TPM: We're missing a big part of Facebook story

[DeminPennswoods]

Link: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-we-missing-a-big-part-of-the-facebook-story

Link to WSJ cite: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-alleged-russian-hacker-teamed-up-with-florida-gop-operative-1495724787

Back in May The Wall Street Journal ran a fascinating article about a Florida political operative named Aaron Nevins. When news reports surfaced identifying the online persona Guccifer 2.0 as the one who had the files hacked from the DNC, Aarons essentially cold-emailed Guccifer 2.0 and asked if he had any material to share on Florida. That was on August 12th, 2016. It turns out he did. A lot.

10 days later Guccifer 2.0 sent Nevins 2.5 gigabytes of data from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Note that that is different from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the hack we’re most familiar with.

This info later landed in the hands of Roger Stone, too. We don't know what Stone did with it, but his life as a political dirty trickster suggests some possibilities.

[Dustlawyer]

1. I heard there was personal and/or campaign emails of a Florida Democratic House candidate who had

her emails leaked during her campaign as well.

[UCmeNdc]

2. It is a lot more to this story......

The Trump admin is full of Russian moles. Look at Trump's underlings........... Trump is being protected by Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan..... Why? GOP Convention?

[longship]

3. Josh Marshall, as always, on the hunt.

TPM should be a mandatory daily visit for all DUers.




R&

[DeminPennswoods]

4. I've kind of been surprised so few journalists

have picked on the Nevins story as it relates to Trump/Russia.

I've always kind of seen the Russian interference on two tracks. First is the money angle where I believe Trump and family and very inner circle are up to their eyeballs in money laundering. But, second, I think Roger Stone and his political dirty trickster pals saw a chance to really s****w Dems/Clinton once the DNC, etc data was hacked and stolen. The fact that Stone is known to have contacted Guccifer 2.0, gotten data from Nevins and been in contact to Assange indicates to me he could well have been one of the people directing the Facebook and Twitter targeting.