Clinton, Hillary; Assange, Julian; Laurie, Joe. How I Lost (2017). O/R Books.

  

 HOW I LOST BY HILLARY CLINTON

  FOREWORD BY JULIAN ASSANGE

  INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED BY JOE LAURIA

  Commentary © 2017 Joe Lauria

  Published by OR Books, New York and London

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  CONTENTS

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  CAST OF CHARACTERS

1.       Huma Abedin 2.       Julian Assange 3.       James Baker 4.       Doug Band 5.       Lloyd Blankfein 6.       Brent Budowsky 7.       Warren Buffett 8.       Ursula Burns 9.       Tony Carrk 10.   Dennis Cheng 11.   Bill Clinton 12.   Chelsea Clinton 13.   Hillary Clinton 14.   Amitabh Desai 15.   Thomas Drake 16.   Marc Elias 17.   Jesse Ferguson 18.   Gary Gensler 19.   Mikhail Gorbachev 20.   Glenn Greenwald 21.   Seymour Hersh 22.   Joel Johnson 23.   Ron Klain 24.   John Kerry 25.   Brad Marshall 26.   Nick Merrill 27.   Cheryl Mills 28.   Luis Miranda 29.   Robby Mook 30.   Tom Nides 31.   Victoria Nuland 32.   Barack Obama 33.   Tim O’Neill 34.   Jennifer Palmieri 35.   John Podesta 36.   Colin Powell 37.   Mark Paustenbach 38.   Vladimir Putin 39.   Robert Rubin 40.   Bernie Sanders 41.   Karuna Seshasai 42.   Edward Snowden 43.   Jake Sullivan 44.   Neera Tanden 45.   Donald Trump 46.   Debbie Wasserman Schultz 47.   Paul Wolfowitz

1.       Hillary Clinton’s closest aide 2.       [] 3.       Secretary of state in the George H.W. Bush administration 4.       Longtime Bill Clinton assistant who launched the Clinton Foundation 5.       CEO of Goldman Sachs 6.       A columnist for The Hill 7.       American billionaire investor and Hillary Clinton friend 8.       Chairperson of Xerox Corporation 9.       Clinton campaign research director 10.   Chief development officer of the Clinton Foundation from 2011 to 2015 11.   [] 12.   [] 13.   [] 14.   Director of foreign policy at the Clinton Foundation 15.   Former NSA employee who blew the whistle on warrantless surveillance of Americans before Snowden 16.   General counsel for Clinton’s 2016 campaign 17.   A campaign spokeswoman 18.   Clinton campaign chief financial officer 19.   The last leader of the Soviet Union 20.   [] 21.   [] 22.   Managing director of the Glover Park Group, a strategic communications firm, and former senior adviser for policy and communications to President Bill Clinton from 1999 to 2001 23.   Chief of Clinton’s debate preparation team 24.   Former U.S. secretary of state 25.   Clinton campaign CFO forced to resign after one of his emails is leaked 26.   Hillary Clinton’s traveling press secretary 27.   A longtime Hillary Clinton aide 28.   DNC communications director 29.   Clinton campaign manager 30.   Morgan Stanley executive and former U.S. deputy secretary of state 31.   Assistant secretary of state of European and Eurasian affairs in the Obama State Department 32.   [] 33.   Goldman Sachs investment management co-head 34.   Director of communications for Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign 35.   Chairman of the Clinton campaign 36.   Former U.S. secretary of state 37.   DNC national press secretary 38.   [] 39.   Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton 40.   [] 41.   Clinton campaign staffer 42.   Former NSA contractor[] 43.   Clinton’s top foreign policy adviser in the campaign 44.   President of Center for American Progress, Clinton aide 45.   [] 46.   Congresswoman and former chair of the Democratic National Committee 47.   Former deputy secretary of defense in the George W. Bush administration

  FOREWORD

  INTRODUCTION

1.       Election Night

2.       Blaming the FBI

3.       Derailing Sanders

4.       The Canard of Russia

5.       A New McCarthyism

6.       Why She Lost

7.       ‘Everybody Does It’

8.       ‘The Deplorables’

9.       Voters Rejected Regime Change

10.   A “Mistake” on Iraq

11.   Obliterating Iran

12.   Qadhafi: “We Came, We Saw, He Died”

13.   Regime Change in Syria

14.   Putin as Hitler

15.   The Future of the Democratic Party

  THE SPEECHES AND EMAILS

  PART ONE: CLINTON AS AN ELITIST

1.       Far Remouved

2.       The Problem of Bias against Rich People

3.       ‘The Deplorables’

4.       A Political Moderate – In Private

5.       Taking Flak for Wall Street

6.       Clinton and Glass-Steagall

7.       ‘We Are Not Denmark’

8.       The Perception That The Game Is Rigged

9.       In Favour of Self-Regulation

10.   Wall Street Campaign Funding

11.   Representing Wall Street

12.   On the Virtues of Open Markets

13.   Her ‘Obvious’ Friend Warren Buffett

14.   Bankers Are ‘Scared of Regulations’

15.   The Bravery of Supporting Wall Street

16.   Tripped Up by Trade

17.   A Public and Private Position

18.   Those Damned Emails

19.   Single-Payer Health Care

20.   Entitlement Reform

21.   Trouble at the Clinton Foundation

22.   Crushing Bernie Sanders

23.   Clinton Camp Colludes with Corporate Media

  PART TWO: CLINTON THE HAWK

1.     Clinton and the American Myth

2.     Fear of War with Russia

3.     Keeping Europe an American Vassal

4.     Defending the State vs. the People

5.     Clinton’s Orientalism

6.     Syria: Wicked Problem or Wicked Solution?

7.     Hillary ‘Saves’ Libya

  END NOTES

  APPENDICES

1.       List of Hillary Clinton’s 91 Paid Speeches (Source: www.citizenuprising.com/hillary-clintons-speaking-fees-2013-2015/)

2.       Goldman Sachs Top 5 Recipients in the 2016 Election (Source: www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000085)

3.       Hillary Clinton Wall Street Fundraisers Held After Her Announcement that She Was a Candidate for the 2016 Presidential Election (Source: www.hillaryclinton.com)

4.       Defense Intelligence Agency Document on Syria, August 2012. August 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency Document Predicting the Rise of ISIS. Excerpts provided by the Levant Report blog, independently confirmed by Pentagon spokesman. (Source: www.levantreport.com/2015/05/19/2012-defense-intelligence-agency-document-west-will-facilitate-rise-of-islamic-state-in-order-to-isolate-the-syrian-regime/)

5.       EMails illustrating Hillary Clinton’s Deep Involvement in Libya (Source: https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23898)

6.       The First Blumenthal EMail on Libya (Source: www.wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12659?embed=1)

7.       The Second Blumenthal EMail on Libya (Source: www.wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/6551)

8.       Doug Band Memorandum on Clinton Foundation (Source: www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/fileid/32240/8828)

  JOE LAURIA is an author and former Wall Street Journal correspondent who has also reported for the Boston Globe and The Sunday Times (London), among other newspapers.

  JULIAN ASSANGE is the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks. He is the author of Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet (OR Books, 2012) and When Google Met WikiLeaks (OR Books, 2014). He is currently a refugee under the protection of the government of Ecuador, and lives in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.