The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn’t About Hillary Clinton

[Peter_Plato]

The most important revelation in the WikiLeaks dump of John Podesta’s emails has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton. The messages go all the way back to 2008, when Podesta served as co-chair of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team. And a month before the election, the key staffing for that future administration was almost entirely in place, revealing that some of the most crucial decisions an administration can make occur well before a vote has been cast.

Michael Froman, who is now U.S. trade representative but at the time was an executive at Citigroup, wrote an email to Podesta on October 6, 2008, with the subject “Lists.” Froman used a Citigroup email address. He attached three documents: a list of women for top administration jobs, a list of non-white candidates, and a sample outline of 31 cabinet-level positions and who would fill them. “The lists will continue to grow,” Froman wrote to Podesta, “but these are the names to date that seem to be coming up as recommended by various sources for senior level jobs.”

The cabinet list ended up being almost entirely on the money. It correctly identified Eric Holder for the Justice Department, Janet Napolitano for Homeland Security, Robert Gates for Defense, Rahm Emanuel for chief of staff, Peter Orszag for the Office of Management and Budget, Arne Duncan for Education, Eric Shinseki for Veterans Affairs, Kathleen Sebelius for Health and Human Services, Melody Barnes for the Domestic Policy Council, and more. For the Treasury, three possibilities were on the list: Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, and Timothy Geithner.

This was October 6. The election was November 4. And yet **Froman, an executive at Citigroup, which would ultimately become the recipient of the largest bailout from the federal government during the financial crisis, had mapped out virtually the entire Obama cabinet, a month before votes were counted. **And according to the Froman/Podesta emails, lists were floating around even before that.

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[josh987654321]

Surprise, Surprise.

I hope the transition is quick and unexpected so that the Obama Administration and Hillary can’t do something stupid.

If the Obama Administration and Hillary could end up in jail, than I would not be surprised they attempt something drastic or extreme in an effort to avert that.

“For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.”

If WikiLeaks have anything very serious, they should hold onto it until after the election, releasing something that would certainly land the Obama Administration or Clinton in jail before the U.S. has a chance to vote them out I believe would be foolish, considering they are still running the Country at this point.

It’s a dangerous game that’s being played. There just needs to be enough released to indicate such corruption so the people can vote them out, but not so much as to convict them, they need to think they could still win.

I hope this has helped

God Bless You

Thank you for reading
Josh

 

[meteoric]

If the Republicans had a real candidate, I would expect them to have some pretty close to final lists of senior people by this time. There isn’t anything wrong here.

Tom A.

 

[sallybutler]

Shouldn’t this be in world news?

 

[Viki63]

I don’t see anything jail-worthy in this leak.
Of course a presidential candidate has made a list of his potential candidates well before hand. I’m sure both candidates have theirs already.
And Clinton is not going to jail. It might be a good thing for her if she did, but there’s no way. You can’t jail people for lack of character, and any of her missteps have been well covered up.

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[Peter_Plato]

If the Republicans had a real candidate, I would expect them to have some pretty close to final lists of senior people by this time. There isn’t anything wrong here.

Tom A.

I think you are missing the point here.

The lists came from Froman (an executive at Citigroup) recommending who ought to be chosen for cabinet and the final selection by Obama was “on the money” in terms of who was selected. And, even more importantly, Citigroup subsequently received the largest bailout from the Federal government – i.e., from those precise individuals he had “recommended” for cabinet posts.

Does the word “cronyism” (of the worst kind) mean nothing, here? Have we lost all sense of what proper political process ought to look like? It appears we have.