Hillary Clinton blames FBI, Russia for poll loss

That’s because anonymous Central Intelligence Agency officials think Russian Federation hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which damaged Clinton.

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch dismissed Mr. Podesta’s accusation that the agency delayed a response to the cyberattacks. “Yet he refused to join the rest of the intelligence community in a statement about the Russian cyberattack because he reportedly didn’t want to appear ‘political'”.

We obviously can not assess if the two events were connected, as Podesta suggested, but on the timeline he’s right.

“Maybe before the end of the show”, Podesta joked.

“It’s very much unknown whether there was collusion”, Podesta said.

“And this is something every American should be anxious about”, Clinton said in remarks Thursday to campaign donors. Strategically, this makes a lot of sense. He told the low-level IT contractor he was shunted to that at a minimum one DNC computer in their system had been hacked by what they had named “the Dukes”, a cyberespionage cabal linked to the Russian government.

He also cited the presence (pending Senate confirmation) of retired general James Mattis as a potential influence in taking Russian Federation more seriously as a geopolitical foe and called for renewed focus on Russia’s advantages in “cyber-warfare”.

“Russia clearly intervened”, Podesta said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” in a series of carefully worded responses about who was behind the hacked emails and their impact on Clinton’s losing campaign.

In an interview with NPR News airing on Friday, Obama said whenever a foreign government tries to interfere in USA elections, the nation must take action “and we will at a time and place of our own choosing”. The FBI should also clarify whether there is an ongoing investigation into Trump, his associates and their ties to Russian Federation. But even for those who did, the most they could claim is that Russian Federation provided the emails that led WikiLeaks to publish its trove of documents about Clinton’s campaign. But it should be obvious to even the most casual observer of American politics that Clinton’s electoral defeat was a homegrown phenomenon.

Clinton further stated, “This is not just an attack on me and my campaign, although that may have added fuel to it”. This is the origin story of the Clinton Email Scandal™.

Mr. Podesta said the agency did not contact him about the hack into his personal email account until after WikiLeaks began publishing his emails by the thousands on October 7.

Podesta himself, for his part, was unsubtle about just how damaging those emails were.

Meanwhile, House Republicans who had an insatiable appetite for investigating Clinton have been resistant to probing deeply into Russia’s efforts to swing the election to Trump.

By contrast, the most relentless barrage of negative Clinton coverage wouldn’t spike until the FBI investigation spilled into public view again.

Mr Comey has been accused of influencing the outcome by sending a letter to some members of Congress just days before the election, informing them that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had found e-mails pertinent to the probe into Mrs Clinton in the computer of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. That was when the blitzkrieg of anti-Clinton email coverage really surged. Republicans, Trump especially, have reason to say there’s no proof Russian Federation or Putin did this.

Even Donna Brazile, the interim Democratic National Committee chairwoman, said on ABC’s This Week that Trump’s victory had more to do with his cracking the “blue wall” of Democratic strongholds in the Midwest, from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin. “They should like him, he helped them get elected”. But it also misses which Clinton email controversy the Russian hacking controversy contributed to.