naivete collides with a set of now - disclosed 2011 emails . Aide Jake Sullivan , who 's trying to send her a message — we do n't know its sensitivity — tells her that staffers " say they 've had issues sending secure fax . They 're working on it . "
The revelation of Burt ’s simultaneous lobbying and campaign - advising comes at a time of mounting concerns about Russian attempts to manipulate the presidential election . Private security experts and American intelligence officials have concluded that recent hacks of the Democratic National Committee , state elections systems , and political figures were likely carried out by Russian government hackers . Trump , meanwhile , has repeatedly professedcontact.publicstatementinperson.broadcastadmiration for Putin and called into question whether he would honor the United States ’ mutual defense obligations to NATO allies should they face Russian invasion . Said Burt of the apparent attempts to subvert the election , “ It does appear to be a lot of suspicious activity on the part of the Russian government . ” Authors :
Deemed “ CableGate , ” Assange planned to release confidential cables , or communications , unveiling damaging internal conversations between State Department personnel and its foreign assets and allies . Prodded by the looming CableGate , Clinton met with staff on Tuesday November 23 , 2010 shortly after 8 a.m. on Mahogany Row at the State Department to attempt to formulate a strategy to avert Assange ’s plans to release an enormous batch of 250,000 secret cables , dating from 1966 to 2010 . Assange had professedcontact.publicstatementinperson.broadcastfor months to rain the internal cables down on Clinton and President Obama . The collective fear was the context of the secret cables would hamper U.S. intelligence gathering and compromise private correspondences and intelligence shared with foreign governments and opposition leaders . Splashing such juicy details on television news shows and the front pages of major newspapers in the country was great for the media but lousy for intelligence and foreign policy .
They started from that little area , and now they ’re in 32 different nations , Hillary . Congratulations . Great job . ” What Trump does n’t mention is that he himself favored the pullout from Iraq as early as 2006 , when he told CNBC , “ I would like to see our president get us out of the war [ in Iraq ] because the war is a total catastrophe . ” Trump professedcontact.publicstatementinperson.broadcasthimself to be unconcerned about what would happen after the U.S. pullout : “ Somebody will take over Iraq , whether we ’re there or not , but probably when we leave , will take over Iraq . … He will make Saddam Hussein look like a baby . ” So Trump actually foresaw what a mess Iraq would be after the American pullout , but he was in favor of it just the same . Now he is attacking Clinton for taking the very same positions — in favor of the Iraq War and in favor of a pullout — that he himself advocated for . There is a word for someone who lies as repeatedly as Trump does and continues doubling down on his lies no matter how many times he is called out on his behavior : pathological .
Even conservative - leaning places such as Baylor University in Waco , the largest Baptist university in the world , last week announced it too would forbid guns on its premises . Ellen Spiro , a professor and Gun Free UT member , said the scale of the rejections by universities that had a choice showed that Texas politicians who backed the law are “ extremist legislators ” serving the gun lobby not the academic community . Critics also point to an apparent inconsistency in logic : if the professedcontact.publicstatementinperson.broadcastaim of campus carry laws is to promote safety by giving students a tool to defend themselves and also to pursue their constitutional right to bear arms , why do the rules allow students to be treated differently depending on whether they are at the public University of Houston , or three miles west at the private Rice University ? A representative for Brian Birdwell , the state senator who authored the bill , said on Tuesday that the Republican was unavailable for comment . During the law ’s passage , Birdwell explained the get - out clause by saying he did not want to prioritise gun rights over the right of private entities to make their own decisions .
Podesta said he did n’t know if the FBI ’s investigation included a probe of Trump ’s campaign – and believes that no other campaign officials ' email accounts , or Clinton ’s own correspondence , had been hacked . An email to Stone Tuesday night was n’t immediately returned . Podesta said he was n't happy about the invasion of his privacy -- which has provided an unprecedented view into the campaign 's inner workings in real time -- but professedcontact.publicstatementinperson.broadcastto be " Zen " about the ordeal , despite his reputation for having a volcanic temper . On Friday , Assange 's group released the first batch of emails , featuring excerpts from Clinton 's long - sought - after Wall Street speeches -- including one that included her assertion that politicians needed to have two positions , their real opinions , and a public stance that pacifies voters who are n't equipped to deal with the " sausage - making " of American realpolitik . Another tranche released Monday -- a rare bit of good news for the imploding Trump campaign -- revealed a ferocious internal battle at Bill Clinton 's charitable foundation , with daughter Chelsea accusing foundation executive Doug Band of acting in his own financial self - interest .
" All forms of terrorism are bad . All forms of terrorism are evil , " Erdogan said , then mentioned the names of a Kurdish group with which the US is allied in Syria but is regarded by Ankara as a terrorist organization . As he headed to Laos , Obama professedcontact.publicstatementinperson.broadcastto being undeterred by the unpredictable unfriendly international environment at the end of his presidency . " I think we all to have recognize these are turbulent times . A lot of countries are seeing volatile politics , " he said at his news conference .