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Related: About this forumPutin's Army Of Internet Trolls Is Influencing The Hillary Clinton Email Scandal
The Hillary Clinton email scandal broke more than three years agoon March 19, 2013with the Russian news service RTs publication of Sidney Blumenthals emails to the then-Secretary of State. What most American journalists dont realize is that Putins internet army continues to influence the evolution of the story.
My article on the Blumenthal emails, published on the same day, attracted 361,000 viewers, meaning the story was not a secret. The mainstream press ignored the story, only to see it burst upon the 2016 election scene where it occupies daily headlines. As I pointed out in my more recent piece entitled What if Vladimir Putin Has Hillarys Emails, the Clinton campaign and the country could be sorely damaged if Hillarys emails (including those she deemed personal) are in Kremlin hands. Even if they are not, Putin can gain leverage simply from the suspicion that he has them.
Despite the New York Times weak assurances that there is no evidence of hacking, experts agree, including a former defense secretary and head of the CIA, that Kremlin cyber forces most likely hacked Hillarys emails, which we now know include a number of top secret documents.
I have been following the Russian and English language blogosphere using Google searches like Does Putin/the Kremlin have Hillarys emails? Included are rumor-mills such as Sovershenno sekretno.ru (Completely secret) and kompromat.ru (Compromising material). In a country that thrives on gossip and rumors, even on delicate matters such as the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the Russian search yields absolute silence. The Kremlin is holding information about any possession of Hillarys emails as close to the vest as possible.
My article on the Blumenthal emails, published on the same day, attracted 361,000 viewers, meaning the story was not a secret. The mainstream press ignored the story, only to see it burst upon the 2016 election scene where it occupies daily headlines. As I pointed out in my more recent piece entitled What if Vladimir Putin Has Hillarys Emails, the Clinton campaign and the country could be sorely damaged if Hillarys emails (including those she deemed personal) are in Kremlin hands. Even if they are not, Putin can gain leverage simply from the suspicion that he has them.
Despite the New York Times weak assurances that there is no evidence of hacking, experts agree, including a former defense secretary and head of the CIA, that Kremlin cyber forces most likely hacked Hillarys emails, which we now know include a number of top secret documents.
I have been following the Russian and English language blogosphere using Google searches like Does Putin/the Kremlin have Hillarys emails? Included are rumor-mills such as Sovershenno sekretno.ru (Completely secret) and kompromat.ru (Compromising material). In a country that thrives on gossip and rumors, even on delicate matters such as the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the Russian search yields absolute silence. The Kremlin is holding information about any possession of Hillarys emails as close to the vest as possible.
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Putin's Army Of Internet Trolls Is Influencing The Hillary Clinton Email Scandal (Original Post)
uhnope
Jun 2016
OP
DU allowed Pro-Putin, anti gay bullies to do as they pleased here for years.
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2016
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Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)1. Conspiracies but...
They probably do have them considering how many other govt resources that have been hacked by the Russians and Chinese.
Here's a question for you. Do they have the materials stolen by Snowden?
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)2. DU allowed Pro-Putin, anti gay bullies to do as they pleased here for years.
'I am bisexual former US Marine my friend, Putin loves the gays! I visit Russia all the time, it's like the Castro'.
On and on and on it went. The Nation magazine did the same thing, bashed LGBT by way of defending Putin, I cancelled my subscription over their attack on Obama for sending 'elderly gay representatives' to the Olympics. Kristina Vandenbigot can bite my gay ass.