Planned Attacks on Sanders Included in WikiLeaks' Third Batch of Podesta
Emails
Published on
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
by
Common Dreams
Planned Attacks on Sanders Included in WikiLeaks' Third Batch of Podesta
Emails
Emails include list of "hits" on Bernie Sanders and attempts to spin media
coverage in Hillary Clinton's favor
by
Nika Knight, staff writer
The emails reveal prominent Clinton supporters outside of the campaign were
frightened by the unexpected success of Sanders' campaign and often provided
advice on how to defeat him. (Photo: ABC/flickr/cc)
WikiLeaks released the third installment of its cache of Hillary Clinton
campaign manager John Podesta's hacked emails early Tuesday, revealing the
inner workings of the Clinton camp's efforts to spin news items and
influence reporting; their strategies to take down the presidential campaign
of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); and the often cozy relationship between
Podesta and corporate lobbyists.
For instance, one email featured Gordon Giffin, a lobbyist for TransCanada,
the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, asking Podesta personally to
secure a seat for him at the White House state dinner with Canada Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau. "Giffin is a [so-called] 'Hillblazer' who has
contributed or raised at least $100,000 for Clinton and her joint funds with
the Democratic Party," Politico observed.
Another exchange shows top aides struggling to spin contentious moments,
including a statement Clinton made last February about her vote for a 2001
bankruptcy bill that favored credit card companies. Clinton said she was
pressured to vote for the legislation by women's groups.
"She said women groups [sic] were all pressuring her to vote for it.
Evidence does not support that statement," Clinton campaign senior policy
adviser Ann O'Leary wrote.
Other notable exchanges reveal the Clinton campaign's attack lines on
Sanders' presidential run: one shows Clinton aides soliciting an op-ed from
current transition team head (and former Interior Secretary) Ken Salazar
that slams Sanders' record on immigration, which Salazar readily provided.
Another, titled "Sanders hits," features a list of points of attack against
the Vermont senator. It includes such items as Sanders' record on gay
marriage and gun rights, which became popular lines of attack from the
Clinton camp during the close Democratic primary contest.
And many emails involving journalists, such as one from Patrick Healy of the
New York Times, often reveal the campaign's forthright efforts to manipulate
media coverage of Clinton-a tactic that prior email dumps have also shown,
as The Intercept reported.
Occasionally, the exchanges also reveal Clinton aides expressing views that
oppose the candidate's own: one email from Podesta shows him urging another
Clinton staffer to "drop the gmo's [sic]" when the aide tells Podesta she is
suffering from a bad migraine. Clinton supports GMO crops and the biotech
industry.
Meanwhile, WikiLeaks and others continued to sift through the thousands of
emails previously published by the group and highlight particularly notable
ones:
The emails also reveal prominent Clinton supporters outside of the campaign
were frightened by the unexpected success of Sanders' campaign and often
offered unsolicited advice on how to better appeal to voters. "A good amount
of exposure of Hillary holding, feeding and playing with her adorable
grandchild would greatly help the public understand her," wrote longtime
Clinton ally Andy Manatos last fall.
And other missives illustrate that the Clinton campaign was at times
pressured to adopt more progressive views. For example, The Hill columnist
Brent Budowsky argued to Podesta in March that Clinton should attempt to
dovetail with Sanders' policy recommendations, rather than attack the
progressive senator, if Clinton hoped to win Sanders' supporters' votes in
the future. Budowsky wrote:
[...] Hillary should stop attacking Bernie, especially when she says things
that are untrue, which candidly she often does. I am one of the people with
credibility to suggest Bernie people support her in November, and she and
[chief campaign strategist Joel] Benenson and others have no idea of the
damage she does to herself with these attacks, which she does not gain by
making. Instead the smart move would be to look for issues where she can
dovetail with Bernie. One I am definitely going to suggest would be to take
his proposal for a free public college education paid for by a transaction
tax on Wall Street speculation and add one new dimension....that to receive
this benefit young people should devote one year to some form of community
or public service.... There is no reason Hillary cannot not support this....
Right now I am petrified that Hillary is almost totally dependent on
Republicans nominating Trump....she has huge endemic political weaknesses
that she would be wise to rectify.....even a clown like Ted Cruz would be an
even money bet to beat and this scares the hell of out me.....
In response to the WikiLeaks trove, Clinton surrogates and supporters have
said that the leaks were orchestrated by Russia Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin, despite no evidence to support that claim. "It is absolutely
disgraceful that the Trump campaign is cheering on a release today
engineered by Vladimir Putin to interfere in this election," Clinton
campaign spokesman Glen Caplin said Monday in a statement.
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Planned Attacks on Sanders Included in WikiLeaks' Third Batch of Podesta
Emails
Published on
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
by
Common Dreams
Planned Attacks on Sanders Included in WikiLeaks' Third Batch of Podesta
Emails
Emails include list of "hits" on Bernie Sanders and attempts to spin media
coverage in Hillary Clinton's favor
by
Nika Knight, staff writer
. 33 Comments
.
. The emails reveal prominent Clinton supporters outside of the
campaign were frightened by the unexpected success of Sanders' campaign and
often provided advice on how to defeat him. (Photo: ABC/flickr/cc)
. WikiLeaks released the third installment of its cache of Hillary
Clinton campaign manager John Podesta's hacked emails early Tuesday,
revealing the inner workings of the Clinton camp's efforts to spin news
items and influence reporting; their strategies to take down the
presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); and the often cozy
relationship between Podesta and corporate lobbyists.
. For instance, one email featured Gordon Giffin, a lobbyist for
TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, asking Podesta
personally to secure a seat for him at the White House state dinner with
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. "Giffin is a [so-called] 'Hillblazer'
who has contributed or raised at least $100,000 for Clinton and her joint
funds with the Democratic Party," Politico observed.
. Another exchange shows top aides struggling to spin contentious
moments, including a statement Clinton made last February about her vote for
a 2001 bankruptcy bill that favored credit card companies. Clinton said she
was pressured to vote for the legislation by women's groups.
. "She said women groups [sic] were all pressuring her to vote for it.
Evidence does not support that statement," Clinton campaign senior policy
adviser Ann O'Leary wrote.
Other notable exchanges reveal the Clinton campaign's attack lines on
Sanders' presidential run: one shows Clinton aides soliciting an op-ed from
current transition team head (and former Interior Secretary) Ken Salazar
that slams Sanders' record on immigration, which Salazar readily provided.
Another, titled "Sanders hits," features a list of points of attack against
the Vermont senator. It includes such items as Sanders' record on gay
marriage and gun rights, which became popular lines of attack from the
Clinton camp during the close Democratic primary contest.
And many emails involving journalists, such as one from Patrick Healy of the
New York Times, often reveal the campaign's forthright efforts to manipulate
media coverage of Clinton-a tactic that prior email dumps have also shown,
as The Intercept reported.
Occasionally, the exchanges also reveal Clinton aides expressing views that
oppose the candidate's own: one email from Podesta shows him urging another
Clinton staffer to "drop the gmo's [sic]" when the aide tells Podesta she is
suffering from a bad migraine. Clinton supports GMO crops and the biotech
industry.
Meanwhile, WikiLeaks and others continued to sift through the thousands of
emails previously published by the group and highlight particularly notable
ones:
The emails also reveal prominent Clinton supporters outside of the campaign
were frightened by the unexpected success of Sanders' campaign and often
offered unsolicited advice on how to better appeal to voters. "A good amount
of exposure of Hillary holding, feeding and playing with her adorable
grandchild would greatly help the public understand her," wrote longtime
Clinton ally Andy Manatos last fall.
And other missives illustrate that the Clinton campaign was at times
pressured to adopt more progressive views. For example, The Hill columnist
Brent Budowsky argued to Podesta in March that Clinton should attempt to
dovetail with Sanders' policy recommendations, rather than attack the
progressive senator, if Clinton hoped to win Sanders' supporters' votes in
the future. Budowsky wrote:
[...] Hillary should stop attacking Bernie, especially when she says things
that are untrue, which candidly she often does. I am one of the people with
credibility to suggest Bernie people support her in November, and she and
[chief campaign strategist Joel] Benenson and others have no idea of the
damage she does to herself with these attacks, which she does not gain by
making. Instead the smart move would be to look for issues where she can
dovetail with Bernie. One I am definitely going to suggest would be to take
his proposal for a free public college education paid for by a transaction
tax on Wall Street speculation and add one new dimension....that to receive
this benefit young people should devote one year to some form of community
or public service.... There is no reason Hillary cannot not support this....
Right now I am petrified that Hillary is almost totally dependent on
Republicans nominating Trump....she has huge endemic political weaknesses
that she would be wise to rectify.....even a clown like Ted Cruz would be an
even money bet to beat and this scares the hell of out me.....
In response to the WikiLeaks trove, Clinton surrogates and supporters have
said that the leaks were orchestrated by Russia Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin, despite no evidence to support that claim. "It is absolutely
disgraceful that the Trump campaign is cheering on a release today
engineered by Vladimir Putin to interfere in this election," Clinton
campaign spokesman Glen Caplin said Monday in a statement.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
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