Courtesy of the Guardian, which is livestreaming here.
Another livestream here, via DemConvention.com, but I can’t find a way to embed that one.
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Courtesy of the Guardian, which is livestreaming here.
Another livestream here, via DemConvention.com, but I can’t find a way to embed that one.
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A banner headline after a history-making vote in Philadelphia. pic.twitter.com/V34mTLuiD4
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) July 27, 2016
There *are* two Americas. One is proud of what the country has become, and the other is scared of that.
— Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) July 27, 2016
Everybody got their pompoms and toasting mugs ready?
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"I don't know anything about him except he will respect me." — Trump on Putin
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 27, 2016
Imagine what a guy who asks the FSB to hack his political opponents would do with the power of the CIA and the FBI
— Adam Servianski (@AdamSerwer) July 27, 2016
Time to ask @SpeakerRyan about Trump's access to classified info; he asked Clapper to block Hillary's. https://t.co/3xwIHksfMk
— jennifer steinhauer (@jestei) July 27, 2016
Paul Ryan Spokesman: “Putin Should Stay Out Of This Election” https://t.co/sTiBMEarmY via @tparti
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) July 27, 2016
Ryan et al saying they're against Russian hacking is irrelevant. Until 10 mins ago, we assumed everyone was. Question is about the nominee.
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 27, 2016
He roots for foreign cyberops against domestic pol opponents now. What makes you think he won't target pol opponents himself if he's POTUS?
— Sam Cutler (@youbsanctioned) July 27, 2016
And @JBaiata points out this tweet from October 2013 ? pic.twitter.com/IzwtZVZWQn
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 27, 2016
A good time to remind that Putin is not Russia. He is a dictator in power for 16 years. Being anti-Putin is pro-freedom and pro-Russia.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) July 27, 2016
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Buzzfeed still trying to stir up the Clinton/DNC collusion stuff:
Hillary Clinton and Democratic National Committee staffers began the gradual process of merging operations and consolidating key campaign functions weeks before the primary ended, emails in last week’s WikiLeaks release show.
Starting in May, the staffs at the DNC and Hillary For America integrated their distribution of press and television clips and what’s known as “media monitoring,” a standard but robust and time-consuming research operation aimed at tracking a candidate’s friends and foes around the clock on cable, local, and national news.
Once a candidate has become the presumptive nominee, it’s typical for their campaign and the party to join forces, building out a coordinated effort for the general election and consolidating day-to-day functions between the two offices.
But messages show this process began while Bernie Sanders remained a viable candidate, sooner than previously reported or publicly disclosed.
DNC research director Lauren Dillon informed a group of colleagues about the shift in an email dated May 20, more than two weeks before Clinton became the presumptive nominee and three weeks before the last contest of the Democratic Party.
Bernie was done after Pennsylvania. Only Buzzfeed, the Sanders campaign, and the Bernie dead-enders who last night compared walking out of the convention with tape covering their mouths to the March on Washington and who today are planning a fart-in, apparently unaware that television have no smell capacity, still refuse to recognize this.
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As Adam noted yesterday, the DNC hack isn’t just standard intel gathering that virtually all governments do. The decision to use WikiLeaks as an outlet to publicly release the information to interfere with an election “meets the definition of an act of cyberwar,” according to Dave Aitel, whose Ars Technica editorial was quoted in Adam’s post.
Article III. of the Constitution of the United States, Section 110:
“Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open Court. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason.”
Republican nominee Donald J. Trump, July 27, 2016:
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr. Trump said, staring directly into the cameras during a news conference. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
So to recap, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump openly “adhered” to a hostile foreign government and encouraged it to commit an act of war on the United States.
LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!
UPDATE: I was kinda kidding about the treason thing and definitely dishing out sauce for the tangerine-hued hell-gander with the “Lock Him Up” bit above. (I’m not a lawyer, but I am a firm believer in due process.) However, a bipartisan sampling of former officials are seriously calling Combover Caligula out, including William Inboden, who served in GWB’s NSC; he said Trump’s comments were “tantamount to treason” [Politico link]. Hmm.
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I don’t know what the fuck I just watched. I honestly don’t. There was so much bullshit and so many lies I don’t even know where to start.
I remember when I was in high school and went to Kennywood and I drank a couple bottles of grape Mad Dog 20/20, and thought it was a good idea to get on the spinner or whatever the fucking ride was, and puked all over everyone in a 360 degree radius, including myself, while Joe Walsh’s “Life’s Been Good” was cranking at ear bleeding volumes. That’s the closest experience I have ever had to that press conference.
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Following up on Adam’s excellent post yesterday about the DNC server hack, it looks like the story is indeed gaining legs, with an assist from the president.
CNN:
President Barack Obama won’t rule out the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin could be attempting to tip the US presidential election toward Donald Trump.
His comments came after US officials said this week that there is strong evidence that the Democratic National Committee data breach was carried out by hackers working on behalf of Russian intelligence.
“Anything’s possible,” Obama responded when asked during an interview whether Russians could be working to influence the contest between Republican nominee Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
“Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin,” Obama said during the sit-down with NBC News that aired Tuesday. “And I think that Trump’s gotten pretty favorable coverage back in Russia.”
WaPo:
President Obama on Tuesday waded into the controversy over the leak of Democratic National Committee emails, saying the hack of party records was characteristic of Russian government behavior and suggesting a potential motive for that country to meddle in the U.S. presidential election.
“What we do know is that the Russians hack our systems, not just government systems but private systems,” Obama told NBC. “What the motives were in terms of the leaks, all that — I can’t say directly. What I do know is that Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin.”
Obama’s comments align with those made Sunday by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, who said the Russian government was behind last week’s release of DNC documents on the website WikiLeaks as a way to help Trump.
American intelligence agencies have told the White House they now have “high confidence” that the Russian government was behind the theft of emails and documents from the Democratic National Committee, according to federal officials who have been briefed on the evidence.
But intelligence officials have cautioned that they are uncertain whether the electronic breakin at the committee’s computer systems was intended as fairly routine cyberespionage — of the kind the United States also conducts around the world — or as part of an effort to manipulate the 2016 presidential election.
The emails were released by WikiLeaks, whose founder, Julian Assange, has made it clear that he hoped to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the presidency. It is unclear how the documents made their way to the group. But a large sampling was published before the WikiLeaks release by several news organizations and someone who called himself “Guccifer 2.0,” who investigators now believe was an agent of the G.R.U., Russia’s military intelligence service.
Even the Trumpenführer felt moved to address it today, though of course he filtered it through his narcissistic prism and missed the point entirely:
Funny how the failing @nytimes is pushing Dems narrative that Russia is working for me because Putin said "Trump is a genius." America 1st!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2016
For the record, Putin never called Trump a “genius” — that description is rarely bestowed on the critter at the business end of the leash. Now release your tax returns like a good boy, Deadbeat Don.
PS: This episode removes all doubt (as if there were any) that Julian Assange is an unmitigated douchebag.
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