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Available to the Highest Bidder: Coffee With Ivanka Trump

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The Obama administration prohibited any member of the first family from directly soliciting charitable donations, said Norm Eisen, who served as an ethics lawyer early in President Obama’s tenure. Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, have attended occasional charitable fund-raising events, including the Congressional Black Caucus annual dinners. The Obamas also allowed their daughters’ high school to auction off magazines they had signed, Mr. Eisen said, but they did not auction off access to themselves.
“You never, ever want to have government officials using their public office for the private gain, even for a worthy charity,” Mr. Eisen said. “That was how we did it.”
The circumstance with the Trumps is not an exact parallel; all of the incoming first family will not live in the White House.
In a brief telephone interview about the auction, Eric Trump — who is expected to remain at the Trump Organization — said that he was trying to navigate the “new world” he is in since his father’s win.
“We’ve done this every year,” he said, referring to his foundation, which typically raises about $5 million annually, has a single paid staff member and gives almost all its revenues to St. Jude’s. “We utilized Charitybuzz to raise significant funds. Every single year we’ve auctioned off a lunch with one of ourselves. It’s nothing more than an effort to raise a lot of money in an effort to help sick children.”
In a statement, Ms. Trump said it was an “honor” to raise “additional money to benefit terminally ill children through the donation of my personal time.”
Charity auctions by celebrities and others are not uncommon, and Charitybuzz is a website that celebrities use to help raise money through auctions. (On the same site that listed Ms. Trump’s auction, a former New York Times editor raised money for a children’s charity by auctioning off a tour of The Times.)
The possible cancellation of the auction would be the second concession by Ms. Trump that she might have overstepped ethical bounds. A jewelry company she owns apologized last month after a senior executive there sent out a notice to reporters promoting a $10,800 gold bracelet Ms. Trump had worn during a television interview with her father.
Here are a few of the terms for having coffee with Ivanka Trump, as listed on Charitybuzz:
  • To take place at Trump Tower in NYC or Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. - dependent on Ivanka's schedule.
  • The winner may take a photo.
  • The winner can not take anything to be signed.
  • United States Secret Service will be Present for the Duration of the Experience.
  • The Trump Organization reserves the right to terminate this lunch at their discretion without refund, should winner violate any of the delineated terms.
Officials in Washington have long accepted donations to charities from special interests pursuing favors. The charity of Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, accepts hundreds of thousands of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry, and the Congressional Black Caucus takes in millions of dollars annually from corporate donors that are pushing legislation in Congress.
Even with the coffee auction in doubt, the Trump family is pushing other charitable events. Eric Trump has scheduled a charitable fund-raiser in late February at the family’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where $25,000 “Gold Level” sponsors will be given special access.
Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a nonprofit organization that promotes limiting the influence of special interests, said the role of Ms. Trump and her brother in the fund-raising effort seemed “highly inappropriate” because they were offering access in exchange for money.
Federal employees have strict restrictions on charitable solicitations, but the provision does not apply to the president.
“This is just wrong,” Mr. Wertheimer said of the auction to have coffee with Ms. Trump. “The president’s family should not be out raising money for whatever cause, in exchange for a potential influence buyer who wants to get his views to the president.”
Time with Ms. Trump clearly comes at a premium. Tony Podesta, a lobbyist and the brother of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John D. Podesta, also happens to be on the same Charitybuzz website offering lunch in exchange for a charitable donation.
The Podesta auction closed on Thursday with Tony Podesta, whose firm calls itself “A King of K Street,” having drawn just four bids, reaching $1,750 a couple of hours before it closed. The final bidding price is not public.
“Not a surprise that more people want to meet her than me,” Tony Podesta said in an interview Thursday. “She is sort of priceless right now. She is a great businesswoman. She is a really interesting person, and she is right in the middle of what is the biggest political change the United States has gone through since Roosevelt.”
Ms. Trump, who is disengaging from the Trump Organization where she is executive vice president, has signaled a desire to be involved in policy, working on pay equity for women and talking to her father about climate change.
She has interviewed candidates to work for her as chief of staff as she prepares for a possible role in the administration. She also plans to lobby members of Congress, in conjunction with the Republican Main Street Partnership, to expand child care, said Sarah Chamberlain, the partnership’s president. “We are thrilled to have her,” Ms. Chamberlain said Thursday.
She and Mr. Kushner have examined how he could join the administration without violating anti-nepotism laws. He is looking at having a staff and an office in the White House, although no final decisions have been made.
A number of the transition team’s executive committee meetings have been on the 25th floor of Trump Tower, where all three of Mr. Trump’s adult children have offices, according to two people present for the briefings.
The president-elect said in a Twitter message this week that Donald and Eric would run the business going forward.
As of Thursday evening, the highest bid for the coffee auction — $67,888 — had come from Russell Ybarra, the Tex-Mex restaurant-chain owner, who said in an interview Thursday that he wanted to urge Ms. Trump to persuade her father not to go too far in restricting immigration laws. Many of the employees at his 14 restaurants are immigrants, and he said he already had a hard time finding workers.
“I believe Ivanka is more open-minded a person you can reason with,” Mr. Ybarra said, just before he went back on the website and increased his bid.
“I’m sure it will go MUCH higher,” he wrote in an email, unaware that the Trump family was considering canceling the auction. “Either way, it keeps it exciting.”
By early Friday, the high bid had risen to $72,888.
The contest to have coffee with Ms. Trump comes with strict rules. A background check by the Secret Service is required, according to Charitybuzz, and the Trump Organization retained the right to shut down the meeting, which was to be held sometime after January at the Trump Tower in New York or the Trump International Hotel, near the White House.
“All winning bidders and their guests to conduct themselves appropriately,” the contest rules say. “Polite manners and respect for the generous donor and adherence to any rules or parameters are a must.”
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In late June, Donald Trump arrived at a factory in Monessen, Pennsylvania, and stood before a wall of crushed cans to discuss one of his favorite topics: trade. The setting befit the oration. This particular factory, after all, had once employed hundreds of aluminum workers; these days, however, it relied on about 35, who largely prepare the metal for recycling. Standing beside his Great Wall of Cans, Trump bashed NATO and globalization, among other organizations and inexorable forces, before honing in on his quixotic plan to single-handedly revive Monessen’s fortunes. Trump would simply utilize his experience in the real-estate business to turn around the moribund American steel industry. The return of the steel business, he promised, would send a new generation of skyscrapers “soaring, soaring” into the sky.
Trump, who has often been flanked at larger campaign rallies by his wife and extended family, was alone. And rather than speaking extemporaneously, as is his custom, he was reading prepared remarks from a teleprompter. The initial draft of his speech, rather notably, had only one word in its file name: Jared, seemingly a reference to Jared Kushner, the presumptive nominee’s increasingly influential son-in-law, who reportedly had lent a hand in writing this speech.
Kushner, through a publicist, declined to comment on the incident, and for this story. But the 35-year-old real-estate scion has recently emerged, alongside his wife, Ivanka Trump, as one of Trump’s key advisers. Earlier this week, The New York Times called him a de facto campaign manager, a position he assumed after he, along with Ivanka, reportedly urged the ouster of Trump’s impetuous manager Corey Lewandowski. And it was Kushner, according to someone with direct knowledge of the conversation, who was on the phone with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News C.E.O. Roger Ailes “down to the wire” in the days preceding the controversial Fox News debate, in January, attempting to broker a peace deal between his father-in-law and the network. (In the end, his efforts were unsuccessful and Trump skipped the debate.)
In March, Senator Jeff Sessions credited Kushner with arranging a discussion between Trump and Republican lawmakers. Kushner, with the assistance of New York Observer editor Ken Kursonaccording to Reuters, also crafted Trump’s well-received speech to AIPAC, one of his early experiments with a teleprompter. “Trump is in the process of making a new Republican Party, and Jared will be part of it,” Myers Mermel, a fellow real-estate executive told me. “And it’ll be a much different Republican Party than we had in the past.”
On some level, the specter of Kushner campaigning beside his infamous father-in-law seems rather improbable. Outside of their involvement in the real-estate business, Kushner and Trump appear to be opposites. Trump has run a campaign based, in part, on racial undertones; Kushner, on the other hand, is an observant Jew. Trump is the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for president; Kushner comes from a well-known Democratic family (in fact, his own father’s former tormentor in New Jersey, Chris Christie, is now essentially his father-in-law’s right hand).
Furthermore, Trump’s style could be characterized as a steroidal version of Las Vegas, as designed by Uday Hussein. Contrastingly, visitors to Kushner’s office on the top floor of 666 Fifth Avenue, which his family purchased for $1.8 billion in 2007, pass under a Noguchi-designed wave-like ceiling in the building’s lobby. Kushner’s floor is serene, and features a bubbling fountain. He and Ivanka Trump are the epitome of well-bred understatement. Their apartment, recently profiled in Elle Décor, features Christian Liaigre upholstery and midcentury chic. “Besides being devastatingly handsome, he is well mannered, well bred, and so well turned out,” notes the inimitable Peggy Siegal, who has organized several events for The New York Observer, which Kushner purchased a decade ago for what was reported to be nearly $10 million.
But Kushner and his famous father-in-law now seem to have a deep pact forged, perhaps, in mutual ambition and determination—qualities that many have long overlooked in the relatively soft-spoken, well-mannered Kushner. Soon after Trump deleted a tweet featuring Hillary Clinton’s face beside the words “most corrupt candidate ever” appearing inside what looked like a Star of David—a meme sourced to an anti-Semitic message board—Kushner came right to his father’s defense. “My father in law is an incredibly loving and tolerant person,” Kushner noted in a statement. He continued: “The suggestion that he may be intolerant is not reflective of the Donald Trump I know.” Days later, Dana Schwartz, an Observer reporter, wrote an open letter to Kushner in the Observer, calling his support of his father-in-law into question. The next day, Kushner fired back with his own essay, which at times appeared to borrow the lingua franca of Trump, himself. “My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite,” the piece began. “It’s that simple, really.”
In many ways, Kushner has become as polarizing as the father-in-law he now serves. One friend, Reed Cordish, who runs a Baltimore-based real-estate firm, described Kushner as “brilliant” and “a hard worker,” with “a unique mind.” But another Manhattan peer described Kushner less favorably. “He’s very polite and put together and business-like,” this person said. “And he’s like a robot.”
Like his father-in-law, Kushner was also born into wealth and appears, at times, to abide by his own set of rules. His father, Charles Kushner, founded the family real-estate company and was a mainstay of Democratic politics in New Jersey until he pled guilty to 18 counts of tax evasion, witness tampering, and offering illegal campaign donations—not to mention hiring a prostitute to sleep with his brother-in-law, tape the incident, and send said tape to his sister. The elder Kushner served one year of a two-year sentence.
Charlie Kushner’s imprisonment had a profound effect on his son. It forced Jared, who is the eldest son in his family, to take over the business at age 27, in 2008, and shoulder responsibility beyond his years. “I think a lot of what motivates Jared is trying to rebuild the family name from the damage that his father has done,” one former friend told me.
But soon after purchasing the Observer, in 2006, Kushner seemed prepared to exert his influence. One former Observer editor told me that Kushner attempted to order takedown pieces on people who had crossed his family in their business dealings. (A person close to Kushner vehemently denies this.) At the Observer, Kushner established a relationship with the paper’s legendary editor, Peter Kaplan. The two attended a Yankees game together and sat in the rain, sharing beers. His relationship with the *Observer’*s reporters, however, was less cozy, particularly early in his tenure. One former Observer editor described Kushner as a young man who would promise raises to reporters and then cancel them. (The person close to Kushner notes that, as the owner of the paper, he didn’t pay attention to line-item raises for reporters. Besides, this person added, “he makes good on every deal he makes.”)
Another former Observer editor told me that it was “a poorly kept secret in the bullpen that Jared ordered a hit piece on Richard Mack”—the co-founder of Mack Real Estate Group—“pushing a tip that was shaky at best.” The two real-estate executives had fallen out over a bad deal, and three reporters were assigned to the Mack investigation. “The tip—which was about Mack’s business dealings—didn’t check out in the slightest,” someone with knowledge of the assignment told me. “It was a joke. Totally made up.”
Kushner eventually met with the source, the three reporters, and then editor in chief Elizabeth Spiers to discuss the story. (After this story was published, Spiers posted her own recollection of the meeting here.) The piece became a running joke in the newsroom: if any of the reporters were ever behind on a filing or deadline, many joked that it was because they were working on “the big Dick Mack story.” This went on for months. Finally, Kushner set up a meeting with his source and the reporters involved, the person says. The reporters grilled the source, the story fell apart, and, eventually, even Kushner agreed the story should be killed. (A person close to Kushner disputes this account and told me that Kushner has never done business with Mack, stipulating that it was a former business partner of Mack’s who presented the tip to Kushner, who in turn passed it on to Spiers. In this version of events, the source subsequently refused to meet with the Observer editors unless Kushner was present, which explains his presence at the meeting.)
Kushner, however, didn’t advocate aggressive coverage when it came to his allies. The Observer’s list of the 100 most powerful people in real estate, for instance, “was a total Jared project,” one former editor told me, designed to reward his friends and, crucially, place his father-in-law in the right spot on the list. (A person close to Kushner told me that reporters sometimes called him about the list, on account of his involvement in the industry, but that he didn’t meddle with it.) Meanwhile, Ivanka and Kushner’s mother, Seryl Kushner, stopped by the *Observer’*s office to discuss office furnishings, rugs, and “who was going to sit where,” the former editor told me.
To his staff, Kushner remained a forceful boss. Back then, Kushner “was frustrated that [the Observer] wasn’t a stronger digital player,” as this former editor recalled, and often expressed impatience that the print journalists didn’t want to write more for the Web site. He urged another former editor to give the journalists byline quotas to fulfill their digital contributions. Kushner’s Observer has lost virtually all of its cultural currency among New York’s elite, but the paper is now profitable and reporting traffic growth. A source close to Kushner notes that the Observer boasts 6 million unique visitors per month, up from 1.3 million in January 2013.
Donald Trump may be an unusual leader of a populist uprising, but Kushner nevertheless appears an unusual wingman. Kushner, who has been remarkably successful in helping to guide his family’s business, particularly its latest expedition into Brooklyn, travels mostly in black cars and aboard private planes. If he has to work through lunch, he often orders catered sandwiches from Balthazar. (A person close to Kushner denies this.) As one former editor at the Observer told me, “he is so far removed from average people; this is a guy who never came anywhere near a subway.” (This person close to Kushner asserts that he is a regular subway rider.)
Like Christie, Kushner may signal a moderating influence on Trump to his detractors within the Republican establishment, which remains wary of the candidate. Certainly, Trump would do well to rely on political analysis from other, more seasoned sources. Days after this Monessen speech, for instance, the Times noted that many residents of the Pennsylvania town had long conceded that steel jobs would not be returning. Many, in fact, were more interested in high-tech alternatives that offered a brighter future.
But just as much as Trump’s candidacy has been widely interpreted as a self-advancing business maneuver itself—as I reported last month, Kushner has been part of conversations about monetizing Trump’s audience via a new media platform—some have wondered if Kushner is also out for his own good. Despite the renegade nature of Trump’s run, one former business associate described Kushner’s involvement as the ultimate résumé-boosting exercise. “There aren’t many people who are in the position of their father-in-law becoming the nominee of a major political party,” this person told me. The chance to be involved in a major presidential campaign provides social and business opportunities, the former associate added. “Why would he not take that?,” a former friend added: “And he thought buying The New York Observer would give him political clout!”
But others wonder whether something deeper is at play. Kushner, who was just coming of age as an adult when his father was imprisoned, has exhibited a tendency to seek the friendships of older people—often moguls as old as twice his age. He runs in a rarified circle that includes Murdoch and Robert Thomson, the chief executive of News Corp. (The friendship with Murdoch grew partly out of Ivanka’s friendship with Murdoch’s ex-wife, Wendi Deng.) Is his relationship with Trump more than simply the demonstration of familiar fealty?
Either way, Kushner’s commitment to the Trump campaign, whether personally ambitious or simply altruistic, could produce more headaches for a family that has known plenty of them. Should Kushner indeed help his father-in-law achieve a spot in the Oval Office, it could pose a previously unforeseen threat to an emerging wing of the Kushner empire. After all, Kushner’s younger brother, Josh Kushner, is the co-founder of Oscar Health, a burgeoning healthcare start-up valued in the billions. Oscar, as BuzzFeed noted, is “the first health insurance company created for consumers in the new world of the Affordable Care Act.” That is a law, of course, that Trump has continuously threatened to repeal if elected.
Full ScreenPhotos:Donald Trump’s Mansions and Saddam Hussein’s Palaces Are Basically the Same

The Grand Staircase

In comparing the palatial estates of Donald Trump and Saddam Hussein, what better place to start than magnificent stairways. Every demagogue needs one; it’s part of the essential decor package, imperative for Making an Entrance, issuing grand pronouncements, or in the inevitable Hollywood biopic, raining indiscriminate hellfire down upon disloyal minions from a gold-plated AK-47, staving off a palace coup.
On the top: The “foyer” of the Donald’s former manse in Greenwich, Connecticut.
On the bottom: A “double-revolution staircase,” constructed of white marble with a mother-of-pearl overlay, in one of the three reception palaces at Saddam Hussein’s presidential compound in his hometown of Tikrit. (Note the third, uppermost staircase, which is the architectural equivalent of Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel explaining that his guitar amplifiers are superior, because “these go to 11.”)
Photo: Top, courtesy of Vista; bottom, by Patrick Robert/Corbis.

The Gold and the Beige

It’s the perfect palate for a photo op, whether you’re entertaining a beauty queen, glowering at a diplomat, or feigning interest in a reporter. The wall sconces, candelabra, and chandeliers are the perfect lighting sources to set the mood to match your mood—from the soft glow of seduction to the white-hot glare of merciless intimidation.
On the top: A cozy seating area in the Donald’s Mar-a-Lago Club, in Palm Beach, Florida.
Bottom: A sitting room in one of Saddam’s Baghdad palaces. During the U.S.-led occupation, the palace was converted into a hotel for visiting dignitaries.
Photo: Top, by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage; bottom, by Max Becherer/Polaris.

Programmed to Receive

Every potentate needs a formal reception area to fill with supplicants, family retainers, and hordes of “yes” men. Right? Of course! Yes, sir! Let’s build a wall!
On the top: Reception hall at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, set for Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding to model Vanessa Haydon in November 2005.
On the bottom: The elaborate circular conference table at one of Saddam’s palaces in Tikrit.
Photo: Top, by Evan Agostini/Getty Images; bottom, by JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP/Getty Images.

A Grand Entranceway

On the top:
 The Donald strikes a pose in the atrium of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, 1999. It is currently the site of most of Trump’s remote TV interviews.
On the bottom: The central rotunda of Saddam’s Al Faw palace (also known as the Water Palace), in Baghdad. The 62-room palace was built in the early 1990s to commemorate Hussein’s victory over the Iranians in the Al-Faw Peninsula, in 1988, and eventually became the headquarters for coalition forces in Iraq.
Photo: Top, by Ted Thai/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; bottom, by ALI AL-SAADI/AFP/Getty Images.

A Fondness for Classic Architectural References

On the top:
 The Trump Taj Mahal resort and casino complex, Atlantic City, New Jersey. Opened in 1990, bankrupt in 2014, sold to billionaire Carl Icahn in 2015.
On the bottom: Saddam Hussein’s Al-Shaheed Monument, Baghdad. Opened in 1983, to honor Iraqi soldiers who died during the eight-year Iraq-Iran war, 1980–1988.
Photo: Top, by Joe Schilling/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images; bottom, by DeAgostini/Getty Images.

Chandelier Madness!

On the left:
 Trump celebrates his March 1, 2016, primary victories at his Mar-a-Lago Club, in Palm Beach. To the left of The Donald is New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
On the right: A U.S. soldier negotiates the main stairwell inside Saddam Hussein’s Radwaniyah Palace, Baghdad, 2003.
Photo: Left, by John Moore/Getty Images; right, by Max Becherer/Polaris.

And So to Bed

On the top:
 A penthouse bedroom at the Trump Taj Mahal, in Atlantic City, 2007.
On the bottom: A U.S. soldier in Saddam’s former bedroom in the Al-Faw palace in Baghdad, 2011.
Photo: Top, by Chance Yeh/PatrickMcMullan.com/Sipa Press; bottom, by Saad Shalash/Reuters.
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FBI agrees with CIA assessment that Russia aimed to help Trump win White House

The San Diego Union-Tribune - ‎7 hours ago‎
FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Jr. are in agreement with a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in part to help Donald Trump win the White House, officials disclosed Friday, as ...

Obama says election cyberattack came from the 'highest levels' of the Russian government and vows retaliation

Los Angeles Times - ‎10 hours ago‎
President Obama publicly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of involvement in cyberattacks aimed at the U.S. election and leveled a threat on Friday — that the U.S. would retaliate, perhaps in ways no one but the Russians would see. Obama said ...

Obama blamed media for the election outcome. That's counterproductive

The Guardian - ‎3 hours ago‎
The outgoing president is leaving a party in shambles. Sowing discord for the fourth estate on the eve of an anti-press presidency will only worsen things. US President Barack Obama holds a news conferenceepa05678984 US President Barack Obama holds ...

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Top US intelligence agency hints Electoral College briefing on Russian hacking won't happen anytime soon

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CIA says FBI agrees with assessment on Russian hacking: Report

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The FBI agrees with the CIA assessment that Russia was involved in hacking of servers of the Democratic party and that of the Hillary Clinton campaign during the elections, according to a media report. John Brennan, Director of Central Intelligence ...

FBI and CIA now agree that Russia hacked to help Trump win

The Verge - ‎14 hours ago‎
FBI director James Comey has signed on to a previously reported CIA assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin directly intervened in the US presidential election in aid of Donald Trump, according to an internal CIA memo obtained by the ...

FBI agrees with CIA that Russia aimed to help Trump win

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In this Feb. 9, 2016 file photo, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File). By The Washington Post. The Times-Picayune. Follow on Twitter. on December 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM. Print ...
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FBI in agreement with CIA that Russia aimed to help Trump win White House

Washington Post - ‎9 hours ago‎
FBI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. are in agreement with a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in part to help Donald Trump win the White House, officials disclosed Friday, ...

FBI Now Backs CIA Assessment That Russia Deliberately Tipped The Election In Favor Of Trump

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“Everyone had the information,” President Barack Obama said. “We handled it the way we should have.” 12/16/2016 04:19 pm ET | Updated 10 hours ago. 16k. Jessica Schulberg Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Huffington Post ...

Russian Hacking May Have Helped Trump Win, but Russians Don't Really Care

Huffington Post - ‎8 hours ago‎
Meanwhile, the president-elect says maybe this wasn't such a bad thing for America. 12/16/2016 09:20 pm ET. Maria Snegovaya Freelance Journalist. Lucas Jackson / Reuters. America is up in arms about the possibility that Russian hacking influenced the ...

House panel will tour intelligence agencies as part of Russian hack probe

Politico - ‎11 hours ago‎
The head of the House Intelligence Committee will take his panel to visit a number of U.S. intelligence agencies next month as part of its investigation into Russia's alleged tampering in the recent election. The move comes amid a spat between the ...

FBI backs CIA report on Russian interference: report

The Hill - ‎14 hours ago‎
Both FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper stand by the CIA assessment, the report said. ADVERTISEMENT. “Earlier this week, I met separately with (Director) FBI James Comey and DNI Jim Clapper, and there is ...

FBI backs CIA's assessment of Russia's 2016 election hack

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On the heels of the leak of the CIA's secret report that Russia attempted to meddle in American elections, a major question was how many in the intelligence community agreed with the CIA's conclusions. Now, surprisingly and following criticism, FBI ...

Senate investigation of Russian hacking will be broad, going beyond 2016 elections

Miami Herald - ‎11 hours ago‎
The Senate's most powerful committee with oversight of U.S. intelligence agencies will meet mostly behind closed doors as it takes on a broad and serious investigation into “cyber activity directed against our nation by the Russian government,” said U ...

FBI, CIA Agree That Russia Was Trying To Help Trump Win The Election

NPR - ‎13 hours ago‎
Two intelligence sources say the FBI agrees with the CIA assessment that Russia interfered in the U.S. election, in part to help Donald Trump, clearing up any confusion and other reporting that the agencies weren't in sync.

US intelligence agencies feud with Republicans over Russian hacking

Reuters - ‎13 hours ago‎
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at the USA Thank You Tour event at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center in West Allis, Wisconsin, U.S., December 13, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton. 3/3. left. right. U.S. Director of National ...
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Obama: US will retaliate for Russian election hacking, but you may never see it

Los Angeles Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
President Obama said the U.S. must retaliate against Russia for the election-season hack into Democrats' emails and that his administration will do so on its own time frame -- perhaps in secret. “Some of it may be explicit and publicized, some of it ...

Obama to Face Questions on Russian Hacking, Donald Trump

ABC News - ‎40 minutes ago‎
President Barack Obama is expected to face questions about allegations of Russian interference in the U.S. election and about the fall of Aleppo in Syria when he holds his year-end news conference on Friday. Under pressure over Russian hacking, Obama ...

Watch Obama's last press conference of 2016

PRI - ‎1 hour ago‎
US President Barack Obama listens to remarks during a signing ceremony for the 21st Century Cures Act at the White House in Washington, DC, Dec. 13, 2016. Credit: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters. President Barack Obama, who has vowed to retaliate against ...

Hillary Clinton Suggests FBI Involvement, Russian Hackers 'Made the Difference' in Election Outcome

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Speaking to major campaign donors at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel on Thursday, Hillary Clinton spoke out about what she believes the “unprecedented” impact of Russian hackers and the eleventh hour letter from FBI director James Comey regarding her use of ...

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Politics|Clinton Says 'Personal Beef' by Putin Led to Hacking Attacks

New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
Hillary Clinton in Washington on Dec. 8. On Thursday, she said that the hacking attacks carried out by Russia against her campaign and the Democratic National Committee were intended “to undermine our democracy.” Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York ...

In Leaked Remarks, Hillary Clinton Explains Putin's 'Beef' With Her

NPR - ‎31 minutes ago‎
Hillary Clinton has kept a low profile since losing the election to Donald Trump, but at a private event before donors Thursday night, she blamed her loss, in part, on "some unprecedented factors" — namely Russian hacking and the letter about the ...

Sen. Burr: Intel Committee planning Russian hacking hearings next year

Politico - ‎1 hour ago‎
Even as Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson on Friday complained that the CIA refused to brief him on Russian cyberattacks, Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr announced a series of hearings on the alleged efforts to influence the ...

Clinton blames Putin's personal grudge against her for election interference

Washington Post - ‎35 minutes ago‎
At a thank you event with some of her top campaign donors and fundraisers, Hillary Clinton blamed a personal grudge held against her by Russian President Vladimir Putin for unprecedented interference in the election that resulted in her defeat. Clinton ...
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Espionage Is Being 'Turbocharged' By The Internet : Parallels : NPR

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The world is entering a new cyber era — one with no ground rules, and with the potential for traditional espionage to be "turbocharged" by the Internet, President Obama told NPR in an exclusive interview.
"Among the big powers, there has been a traditional understanding of, that everybody is trying to gather intelligence on everybody else," Obama told Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep in a wide-ranging interview on Thursday. "It's no secret that Russian intelligence officers, or Chinese, or for that matter Israeli or British or other intelligence agencies, their job is to get insight into the workings of other countries that they they're not reading in the newspapers everyday."
The informal, unwritten rules of the past are no longer adequate, the president added.
"One of the things that we're going to have to do over the next decade is to ultimately arrive at some rules of what is a new game," he said. "And that is the way in which traditional propaganda and traditional covert influence efforts are being turbocharged by the Internet."
The president suggested the U.S. is more vulnerable than other nations because the American economy is both bigger and more highly digitized than other countries.
"This is actually a good example of where, in addition to whatever actions that we take bilaterally against Russia, we've got to spend some time working at an international level to start instituting some norms, the same way we did with things like nuclear weapons," he told NPR.
Obama On Russian Hacking: 'We Need To Take Action. And We Will'
Nuclear weapons are governed by an elaborate web of international treaties, including the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Such an infrastructure has yet to emerge for the much newer challenge of cyber-weapons.
In a separate interview with NPR this week at the White House, Lisa Monaco, the president's Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Adviser, picked up on a similar theme.
Asked which security threats would loom most pressing to her successor, Monaco glanced at the overflowing inboxes lined up on her desk. She works in the warren of National Security Council offices packed into the basement of the West Wing.
"So, the terror threat," she replied. But Monaco suggested that cyber issues will rank a close second.
"We will continue to see a growth in the number and nature of actors — nation states, non-state actors, hacktivists, criminals," she said. "And a wide variety of vectors by which they're trying to do us harm. The 'Internet of Things' is going to pose grave new challenges for the next team, as the attack surface that cyber actors can operate in is ever-expansive."
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Obama On Russian Hacking: 'We Need To Take Action. And We Will'

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In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep that is airing Friday on Morning Edition, Obama said, "I think there is no doubt that when any foreign ...
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Partisan Divide Colors Obama's Place In History

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As President Obama prepares to leave office, 45 percent of Americans think he'll be remembered as an outstanding or above-average ...

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Useful Idiots Galore

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FBI Fails AGAIN to Process Requests to Protect Family, Business ...

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Adams is seeking urgent law enforcement to STOP the imminent ... Problem is, Adams cannot find in America today any agency, persons or political ... Prosecutor McColgan, Bridgeport Township Board and rogue local cops to ... UnAmerican activities, treason and persistent domestic terrorism of Adams ...
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A More Detailed Guide to Dealing With Trump's Lies

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FBI agents ran to the nearest reporter to leak about potentially damaging material about Clinton. ... our nation's supposed best and brightest law enforcement agents. ..... over the agency, meant that someone else should take his place. ... FBI would leak it first; and (2) that there is a rogue faction at the FBI ...
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Russia challenges US to prove election hacking claims or shut up - KBZK.com | Continuous News

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(CNN) -- The United States must either stop accusing Russia of meddling in its elections or prove it, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was "indecent" of the United States to "groundlessly" accuse Russia of intervention in its elections, Russian state news agency Tass reported.
"They should either stop talking about that or produce some proof at last. Otherwise it all begins to look unseemly," Peskov reportedly said about the latest accusations that Russia was responsible for hacker attacks.
President Barack Obama on Thursday vowed retaliatory action against Russia for its meddling in the US presidential election last month.
US intelligence agencies in October pinned blame on Russia for election-related hacking. At the time, the White House vowed a "proportional response" to the cyberactivity, though declined to preview what that response might entail.
US President-elect Donald Trump dismissed the US intelligence community's assessment, however, in comments Sunday.
He suggested that there was no proof Russia had hacked the election, saying the snooping in Democratic Party servers and emails of campaign staffers for Hillary Clinton could have been done by China or even someone sitting in New Jersey.
A US official familiar with the election-related hacking told CNN Thursday that the operation was carried out with sophisticated hacking tools, suggesting that Putin was involved.
The source said while Putin's "fingerprints" were not on the hacking, "the nature of the operation was such that this had to be approved by top levels of the Russian government."
Russian cyberhacking activity has continued largely unabated since the election, including against US political organizations, US officials briefed on the investigation told CNN.
Clinton: Putin grudge was behind hack
Clinton said Thursday night that Putin's alleged involvement in the hacking of Democratic organizations during the 2016 election stemmed from a longtime grudge the Russian President has held against her.
Meanwhile, her campaign chairman, John Podesta, whose own stolen emails were leaked, issued a scathing rebuke of the FBI.
He wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that the bureau's "seemingly lackadaisical response to the very real Russian plot to subvert a national election" by comparison with its overzealous investigation of Clinton's emails "shows that something is deeply broken" there.
Saakashvili: It's déjà vu
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili told CNN Friday that he was not surprised by the US claims against Russia.
"Well I almost was, like, vindicated when the same administration in Washington suddenly started to speak about Russian involvement in the election," he said, speaking in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
"Because we, for me, it's déjà vu. They were the same people telling us, "no, no, it cannot possibly be true." And now it came to their doorsteps. And of course he [Putin] does all those things. Of course he is a great master."
CNN's Lindsay Isaac contributed to this report.
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Trump finds an unlikely partner: Chuck Schumer

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Jo Jones is one of the greatest drummer in the history of Jazz. Most inventive, he frequently improvises the most unpredictable and bold breaks with an impressive rythmic energy. This example of his drum solo shows his amazing and unique variety.

The extraordinary solo of Jo Jones, a magician on drums, ends in a blaze of spectacular glory the film "l'Aventure du Jazz." This film will be showed again in France in 2012 by its director Louis Panassié to commemorate the centenary of Hugues Panassié's birth in 1912 and also the foundation of the "Hot Club de France " 80 years ago with the collaboration of Charles Delaunay and Pierre Nourry.

A showing is already expected in December 2012 in Paris by the current Hot Club president François Desbrosses. More showings are being organized in several french towns.

Soon you will see "l'Aventure du Jazz" in Lattes (near Montpellier ) on Friday, March 9 in the Jacques Coeur theater.

Bonjour: you will find more information about this film on my website
http://sites.google.com/site/louispan... and also others subjects i have tackled in my long and adventurous life which started in 1956 with the first African tour on a Harley Davidson.

As you may understand, I have lived and filmed rare and most unforgettable historical moments.

Please contact me by mail <a href="mailto:cinevideolouis.panassie@gmail.com">cinevideolouis.panassie@gmail.com</a>
So long. Louis Panassié.

« Jo Jones est un des plus grands batteurs dans l'histoire du jazz. Très inventif, il improvise fréquemment les breaks les plus imprévisibles, les plus audacieux d'un tonus rythmique impressionnant. Ses solos de batterie sont d'une richesse, d'une variété uniques ». Hugues Panassié.
L'extraordinaire solo de ce magicien de la batterie qu'est Jo Jones termine en apothéose et de façon spectaculaire le montage de « L'Aventure du Jazz ». Ce film sera à nouveau projeté en France en 2012 par son réalisateur Louis Panassié. A l'occasion de la commémoration du centième anniversaire de la naissance d'Hugues Panassié en 1912 et également de la fondation, en collaboration avec Charles Delaunay et Pierre Nourry, du Hot-Club de France il y a 80 ans.
Une projection est notamment prévue par son actuel Président, François Desbrosses, à Paris en décembre 2012.
D'autres séances sont actuellement en cours d'organisation en diverses villes de France.
On pourra voir « L'Aventure du Jazz » tout d'abord à Lattes (dans la banlieue de Montpellier) le vendredi 9 mars à 20h.30 au Théâtre « Jacques Cœur ».

Bonjour, vous trouverez plus d'informations sur mes reportages sur mon site http://sites.google.com/site/louispan... et aussi sur d'autres thématiques que j'ai abordées durant ma longue vie d'aventurier-reporter qui commença en 1956 par le premier tour de L'Afrique en Harley-Davidson.
Comme vous l'aurez compris, j'ai vécu et filmé des moments historiques, rares mais surtout inoubliables. N'hésiter pas à me contacter par mail à <a href="mailto:cinevideolouis.panassie@gmail.com">cinevideolouis.panassie@gmail.com</a>.
A très bientôt. Louis Panassié.
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Q&A: Why the CIA, FBI differ on Russian election hacking

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WASHINGTON — New questions about the ultimate goal and the extent of Russia's intrusions into U.S. political institutions continued to ...

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'Infuriating': John Podesta Unleashes On 'Deeply Broken' FBI

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John Podesta did not mince words when calling out the FBI for its “lackadaisical response” to Russian hacking during the 2016 election ...
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Severe Mistakes Of The DNC, FBI, White House Allowed Hacking

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There were several critical mistakes that led to the massive hacking of both the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and chief Hillary Clinton advisor John Podesta’s emails, and the blame rests squarely with American leadership at the highest levels, according to reports.
Russia’s infiltration of the communication systems of the DNC and Podesta was possible because of “The Perfect Weapon,” according to an expansive Tuesday article at The New York Times.
The weapon was only so perfect, it turns out, as the multiple security protocol lapses of the political and law enforcement institutions show.
The FBI, for example, did not bother to warn the DNC that it knew for months it was a target of a Russian cyber attack. FBI agents met with DNC officials several times to discuss the committee’s network security, but failed to mention it was investigating potential Russian espionage into the DNC’s systems, according to Reuters.
When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the FBI discovered vulnerabilities in the DNC’s system, he was reportedly transferred to DNC’s help desk, specifically tech-support contractor Yared Tamene. After the initial communication, Hawkins tried to call back a number of times, but Tamene did not pick up due to fears that Hawkins was not a legitimate law enforcement agent.
“I had no way of differentiating the call I just received from a prank call,” Tamene wrote in an internal memo, obtained by The Times.
Not only did Hawkins not go directly to the DNC headquarters — which is only around a mile away from FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building — after he couldn’t completely relay the warning, but the DNC (perhaps automatically) directed Hawkins to the lowest level of assistance.
While there were desires to bolster protections, the DNC complained they didn’t have sufficient funds to hire cybersecurity support or install advanced software to protect its servers. The organization said its nonprofit status made it dependent on donations and that it didn’t have the budget of an equally-sized corporation.
“There was never enough money to do everything we needed to do,” Andrew Brown, the technology director at the DNC, told The Times.
The DNC raised a total of $369,374,155 during the 2016 election cycle, according to OpenSecrets.
So the DNC’s poor operational structure played a huge part in critical information about a breach on its system failing to be addressed and so did its inability to take cybersecurity seriously.
Somewhat ironically, WikiLeaks released emails from Podesta’s account that show there was only urgency once a cyber intrusion already occurred.
“This is a legitimate email. John needs to change his password immediately, and ensure that two-factor authentications is turned on his account,” says an email with the subject line, “Re: Someone has your password,” from Charles Delavan, a Clinton campaign aide. (RELATED: Advanced Cybersecurity: The Simple Password May Soon Be Obsolete)
The Podesta emails caused the Democratic member of Congress and then-Chairwoman of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and other top party aides, to resign in disgrace.
Then there’s the White House, which is in some degree tasked, among another litany of other duties, with protecting democratic institutions from foreign espionage.
President Barack Obama chose not to retaliate against Russia for hacking America’s critical infrastructure for fear of disrupting negotiations with Russia over the Syrian civil war.
“The Administration arguably should have come out earlier and harder in publicly attributing the attack as Russian,” Peter Singer, strategist and senior fellow at New America, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “The early announcements came via the victim and the cybersecurity firm investigating the breach. It wasn’t until October that the US government went public. This was too close to the election itself. The irony is that they kept quiet, fearing looking like they were being partisan, but the result of the silence was to have that effect.”
Ryan Hagemann, technology and civil liberties policy analyst at the Niskanen Center, doesn’t believe all of the onus should be on Obama.
“The responsibility for protecting American political institutions from espionage and hacking primarily falls to the NSA, CIA, and other agencies with cyber expertise,” Hagemann said, adding that these agencies are supposed to report to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which reports to the president.
“While the President is indeed the commander-in-chief, his ability to make informed decisions relies on the expertise of specialists and practitioners who work below him,” Hagemann continued.
The Times likened the whole DNC hack to the Watergate scandal, drawing comparisons in the respective burglaries of information — one direct and remote. Perhaps a more appropriate historical analogy would be the intelligence sharing (or lack thereof) prior to the September 11th attacks, where different intelligence, law enforcement agencies and institutions failed to collaborate properly and take signals and warnings with the utmost seriousness.
Delavan told The Times that a typo in the email he sent urging Clinton’s campaign staff to change their passwords played a huge part in private conversations becoming publicized.
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President Barack Obama, right, and Russia's President President Vladimir Putin pose for members of the media before a 2015 bilateral meeting at the United Nations headquarters. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo). By BRADLEY KLAPPER and JOSH LEDERMAN, ...

Obama Says US Will Retaliate for Russia's Election Meddling

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President-elect Donald J. Trump at a “thank you” rally in West Allis, Wis., on Tuesday. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times. WASHINGTON — President Obama said on Thursday that the United States would retaliate for Russia's efforts to influence the ...

Barack Obama promises retaliation against Russia over hacking during US election

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Barack Obama has warned that the US will retaliate for Russian cyberattacks during the presidential election. According to extracts of an interview due to air on National Public Radio on Friday morning, the US president said he was waiting for a final ...

Hillary Clinton: Putin's Alleged Involvement in Democratic Hack Stems From Longtime Grudge

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Hillary Clinton has an explanation for Vladimir Putin's alleged involvement in the hacking of Democratic organizations during the 2016 presidential election: The Russian leader has a longtime grudge against her, dating back to 2011 when she made ...

Obama on Russia hacking the US election: 'We need to take action and we will'

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Russian President Vladimir Putin supervised his intelligence agencies' hacking of the U.S. presidential election and turned it from a general attempt to discredit American democracy to an effort to help Donald Trump, three U.S. officials said on Thursday.

Russia challenges US to prove election hacking claims or shut up

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(CNN) -- The United States must either stop accusing Russia of meddling in its elections or prove it, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was "indecent" of the United States to ...
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