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From: Hillary hrod17@clintonemail.com
To: Jonh Podesta john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: August 17, 2014 11:21 (reforwarded two days later)
Subject: Re: Here's what I mentioned
While this military/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.
This effort will be enhanced by the stepped up commitment in the KRG. The Qataris and Saudis will be put in a position of balancing policy between their ongoing competition to dominate the Sunni world and the consequences of serious U.S. pressure.
[EDITORIAL NOTE: This is arming and funding of terrorists by our supposed partners in the region. Qatar has donated between $1M and $5M to the Clinton Foundation while Saudi Arabia has given Hillary and Bill Clinton's Foundation more that $25M. What's remarkable here is that she's OK with this. Think of the hypocrisy; woman's rights, gay rights, human rights, and the incredible guilt on all these fronts by the Saudis - this woman has zero integrity.]
Mark Siegel, a former Democratic Party official, played a key role in drafting the superdelegate provisions, which the party adopted in response to what happened with George McGovern at the 1972 convention. In a Clinton campaign email released by WikiLeaks, he offers the campaign a plan to dupe Bernie Sanders supporters into feeling like they "won" a major superdelegate "reform" at the Democratic National Convention.
As Siegel highlights, the Democratic Party establishment went against the liberal wing of the party and added party officials. The Democratic National Committee voted on delegate selection rules and made themselves "automatic delegates."
"Bernie and his people have been bitching about super delegates and the
huge percentage that have come out for Hillary," Siegel writes. "Since the
original idea was to bring our elected officials to the convention
ex-officio, because of the offices and the constituencies they represent,
why not throw Bernie a bone and reduce the super delegates in the future
to the original draft of members of the House and Senate, governors and
big city mayors, eliminating the DNC members who are not state chairs or
vice-chairs?"
Siegel adds, "Frankly, DNC members don't really represent constituencies anyway. I should know. I served on the DNC first as executive director and then as an elected member for 10 years."
"So if we ‘give' Bernie this in the convention's rules committee, his people will think they've ‘won' something from the party establishment. And it functionally doesn't make any difference anyway. They win. We don't lose. Everyone is happy."
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