Clinton camp steps up attacks on WikiLeaks, bashes media

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill

October 15, 2016, 05:58 am

Hillary Clinton’s advisers are ramping up attacks on WikiLeaks and the Russian government over a damaging email hack, lashing out at Donald Trump and the media for failing to treat the breach as a threat to national security.

The Clinton campaign gathered its top national security advisers for a blistering conference call with reporters on Friday, framing the email dump as a provocative cyber-attack by foreign adversaries with ties to terror groups. The advisers described the hacks as unprecedented interference in the U.S. election that threatens the nation’s sovereignty, and warned there would be “consequences” for the hackers and potentially the “Russian state actors” supporting them.

The campaign lashed out at Trump, arguing he is encouraging the behavior. They questioned whether he and his advisers, driven by their own foreign business interests, have conspired to aid the Russians. And Clinton’s allies fumed at the media’s coverage of the leaked emails, saying the focus has been on trivial political minutia rather than the national security implications.

“I’m not saying this as a Democrat or a Republican. I’m not saying this as someone who has endorsed Hillary Clinton. I’m saying this as someone who cares deeply about our national security,” said former CIA acting director Mike Morell. “I’m simply enraged by these Russian hacks.”

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/301133-clinton-camp-steps-up-attacks-on-wikileaks-bashes-media

[PSPS]

1. They're right, of course. The media is openly helping Putin.

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

6. Don't give media too much credit

Helping Putin requires too much thought. The media is simply being its lazy, shallow self and running with the easy story.

[chelsea0011]

2. They are right. Excluding what is in the leaks (nothing, really) this is a foreign country

trying to affect the outcome of a POTUS election. This normally, in any other normal election, would be the biggest story of the year. I did get a kick out ofNBC News this AM trying to make an issue out of Wikileaks hacked emails of people (Grandholm)giving HRC advice. Pretty horrible, isn't it?

[malcolmboeing]

3. Leaks

Who cares. There is nothing noteworthy in these leaked emails unless you were a Bernie Sanders supporter.

[dubyadiprecession]

4. I hope julianne Assange gets really sick and has to be taken to a hospital...

"Prison hospital", that is!

[Helen Borg]

5. The media is virtually not covering it anyway...

They should, but they aren't. Certainly not in the objective and critical manner it should be covered.

[Ford_Prefect]

7. They do seem to have forgotten how to do more than read the press release.

Asking meaningful questions takes too much energy and original thought, it seems. It could also alienate those who provide those handy, low cost, easy to read releases.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

9. After fcc deregulations decades ago - media no longer required to provide actual news as a public

not for profit service - essential to a functioning democracy. Hence the devolution to "infotainment" (cheap to produce) rather than actual investigative reporting (costs more to produce). So yeah, thats why the lazy regurgiation of press releases and the gossipy who said and tweeted what

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

8. So glad to see this - hope they keep pushing til its front ¢er in the media& debate next wk nt

[Sunlei]

10. some of those hacked files are from 2008. IMO, RNC has control of the hacking side or what files are

released by WikiLeaks. Republican files are never leaked!

[riversedge]

12. I think the GOP has control also.

[Sunlei]

16. Thats espionage. They went after Manning like rabid dogs, wish they have the same zeal against

Republicans who seem to control or buy? stolen files dumped on WikiLeaks.

[TomCADem]

11. If That Is Bashing the Media, What is Trump Doing?

nt

[WhiteHat]

13. If Hillary hadn't availed herself of all that free money, could we have respected her?

And if she did, how could she possibly respect our interests?

That is THE question for these times.

Weigh the alternatives. Trump offers no hope for "the lessers," but we can still have some small hope that Hillary isn't as vicious, sexist and money-hungry and as goddamn mindless as Trump.

Is that a vote for Hillary? Yes, with some reservations. We have to count on her Democrats to keep her straight. We have some slight reason to hope there.

Gary Johnson is a total fool, carrying forward economic theories that were disproved more than a century ago. Totally free, unregulated markets are rapacious, Gary. It's a proven historical fact. That is the nature of unregulated capitalist markets. Even Adam Smith knew that. Managing markets in the interests of the public is an essential function of government. Don't you know ANYTHING?

Jill, God bless your brilliance, and your focus on the most important issue of our time, climate change. But it's all about money, isn't it? And on that topic you don't have the slightest clue, do you?

Yeah, it's Hillary.

Gawd (and Bernie and Elizabeth) help us. But at least Hillary says the right words, offering hope for healthy change. Trump? Not.

Johnson? Go away, pothead. Jill? Bless you, you're right about the most important issue facing human survival, but hey, we have these mechanisms in place that don't align with your knowledge and experience. They're called "markets." I hope you can become part of the Hillary administration.

Vote Hillary. No matter what.

[Sunlei]

15. That's BS. She's an honest person and has the backing of every top flight D there is.

So what if she's ambitious and a workaholic, those are virtues for any President.

[Vinca]

14. I think the WikiLeaks/Russian leaks are a modern day Watergate.

Trump used some lines from the emails before they were released by WikiLeaks. I suspect the reason Manifort supposedly left the campaign was so he could coordinate the delivering of the hacked emails to Trump. They just didn't time it right. They should have waited until the emails were public. It seems obvious there was planned assistance from the Russian government to help get Trump elected. I wonder if he promised Putin something or if Putin just considers him the ultimate fool to be easily manipulated.

[Tarheel_Dem]

17. The "media" is still trying to pretend that the email "scandal" is equivalent to the potential....

Groper-In-Chief. Rump is right about one thing, the media can be just as dishonest as he is.