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Bill USA

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Tue Oct 11, 2016, 07:59 PM Oct 2016

MSNBC intelligence expert: WikiLeaks is releasing falsified emails not really from Hillary Clinton [View all]


..somebody else has probably already posted this, but for those like me, who missed it, here it is for you.


http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/intelligence-expert-confirms-latest-hillary-clinton-email-dump-from-wikileaks-is-full-of-forgeries/26242/


The latest release from WikiLeaks, a collection of emails supposedly hacked from the account of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, is getting very little public attention due to the fact that it contains nothing particularly scandalous to begin with, and the fact that it was released just as Donald Trump’s campaign was imploding in a sexual assault scandal. But those who have examined the Clinton email dump have found something fascinating: several of the emails aren’t real, and aren’t even good forgeries.

Malcolm Nance, a U.S. intelligence expert and MSNBC analyst, has issued what he’s calling an “official warning.” He’s reporting that the emails in question “already proving to be riddled with obvious forgeries” and goes on to add that they’re “not even professionally done.” Nance announced his conclusion via Twitter just a few hours after the supposed emails were released. MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid retweeted his warning, adding “FYI” to her own audience.

WikiLeaks had spent the past month claiming that it would be releasing election-altering hacked information on Hillary Clinton which would cost her the election. But the bizarre advance hype, coupled with repeated delays and a surreal middle-of-the-night press conference last week in which absolutely no information was revealed, suggested that they had nothing all along.

This evening’s email dump, which appears to have been specifically timed on a Friday evening in order to avoid the scrutiny of the major media outlets, has revealed relatively little of interest. Some of the emails purport to contain the transcripts of Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street speeches, but use odd phrases such as “and/or” which would not have been included in the original prepared text of a speech and would not have been spoken out loud by someone giving a speech.
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I think I've found the culprit underpants Oct 2016 #1
Bwwwaaaahhhhaa!! misterhighwasted Oct 2016 #3
LOL red dog 1 Oct 2016 #19
Lame ass hackers. "they’re not even professionally done" misterhighwasted Oct 2016 #2
I'd be slow to roll with NewsBin or Nance. Wilms Oct 2016 #4
Speaking of crap sources...Glenn Greenwald can go to hell. nt SunSeeker Oct 2016 #6
Not sure why you'd regard him as a "crap source". Wilms Oct 2016 #8
Ah, so quick with the personal insult. SunSeeker Oct 2016 #10
I meant no insult. Wilms Oct 2016 #11
Yes you did. SunSeeker Oct 2016 #12
What is it you disapprove of him? n/t Wilms Oct 2016 #13
Glenn Greenwald is a pompous bully utterly bereft of integrity. SunSeeker Oct 2016 #15
OK. Now that we got that out of the way... Wilms Oct 2016 #16
Yes, the documents hacked and falsified by Putin and distributed by Trump & Wikileaks. nt. SunSeeker Oct 2016 #17
You'll notice my link above calls in to question those assertion. Wilms Oct 2016 #22
You mean Greenwald called it into question. That is your "link above." SunSeeker Oct 2016 #23
"Clinton herself confirmed their authenticity..." Wilms Oct 2016 #25
No she didn't. That is Greenwald's false characterization. nt SunSeeker Oct 2016 #26
WaPo Wilms Oct 2016 #27
That is very different from the assertion that scumbag Greenwald made. SunSeeker Oct 2016 #28
Well, Greenwald didn't say all of the emails were legit. Wilms Oct 2016 #29
Yes he did. "Confirmed their authenticity" is a lie. Words matter. nt SunSeeker Oct 2016 #30
So, in the context of her clarifying the statements... Wilms Oct 2016 #31
No one confirmed the authenticity of that email, let alone all the rest of the emails. SunSeeker Oct 2016 #36
Thanks for your relevant remarks. Wilms Oct 2016 #37
Sept 23 letter from the Office of the Dir of Natnl Intel talks of Russian disinformation campaign Bill USA Oct 2016 #32
Even if true, in the context of her clarifying the statements... Wilms Oct 2016 #33
going by the WaPo article, it "appears" clinton confirmed that the excerpts were from a speech she Bill USA Oct 2016 #34
Ohhh Kay! Wilms Oct 2016 #35
Thanks for that link & info red dog 1 Oct 2016 #20
Future Crimes polynomial Oct 2016 #5
input, which is something you put in Retired George Oct 2016 #7
It's a bit of a game of 'telephone'; other actors have been inserting non-Wikileaks stuff muriel_volestrangler Oct 2016 #9
This should be on Page One Retired George Oct 2016 #38
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