Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America is run

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Hendricks Dewayne <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: November 1, 2016 at 8:37:43 AM EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America is run
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>
> Forget the FBI cache; the Podesta emails show how America is run
> WikiLeaks’ dump of messages to and from Clinton’s campaign chief offer an unprecedented view into the workings of the 
> elite, and how it looks after itself
> By Thomas Frank
> Oct 31 2016
> <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/31/the-podesta-emails-show-who-runs-america-and-how-they-do-it>
>
> The emails currently are part of some unknown digital collection amassed by the troublesome Anthony Weiner, but if 
> your purpose is to understand the clique of people who dominate Washington today, the emails that really matter are 
> the ones being from the hacked account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta. They are last week’s scandal 
> in a year running over with scandals, but in truth their significance goes far beyond mere scandal: they are a window 
> into the soul of the Democratic party and into the dreams and thoughts of the class to whom the party answers.
>
> The class to which I refer is not rising in angry protest; they are by and large pretty satisfied, pretty contented. 
> Nobody takes road trips to exotic West Virginia to see what the members of this class looks like or how they live; on 
> the contrary, they are the ones for whom such stories are written. This bunch doesn’t have to make do with a 
> comb-over TV mountebank for a leader; for this class, the choices are always pretty good, and this year they happen 
> to be excellent.
>
> They are the comfortable and well-educated mainstay of our modern Democratic party. They are also the grandees of our 
> national media; the architects of our software; the designers of our streets; the high officials of our banking 
> system; the authors of just about every plan to fix social security or fine-tune the Middle East with precision 
> droning. They are, they think, not a class at all but rather the enlightened ones, the people who must be answered to 
> but who need never explain themselves.
>
> Let us turn the magnifying glass on them for a change, by sorting through the hacked personal emails of John Podesta, 
> who has been a Washington power broker for decades. I admit that I feel uncomfortable digging through this hoard; 
> stealing someone’s email is a crime, after all, and it is outrageous that people’s personal information has been 
> exposed, since WikiLeaks doesn’t seem to have redacted the emails in any way. There is also the issue of authenticity 
> to contend with: we don’t know absolutely and for sure that these emails were not tampered with by whoever stole them 
> from John Podesta. The supposed authors of the messages are refusing to confirm or deny their authenticity, and 
> though they seem to be real, there is a small possibility they aren’t.
>
> With all that taken into consideration, I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the 
> upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all its righteousness and majesty.
>
> The dramatis personae of the liberal class are all present in this amazing body of work: financial innovators. 
> High-achieving colleagues attempting to get jobs for their high-achieving children. Foundation executives doing fine 
> and noble things. Prizes, of course, and high academic achievement.
>
> Certain industries loom large and virtuous here. Hillary’s ingratiating speeches to Wall Street are well known of 
> course, but what is remarkable is that, in the party of Jackson and Bryan and Roosevelt, smiling financiers now seem 
> to stand on every corner, constantly proffering advice about this and that. In one now-famous email chain, for 
> example, the reader can watch current US trade representative Michael Froman, writing from a Citibank email address 
> in 2008, appear to name President Obama’s cabinet even before the great hope-and-change election was decided 
> (incidentally, an important clue to understanding why that greatest of zombie banks was never put out of its misery).
>
> The far-sighted innovators of Silicon Valley are also here in force, interacting all the time with the leaders of the 
> party of the people. We watch as Podesta appears to email Sheryl Sandberg. He makes plans to visit Mark Zuckerberg 
> (who, according to one missive, wants to “learn more about next steps for his philanthropy and social action”). 
> Podesta exchanges emails with an entrepreneur about an ugly race now unfolding for Silicon Valley’s seat in Congress; 
> this man, in turn, appears to forward to Podesta the remarks of yet another Silicon Valley grandee, who complains 
> that one of the Democratic combatants in that fight was criticizing billionaires who give to Democrats. Specifically, 
> the miscreant Dem in question was said to be:
>
> “… spinning (and attacking) donors who have supported Democrats. John Arnold and Marc Leder have both given to Cory 
> Booker, Joe Kennedy, and others. He is also attacking every billionaire that donates to [Congressional candidate] Ro 
> [Khanna], many whom support other Democrats as well.”
>
> [snip]
>
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