GOP Operative Sought Clinton Emails From Hackers, Implied a Connection to Flynn

[politicat]

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/gop-operative-sought-clinton-emails-from-hackers-implied-a-connection-to-flynn-1498770851

It's WSJ, so paywalled (because Ayn Rand is alive and well in their little blackened hearts), but here's the first four paras and I've got more through my news reader.

This is how the walls come tumbling down. There's now a direct connection. Joshua would be proud.

Quote:
WASHINGTON—Before the 2016 presidential election, a longtime Republican opposition researcher mounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen from Hillary Clinton’s private server, likely by Russian hackers.

In conversations with members of his circle and with others he tried to recruit to help him, the GOP operative, Peter W. Smith, implied he was working with retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, at the time a senior adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump.

“He said, ‘I’m talking to Michael Flynn about this—if you find anything, can you let me know?’” said Eric York, a computer-security expert from Atlanta who searched hacker forums on Mr. Smith’s behalf for people who might have access to the emails.

Emails written by Mr. Smith and one of his associates show that his small group considered Mr. Flynn and his consulting company, Flynn Intel Group, to be allies in their quest.

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[ellie]

1. Peter W. Smith

then died. I have not read a cause of death.

[politicat]

2. Yep.

Of course, people do die, even young, even of unforeseen causes. But links in chain.