AGiordano: How the 1972 Watergate burglary & the 2016 Wikileaks DNC dump share the exact same motive

[Her Sister]

In today's newsletter I show how the 1972 Watergate burglary & the 2016 Wikileaks DNC dump share the exact same motive & M.O. https://twitter.com/AlGiordano/status/757218128917106688




https://twitter.com/AlGiordano/status/757217378908405760

[Scuba]

1. So the 1972 Watergate burglary was intended to clean up the DNC?????

[Her Sister]

3. What do you mean?

[DanTex]

6. You think Russian state hackers want to clean up the DNC?

[Scuba]

8. What Russian state hackers? Source please.

[Bradical79]

20. It's more assumption that hard fact at this point

Basically, in June Russian hackers were discovered to have hacked the DNC stealing all their Trump information and gaining access to all emails and chat traffic for a year. It's assumed that this comes from that hack. The Trump connection comes from Trump's ties to Russian mob and Putin, plus the timing of the leak just ahead of Clinton's VP nomination and convention.

[Scuba]

21. Could be the Trump campaign. Or countless others. Doesn't change the fact that ....

... the DNC is not disputing the accuracy of the emails.

[WhiteTara]

10. Both are/were intended to bring down the Democratic party

and its candidates.

[Scuba]

11. We need to clean up our party so it's not exposed to such problems.

[Her Sister]

18. Ah "concern" to the rescue of the "discussion"! Good one!

Am so sure your concern is genuine! ~and well-meaning! lol!

You are friend! not foe!

11. We need to clean up our party so it's not exposed to such problems.

Adorable!

[Avalux]

30. DWS made poor decisions.

She didn't do her job as promised by actively favoring one Democratic candidate over another. That's a no-no - you know it, and she owns it.

I am a Democrat because I believe what we stand for is rooted in caring for each other - we are better than Republicans. It's extremely disappointing when the chairwoman of MY party is exposed for doing something that shows a complete lack of integrity - just like a Republican.

Bottom line - I'm mad pissed there were emails to leak in the first place. You should be too if you care about the Democrat Party.

[JHB]

22. Sure, let's do that. Get involved, go to party meetings, do the daily work...

...make sure progressives are well-represented within the party. How many hours a month do you spend on party work? If it's zero, upping that number would help more than you think.

But in November it will be Hilllary vs the howler monkey. No amount of "cleaning up" between now and then will change that.

[Scuba]

23. I'm involved daily working for two different Democrats, one running for state office, one national.

[JHB]

25. Great, and apologies for thinking it might be otherwise

[Scuba]

27. No problem.

[WhiteTara]

31. Looks like you would be a perfect candidate

for your local county central committee. That is the best stepping stone and we need all the help we can get!

[Scuba]

32. I work at my local county party, and for 2 campaigns. All would be considered "fringe left" ...

... by some DU members.

[WhiteTara]

34. Good job and keep going. nt

[randr]

2. With one very important difference

The Watergate break in found no nefarious documents.

[Scuba]

4. Snort!

[DonViejo]

26. Only because the crooks were caught in the act...

before they were able to remove anything.

[Her Sister]

5. PEOPLE DEFENDING WIKILEAKS!

DESPERATE!

[Dr Hobbitstein]

7. They gotta support their favorite rapist. nt

[Her Sister]

9. In the meantime awesome news, this is happening:

[Dr Hobbitstein]

14. Hell yeah! nt

[oswaldactedalone]

15. But are we OK

with our candidates using a terrorist fist bump like this in public. Why are they making Democratic Party secrets so public?

[randome]

12. Wait a sec. We were told here at DU that Clinton's emails were exactly like Watergate.

Now it's this. From whence comes this sick fascination to try and make the Democratic Party the equivalent of the GOP?

The lengths some will go to make everything seem so simple is truly amazing.
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[Her Sister]

13. The Trump/Stein/Weaver coalition exposed for what it really is

The Trump/Stein/Weaver coalition exposed for what it really is
Another newsletter worth more than it's weight in Gold. Tnx, Al!

https://twitter.com/GareBearEsq/status/757224927703379968

[Dkc05]

16. How did the trump hackers get the DNC emails.

Not sure how the trump folks infiltrated the DNC emails. This is worst than watergate the fbi needs to get involved immediately with stopping the trump campaign from anymore dirty tricks.
Trump must have ties to Putin.

Wrong to publish internal emails

[GoCubsGo]

17. This reminds me more of Reagan's Iranian hostage shenanigans.

Only because it involves a foreign entity (and probably members of their government.) But, yeah. There are definitely aspects of Watergate present here, as well.

[Her Sister]

19. Don’t sweat d small stuff or d petty efforts by weak minds & lazy actors to try & rain on d parade

"Don’t sweat the small stuff or the petty efforts by weak minds and lazy actors to try and rain on the parade."

[DemocraticWing]

28. Al Giordano can stuff it. He's a jerk on Twitter and badly misinformed about this story.

He claims he's going to run against Bernie for Senate next time too. I'd like to watch him get his ass handed to him.

[Her Sister]

29. Go Al Giordano!

[Her Sister]

33. KnR