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DEAR DONALD TRUMP AND VLADIMIR PUTIN, I AM NOT SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL (major vomit alert)
Newsweek ^ | 10/10/2016 | KURT EICHENWALD

Posted on 10/11/2016 2:32:46 PM PDT by Beave Meister

Updated | I am Sidney Blumenthal. At least, that is what Vladimir Putin—and, somehow, Donald Trump—seem to believe. And that should raise concerns about not only Moscow’s attempts to manipulate this election but also how Trump came to push Russian disinformation to American voters.

An email from Blumenthal—a confidant of Hillary Clinton and a man, second only to George Soros, at the center of conservative conspiracy theories—turned 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 whistleblower group has become a tool of Putin’s government. But now that I have been brought into the whole mess—and transformed into Blumenthal—there is even more proof that the Russians are not only orchestrating this act of cyberwar but also really, really dumb.

The evidence emerged thanks to the incompetence of Sputnik, the Russian online news and radio service established by the government-controlled news agency, Rossiya Segodnya.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: clinton; democrats; dnc; donaldtrump; fakenews; hackers; hillary; hillaryclinton; newsweak; putin; russia; sidneyblumenthal; trump; wikileaks
I read some of the comments from Newsweek. It's as if they were made by the staff themselves. There is no way the comments were made by anyone other than staff and family members..
1 posted on 10/11/2016 2:32:46 PM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

Dear Sid, no matter how often you say anything I will never believe it. If you said the sky was blue I would go outside to make sure.

You have been lying to us for decades. You sure aren’t going to change, ever.


2 posted on 10/11/2016 2:37:47 PM PDT by ColdOne ((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Because you'd be in jail!)
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To: Beave Meister
American intelligence believes Russian hackers are trying to interfere with the presidential election...................since American intelliegence is run by the same crew that runs the WH/ FBI.....I know for a fact that is a outright lie. You know .....just like FBI/DOJ let Hillary skate all the time. Most corrupt bunch ever on the planet.
3 posted on 10/11/2016 2:40:52 PM PDT by ColdOne ((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Because you'd be in jail!)
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To: Beave Meister
An email from Blumenthal—a confidant of Hillary Clinton and a man, second only to George Soros, at the center of conservative conspiracy theories

I'm not sure. Huma Wiener and Valerie Jarret are still players.
4 posted on 10/11/2016 2:43:27 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Beave Meister

Fact is, NO ONE has done more to strengthen Russia than the Soros-supported Obama administration, with their horrible deals on missile defense and nukes, including the Iran nuke deal, which Putin loves and claims to have played a major role in. This while Obama practically dismantled the US military. In short, the Russians couldn’t hop for a better friend in the White House than they have now.


5 posted on 10/11/2016 2:43:28 PM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!!)
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To: Beave Meister

More of the standard standard Orwellian disinformation coming out of the Ministry of Truth,....the MSM....

Very scary actually...it used to be that the threat of ratcheting up the rhetoric or otherwise provoking any war with Russia was considered insane....


6 posted on 10/11/2016 2:48:20 PM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Hillary + Huma = Muslim Brotherhood Spy Team)
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To: Beave Meister

So let me get this straight, Sidney quoted some article about Benghazi in an e-mail, the email got hacked and leaked, then Sputnik and Trump quote his email without quoting the entire original article, and Sidney is upset because it was all taken out of context?


7 posted on 10/11/2016 2:56:09 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: ColdOne

If you read the actual report it says that it believes it could be the Russians, then just comes up with this debate pious motive. They have no actual proof.


8 posted on 10/11/2016 2:58:04 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: ETL
Absolutely correct.

The whole Russia claim is preposterous. Assange himself has denied the source was the Russians. In fact, the most recent Wikileaks finds Clinton praising Putin. Of course it does. Her close personal friend and confidant on Russian affairs, Strobe Talbott, was a Soviet agent of influence.

There is nothing the Russians would like to see more than four more years of 0bama's foreign policy.

9 posted on 10/11/2016 4:43:40 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: FredZarguna
the most recent Wikileaks finds Clinton praising Putin. Of course it does. Her close personal friend and confidant on Russian affairs, Strobe Talbott, was a Soviet agent of influence. There is nothing the Russians would like to see more than four more years of 0bama's foreign policy.

There is a lot of smoke and mirrors BS being put out by the Russians AND the Soros-supported Obama administration. But facts are facts. The O ministration went out of their way to hand the Russians everything they wanted on all-important missile defense and nukes. This while he practically took apart our military. It was in the plans before Obama even was elected.

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From the campaign trail, 2008...

Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs

February 29, 2008 :: News
MissileThreat.com

A video has surfaced of Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama talking on his plans for strategic issues such as nuclear weapons and missile defense.

The full text from the video, as released, reads as follows:

Thanks so much for the Caucus4Priorities, for the great work you've been doing. As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus4Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.

First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning. And as president I will end it.[i.e. not win it]

Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

I will not weaponize space.

I will slow our development of future combat systems.

And I will institute an independent "Defense Priorities Board" to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.

Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.

You know where I stand. I've fought for open, ethical and accountable government my entire public life. I don't switch positions or make promises that can't be kept. I don't posture on defense policy and I don't take money from federal lobbyists for powerful defense contractors. As president, my sole priority for defense spending will be protecting the American people. Thanks so much.

Article: Obama Pledges Cuts in Missile Defense, Space, and Nuclear Weapons Programs:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090412030633/http://missilethreat.com/archives/id.7086/detail.asp

"MissileThreat.com is a project of The Claremont Institute devoted to understanding and promoting the requirements for the strategic defense of the United States."
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From Investor's Business Daily, Jan 2012:

Obama To Betray Missile Defense Secrets To Moscow

Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 9, 2012 | IBD staff

Appeasement: From ObamaCare to recess appointments, honoring the Constitution has not been an administration hallmark. But when it comes to betraying secrets to mollify the Russians, it becomes a document the president hides behind.

It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.

He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 - linchpin of our missile defense - might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.

Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they'd be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.

The president is required to certify that any technology shared will not be passed on to third parties such as China, North Korea or Iran, that the Russians will not use transferred secrets to develop countermeasures and that the Russians are reciprocating in sharing missile-defense technology. ..."

"In his signing statement, Obama said he would treat these legal restrictions as 'non-binding' and that 'my administration will also interpret and implement section 1244 (sic) in a manner that does not interfere with the president's constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications.'

Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow.

Poland was to host ground-based interceptors such as those we've deployed in California and Alaska, with missile-tracking radar deployed in the Czech Republic.

Obama pulled the plug when Moscow objected. Never mind, he said, we have a better approach: a four-phase plan that calls for using three versions of the Navy's Standard SM-3 interceptor missile that forms the backbone of its Aegis missile-defense system.

The fourth phase consists of a missile still on the drawing board scheduled for deployment by 2020, a version of the SM-3 called the Block IIB. It would intercept hostile missiles in the "early intercept" phase before an enemy missile could release its warheads and decoys. The Russians want the SM-3's secrets, and Obama appears to be willing to turn them over.

The president wants to save the New Start Treaty, which the Russians have threatened to abandon if we try to fully implement President Reagan's dream of defeating a nuclear missile attack.

Russia has unilaterally asserted that any qualitative or quantitative improvement in U.S. missile defenses would be grounds for withdrawal from the treaty.

Read More At Investor's Business Daily:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010912-597158-obama-gives-russia-missile-defense-secrets.htm#ixzz3jXmMbVwY
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March 2012...

"Obama was talking with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when neither of them realized that their conversation was being picked up by microphones. Here is what they said:

Obama: "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it's important for him to give me space."

Medvedev: "Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you ..."

Obama: "This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."

Medvedev: "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir."

"This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." That statement tells us much about the president's mindset.

The specific mention of missile defense is worrisome enough. Mr. Obama has retreated from the missile defense plan that was negotiated with European allies during the George W. Bush administration.

Apparently, he is signaling Moscow that he intends to retreat further. The clear implication from the president's comments is that he cannot tell the American people before the election what he plans to do after the election.

In addition, there is the phrase "on all these issues," implying more is at stake than just missile defense."

Article: Obama plans double cross on missile defense
When it comes to keeping America safe, we shouldn't be too flexible:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/obama-plans-double-cross-on-missile-defense/print/
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10 posted on 10/11/2016 4:57:00 PM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!!)
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To: Rusty0604
the guy who wrote the quoted article (and this new one) is upset that his words are being attributed to blumenthal. it's not like that isn't misleading.

you don't find it the least bit disconcerting to hear trump repeating Russian state propaganda? I guess whatever scores points
11 posted on 10/11/2016 10:22:12 PM PDT by Syllojism
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To: Beave Meister

even wikileaks is hitting back against this idiot.... they’ve posted links to the wikileaks that shows no one said he was Blumenthal.


12 posted on 10/12/2016 5:17:17 AM PDT by Katya
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