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Brazile Under Fire As More Emails Purport to Show Secret Leaks of Questions To Clinton

220px-donna_brazile_1200px-Cnn.svgWe discussed earlier how Donna Brazile, the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, denied the legitimacy of emails that showed her leaking a question to Hillary Clinton that would be asked verbatim at the CNN downhill event. The media has largely declined to investigate the claim, including confirming the receipt of the earlier email from the Clinton staffer. Now additional emails allegedly show Brazile secretly feeding information to the Clinton campaign. Again, there has been relatively little media attention to the story and CNN issued a remarkably weak response that it was “uncomfortable” with the new disclosures on Brazile’s actions while a CNN commentator. “Uncomfortable”? How about words like “unethical”?

There are now three troubling levels to this story. First, CNN maintained throughout the primary that Brazile (who was well known as a supporter of Hillary Clinton) was a “neutral” commentator. It was a facially ridiculous claim for anyone familiar with Washington. Second, Brazile then alleged passed along questions to Clinton in what would be a deeply unethical act. Third, Brazile then said that the emails were not real and that she could prove it.

The easiest way to confirm the earlier story is to ask the recipient campaign adviser Jennifer Palmieri who is readily available to the media. However, reporters have not pressed Palmieri. In the meantime, Brazile gave a rambling denial of the story that would normally trigger a feeding frenzy. In addition, some techies have posted a research that they say strongly support claims of authenticity, but the response of the media has been crickets.

Now, the latest email show that Brazile revealed to the Clinton campaign the name of the person who provided her with a question that was asked of Clinton at a March 13 town hall co-hosted by CNN and TV One. Brazile also shared a question from a debate hosted by CNN a week earlier. She allegedly named Roland Martin, a TV One host who co-moderated a March 13 town hall with CNN’s Jake Tapper, as her source. The March 5th email shows Brazile sharing a question with Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and communications director Jennifer Palmieri that was to be asked in a March 6 debate hosted by CNN in Flint, Mich.

In a March 12 exchange, Brazile again refers to Martin and offers to provide more than just the one town hall question: “I’ll send a few more. Though some questions Roland submitted,” Brazile wrote to Palmieri in the March 12 email thread, which is entitled “From time to time I get the questions in advance.”

Now the emails contradict the denials of other CNN figures about sharing questions with Brazile.

In a March 5 email, Brazile reportedly leaked a question that was to be asked the next day at a debate that was hosted by CNN’s Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper: “One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash . . . Her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint.”

Then in the debate a woman named Lee-Anne Walters did ask the question of both Clinton and Sanders:

“After my family, the city of Flint and the children in D.C. were poisoned by lead, will you make a personal promise to me right now that, as president, in your first 100 days in office, you will make it a requirement that all public water systems must remove all lead service lines throughout the entire United States, and notification made to the – the citizens that have said service lines,”

In response, CNN again denied sharing questions and said “We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor.” CNN has cut all ties with Brazile, but of course she remains the DNC head after replacing Debbie Wasserman Schultz (who ironically was viewed as working to rig the primary for Clinton).

It would seem of more than passing interest for the media to determine if the head of the DNC, let alone a former CNN contributor, is lying. Yet, there appears to be a minimal level of coverage of the story.

84 thoughts on “Brazile Under Fire As More Emails Purport to Show Secret Leaks of Questions To Clinton”

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  3. @NickS

    Thanks! I enjoy giving them hell! This is what I posted on another thread, but it belongs here, too:

    Donna Brazile is the prefect face for the head of the DNC! Telling you what a good, Christian woman she is to your face (aka her “public position”) and then behind your back, (aka her “private position”) she is lying, cheating, stealing,rigging, and deceiving.

    Supercilious Schmucks like IsaacB and PhilaT get fooled by the “public position” every time!

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

  5. DNC is utterly corrupt. Brazile needs to be removed from her office. Maybe get a real job – K Mart cashier? Elementary school lunch lady? Janitor? Something simple that is real work yet does not require any ethical dilemmas…

  6. There has been one scandal after another with the DNC, with major players resigning over cheating allegations.

    Disturbing…

  7. Seems you have decided that regardless of where the “emails” come and although hacked She,Donna Brazile is guilty, I am not so sure especially when She claims otherwise. CNN uncomfortable with Brazile but perfectly fine with Leandowski while still on the payroll of Trump. Really?

    1. Bunnie: The last batch of emails was supposed to start being released (four or five separate dumps) today by Wikileaks.

      Has Brazile denied she wrote the offending “private” emails? She better be careful what she says, especially knowing the FBI has whatever was on Weiner’s laptop hard drive.

  9. Squeek, I love your combativeness. You don’t suffer fools or foolishness.

  10. Steve Groen is intellectually honest. The Canadian is 0 for 2 in those categories. I assess people for a living. The Clinton campaign is getting more and more shrill and panicky the last few days. I can smell the sweat on the old girl, along w/ the “smell of boiled cabbage, urine and farts.”

    1. Nick

      You see what you want to see and hear what you want to hear. The first indication of a hollow person is when they present their credentials in with their arguments. Another indication is the lame attacks on nationalities etc. Those that make themselves larger by deriding other nationalities are truly the most hollow. They think that the result of their parents’ tom foolery makes them an American or any other nationality. Unfortunately too many Americans are American by birth only. They do next to nothing to understand what it is all about, no thinking, no research, just hollow gestures.

      If the argument stands it stands on its own merit. There are more than enough idiots out there doing damage with more degrees than a thermometer. You seem to rely on your credentials, your sense of smell, expertise in BBQ, vast encounters with all persons pertinent to any and all situations, etc. You fit right in at a Trump rally.

      1. I think that although the race is close that Trump’s attacks on Latinos will ultimately prove to be his undoing.

        1. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/suppress-black-vote-trump-campaign-230616 “Energized by Trump’s candidacy and alarmed by his warnings of a “rigged election,” white nationalist, alt-right and militia movement groups are planning to come out in full force on Tuesday, creating the potential for conflict at the close of an already turbulent campaign season.

          “The possibility of violence on or around Election Day is very real,” said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. “Donald Trump has been telling his supporters for weeks and weeks and weeks now that they are about to have the election stolen from them by evil forces on behalf of the elites.”

          This could backfire, too.

          1. Christopher Hayes Verified account
            ‏@chrislhayes

            One way to think about an election is: who are the literal Nazis and Klansmen supporting? Maybe I should look elsewhere.

          2. The $outhern Poverty Law Center was exposed 16 years ago as a direct mail scam in the pages of Harper’s magazine of all places. Unless you want to add to Mrs. Morris Dees’ collection of odd knick-knacks, I’d recommend not donating. Of course, the presstitutes continue to quote them as if they were a real legal services agency.

      2. The thought of Trump’s mass deportation does not bother this civil liberties blog one bit. They probably relish the thought

  12. Prof Turley, I’ll bet you didn’t know Justin Bieber was posting in from Canada. I didn’t know he followed current events.

    1. The DNC, the Clinton Campaign and Foundation, State Dept and Obama admin are all conspiring to obstruct justice.

      Erasing emails isn’t always comprehensive, as Huma and Hillary are about to find out:

      “Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton may have violated national-security laws with emails that Huma forwarded to herself at humamabedin@yahoo.com, which ended up on a laptop owned by her husband, former Congressman Anthony Weiner.”

      https://californiajimmy.com/2016/10/31/huma-abedin-forwarded-classified-emails-yahoo-archive-account-oct-2016/

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