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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (11620)	7/22/2016 3:58:23 PM
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She will bring it out after the election, one way or another.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (11620)	7/22/2016 6:53:38 PM
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WikiLeaks releases thousands of documents about Clinton and internal deliberations By Tom Hamburger and Karen Tumulty Post Politics July 22 at 4:28 PM Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks in Atlantic City, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP) As Hillary Clinton prepared to announce her 2016 running mate, a trove of nearly 20,000 emails were released by WikiLeaks on Friday, providing an embarrassing inside look at Democratic Party operations on the eve of the Democrats' national convention. The emails from the Democratic National Committee include discussions of Clinton's chief rival for the presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.); details of perks provided to party donors attending the convention; and email exchanges between party officials, journalists and others. The emails were released with an announcement by WikiLeaks on Twitter that linked readers to a WikiLeaks page inviting visitors to "Search the DNC email database." A search box sits underneath a one-paragraph introduction: "Today, Friday 22 July 2016 at 10:30am EDT, WikiLeaks releases 19,252 emails and 8,034 attachments from the top of the US Democratic National Committee — part one of our new Hillary Leaks series," the introduction says. "The leaks come from the accounts of seven key figures in the DNC," including Communications Director Luis Miranda (10770 emails), National Finance Director Jordon Kaplan (3797 emails), Finance Chief of Staff Scott Comer and others. The newly released emails cover the period from January 2015 through May 25, 2016. Friday's digital document dump follows a report last month by The Washington Post that Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee, gaining access to an entire database of opposition research. DNC and Clinton campaign did not respond to a request for comment Friday as reporters and campaign staff began to assess the situation. The Post's Ellen Nakashima goes over the events, and discusses the two hacker groups responsible. The Post's Ellen Nakashima goes over the events, and discusses the two hacker groups responsible. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post) The Post's Ellen Nakashima goes over the events, and discusses the two hacker groups responsible. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post) One email written May 5 to DNC communications director Luis Miranda from another party official suggests looking at Bernie Sanders' faith. [ WikiLeaks: Democratic Party officials appear to discuss using Sanders’s faith against him] "It might may no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief," the email from "marshall@dnc.org" says. "Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist." It was well known that there had been friction between the Sanders campaign and an ostensibly impartial party apparatus. The emails detail how bitter the relationship became, as the senator emerged as a real threat Clinton — the Democratic establishment's pick — and refused to abandon his bid as it became clear she was going to win. The release of the emails comes at a sensitive moment, as Clinton prepares to announce her vice presidential pick and the party gets ready to gather for its national convention in Philadelphia. One of the chief imperatives at the convention will be soothing whatever resistance remains to Clinton among the party's liberal activist wing against unifying behind her. Sanders's supporters are crucial to Democratic hopes in the fall — both for the passion they bring to the contest, and for the vast amounts of money they are capable of raising. An email attachment from Erik Stowe, the finance director for Northern California to Tammy Paster, a fundraising consultant, lists the benefits given to different tiers of donors to the Democratic National Convention starting next week in Philadelphia. The tiers range between a donation of $467,600 to $66,800 to the DNC, or alternatively need people to bundle a minimum of $1.25 million to $250,000 from other donors. The top tier of donors will receive priority booking at a premier hotel in Philadelphia and free tickets to major convention events and six tickets to an "exclusive VIP party," according to the document titled, "2016 Convention Packages." Anu Narayanswamy contributed to this report.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (11620)	7/22/2016 6:55:56 PM
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WikiLeaks: Democratic Party officials appear to discuss using Sanders’s faith against him By Michelle Boorstein and Julie Zauzmer Acts of Faith July 22 at 4:24 PM This Feb. 27, 2013, file photo shows hands typing on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) Internal Democratic National Committee emails appear to show officials discussing using Sen. Bernie Sanders’s faith against him with voters, with one saying “my Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.” The emails were published by WikiLeaks. Someone who answered the media line at the DNC on Friday afternoon said they weren’t available to comment immediately. [ WikiLeaks releases thousands of documents about Clinton, the campaign and internal deliberations The May 5 emails apparently showing party leaders conspiring against Sanders came at a time when many Democratic Party leaders were tired of the Sanders-Clinton campaign continuing and wanted to move on with a nomination of Hillary Clinton against an eventual GOP nominee. Sanders would have been the first major-ticket nominee — or president — to openly present himself as nonreligious and was not speaking much about his faith background. Some Democrats close to party conversations about faith said the emails showed party activists anxious to move ahead in the fight against the GOP more than a drive to shut down an atheist or a Jew. But others said that such emails were a stain on the party as it aims to present Trump as intolerant against Muslims and others because of their faith. The emails don’t mention Sanders by name. [ Bernie Sanders, who could get further than any Jewish candidate for president, has just opened up about his Jewishness] In one email, DNC chief financial officer Brad Marshall says he wants to get the question of Sanders’s faith raised — apparently in primaries in Kentucky and West Virginia. The email was sent to DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda, Deputy Communications Director Mark Paustenbach and CEO Amy Lacey. “It might may no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist,” reads the email. Another Marshall email, dated a few minutes later, says, “It’s these Jesus thing.” A few hours later Lacey responds: “Amen.” The Kentucky primary was May 17 and West Virginia’s was May 10. Clinton won Kentucky and Sanders won West Virginia. While the DNC did not immediately comment to the Post, The Intercept, which first reported on the WikiLeaks email, quoted Marshall Friday as saying by email that he did not “recall” the exchange. “I can say it would not have been Sanders. It would probably be about a surrogate.” Michael Briggs, a spokesman for the Sanders’s campaign, said in an email Friday that he was unavailable to talk. [ A “Pope Francis Catholic" — if Clinton picks Tim Kaine, will his faith matter?] Burns Strider, who was faith adviser to the Clinton campaign in 2008 and now works with Clinton’s campaign and the DNC, said the -mails didn’t show “a serious attempt” to dig up information on Sanders. “These are very good and decent people on this email loop. Internal loops can take a sundry directions. Frankly, had there been a real attempt made to determine Senator Sanders’ belief system I would have known about it. Yet, respect for toward Senator Sanders and his beliefs are quite clear because we don’t know what they are. No one ever pursued such a line of discovery,” Strider wrote the Post. Russian goverment hackers penetrated the Democratic National Committee and had access to the DNC network for about a year, but all were expelled earlier in June. Russian goverment hackers penetrated the Democratic National Committee and had access to the DNC network for about a year, but all were expelled in June. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post) Russian goverment hackers penetrated the Democratic National Committee and had access to the DNC network for about a year, but all were expelled earlier in June. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post) Someone who has worked on Democratic presidential campaigns said Friday that it seemed more like a “political calculation” than some focus on keeping out a secular candidate on principle. People who say they have “no religion” are now the single largest faith constituency of the Democratic Party, polls show. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the problem is more of appearance — that the email leak came as the Clinton campaign is trying to cement its status as the party of religious diversity. “Candidates’ faith belongs in the public arena, but to weaponize that is exactly what Democrats have self-righteously accused Republicans of doing,” the person said.