WikiLeaks released on Friday a fresh portion of emails written to or by John Podesta, the campaign chairman of the US Democratic party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
New Revelations: WikiLeaks Dumps 7th Batch of Clinton Campaign Chairman's Emails
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The new release brings the total number of Podesta's emails leaked so far by the whistleblowing website to 10,169.
The previously published emails gave insight into the early stages of mapping out Clinton's presidential campaign strategy. The letters revealed, for example, that Clinton reversed her position on free trade agreements from enthusiastic support to strong opposition, as trade deals appeared to be a hot-button issue for many voters and one of the main talking points for Clinton's Democratic Party rival Senator Bernie Sanders and Republican candidate Donald Trump.
In July, WikiLeaks published nearly 20,000 hacked emails that apparently showed the Democratic National Committee (DNC) members discussing ways to undercut Bernie Sanders in the race for the Democratic nomination.
RELEASE: The Podesta Emails Part 7
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WikiLeaks on Friday released a new batch of leaked documents with details of negotiations on the proposed international Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA).
WikiLeaks Publishes New Batch of Secret Documents From TiSA Agreement
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The documents include an annex on financial services and details on TiSA localization provisions. Details on so-called bilateral market access requests, in which negotiations participants ask each other to change their TiSA offers on various aspects of the deal, have also been leaked. Most of the requests appear to have been made by the European Union.
"Today, Friday [1]4 October 2016, 11:00am CEST, WikiLeaks releases new secret documents from the controversial Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) currently being negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for over 2/3rds of global GDP," WikiLeaks said on its website.
The previous leak was released on September 15 and revealed that most of the TiSA documents propose to relax the European Union's data protection standards as well introducing new lobbying regulations, according to critics. WikiLeaks said the documents showed that TiSA serves as a tool for securing corporate interests, as well as unveiling disagreements between the United States and the European Union on most-favored nation treatment and domestic regulation.
In May, WikiLeaks published the first batch of documents related to confidential 23-way talks on TiSA. The TiSA treaty is aimed at liberalizing the trade in services among the United States, the European Union and other countries accounting for nearly three-quarters of global services. The trade in services pact has been under discussion since 2013. Over a dozen of rounds of talks have since been concluded, with no deadline for ending the negotiations in sight, according to the European Commission.
Aides to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton began planning a strategy to abandon her support of trade agreements long before free-trade emerged as a toxic issue in the US presidential campaign, according to an email exchange released by WikiLeaks.
Aides Plan Clinton Reversal of TPP Support Long Before US Primary
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Documents published by WikiLeaks earlier have portrayed Clinton as a defender of trade deals in speeches to audiences that were heavily weighted with free-trade advocates who have donated heavily to the Clinton Foundation and Clinton’s campaign.
"Getting on the wrong side of [organized] Labor on the only issue they care about has ramifications on the ground in these early states," pollster and political consultant John Anzalone wrote in an April 2015 email that was released on Thursday. "I say we suck it up and be as definitive as possible from the beginning that we don’t like these deals."
With hindsight, the email exchange is notable for its prescience in that it took place nine months before voters in the US states of Iowa and New Hampshire became the first to cast ballots for their respective Democratic and Republican party nominees.
At the time, Clinton was earning hundreds of thousands of dollars giving speeches to bankers, Wall Street investors and other big-money sponsors of her career in politics.
When the presidential campaign began in earnest, Clinton found herself sandwiched between candidates on the right and left — Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump — who railed against existing trade agreements as US job killers.
During a debate with Sanders last year, Clinton abruptly changed her position by announcing that she opposed the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would link the United States with 11 other Pacific-rim nations.
The October 2015 email exchange boiled down to a debate between three top Clinton aides who now lead the Clinton presidential campaign — the chairman, the manager and the spokeswoman. At issue was how Clinton could minimize damage to her presidential campaign when the time came for her to back down. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta advocated a soft approach, in which Clinton would say she supports limits on presidential authority to negotiate trade deals. Spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri proposed that Clinton soften her free trade enthusiasm by criticizing the procedure used to negotiate the TPP trade agreement.
The third and toughest opinion came from Manager Robby Mook, who argued that Clinton should simply oppose the TPP as a bad deal for American workers — a position that Clinton ultimately adopted.
In the email string, Anzalone, the pollster and consultant, explained why he sided with Mook. "It sends the strongest signal not only to [organized] Labor but to where voters are on trade," Anzalone wrote. "They feel they always get the raw end of the deal. I am less concerned about historical blowback on her [Clinton’s] past position than this issue eating us alive for being on the wrong side." President Barack Obama supports the TPP agreement and has indicated that he will submit the agreement to Congress for an up or down vote before leaving office. Meanwhile, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had made accusations of a Clinton flip-flop part of his campaign, saying that the former first lady will say she opposes TPP to get elected and then change her mind if she makes it to the White House.
New emails released by WikiLeaks reveal the Clinton campaign’s anxieties about one of Hillary Clinton’s primary debate performances as well as concerns over a New York Times report about the candidate’s main super PAC.
New WikiLeaks Clinton Reveal: Benghazi, Super PACs, Encryption Policies
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One volley of email correspondence between Clinton’s domestic policy adviser Sara Solow to digital director Teddy Goff shows the campaign discussing Clinton’s answer to a question about encrypted communications during an early primary debate.
"I actually do believe there is a way to thread the needle here,” Goff wrote, adding that it “requires us to quickly pivot from encryption to the broader issue of working with tech companies to detect and stop" terrorists. "[In] terms of wanting a way to break in, couldn’t we tell tech off the record that she had in mind the malware/key strokes idea…Or that she had in mind really super code breaking by the NSA. But not the backdoor per se?" Solow responded.
Another email sent to Podesta from a strategic consulting firm suggests ways for "putting Bengazi [sic] Republicans on the defensive while siding with Americans." Suggestions from the firm included making Congressional Republicans the focus of the Benghazi hearings by blaming them for prioritizing one tragedy over others.
"The question and challenge Hillary Clinton could pose would be: 'Why is this committee spending over $4 million dollars and two years on a tragedy involving the death of 4 Americans while House Republicans have held few or no hearings on,'" and then listed a series of examples of other causes of deaths in the US, among them gun violence and breast cancer. Other exchanges show that the Clinton campaign was very worried about a New York Times story about the super PAC Priorities USA.
Are they reporting any specific donor names?" Clinton’s national finance director, Dennis Cheng, asked.
"So afraid that NYT is going with this story on Priorities whether we like or not," campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri replied.
"They have sources about the meetings. Honestly, it sounds like Priorities staff was yapping. We are not confirming meetings on this trip but commenting on why we are participating with Priorities." A separate email expressed concerns with tweets by New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel about students being coached on questions prior to a campaign event. "Admin was 'saying like that’s what she wants.' We all had q’s outside of education, they hinted at not asking those, says student,” said one tweet. "Last one is kinda BS," communications staffer Ian Sams wrote, referring to that tweet.
If Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton becomes the next US president and Democrats gain control of Congress, the United States will come under threat of liberal progressivism, US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said in Madison, Wisconsin on Friday.
Clinton Threatens America’s Future With 'Liberal Progressivism' - US Official
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Ryan noted that the left in the United States is rigging the system, because liberal progressivism is government by and for the elites, instead of government by and for the people.
"The left does not just seek a continuation of the last eight years, they do not just seek to further the liberal progressive experiment, they intend to make it into a reality, an arrogant, condescending and paternalistic reality," Ryan stated.
"When Hillary Clinton says we are all stronger together, what she means [is]… we are stronger if we give up our ties and our responsibility to one another and hand it all over to the government," Ryan explained.
Ryan also said that if Clinton is given both the White House and Democrats control of Congress, nothing will stop the United States from coming to a precipice, and this generation will be the first one not to leave the next generation better off.
The Russian leader described closed-off and nontransparent projects such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as regrettable.
Putin: Attempts to Create Nontransparent Projects Like TTIP, TPP 'Regrettable'
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Some countries’ attempts to create closed-off and nontransparent projects such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are regrettable, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Sputnik and the IANS news agency."The global economic and financial situation remains difficult, with the consequences of the global financial crisis still persisting. It is therefore regrettable that certain countries seek to solve the problems that have built up by introducing protectionist measures and trying to engage in restricted non-transparent projects, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership," Putin said.
The president stressed that that Russia and its BRICS partners remained committed to "shaping open non-discriminatory economic areas" based on the principles of the World Trade Organization.
