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Look at the cc list on https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1637

It's a bunch of liberal reporters. Either it's a crank sending their crank to people they think need to hear their crank or a bunch of 30 something politics beat reporters are deep insiders.

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I thought that too initially but now am starting to wonder. Some of the emails sound like they were written by cartoon villains and if orca100 is a crank, it's crank that sounds like they have been put up to this, cranks are normally on the defensive and expository but this just sounds like a report with the occasional personal opinion thrown in.

I suspect that political groups send out requests to see the perspective of different factions and this may be what this is.

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