.
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Ya really gotta admire reprobate leftists for their complete lack of shits to give. Loretta Lynch, she of the clandestine tarmac sit-downs, has the brass balls to publicize the fact that she advised Comey to stand down.
Where do they find these people?
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And speaking of shits, I think this calls for something a bit more introspective from you, Emery. I’m sure someone somewhere has posted just the right sentiment, something with lot more intelligence and a lot less ass, and it’s just sitting out there waiting for you…toddle off now like a good fellow.
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I’m thinking Barry has placed an order for several dozen pens to be used to sign the blanket pardons to the horde of criminals that were/are part of his inner circle in the event Trump wins.
If my gut feelings pan out Comey may well be considered a champion of the republic at the end of all this.
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If Trump had an actual plan for shaking up the Establishment, I would consider it, and possibly support it. He has announced no actual plans, just bumper sticker slogans.
As he is shaking up the den of wasps, he would also need to fulfill the duties of the President. I don’t think he is in any way capable, intellectually or emotionally. And so I can’t support him. I could support an anti-Establishment candidate who I felt was capable of conducting himself responsibly as President.
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I’m guessing that Weener’s laptop demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that Hilliary’s statements were false, and that she was also forwarding top secret information to unsecure emails. Rebellion in the FBI wouldn’t hurt, either.
One thing for her, though; aren’t most of the WIkileaks things the gmails her staff sent, not her own server? So there was either huge luck or a touch of security involved.
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The Clinton’s corrupt everything they touch.
When they first got to DC, they corrupted the White House Travel office, a thing most people did not know existed.
Remember the sale of Lincoln bedroom sleepovers? The ‘White House Coffees” sold to donors?
One byproduct of the Lewinsky scandal was the corruption of the feminist movement.
Another, and more serious byproduct of the Lewinsky scandal, was the corruption of the media. The scandal was broken by Drudge because Newsweek and columnist Mike Isikoff spiked the story.
Clinton new that the only way he could survive the scandal was to make it about sex instead of corruption in office and obstruction of justice. The media cooperated.
In the wake of the scandal Bill Clinton paved the way for Hillary’s senate run by commuting the sentences of a group of FALN terrorists with supporters in the New York Puerto Rican community. One of Clinton’s last acts as president was to pardon fugitive financier Marc Rich, in return for a hefty donation from Rich’s one time wife.
And now we have this:
CNN said on Monday that the network has severed ties with the Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, after hacked emails showed that she shared questions for CNN-sponsored candidate events with friends on Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/donna-brazile-wikileaks-cnn.html?smid=pl-share&_r=0
The Clintons have corrupted the presidential debates.The WaPo in 2007:
Both Clintons are making the case that theirs was a co-presidency — an echo of Bill Clinton’s controversial statement during the 1992 campaign that voters would get “two for the price of one” if they elected him. At times, the former president has seemed to cast the current race as a referendum on his administration.
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Scott, I don’t think anyone will be indicted by the FBI before the end of O’s term (that is, if he actually does leave…see my 2010 tinfoil hat conspiracy theory). Given the pace that government runs at, I’m sure that it will all wait until after the inauguration. My predictions:
If Hillary wins, she will wave her magic “vast right-wing conspiracy” wand and make this all go away.
If Trump wins, the narrative pushed by half this country will be “this is the most racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, transphobic, administration in history, only carrying out Jared Loughner-style political assassinations, and KGB style arrests and prosecutions.”
The only way I could see Hillary being charged with anything sooner than 1/21/2017, is if she goes all Hannibal Lecter on a Trump supporter and chews a hole in their cheek.
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Wow. Better put your tinfoil hat back on. The NSA, working with the aliens, might detect you and select you for probing.
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I will make one prediction: The winner (whoever it is) will win by no more than 60% to 40%. I won’t even make a stab at how the electoral college will work out. I think that it is possible for a 60-40 victory to be a bare plurality of electoral votes or a 40 state blowout.
If you want to see the tinfoil hat in action, check out any of Dana Milbank’s columns on Trump. It’s as though he thinks that he woke up one morning last June and found himself in Nazi Germany.
For the first time he is working his Jewishness into his columns, apparently because he thinks this adds heft to his “Trump is Hitler” mania.
O tell me, Mister Milbank, how can you be an authoritarian when most of your own political party is not afraid to tell you to go f*ck yourself? Who is going to head the Trump Sturmabteilung? Melania?
Madness in the pages of the Washing Post: “Trump can’t just be defeated. He must be humiliated.”
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Okay, suppose Hillary wins. Who does she appoint AG? What are the confirmation hearings like?
Mama mia!-Count Fosco.
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Franklin Foer at Slate has his tinfoil hats screwed down tight:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.htmlWas a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?
This spring, a group of computer scientists set out to determine whether hackers were interfering with the Trump campaign. They found something they weren’t expecting.
“We wanted to help defend both campaigns, because we wanted to preserve the integrity of the election,” says one of the academics, who works at a university that asked him not to speak with reporters because of the sensitive nature of his work.
This is BS.
In late July, one of these scientists—who asked to be referred to as Tea Leaves, a pseudonym that would protect his relationship with the networks and banks that employ him to sift their data—found what looked like malware emanating from Russia. The destination domain had Trump in its name, which of course attracted Tea Leaves’ attention. But his discovery of the data was pure happenstance—a surprising needle in a large haystack of DNS lookups on his screen. “I have an outlier here that connects to Russia in a strange way,” he wrote in his notes. He couldn’t quite figure it out at first. But what he saw was a bank in Moscow that kept irregularly pinging a server registered to the Trump Organization on Fifth Avenue.More data was needed, so he began carefully keeping logs of the Trump server’s DNS activity. As he collected the logs, he would circulate them in periodic batches to colleagues in the cybersecurity world. Six of them began scrutinizing them for clues.
Foer’s main informant is a guy named “Tea Leaves”?
Like typical conspiracy stories, the lack of actual data is concealed by a mass of words that almost, but don’t quite say anything that’s meaningful or falsifiable.
Computer scientists are careful about vouching for evidence that emerges from unknown sources—especially since the logs were pasted in a text file, where they could conceivably have been edited. I asked nine computer scientists—some who agreed to speak on the record, some who asked for anonymity—if the DNS logs that Tea Leaves and his collaborators discovered could be forged or manipulated. They considered it nearly impossible. It would be easy enough to fake one or maybe even a dozen records of DNS lookups. But in the aggregate, the logs contained thousands of records, with nuances and patterns that not even the most skilled programmers would be able to recreate on this scale. “The data has got the right kind of fuzz growing on it,” Vixie told me. “It’s the interpacket gap, the spacing between the conversations, the total volume. If you look at those time stamps, they are not simulated. This bears every indication that it was collected from a live link.” I asked him if there was a chance that he was wrong about their authenticity. “This passes the reasonable person test,” he told me. “No reasonable person would come to the conclusion other than the one I’ve come to.” Others were equally emphatic. “It would be really, really hard to fake these,” Davis said. According to Camp, “When the technical community examined the data, the conclusion was pretty obvious.”
“The technical community”? Is the “technical community” like the “law enforcement community” but without accountability to voters, unions, professional associations or the bar?
It’s possible to impute political motives to the computer scientists, some of whom have criticized Trump on social media. But many of the scientists who talked to me for this story are Republicans.
Well, if they are Republicans, they must support Trump!
Foer is really leaning hard on the is word “scientists.”
Scientists do research and publish in peer-reviewed publications. These guys sound like techies. Maybe.
Tea Leaves and his colleagues plotted the data from the logs on a timeline. What it illustrated was suggestive: The conversation between the Trump and Alfa servers appeared to follow the contours of political happenings in the United States. “At election-related moments, the traffic peaked,” according to Camp. There were considerably more DNS lookups, for instance, during the two conventions.
What! This is the smoking gun to . . . nothing.
In September, the scientists tried to get the public to pay attention to their data. One of them posted a link to the logs in a Reddit thread.
Because this how scientists do things!
What the scientists amassed wasn’t a smoking gun. It’s a suggestive body of evidence that doesn’t absolutely preclude alternative explanations. But this evidence arrives in the broader context of the campaign and everything else that has come to light: The efforts of Donald Trump’s former campaign manager to bring Ukraine into Vladimir Putin’s orbit; the other Trump adviser whose communications with senior Russian officials have worried intelligence officials; the Russian hacking of the DNC and John Podesta’s email.We don’t yet know what this server was for, but it deserves further explanation.
Thank God its over.
The people who see nothing suspicious in the Secretary of State using a secret email account while her foundation did business with foreign states has struck gold with this Trump ‘pinging’ conspiracy!I wonder if the mysterious server was under the guard of albino monks?
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I’m only convinced that Trump got fed up with the system and said enough is enough. He’s got his money and I don’t believe his motive to enter the POTUS race is a power thing. Regardless of who is confirmed the winner of the election Hill and the despicable crew are in for Hell !! If the house and senate stay in republican hands it’s likely she’ll be a lame duck from day one (and in all probably impeached). Then we’ll have a constitutional crisis of the first order.
Forget gold, buy Pb !!
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“Computer scientists are careful about vouching for evidence that emerges from unknown sources—especially since the logs were pasted in a text file, where they could conceivably have been edited. I asked nine computer scientists—some who agreed to speak on the record, some who asked for anonymity—if the DNS logs that Tea Leaves and his collaborators discovered could be forged or manipulated. They considered it nearly impossible. ”
What a load of crap. If you’re looking at it in real time, yes that would be difficult to fake, but once its captured in a log/text file…. these “computer scientists” are morons. hell you wouldn’t even need to do any programming, just VI with regular expression search and replace.
More to the point any real “scientist” would want to see the raw data not some excerpted prepackaged twaddle.
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Everyone appears to have their ‘nickers in a twist’ over this FBI Director Comey–email thing. I don’t believe it’s affecting the race in any meaningful way. That cake is baked. After that comes actual governing.
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Understanding the rise of Trump:
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.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/31/the-podesta-emails-show-who-runs-america-and-how-they-do-it
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IOBF also this if you want to understand who supports trump and why…. Mitch posted it earlier this month as well…
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/ -
And here is the Lichtbau NY Times follow up to the Slate/Foer tinfoil-hat article on the Trump/Putin ‘connection’:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html?_r=0F.B.I. officials spent weeks examining computer data showing an odd stream of activity to a Trump Organization server and Alfa Bank. Computer logs obtained by The New York Times show that two servers at Alfa Bank sent more than 2,700 “look-up” messages — a first step for one system’s computers to talk to another — to a Trump-connected server beginning in the spring. But the F.B.I. ultimately concluded that there could be an innocuous explanation, like a marketing email or spam, for the computer contacts.
You can send this to your liberal friends on the Facebook:
The most serious part of the F.B.I.’s investigation has focused on the computer hacks that the Obama administration now formally blames on Russia. That investigation also involves numerous officials from the intelligence agencies. ,B>Investigators, the officials said, have become increasingly confident, based on the evidence they have uncovered, that Russia’s direct goal is not to support the election of Mr. Trump, as many Democrats have asserted, but rather to disrupt the integrity of the political system and undermine America’s standing in the world more broadly.
BTW, you can get around the Times’ article limit by opening a NYT link in an incognito browser window (also a wonderful way to test JS code in an anonymous, cookie and add-on free environment).
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Issie: Clinton is the candidate of the Establishment; we fear Donald Trump. That is as Trump advertises, and it is true.
That doesn’t mean that the Establishment is wrong. It does mean that the Establishment has got to wake up and realize that anti-Establishment voting sentiment is strong enough that the Establishment is in danger. We need to do more to address the problems of those who have suffered as the Establishment has prospered. One way or another we need to spread some of the opportunities for wealth, or someday somebody like Trump will be in control, which would be bad for almost everyone.
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I keep telling people to think of Trumpism as an anti-aristocracy movement, not an anti-elite movement.
The ultimate American aristocrat is Chelsea Clinton. She has a graduate degree, from Oxford, in public health. This means she is not qualified to put a bandage on a scraped knee, but she is qualified to design health care delivery systems and determine doctor salary. She is also a believer in quackish ‘alternative’ medicine.
Chelsea is married to Marc Mezvinsky. Marc Mezvinsky’s father is an ex congressman and investment banker who did serious jail time because he embezzled his clients’ funds to pay for a Nigerian 419 scam (yes, really). Mezvinsky’s mother is an ex-congressman and television reporter. Marc Mezvinsky himself was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, and now runs his own hedge fund (Eaglevale) that lost a lot of money when he went long on Greek government bonds (he gambled the EU would bail out the Greek financial system).It was a hedge fund portfolio pitched by Hillary Clinton’s son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, as an opportunity to bet on a Greek economic revival.
Now, two years later, the Greece-focused fund is shutting down, after losing nearly 90 percent of its value, according to two investors with direct knowledge of the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Investors were told last month that the fund would close. The fund, Eaglevale Hellenic Opportunity, had raised $25 million from investors to buy Greek bank stocks and government debt.
Eaglevale Partners, a Manhattan hedge fund firm founded by Mr. Mezvinsky and two former Goldman Sachs colleagues, raised money for the Hellenic fund at a time when some on Wall Street had hopes for a revival in the Greek economy. For a time, Mr. Mezvinsky appeared at hedge fund conferences promoting the Greece investment thesis.
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Emery on November 1, 2016 at 12:27 pm said:
That doesn’t mean that the Establishment is wrong.
The problem with the establishment is that they are self-referential (see my comment re: Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky). They cannot tell if they are wrong, they can only tell if what they are doing is good for them.
Hilaire Belloc argued that the British were successful because of their aristocracy (he was writing in late Victorian/Edwardian times). But the British aristocracy Belloc wrote about was patriotic to the point of chauvinism. -
I wonder if Biden lies awake at night regretting his decision not to run.
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One thing I can say in favor of Mrs. Mezvinsky is that she is on record as pointing out some of the corruption in her parents’ “charitable foundation”, even while her career fortunes will take a huge hit if her mother loses next Tuesday. I would dare suggest she and her husband will join the ranks of the “merely ultra-rich” with the closing of his hedge fund. You don’t lose 90% of equity and just get new investors to start a new hedge fund, I’d think.
And now, a timely reminder of the pardon of Marc Rich courtesy of the FBI. Yes, done in accordance with procedure, but I can’t doubt that FBI agents that hate Mrs. Clinton’s guts are enjoying this to the hilt. And twisting, to keep the metaphor going.
More importantly, CUBS WIN!
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