To reconcile the amount of harassment, threats, and character attacks myself and others have endured for sticking with this very truthful story, I had to plumb the depths of my past to try to find any other time in my life where my journalism resulted in such ham-fisted attempts to destroy me. The link[10]—which used the URL shortening service Bitly—brought Podesta to a fake log-in page where he entered his Gmail credentials. Something that must run in the family because as we widened the investigation to include his brother Tony Podesta, who has since stepped down from the podesta … Given what we know about the performance artist’s occult fascination, it’s safe to assume they weren’t saying the Lord’s Prayer. Disclosures through WikiLeaks did not contain any evident forgeries. WikiLeaks series on deals involving Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta. Other journalists who have dared to speak out against John Podesta and the likes of Michael Aquino, soon ended up a corpse. [73] Thomas Frank, writing in an editorial column for The Guardian, argued that the emails gave an "unprecedented view into the workings of the elite, and how it looks after itself". As staff secretary, Podesta had to handle all the scandals that came the White House’s way during Bill Clinton’s first term so the president could work on policies. You can follow Seaman v. IAC on PACER as well. Images so sick and deranged we cannot actually share them here, in the interest of the public well-being. "[35] When asked to comment on the emails release, president Vladimir Putin replied that Russia was being falsely accused. The email discussed conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch's decision to raise his kids in the Catholic Church. [13][14][15], SecureWorks had tracked the activities of Fancy Bear for more than a year before the cyberattack, and in June 2016 had reported the group made use of malicious Bitly links and fake Google login pages to trick targets into divulging their passwords. Podesta and Hillary Clinton didn’t always have a smooth relationship though. In March 2016, the personal Gmail account of John Podesta, a former White House chief of staff and chair of Hillary Clinton's 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, was compromised in a data breach accomplished via a spear-phishing attack, and some of his emails, many of which were work-related, were hacked. Luckily for the planet, none of it is a secret any longer. [8][9], SecureWorks concluded Fancy Bear had sent Podesta an email on March 19, 2016, that had the appearance of a Google security alert, but actually contained a misleading link—a strategy known as spear-phishing. Or is it? Release the papers, Hillary, release those papers. "[63][64], One leaked email from August 2014, addressed to Podesta, identifies Saudi Arabia and Qatar as providing "clandestine", "financial and logistic" aid to ISIS and other "radical Sunni groups". That seems very relevant, in fact. [3] Other emails revealed insights about the internal conflicts of the Clinton Foundation. Clinton Adviser Accuses Trump Ally Of Assange Links, Hillary Clinton Mounts A Campaign Road Trip, Blowout US GDP Report Offers Boon To Trump Amid Pandemic, Fauci Predicts Where COVID Outbreaks Will Hit This Winter, Digital Tools Push Tupperware Sales Upward, Hurricane Zeta Leaves 1 Dead As ‘Surge’ Warning Issued, The Possibilities AND the Pitfalls of Remote Work, 10 Of America's Top CEOs Talk with IBT's Social Capital About How To Be Authentic. These people are monsters. Because the Assad government had located these anti-aircraft batteries in populated civilian areas, their destruction would cause many collateral civilian deaths. We trade more energy with our neighbors than we trade with the rest of the world combined. She doesn't want to release them. He derided it as an “alt-right fever dream,” yet did not discuss even one of the coded emails at the center of PizzaGate. [39], The excerpts came up in the two subsequent presidential debates between Clinton and Trump. The email included a question about the death penalty. Podesta also served as White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and as Bill Clinton’s staff secretary before that. The article then attests that the Clinton campaign, however, has yet to produce any evidence that any specific emails in the latest leak were fraudulent. The vicious media attacks on him and his family began almost minutes later, and haven’t stopped. And we weren’t the only ones alarmed by the Podesta emails. Watch the 8 minute FULCRUM PizzaGate documentary that changed the world: Understanding adrenochrome (walnut sauce) and political elite rituals. I think he was trying to keep it a secret… It was wrongful. And despite an excellent track record as a popular former columnist at Huffington Post, and before that at Business Insider, for covering Podesta’s emails I was derided as a lunatic, dangerous person, and a con man by The Daily Beast. Copyright 2020 Fulcrum Media LLC | Add your email now for our weekly newsletter from David & the team! Colbert’s CBS platform has been used multiple times to deride PizzaGate as fake news, without looking at the evidence. 1. This is overkill, and it makes you wonder: overkill to protect what, or whom? FULCRUM, The FULCRUM News media group, FULCRUM NEWS w/ David Seaman, and our sister site The Illuminist have been receiving record traffic lately - and we thank you all for continuing to spread the word! Clinton replied, "If you went on to read the rest of the sentence, I was talking about energy. [4] A subsequent investigation by U.S. intelligence agencies also reported that the files obtained by WikiLeaks during the U.S. election contained no "evident forgeries". Mr Podesta is a long-term associate of the Clintons and was President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff from 1998 until 2001. In one of the debates, the moderator Martha Raddatz quoted an excerpt saying that politicians "need both a public and a private position" and asked Clinton if it was okay for politicians to be "two-faced". Nor did he disclose to his viewers at the time that he has a longtime personal friendship with John Podesta, the man whose leaked emails singularly sparked PizzaGate. ; Brazile: I Will Not Be "Persecuted, "Donna Brazile: Russia DNC Hack Played Out Exactly As Hoped", "Brazile admits she forwarded town hall questions to Clinton camp", "Clinton Foundation donors Saudi Arabia and Qatar give Isis clandestine financial and logistic support, says Hillary Clinton in leaked emails", "Hillary Clinton emails leak: Wikileaks documents claim Democratic nominee 'thinks Saudi Arabia and Qatar fund Isis, "Leaked Hillary Clinton emails show U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar supported ISIS", "Hillary Clinton Acknowledges Saudi Terror Financing in Hacked Email, Hinting at Tougher Approach", "In leaked email, Clinton claims Saudi and Qatari governments fund ISIS", "Podesta leaks show Clinton email linking Saudi Arabia, Qatar to ISIS", "How Much Did Wikileaks Hurt Hillary Clinton? About 7 years ago, when I began covering the N.S.A. [56] Brazile initially denied coordinating with the Clinton campaign, and a CNN spokesperson said "CNN did not share any questions with Donna Brazile, or anyone else for that matter, prior to the town hall" and that "we have never, ever given a town hall question to anyone beforehand". [34], WikiLeaks published transcripts of three Clinton speeches to Goldman Sachs and an 80-page internal campaign document cataloging potentially problematic portions of over 50 paid speeches. According to an analysis of opinion polling by Harry Enten of FiveThirtyEight, the release of the emails roughly matched Clinton's decline in the polls, though it did not seem to have an effect on public perceptions of her trustworthiness. The emails, 50,000 of them apparently, were all hacked from the account of a senior Clinton aide, John Podesta. Daily Beast’s editor to John Podesta: “I look forward to working with you (and maybe getting some of that pasta and walnut sauce dish!!) "[52] Supporters and members of Donald Trump's campaign called the email exchange evidence of anti-Catholic sentiment in the Democratic Party. [46][47][48], Raymond Arroyo responded: "It makes it seem like you're creating organizations to change the core beliefs of the church," he said. Cybersecurity researchers as well as the United States government attributed responsibility for the breach to the Russian cyber spying group Fancy Bear, allegedly two units of a Russian military intelligence agency. [23] Throughout October, WikiLeaks released installments of these emails on a daily basis. 3. [39] Donald Trump first publicly called for the transcripts during a rally on October 3, 2016, four days before their publication by WikiLeaks: "I would like to see what the speeches said. PizzaGate Is Real, And John Podesta Needs To Go To Prison For It, chairman is a longtime Clinton family friend. Something is very off here. That seems like relevant information to disclose, that the man whose emails are at the center of PizzaGate is actually close friends with the comedian on television late at night telling people not to look at his emails. This is like trying to shoo away a gnat (FULCRUM) with a machine gun. 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