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Report: Bernie Sanders Campaign Improperly Accessed Confidential Clinton Voter Data
Ashley Feinberg · 12/18/15 02:22AMThe Democratic National Committee has accused Bernie Sanders’ campaign of illicitly accessing confidential voter information acquired by the Clinton campaign, The Washington Post reported late Thursday night. Sanders’ campaign manager, for his part, hasn’t denied the allegations outright—but he is chalking the whole thing up to a computer glitch.
Clinton Aide Who Avoided FOIA Insists He Didn’t Want to Avoid FOIA When He Wrote “I Want to Avoid FOIA”
J.K. Trotter · 12/17/15 10:20AMFormer State Department official and longtime Hillary Clinton operative Philippe Reines has repeatedly stated that his email practices at State were aboveboard—even though he was caught lying about using a personal email address to conduct official government business. But new emails obtained by Gawker show that on at least one occasion, Reines discussed skirting the federal open-records law known as the Freedom of Information Act. According to the emails, he told two reporters,“I want to avoid FOIA.” Reines’ attorney dismisses the comment as a joke—but if it was, it was of the funny-because-it’s-true variety.
Jeb Bush's Last Resort: Donald Trump Is a Clinton Plant
Jordan Sargent · 12/08/15 05:45PMJeb Bush has suffered at the hands of Donald Trump, who has taken special glee in taunting all of his weaker opponents in the Republican field, but especially so the one-time presumed frontrunner from a previously untouchable political dynasty. Today, Jeb revealed what might be his final attempt at felling the orange beast: perpetuating the conspiracy theory that Trump was planted in the GOP race by the Clinton family.
Martin O'Malley Asks Democrats to Memorize His Face In Case Hillary Dies
Allie Jones · 12/01/15 03:10PMMartin O’Malley is now campaigning to be Democrats’ “second choice” for president, which isn’t a thing. But the former governor of Maryland announced his futile goal today in a meeting with House Dems, who have mostly all said they support Hillary Clinton, in an apparent attempt to remind them that he still exists.
Hillary Clinton Again Invokes 9/11 to Explain Her Wall Street Fundraising
Alex Pareene · 12/01/15 01:57PMAt a Democratic presidential debate in Iowa last month, Hillary Clinton was challenged to account for the fact that a large proportion of her campaign fundraising haul has come from the financial sector. She responded with a non sequitur about 9/11. Asked to elaborate, she seemed to argue that her popularity in the finance sector is primarily a result of personal relationships developed in the aftermath of that tragedy in lower Manhattan.
Which Friend of Sid Blumenthal Did Hillary Try to Hook Up with a State Department Job?
Sam Biddle · 11/30/15 06:20PMThe State Department just released a new batch of Hillary Clinton’s private emails, so you know what that means: lots of corny, goofball emails asking for articles to be printed out, plus some genuinely interesting items. Like Madame Secretary trying to do an HR favor for some friend of Sid Blumenthal.
Hillary: I Want to Believe (That I Can Avoid Difficult Questions)
Ashley Feinberg · 11/24/15 04:01PMEmails Show Politico’s Mike Allen Promised Positive Coverage of Chelsea Clinton
J.K. Trotter · 11/24/15 02:15PMFew journalists are more thoroughly connected to Washington’s power elite than Politico’s Chief White House correspondent Mike Allen. But as newly released emails between the veteran reporter and a former State Department official show, Allen’s coveted access sometimes comes at the cost of his own credibility—as well as Politico’s reputation as an adversarial news outlet.
New Trump Ad: Hillary Clinton Cackles as Benghazi Burns
Ashley Feinberg · 11/23/15 03:32PMStep One of Hillary Clinton's Multi-Part Strategy to Defeat ISIS Is "Defeat ISIS"
Alex Pareene · 11/19/15 12:40PMUnion Endorses Candidate That Agrees With It the Least
Hamilton Nolan · 11/18/15 10:43AMHillary Clinton Explains Why Wall Street Loves Her: 9/11
Alex Pareene · 11/14/15 11:18PMIt is a fact that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, like her previous political campaigns, is funded in large part by donations from the finance industry. Bernie Sanders has criticized her for this—or, at least, he has pointed this out, critically. At tonight’s inconveniently scheduled Democratic debate on CBS, Sanders was asked to reiterate that criticism. Clinton’s response was, well, memorable.
What Kind of Dog Is Each Presidential Candidate?
Allie Jones · 11/06/15 03:45PMA Wild Idea: Support the Candidate You Agree With
Hamilton Nolan · 11/06/15 03:20PMBen Affleck Knew Hillary Clinton's Secret Email Address
Sam Biddle · 10/30/15 04:18PMClinton Lawyer Attempts to Explain, to Hillary, Her Own Feelings About Her Blackberry
Sam Biddle · 10/30/15 04:02PMHillary Clinton's Campaign Staffers Locked Themselves in a Bathroom Yesterday—Or Did They?
Brendan O'Connor · 10/29/15 08:39PMYesterday, my colleague Hamilton Nolan wrote that Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, was a “poop butt toilet” candidate in the upcoming presidential election. One wonders whether he’d have made the same claim if he had known that several members of Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff were stuck in a bathroom.
Hamilton Nolan · 10/28/15 02:25PM
State Department: Actually, We Have 90,000 Philippe Reines Documents
J.K. Trotter · 10/23/15 04:18PMAttorneys for the U.S. Department of State have just notified Gawker Media that the agency is once again upgrading its estimate of the number of emails exchanged between news reporters and Philippe Reines, the former State Department spokesperson and multi-purpose consigliere of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As you may recall: In 2013, in response to our Freedom of Information Act request seeking those emails, State officials asserted, bizarrely, that no such emails existed. In August of this year—five months after Gawker filed a lawsuit against State—that estimate increased to 17,855 emails.