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posted by martyb on Friday September 16 2016, @12:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the need-better-pipes? dept.

http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37364189

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has reportedly called Republican nominee Donald Trump a "national disgrace," according to leaked emails. The Republican retired four-star general's comments were revealed in a hack on his personal emails. The emails were posted on DCLeaks.com, which has reportedly been tied to other recent high-profile hacks. Mr. Powell, who has been quiet during the election, said he had "no further comment" but was "not denying it".

[...] Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who crossed party lines in 2008 to endorse Democratic [candidate] Barack Obama, has tried to float above this year's tendentious presidential election. So much for that. First the government released his note to Democrat Hillary Clinton advising her on how to use personal email for back-channel communications while secretary of state. Now - in an ironic twist - his personal email has been hacked, revealing sweeping denunciations of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and some sharp criticisms of Democrat Hillary Clinton.

[...] "Yup, the whole birther movement was racist," the email read. "That's what the 99% believe. When Trump couldn't keep that up he said he also wanted to see if the certificate noted that he was a Muslim." But the leaked emails also revealed Mr Powell's frustrations with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her handling of her use of private email while at the State Department. "Sad thing... HRC could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me into it," the email read, referring to Mrs Clinton. "I told her staff three times not to try that gambit. I had to throw a mini tantrum at a Hampton's party to get their attention."


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 16 2016, @03:01PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 16 2016, @03:01PM (#402815) Journal

    In 2001, while they were still talking about invading, I went on line, and typed in a simple search. "Who's who in Iraq nuclear research". Or, very similar words. Even a backwoods nobody was able to see that Sadman's nuclear aspirations had been canned. Almost all of the people involved in nuclear research were in the private sector, or in academia - and many of those were outside of the country. There was pretty much no one left to research weapons.

    You're right, Colin and every other government connected buffoon should have known that Iraq was out of the nuclear race.

    The rest of the crap took a little more research, but it wasn't hard to find the lies in all the rest of those "WMD".

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 16 2016, @03:53PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday September 16 2016, @03:53PM (#402843) Homepage Journal

    Right, because totalitarian governments routinely put their military aspirations online for google searches to find. Dude...

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    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 16 2016, @06:00PM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 16 2016, @06:00PM (#402888) Journal

      Iraq never was a super-secretive state. Yeah, they had lots of secret stuff, but unlike some other states - some of them Western aligned - every detail of a citizens life wasn't considered a secret. We KNEW who was in charge of this or that research, we knew who the experts were. There was little question about who did what in Sadman's nuclear weapons field. Some details may have escaped our intelligence communities, but we knew what was happening.

      Find any or all of those names, and you can look to see where they were in late 2001, early 2002. Most were easy to find, because they were no longer engaged in nuclear weapon research.

      There were a few that still worked for the government, or simply couldn't be located. But the megolithic nuclear research program had been dismantled.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday September 16 2016, @11:14PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 16 2016, @11:14PM (#402977) Journal

        Iraq never was a super-secretive state. [etc...]

        I disagree. I think your characterization here is complete bullshit.

        Find any or all of those names, and you can look to see where they were in late 2001, early 2002. Most were easy to find, because they were no longer engaged in nuclear weapon research.

        Two things to note. First, you have no reliable sources and are basing your opinion on whatever bullshit Iraq and those intelligence agencies choose to feed you. Second, just because Iraq wasn't engaged in a nuclear weapons program in late 2001 when an obvious nuclear weapons program would have been detrimental to its political goals of lifting sanctions, doesn't mean that it would stay that way once sanctions had been lifted a few years later. I think this lack of a long term disincentive to keep Iraq from developing nuclear weapons was a key impetus for the later invasion - not just for the US, but also for the many allies who were suspiciously easy to convince to invade Iraq once their political butts were covered.