Posted on 07/26/2016 10:55:04 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Former U.S. officials who worked on Russia policy with Clinton say that Putin was personally stung by Clinton’s December 2011 condemnation of Russia’s parliamentary elections, and had his anger communicated directly to President Barack Obama.
They say Putin and his advisers are also keenly aware that, even as she executed Obama’s “reset” policy with Russia, Clinton took a harder line toward Moscow than others in the administration. And they say Putin sees Clinton as a forceful proponent of “regime change” policies that the Russian leader considers a grave threat to his own survival.
“He was very upset [with Clinton] and continued to be for the rest of the time that I was in government,” said Michael McFaul, who served as the top Russia official in Obama’s national security council from 2009 to December 2011 and then was U.S. ambassador to Moscow until early 2014. “One could speculate that this is his moment for payback.”
The idea that Putin was irritated with Clinton over interference in the election seems well supported. Kremlin-controlled RT published a story in December 2011 alleging that the State Department was paying an election observer for stories of election violations:
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Or possibly for paying for a revolution in Ukraine, or arming the worlds maniacs in an attempt to overthrow an ally. The list could go on and on, just like the emails.
Funny how it only took about 24 hours for the “Russians hacked the emails” lie to become the conventional wisdom.
No one seems to be talking about what’s IN the emails anymore.
Well done, kneepads media!
Karma for the Israeli elections?
If Putin really wanted to get back at Hitlery, he would release the 30,000+ so-called “personal” emails the she deleted and didn’t turn over to the State Department. That would guarantee she never gets elected.
Google McCain Ukraine.
I believe HotAir is owned by a “Never Trumper.” No surprise they’d fall for the MSM lie\meme.
First, the most likely one which is that Guccifer II, a Romanian national, hacked the system.
Second, the Russian Cyber Warfare guys had their hands in it, which is doubtful. They are also real good at their jobs so you would never know they were responsible.
However, if they did do it, do you really want to make an enemy of the KGB?
Contrived craptastic cacophony
Bull$hit!
The Russians didn’t do squat!
Guccifer 2.0 from Romania hacked the DNC email server.
Enough of this nonsense!
Unless anyone stating it was the Russians can also provide real proof, this is just a democrat/driveby media distraction.
In other words, a lie.
ahh......now THAT’S a theory that makes some sense!
Why is the subject matter about Russia instead of the content of the DNC emails?
There's still time.
I think an awful lot of confrontations are going on right now behind the scenes.
The whole Russian LGBT and Pussy Riot affair were promoted by George Soros and probably with the help of OBama’s CIA.
This accusation is just about as valid and based in fact as Harry Reid’s 2012 outright fabricated lie that Mitt Romney had not paid any income tax for 10 years.
Democrats are not restricted to honesty or truth, or hemmed in by reality.
They deny the truth, tell lies, and fabricate stories from nothing at all - anything that helps them and hurts their adversaries.
Imagine him releasing 1000 e-mails a day through August.
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