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re: WSJ: GOP Operative Sought Clinton Emails From Hackers, Implied a Connection to Flynn
Posted on 7/1/17 at 3:06 pm to TigerDoc
Posted on 7/1/17 at 3:06 pm to TigerDoc
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Obtaining purloined emails already in possession of foreign hackers has been discussed as a likely violation (taking foreign "in kind" assistance in an election) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974.
while possible, i'm just speaking of the "muh Russians" meme
the claim is that Russia and Trump coordinated on the hacking, with Flynn being the primary go-between
if Russia hacked Podesta and sat on it to where Flynn, et al had to go find it, then there is no coordination whatsoever
it's 2 separate events: (1) Russia hacking Podesta and (2) Trump's team acquiring that information
not quite the sexy narrative that's being promoted as of now
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Posted on 7/1/17 at 3:26 pm to SlowFlowPro
There are many threads in this story and the Podesta hack and the search for missing Clinton emails are separate but issues. In any case It will be hard to prove cooperation between the Kremlin and Trump campaign because the Russians use cut-outs, semi-independent operators that give a layer of deniability. It's not always FSB/GRU that run these operations in Europe. Smith's LLC could easily have served the a similar function of non-accountability for the Trump campaign, though we obviously don't know that.
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