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Related: About this forumDEAR VLADIMIR PUTIN, I AM NOT SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL ~New Newsweek/Eichenwald piece
I am Sidney Blumenthal. At least, that is what Vladimir Putin seems to believe.
An email from Blumenthala confidant of Hillary Clinton and a man, second only to George Soros at the center of conservative conspiracy theoriesturned up in the recent document dump by Wikileaks. At a time when American intelligence believes Russian hackers are trying to interfere with the presidential election, records have been fed recently to Wikileaks out of multiple organizations of the Democratic Party, raising concerns that the self-proclaimed whistleblowers group has become a tool of Putins government. But now that I have been brought into the whole messand transformed into Blumenthalthere is even more proof that this act of cyberwar is not only being orchestrated by the Russians, but that they are really, really dumb.
The evidence turned up thanks to the incompetence of Sputnik, the Russian online news and radio service established by the government controlled news agency, Rossiya Segodnya.
The documents that Wikileaks unloaded recently have been emails out of the account of John Podesta, the chairman of Clintons election campaign. Almost as soon as the pilfered documents emerged, Sputnik was all over them and rapidly found (or probably already knew about before the Wikileaks dump) a purportedly incriminating email from Blumenthal.
The email was amazingit linked Boogie Man Blumenthal, Podesta and the topic of conservative political fevered dreams, Benghazi. This, it seemed, was the smoking gun finally proving Clinton bore total responsibility for the terrorist attack on the American outpost in Libya in 2012. Sputnik even declared that the email might be the October surprise that could undermine Clintons campaign.
To understand the full importance of the storyand how much Putin and his Kremlin cronies must have been dancing with delightI have to quote the top few paragraphs:
http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635
An email from Blumenthala confidant of Hillary Clinton and a man, second only to George Soros at the center of conservative conspiracy theoriesturned up in the recent document dump by Wikileaks. At a time when American intelligence believes Russian hackers are trying to interfere with the presidential election, records have been fed recently to Wikileaks out of multiple organizations of the Democratic Party, raising concerns that the self-proclaimed whistleblowers group has become a tool of Putins government. But now that I have been brought into the whole messand transformed into Blumenthalthere is even more proof that this act of cyberwar is not only being orchestrated by the Russians, but that they are really, really dumb.
The evidence turned up thanks to the incompetence of Sputnik, the Russian online news and radio service established by the government controlled news agency, Rossiya Segodnya.
The documents that Wikileaks unloaded recently have been emails out of the account of John Podesta, the chairman of Clintons election campaign. Almost as soon as the pilfered documents emerged, Sputnik was all over them and rapidly found (or probably already knew about before the Wikileaks dump) a purportedly incriminating email from Blumenthal.
The email was amazingit linked Boogie Man Blumenthal, Podesta and the topic of conservative political fevered dreams, Benghazi. This, it seemed, was the smoking gun finally proving Clinton bore total responsibility for the terrorist attack on the American outpost in Libya in 2012. Sputnik even declared that the email might be the October surprise that could undermine Clintons campaign.
To understand the full importance of the storyand how much Putin and his Kremlin cronies must have been dancing with delightI have to quote the top few paragraphs:
http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635
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DEAR VLADIMIR PUTIN, I AM NOT SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL ~New Newsweek/Eichenwald piece (Original Post)
Madam45for2923
Oct 2016
OP
BTW, Mr. Putin: Did u really believe u could quote me, say it was Sid Blumenthal, & think no one wou
Madam45for2923
Oct 2016
#1
We need to get rid of RT and Sputnik news, they are Russian government propaganda sites.
Historic NY
Oct 2016
#2
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)1. BTW, Mr. Putin: Did u really believe u could quote me, say it was Sid Blumenthal, & think no one wou
BTW, Mr. Putin: Did u really believe u could quote me, say it was Sid Blumenthal, & think no one would notice? Putz.
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/785633236810477572
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/785633236810477572
Im flattered Putin reads my articles. Itd be nice, though, if u didnt use them by lying in hopes of electing Trump.
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/785632120697794564
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/785632120697794564
As soon as Russian news agency realized I knew they took my words & put in HRC ally's mouth, they removed story.
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/785630326051569664
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/785630326051569664
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)2. We need to get rid of RT and Sputnik news, they are Russian government propaganda sites.
Glamrock
(11,794 posts)6. I'm a little more concerned about
the American propaganda.
C_U_L8R
(44,996 posts)3. Trump's running with the bogus story anyway
What a ridiculous turkey.
Idjiot!
Martin Eden
(12,862 posts)5. Bookmarked, thanks. n/t