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*'''5 October.''' Obama Justice Dept. abruptly drops charges against arms dealer which would have led to open disclosure of Hillary Clinton's role in arming the [[Islamic State]].<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/05/doj-abruptly-drops-case-against-gun-runner-who-threatened-to-reveal-clintons-libya-dealings.html</ref>
*'''5 October.''' Obama Justice Dept. abruptly drops charges against arms dealer which would have led to open disclosure of Hillary Clinton's role in arming the [[Islamic State]].<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/05/doj-abruptly-drops-case-against-gun-runner-who-threatened-to-reveal-clintons-libya-dealings.html</ref>
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*'''7 October.''' WikiLeaks dumps a trove of emails from Clinton campaign chairman [[John Podesta]]’s personal email account. The emails inspire the [[PizzaGate|Pizzagate]] conspiracy theory.<ref>http://victuruslibertas.com/2016/11/do-john-and-tony-podesta-have-a-connection-with-missing-child-madeleine-mccann/</ref>
*'''7 October.''' [[ODNI]] and [[DHS]] suppress the September 12, 2016 intelligence findings in their press release that states with "confidence" the [[Russian]] government directed the [[DNC]] and [[DCCC]] hacks."
:*Patrick Lawrence of ''[[Salon]]'' was on to the hoax from the start and publishes '' “How the DNC fabricated a Russian hacker conspiracy to deflect blame for its email scandal … a disturbing resemblance to Cold War red-baiting.”''
:*Their statement omitted the fact that the [[FBI]] and [[NSA]] had "low confidence" in attributing the data [[leak]]s from these entities to [[Russia]].
:*DNI [[James Clapper]] accuses the Russian government of hacking the DNC “to interfere with the US election process.”
:*[[WikiLeaks]] dumps a trove of emails from Clinton campaign chairman [[John Podesta]]’s personal email account. The emails inspire the [[PizzaGate|Pizzagate]] conspiracy theory.<ref>http://victuruslibertas.com/2016/11/do-john-and-tony-podesta-have-a-connection-with-missing-child-madeleine-mccann/</ref>
::*[[Patrick Lawrence]] of ''[[Salon]]'' was on to the hoax from the start and publishes '' “How the DNC fabricated a Russian hacker conspiracy to deflect blame for its email scandal … a disturbing resemblance to Cold War red-baiting.”''
*'''8 October.''' ''The New Yorker'' published,
*'''8 October.''' ''The New Yorker'' published,
{{quotebox-float|"Examining records for the Trump domain, Max’s group discovered D.N.S. lookups from a pair of servers owned by Alfa Bank, one of the largest banks in Russia. Alfa Bank’s computers were looking up the address of the Trump server nearly every day. There were dozens of lookups on some days and far fewer on others, but the total number was notable: between May and September [2016], Alfa Bank looked up the Trump Organization’s domain more than two thousand times. “We were watching this happen in real time—it was like watching an airplane fly by,” Max said. “And we thought, Why the hell is a Russian bank communicating with a server that belongs to the Trump Organization, and at such a rate?”}}
{{quotebox-float|"Examining records for the Trump domain, Max’s group discovered D.N.S. lookups from a pair of servers owned by Alfa Bank, one of the largest banks in Russia. Alfa Bank’s computers were looking up the address of the Trump server nearly every day. There were dozens of lookups on some days and far fewer on others, but the total number was notable: between May and September [2016], Alfa Bank looked up the Trump Organization’s domain more than two thousand times. “We were watching this happen in real time—it was like watching an airplane fly by,” Max said. “And we thought, Why the hell is a Russian bank communicating with a server that belongs to the Trump Organization, and at such a rate?”}}