{"id":6353,"date":"2017-06-29T20:07:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2017-06-29T20:07:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T00:07:25","slug":"the-smoking-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6353","title":{"rendered":"The smoking gun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/gop-operative-peter-smith-claimed-flynn-ties-in-effort-to-obtain-clinton-emails\" target=\"_blank\">E-mails link Michael Flynn and a Republican researcher<\/a> to efforts to acquire the missing Clinton e-mails from Russian hackers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the midst of the 2016 campaign, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">a veteran GOP opposition researcher who said he had ties to ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn contacted hackers<\/span> hoping to obtain emails that he believed Russian operatives had hacked from Hillary Clinton\u2019s personal server, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Peter W. Smith reached out to computer security experts in the hopes of gaining access to the email trove and <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">explicitly outlined his connection with Flynn<\/pan> in his recruiting emails, according to the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Flynn, y&#8217;all will recall, has demanded immunity in exchange for testimony before Congressional committees.<\/p>\n<p>This story first appeared in the (paywalled) <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i>, an editorially conservative news outlet owned by Trump-buddy Rupert Murdoch; I think it has to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-mails link Michael Flynn and a Republican researcher to efforts to acquire the missing Clinton e-mails from Russian hackers. In the midst of the 2016 campaign, a veteran GOP opposition researcher who said he had ties to ousted national security &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6353\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6354,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions\/6354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}