Posted on 12/18/2016 7:26:57 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
The Hillary Clinton campaign and its allies, rallying behind the contention that cyberwarfare played a role in swinging the presidential election for Donald Trump, are now taking parting shots at the Obama administration, the intelligence community and the media for failing to treat the Russian hacking threat with sufficient urgency.
Many Clinton confidants place blame for the Electoral College defeat squarely at the feet of FBI Director James B. Comey, arguing that his letter to Congress 11 days before the election reopening the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s private email server turned the tide decisively in favor of Mr. Trump.
But Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said Sunday that the FBI is also culpable for negligence in response to suspected Russian meddling in the democratic process.
Mr. Podesta said the agency did not contact him about the hack into his personal email account until after WikiLeaks began publishing his emails by the thousands on Oct. 7.
“Two days later, the FBI contacted me, and first thing the agent said to me was, ‘I don’t know if you’re aware, but your email account might have been hacked,’” Mr. Podesta said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I said, ‘Yes, I was aware of that.’”
“That was the first and last time I talked to the FBI,” he said.
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch dismissed Mr. Podesta’s accusation that the agency delayed a response to the cyberattacks. She said he wasn’t privy to agency decision-making on the matter.
“I can’t comment on Mr. Podesta’s sources or where he gets that information or why he has that view,” Ms. Lynch said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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They can’t say the communists did it.
Good Hillary. Piss of Obama and kiss that potential pardon goodbye.
While Hillary runs out of people to lie to, she piles up the number of people to blame.
Can’t wait for the book(s)
“are now taking parting shots”
I doubt they are parting. Hillary is getting ready to run again in 4 years.
Today’s excuse. Everything but her.
Shhhh! The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy.
Pedesta is rather full of his self.
He thinks the FBI worked for him, a private citizen.
Lots of people get hacked, Johnny.
Pass the popcorn please.
She is gonna have to run pretty fast just to avoid the grim reaper. She may just drink herself into oblivion.
Damn, now she blames the White House and Obama
Obama’s fault. He’s with us now hehehe
Things are about to change for Podesta. Not for the better. It’s time to start denazification after Trump gets through the EC.
Leni
Ha, they are themselves the 'communists'.
I thought I heard that someone (FBI?) contacted the Clinton campaign a long time ago to warn them of hacking and they refused any assistance. How can the smartest woman in the world, the person more qualified than anyone be so stupid as to have an unsecured server in a bathroom and not expect problems? Weird, that.
Well, if they actually believe their own BS, then this is the only attack that makes logical sense. I mean, they can’t logically blame Trump for failing to protect the integrity of the election.
But since when has logic ever been an impediment to liberal tantrums?
Hee hee... You make a funny!
#redsunderthebed
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