Yes, The Democratic National Committee Flat Out Lied In Claiming No Donor Financial Info Leaked
from the it-leaked-like-a-seive dept
You may recall, from last month, that a hacker (who many have accused of working for the Russian government) got into the Democratic National Committee's computers and copied a ton of stuff. All of the emails that were obtained (a little over 19,000, from seven top DNC officials) are now searchable on Wikileaks, so there are tons of stories popping up covering what's been found. The Intercept, for example, appears to be having a field day exposing sketchy behavior by the DNC.But one point that hasn't received as much attention: the DNC appears to have flat out lied right after the hack happened. In its statement on the hack, the DNC had insisted that no personal donor info got out:
The hackers had access to the information for approximately one year, but that access was wiped clean last weekend, The Washington Post reported, noting that the DNC said that no personal, financial or donor information had been accessed or taken.Except, well, no. There had been reports, driven by the hacker, that the files absolutely did include personal donor info, and now you can see some of that for yourself. For example, it took me all of about 5 minutes to find a list of donors and their email addresses, which I won't be sharing here, but I'm sure others can find as well. And, then, of course, you can find things like this discussion about a potential donor, Niranjan Shah, with "ties" to disgraced and convicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, noting that there were "pay to play" accusations associated with him. The DNC noted that they "could be ok" with Shah donating to the DNC, but that the administration might not want him to show up at their events. And, of course, there are emails detailing specific donations by specific people.
There are claims that some emails contain credit card data, though I haven't seen that myself. Either way, it certainly appears that in the rush to "nothing to see here" the leak of the info, the DNC simply lied about what was leaked.
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If she becomes president she won't tell us the truth about aliens!
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The DNC not being honest about something?
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Cursory review
And yet the donor information is there, but why not all of it? This is just a very, very small slice of what is probably still out there.
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Well, they had help leaking all their most confidential files, so there's that done, at least.
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In my opinion that is something that should not happen because it undermines fair competition and gives one candidate an advantage.
But I guess if you don't want fair pre elections then yes, it's a dull leak.
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If you want fair vote for an independent, not because they are any better, but because that will help to destroy that which you complain about.
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A political party is what happens when people with compatible political views band together to help make the case to the public that the candidates who support their views are the ones who should be elected.
The only way this directly ends up at "usurp the will of the people and undermine any form of fair competition" is when you don't have enough different political parties, and so you have people with non-compatible views nevertheless having to band together under the same umbrella.
...and that, in turn, inevitably happens under a single-choice first-past-the-post voting system. If you want to change things, the first thing to do is to campaign - at the state and local level - for a switch to a ranked-preference / ranked-choice voting system which satisfies the Condorcet criteria.
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Tisk tisk
Had they been using unicorn gate encryption this would never have happened, making for yet another perfect example of the kinds of dangers trying to use secure encryption can cause, and one that I can only hope the tech companies take note of for their own future good.
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Of course they lied
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/4075
The combination of cluelessness and arrogance is amazing. Hopefully this moron will be blacklisted for life: he certainly should never be hired by ANYONE who actually cares about competence.
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Public record
Ditto for voter registrations. And here in Florida, if you gave your phone number when registering, it's public too. A complete listing of all registered voters in FL, on a CD, will cost you just $5.00 from Tallahassee. As for how well, or poorly, Gawker redacted in their news article.. The Zip-plus 4 column, which they didn't blackout, will get you CLOSE.
http://gawker.com/contrary-to-dnc-claim-hacked-data-contains-a-ton-of-pe-1782132678
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Politicians not lying would be real news...
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Hope this clears up any confusion.
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The party of Clinton lied?
(That they didn't do a better job of it.)
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None of this will matter
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WUT?
...and the repub nom doesn't speak very poorly of their morals and expectations?
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Better Candidates? Had they been better they would have gotten he votes not Trump.
Trump is more of an example of how bad things have gotten that he could make it in politics.
Trump is really the ONLY one that has chosen to address the Illegal Immigration problem. That carries so much weight than many other problems are secondary for most. If the nation is destroyed by this shit the way Europe is, then there will effectively be NO America to speak of in less than 50 years. We are going to see Europe fall in 20~40 years unless they cull a lot of immigrants and get rid of the socialism.
Brexit "MIGHT" save Britain, but we have to see, because as it turns out, only a bunch of non-nonsensical turds were at the helm of Brexit. And if a bunch of fools got that much election, then imagine how big the problem really is in the mind of the people.
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Thanks for making me chuckle, though. Your comment made me nostalgic for the days when folks of your ilk applied that slur to Obama -- who continued bailing out Wall Street and left underwater homeowners floundering, who flipped on national single-payer health insurance and instead championed a for-profit protection racket conceived by the Heritage Foundation, and under whom income and wealth inequality has grown steadily worse. (I could go one.) Good one.
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Socialism via bail out the rich Bush/Obama/Hillary IS socialism's out come. You require the intellect of a fool to not see that socialism is just a farce to centralize economic power inside the government instead of outside the government where it must remain.
Every time you vote for a socialist, you actually do not get socialism... you get corruption with added power and wealth for the ruling elite.
Socialism is a pipe dream for losers that never grokked reality.
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True that.
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Between that and all the hateful anti-Hillary GIFs appearing online, you gotta know some modern day Karl Rove is pushing a social media agenda like mad - and sucking at it.
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Did those people actually *do* anything other than burning up their keyboards and keypads?
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Step 1: Get elected. (And re-elected)
Step 2:
Step 3: Profit!!
(Maintaining the perfect void of Step 2 inevitably requires all Congresscritters to delegate any actual legislating or decisionmaking to the executive branch and/or lobbyists retained by well-heeled industries. Then the only exceptions are hysterical legislative overreactions to media-driven moral panics and tit-for-tat patronage deals.)
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Geez. On the "Holy Shit, No Kidding" scale, this fails to make even an attempt at a mark.
On the bright side, at least you have to admit that these politicians are diligently doing the jobs you're paying them to do.
Lying to the Public is, after all, one of the modern world's highest paid professions.... and one especially adept at procuring that universally sought after All-American Capitalist's Untaxable and Unrecorded Income that arrives in the dead of the night in brown paper bags.
I hear the pickings in America are getting so small - what with the federal/local government, police and Wall Street freely robbing the population "by law" - that there's a migration of both professional and amateur American evil-doers heading to Canada, where "you can still tell who wears the white hats".
Don't worry though. They'll be back right after they taste real winter. In winter in Canada, all hats are white most of the time. :)
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Tim Cushing - you created a new hashtag!
Nothing To See Here
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