Hillary Clinton's team met with Russian ambassador, says Kremlin spokesman, as he war

Hillary Clinton’s team members met with the Russian ambassador during the election as well as Donald Trump’s, the Kremlin spokesman has alleged, as he set out to dismiss the “hysteria” surrounding Mr Trump’s links to Russia.

The house intelligence committee will hold its first session on Russia on March 20, with the heads of the FBI, national security agency and CIA expected to appear, plus previous intelligence chiefs.

But Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary for Vladimir Putin, said on Sunday that America was “self-humiliating” in insisting that Russia hacked its election.

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He said that members of Mrs Clinton’s team had also met with Mr Kislyak, although he did not give specifics.

“Well, if you look at some people connected with Hillary Clinton during her campaign, you would probably see that he had lots of meetings of that kind,” he said. “There are lots of specialists in politology, people working in think tanks advising Hillary or advising people working for Hillary.”



Mrs Clinton's team is yet to comment on the allegations.

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Erod said:

Hillary Clinton's team met with Russian ambassador, says Kremlin spokesman, as he warns against 'hysteria'

This absurd Russian obsession is going to damage the dwindling Democrat party even further than it's already paltry existence for a long time.

Outside of the wackos, people simply don't care about this. They know it's overblown, fabricated BS. They've always known that meetings with ambassadors all over the world take place all the time. In fact, they expect it.

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Erod said:

Hillary Clinton's team met with Russian ambassador, says Kremlin spokesman, as he warns against 'hysteria'





This absurd Russian obsession is going to damage the dwindling Democrat party even further than it's already paltry existence for a long time.

Outside of the wackos, people simply don't care about this. They know it's overblown, fabricated BS. They've always known that meetings with ambassadors all over the world take place all the time. In fact, they expect it.

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Slyfox696 said:

Aww, that's cute. I love how hard some people are trying to spin.

Perhaps I missed it...can you show me where Russia interfered in the election in support of Hillary Clinton or in opposition to Donald Trump? Because that's the issue here. It's not that some people met with Russia, it's that they met with Russia and Russia took an active role in influencing our election.

Please present your evidence where Russia worked to influence the election in Clinton's favor or against Trump and I'll take your argument more seriously. Otherwise, the only "overblown, fabricated BS" is this story.

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Slyfox696 said:

Aww, that's cute. I love how hard some people are trying to spin.

Perhaps I missed it...can you show me where Russia interfered in the election in support of Hillary Clinton or in opposition to Donald Trump? Because that's the issue here. It's not that some people met with Russia, it's that they met with Russia and Russia took an active role in influencing our election.

Please present your evidence where Russia worked to influence the election in Clinton's favor or against Trump and I'll take your argument more seriously. Otherwise, the only "overblown, fabricated BS" is this story.

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Erod said:

So Russia forced the DNC to rig the election against Bernie? They forced Donna Brazile to give the debate questions to Hillary? The Russians have rigged the elections so that Dems only have 16 measly governorships, 27% of state legislatures, and have lost the House, Senate, presidency, and now the Supreme Court?

Your parents should have allowed you to lose a baseball game once or twice. This is beyond pathetic.

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Erod said:

Hillary Clinton's team met with Russian ambassador, says Kremlin spokesman, as he warns against 'hysteria'





This absurd Russian obsession is going to damage the dwindling Democrat party even further than it's already paltry existence for a long time.

Outside of the wackos, people simply don't care about this. They know it's overblown, fabricated BS. They've always known that meetings with ambassadors all over the world take place all the time. In fact, they expect it.

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Mr. Invisible said:

How about you present evidence that Russia interfered in the election on behalf of Trump or at all?

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haymarket said:

You use your eyes. You use your brain. You use your common sense. You use all your powers of observation recalling the events of the campaign including the public invitation from Trump himself to the Russians to get involved in the campaign by targeting Clinton.

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Mr. Invisible said:

That isn't evidence.

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haymarket said:

It is evidence enough to cause the investigations.

Why did Trump and his people LIE about Russian contacts in the first place?

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Mr. Invisible said:

You've yet to present any evidence that Russia interfered in the election or aided Trump, which is the (sub)topic we are talking about.

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haymarket said:

You prove that the ostrich is not the only creature who hides his head in the sand pretending not to see what is clearly around him. 17 different defense and intelligence agencies see it differently than you. I will take their assessment over yours any day of the week.

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haymarket said:

It is evidence enough to cause the investigations.

Why did Trump and his people LIE about Russian contacts in the first place?

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Slyfox696 said:

Aww, that's cute. I love how hard some people are trying to spin.

Perhaps I missed it...can you show me where Russia interfered in the election in support of Hillary Clinton or in opposition to Donald Trump? Because that's the issue here. It's not that some people met with Russia, it's that they met with Russia and Russia took an active role in influencing our election.

Please present your evidence where Russia worked to influence the election in Clinton's favor or against Trump and I'll take your argument more seriously. Otherwise, the only "overblown, fabricated BS" is this story.

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Mr. Invisible said:

You've yet to present any evidence that Russia interfered in the election or aided Trump, which is the (sub)topic we are talking about.

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Erod said:

So Russia forced the DNC to rig the election against Bernie? They forced Donna Brazile to give the debate questions to Hillary? The Russians have rigged the elections so that Dems only have 16 measly governorships, 27% of state legislatures, and have lost the House, Senate, presidency, and now the Supreme Court?

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Mr. Invisible said:

How about you present evidence that Russia interfered in the election on behalf of Trump or at all?

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jmotivator said:

And actually I'm pretty sure that YOU don't actually have evidence of Russian hacking specifically to aid Trump either, you are working on third hand and mostly anonymous sources.

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Slyfox696 said:

No, Russia likely hacked the DNC and colluded with Wikileaks to release the contents of the DNC hack on a piecemeal basis up until the election.

Surely you are aware of these facts, correct? You're really bad at word games, you should probably leave the spinning to someone else.
...if you're not aware of all the evidence linking Russia to interference, perhaps you should do a little Googling. The evidence is common knowledge, regardless of what conclusion you draw from the evidence.
We know for a fact the DNC was hacked. We know for a fact the hacked contents were released in piecemeal fashion at the most damaging possible time politically for Clinton. And we have numerous pieces of evidence Russia did the hacking.

Pay attention to what I said earlier. I was very careful to note Russia's interference to help Trump or hurt Clinton. I threw both possibilities in and did so intentionally.

I know it's fashionable right now for Republican supporters to ignore facts they don't like, but paying attention to facts is quite important for honest discussion.

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Slyfox696 said:

Aww, that's cute. I love how hard some people are trying to spin.

Perhaps I missed it...can you show me where Russia interfered in the election in support of Hillary Clinton or in opposition to Donald Trump? Because that's the issue here. It's not that some people met with Russia, it's that they met with Russia and Russia took an active role in influencing our election.

Please present your evidence where Russia worked to influence the election in Clinton's favor or against Trump and I'll take your argument more seriously. Otherwise, the only "overblown, fabricated BS" is this story.

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Slyfox696 said:

We know for a fact the DNC was hacked. We know for a fact the hacked contents were released in piecemeal fashion at the most damaging possible time politically for Clinton. And we have numerous pieces of evidence Russia did the hacking.

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Pay attention to what I said earlier. I was very careful to note Russia's interference to help Trump or hurt Clinton. I threw both possibilities in and did so intentionally.

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I know it's fashionable right now for Republican supporters to ignore facts they don't like, but paying attention to facts is quite important for honest discussion.

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Mr. Invisible said:

Completely false.

1. It isn't 17 different intel agencies. The only people who signed off on the reports were the CIA, DHS, FBI, and (I think) the NSA.

2. The reports, such as Grizzly Steppe, don't have any actual evidence in them and are mainly focused on protecting systems.

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On Oct. 7, however — the same day WikiLeaks released the emails of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta — the Homeland Security Department and Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a joint statement that said, "The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations."
The statement added that the recent hacks "are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process."

The statement also said the intelligence community believes these attacks are directed from top levels of the Russian government, as Clinton said.
"We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities," the statement said.
The U.S. Intelligence Community is made up of 17 agencies, forming the basis of Clinton’s claim. The 17 agencies are: Air Force Intelligence, Army Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Coast Guard Intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency, Energy Department, Homeland Security Department, State Department, Treasury Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Marine Corps Intelligence, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, National Security Agency, Navy Intelligence and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

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ttwtt78640 said:

The same reason that Bill Clinton lied about his sexual affairs in the first place - it may not please the public to be honest.

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haymarket said:

You use your eyes. You use your brain. You use your common sense. You use all your powers of observation recalling the events of the campaign including the public invitation from Trump himself to the Russians to get involved in the campaign by targeting Clinton.

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jmotivator said:

Using the same level of evidence as Haymarket I will now claim I have evidence that this assault on President Trump is a "Plan B" collusion between Hillary, The MSM and Putin to disrupt the Trump presidency in the unthinkable event that Trump actually won!

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Erod said:

Weakest of weak sauce. Wishful thinking based on butthurt. Nothing more.

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