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Clinton’s WikiLeaks strategy: Doubt, delay, distract
McCatchy DC ^ | October 22, 2016 | Anita Kumar

Posted on 10/22/2016 8:11:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The emails are full of potential damage for Hillary Clinton. She weighed the political implications of policies. She is close to Wall Street. Her aides gathered information to discredit a woman who’d accused her husband of rape.

So how has she so far remained largely unscathed by the unprecedented release of hacked emails? It’s one part a deliberate strategy of casting doubt on the authenticity and distracting from the content of the emails, one part fatigue by Americans who already have seen tens of thousands of Clinton’s emails and one part a whole lot of luck....

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


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues
KEYWORDS: clinton; hillary; trump; wikileaks

1 posted on 10/22/2016 8:11:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Her strategy is simple. Hide in bed until election and tell order her lap dog media not to cover it.


2 posted on 10/22/2016 8:12:59 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She is well practiced in dealing with information that is negative toward her: ignore it. Then when she has a friendly environment and has time to prepare, she Alinskys it, e.g. “vast right wing conspiracy”.


3 posted on 10/22/2016 8:18:35 PM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: lodi90

“............one part fatigue by Americans who already have seen tens of thousands of Clinton’s emails and one part a whole lot of luck....”

Lie, lie, lie. How in the ‘H’ can the American people be so fatigued of all these emails when the American people other than those at this site, and a couple of others aren’t even presented with the emails, much less the content of them?


4 posted on 10/22/2016 8:19:59 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (America IS sick, and tired of the Clintons. It's time to shut them down.)
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To: lodi90

The levels the media in both our countries go to in order to protect Hillary is astonishing.

The Canadian Media has already appointed her president, poepl in my country actually believe Donald has no chance in hell...


5 posted on 10/22/2016 8:20:57 PM PDT by Catholic Canadian
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She hasn’t gotten away with anything.. only if you believe the phoney polls..


6 posted on 10/22/2016 8:34:34 PM PDT by freespirit2012
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Want to eliminate government corruption at all levels?

Bar lawyers from ever holding partisan political office. True, we’d lose the services of some good people but there’s too many bad in that bunch.

Every Democrat presidential nominee since Walter Mondale in 2004 has been a lawyer. (Gore never actually practiced law but did go to law school and that is bad enough)


7 posted on 10/22/2016 8:39:12 PM PDT by Az Joe (Desu Hoc Vult!! The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How does she deal with it? By calling in her ‘maffia’ to play dirty and yes distract from herself. But, we’ve taken note and the leaks are far from mundane.


8 posted on 10/22/2016 8:43:01 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“So how has she so far remained largely unscathed by the unprecedented release of hacked emails?”

she hasn’t. i live north of boston, and everyone i know is voting trump. that should tell you something.


9 posted on 10/22/2016 8:44:46 PM PDT by thehopster
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary doesn’t have to hide .. THE MEDIA IS COVERING FOR HER. THEY SIMPLY DON’T REPORT ON ANYTHING TO DO WITH HER.

So, when you get the email info re Hillary, make copies of it and be sure you show it to those you know who may not realize what a snake she really is.


10 posted on 10/22/2016 10:23:45 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary's biggest problem IMO is the fact that Bernie supporters are looking carefully at the WikiLeaks email dumps and not liking what they see at all!

She cannot win if a hefty percentage of Bernie supporters stay home, vote Stein or Johnson or horror of horrors...switch to Trump voters.

I kind of like Jill Stein. She is politically naive but she seems like a very genuine woman who actually seeks to do the best she can for others.... this is in stark contrast to Clinton! I think many Bernie voters will cast a vote for Stein.

11 posted on 10/22/2016 10:31:23 PM PDT by Bobalu (Trump Is The Bitch Slap This Country Needs)
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To: Az Joe

I like your “bar lawyers” approach.

Term limits would also help.

But we need to deal with the lobbyists for foreign interests, large multinational corporations, media companies, etc.

They are lawyers, and they hire more lawyers to find loopholes to protect them while they buy and sell politicians like cattle.

In the end if we do not radically reduce the size and scope of the government all reform efforts will fail.

The thieves just won’t be able to resist the big piles of money lying around in DC.


12 posted on 10/23/2016 3:02:35 AM PDT by cgbg (This space for rent--$250K)
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To: cgbg

Meme for the day:

Where do the DC lobbyists ply their (corrupt) trade?

Kleptocracy Street.


13 posted on 10/23/2016 3:04:23 AM PDT by cgbg (This space for rent--$250K)
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