https://www.googletransparencyproject.org/sites/default/files/Google-Clinton-Report-11-28-16.pdf

Introduction

Google’s extraordinarily close relationship with President Obama’s administration led to

a long list of policy victories of incalculable value to its business.

An in-depth examination of the company’s efforts to extend that special relationship into the next administration, which it wrongly predicted would be led by Hillary Clinton, reveal what we might expect from Google for the incoming Trump administration.

Google’s executives and employees employed a variety of strategies to elect Hillary

Clinton and defeat Donald Trump. Google permeated Clinton’s sphere of influence on a

broad scale, rivaling the influence it exerted over the Obama administration. A review

found at least 57 people were affiliated with both Clinton—in her presidential campaign,

in her State Department, at her family foundation—and with Google or related entities.

In addition, 10 people who worked under Clinton at the State Department later joined

the New America Foundation, a Google-friendly think tank where Google’s Eric Schmidt

served as chairman and was one of its top donors.

Although the company and its chairman, Eric Schmidt, were ultimately unsuccessful in electing Clinton, their efforts underscore the profound and novel ways a corporation can influence our democracy beyond simple financial donations.

The Clinton campaign’s chief technology officer, Stephanie Hannon, came from Google,

as did the campaign’s chief product officer, Osi Imeokparia.

At least two other key Clinton campaign staffers, Derek Parham

and Jason Rosenbaum,also previously worked at Google.

Several outside firms connected to Google also worked on the Clinton 2016 campaign. Those included Civis Analytics and The Groundwork, two companies that compiled data and polling on voters for the campaign and that were funded by Google’s Schmidt.

Hillary for America spent more than $590,000 on services from The Groundwork and at least $48,000 on Civis Analytics in this campaign cycle.

Clinton’s primary super PAC, Priorities USA, has spent more than $800,000 with Civis Analytics

this cycle.

Had she won the election, Clinton would have been significantly indebted to Google and Schmidt, whom she has referred to as

her “longtime friend.”

For comparison, Schmidt’s future team at

Civis Analytics was credited with helping produce his five million vote margin of victory during Obama’s 2012 election,and Schmidt subsequently enjoyed extensive access at the Obama White House.

Schmidt took on a similarly active role from the earliest days of the Clinton 2016 campaign, helping design, finance, and implement its digital voter targeting operation. Internal campaign emails released by WikiLeaks show that Schmidt met with the team working on Clinton’s incipient campaign on April 2 and 3, 2014, before it was even

announced.

Just three months after the meetings, with future campaign chairman

John Podesta and former Clinton State Department aide Cheryl Mills, The Groundwork

was incorporated and housed near the Clinton campaign headquarters to work on her

voter-targeting effort.

Schmidt met regularly with Clinton advisors during the campaign to discuss issues such

as where the voter-targeting operation should be located and how to compile all

accessible information about voters in a single file.

After meeting with Schmidt in April 2014, the future Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta reported: “he’s ready to fund, advise, recruit talent, etc. Google’s support of Clinton extended beyond Eric Schmidt: the company over which he

presides was a significant source of funds for both her campaign and her family

foundation. Google is the Clinton campaign’s largest corporate contributor. Google

employees, including at least six high-ranking executives, donated more than $1.3

million to Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

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Google also is an annual financial supporter of the Clinton Global Initiative, a project of

the Clinton Foundation. It has donated at least $9.6 million in grants to the foundation’s

charitable initiatives and nonprofit members.

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Had Clinton won the election, Google would have been able to capitalize on a close

working relationship stretching back to her tenure as US Secretary of State. State

Department officials travelled to Silicon Valley for meetings at Google’s headquarters

attended by Schmidt, where they brainstormed how new technologies could be used to

address diplomatic, development, and security concerns.

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In recent years, Google has hired at least 19 officials from the Clinton State

Department, including Jared Cohen, a member of Clinton’s policy planning staff. At

Google, Cohen and Schmidt built a foreign policy think-tank, originally called Google

Ideas and since renamed Jigsaw, that has carried out a wide range of missions, some

in coordination with the State Department. As a Google executive, Cohen travelled to

several conflict areas, raising suspicions that he was acting as an unofficial back-

channel for the State Department.

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He reportedly narrowly avoided arrest during a 2011 trip to Egypt, where he met with a Google Middle East executive hours before the

executive was detained for allegedly helping to incite the country’s revolution.

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Had Clinton won the election, Google would have benefitted in current and new

ventures from its extensive ties to her presidential campaign, her foundation, and the

Clinton State Department. Several of those ventures rely on government funding or

would be subject to regulatory scrutiny.

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Beyond leaving its mark with Hillary Clinton, Google has proved highly adept during the

past eight years at securing favorable decisions from federal agencies like the Federal

Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, and the National Highway

Traffic Safety Administration.

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It remains to be seen if the company can continue its

influence under a Trump administration, but the role it recently assigned former FTC

Commission Joshua Wright suggests the answer is yes.

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During Secretary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department, Google and its chairman

Eric Schmidt assumed an increasingly active and unprecedented role in foreign affairs,

collaborating with the State Department on “digital diplomacy” projects.

Google was highly active in many U.S. initiatives relating to technology,

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which allowed

Google to get a head-start on competitors in countries that were opening up to digital

services for the first time. These included Cuba, Tunisia, Iran, North Korea, Egypt, and

Somalia.

Google hired heavily from the Clinton State Department. According to CfA’s analysis, 19

State Department officials who served under Hillary Clinton while Secretary of State

later took jobs at Google.

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The relationship between Secretary Clinton and Google grew in part out of a foreign

event that brought the two together. Over time, their rapport evolved into a partnership

that both U.S. foreign policy goals and Google. On January 12, 2010, Google

announced that Chinese hackers had attempted to break into the Gmail accounts of

human rights activists and dissidents in the country.

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Google responded by temporarily

refusing to comply with China’s censorship laws and redirected the country’s users to its

Hong Kong search engine.

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Secretary Clinton had met with Eric Schmidt and several technology executives at a

private dinner five days before the hacking news

became public. The purpose of the dinner was to

foster closer ties between the State Department

and the technology sector.

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A week after the hacking incident, Clinton delivered

a 45-minute speech on internet freedom that

criticized Chinese censorship and explicitly called

for China to investigate and transparently release

its findings.

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The speech led to a State

Department-sponsored diplomatic mission to

Silicon Valley that brought State Department

planning officials Jared Cohen and Alec Ross to

Google’s headquarters for meetings with Eric

Schmidt.

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Clinton's State Department also worked with Google to help achieve its foreign policy

objectives

. According to internal emails, in 2012 State Department officials reached out

to Google about a controversial anti-Islamic YouTube video titled “Innocence of

Muslims.” YouTube had blocked the video in several Muslim countries in response to a

request from the White House, in apparent violation of the company’s own guidelines.

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Google executives apparently confirmed to the State Department officials that they

intended to continue blocking the video.

Cohen and Schmidt launched the “think/do tank” that year with

the mission of exploring “how technology can enable people to

confront threats in the face of conflict, instability and

repression.”

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The initiative carried out a wide range of projects,

some in coordination with the State Department, aiding U.S.

public messaging efforts abroad and carrying out advocacy projects that could be kept

at arms’ length from official U.S. government policymaking.

“There are things the private sector can do that the U.S. government can’t do,” Cohen

explained when he joined Google. “On some topics, it’s very sensitive for government to

be the one doing this.”

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Over the next year, Schmidt and Cohen traveled

to more than 30 countries as they developed a

book-length treatise about technology’s impact on

the future of government and business.

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In visits

to North Korea, Burma, and elsewhere, many began to suspect Cohen was conducting

his own back-channel diplomacy on behalf of the Obama administration, even pushing

technology as a means to foment civil unrest. In 2011, Cohen narrowly avoided arrest in

Egypt when he reportedly met with Google Middle East marketing executive

Wael

Ghonim

hours before Ghonim was detained on suspicion of secretly fomenting the

country’s popular revolution.

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Even senior executives at Google began to suspect Cohen was working on behalf of the

administration, an executive with global intelligence firm Stratfor wrote in leaked emails.

“Google believes he’s on a specific mission of ‘regime change’ on the part of leftist fools

inside the WH who are using him for their agendas,” the executive wrote.

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He later

identified his sources as Eric Schmidt and Marty Lev, Google’s security director.

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Cohen’s work at Google Ideas has included a number of projects that appear to

advance State Department policy interests:

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a database of global arms-sales; a tool to

engage Somali citizens in drafting a new constitution through cloud-based surveys;

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a

tool to track global Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks; a hotline for victims of human

trafficking; and a tool for tracking Syrian defectors.

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In the case of the Syria tool, Cohen directly sought input from Clinton’s team at the

State Department before launching it. “Let me know if there is anything eke [sic] you

think we need to account for or think about before we launch,” he wrote in a July 2012

e-mail. “We believe this can have an important impact.”

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But Google Ideas’ efforts—

and its lofty rhetoric—often obscured the clear business objective behind many of its

activities: to identify and open new global markets for Google. Tellingly, Google Ideas

resided not in Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm, but in Google’s Business

Operations and Strategy department.

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While not part of Google Ideas, other international Google efforts to reach unconnected

communities include experiments providing low-cost internet using drones, weather

balloons and other means. For the company, the benefits are clear: access to the

personal data of millions more people, and giving advertisers a way to target them.

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uProxy and Lantern

Google Ideas collaborated with a State Department-funded startup on

the development of a VPN proxy network called

uProxy

that masks the

identities of internet users in oppressive countries by swapping their IP

addresses with users in the West.

Jared Cohen unveiled uProxy at the 2013

Conflict in a Connected World

conference

hosted by the Gen Next Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations.

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The

company that developed the tool,

Brave New Software

, had previously created a

similar product known as

Lantern

that received $526,000 in funding from Clinton’s

State Department.

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Brave New Software founder

Adam Fisk

wrote that Lantern

“collaborated extensively with Google on their uProxy work.”

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Lantern forces users to connect with each other through Google Talk accounts.

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The

requirement created skepticism among privacy-minded software communities

concerned that Google might share user information with government entities like the

NSA.

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Fisk himself admitted that he would have preferred not to have integrated

Google Talk with Lantern, but claimed that not doing so would have made the project

more difficult.

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Emails published on WikiLeaks show that Jared Cohen was in contact with John

Podesta about how the government could give private companies like Google incentives

to help accomplish U.S. foreign policy goals. Following an Aspen Strategy Group

meeting in August 2015 where Cohen and Podesta first met, Cohen emailed Podesta to

answer a question he had asked about how the government can implement a “digital

counter-insurgency” against ISIS.

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“A lot of this will be done outside government, which means we need to really think

about the right incentives for enlisting the private sector,” Cohen wrote.

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“The current

approach has put the companies on the defensive, which means they have not been as

willing to proactively help.”

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Cohen offered to meet with Podesta to discuss the topic further.

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Hillary For America

campaign staffer Milia Fisher scheduled a meeting for the pair in late September 2015 in New York.

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3) Google’s Support of Clinton Foundation Initiatives

Google has also provided funding for several Clinton

Foundation initiatives. In 2010 the company committed to

donate an estimated $8.5 million over five years to Clinton

Global Initiative crisis response efforts.

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As part of this

yearly foundation commitment, in 2010 it provided $1 million in

charitable grants and technology support to Pakistanis recovering from flooding.

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Google also provides yearly advertising grants of $10,000 to nonprofits affiliated with

the Clinton Global Initiative.

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Google began offering the grants in 2006, and as of

March 2007 had issued 107 of them, worth a total of nearly $1.1 million.

Google donated use of a private jet to the Clinton Foundation in April 2015 for a nine-

day trip to Africa by Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and 20 wealthy foundation

supporters.

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The group included boosters for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign

and others who were expected to donate large sums to Clinton.

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In 2010, Google’s Schmidt attended the opening plenary session at the Clinton Global

Initiative, participating on a panel with Bill Clinton about how corporate, government and

nonprofit stakeholders can collaborate to solve social and

environmental issues.

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There has been a significant revolving door between Google and the

Clinton Foundation. Eleven former Clinton Foundation staffers later

worked for Google according to CfA’s analysis. Three of those

worked on the

Clinton Health Access Initiative

during their time at

the foundation, while four others worked for the

Clinton Global

Initiative

.

The latter group includes

John Lyman

, who helped launch the CGI

in 2005.

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Lyman left the initiative to join Google in 2007 and has worked there for

nearly a decade, now as a partner at

Google Ventures

.

uProxy and Lantern

Google Ideas collaborated with a State Department-funded startup on

the development of a VPN proxy network called

uProxy

that masks the

identities of internet users in oppressive countries by swapping their IP

addresses with users in the West.

Jared Cohen unveiled uProxy at the 2013

Conflict in a Connected World

conference

hosted by the Gen Next Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations.

115

The

company that developed the tool,

Brave New Software

, had previously created a

similar product known as

Lantern

that received $526,000 in funding from Clinton’s

State Department.

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Brave New Software founder

Adam Fisk

wrote that Lantern

“collaborated extensively with Google on their uProxy work.”

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HMMMM SOUND FAMILIAR??

https://www.googletransparencyproject.org/sites/default/files/Google-Clinton-Report-11-28-16.pdf

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Why do they have John Kelly as DHS??

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19 foreign nationals charged with illegal voting during 2016 election

Alex Pappas

By Alex Pappas, Jake Gibson | Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/24/19-foreign-nationals-charged-with-illegal-voting-during-2016-election.html

From Eastern NC

Wilmington, NC

Nineteen foreign nationals have been charged with illegal voting in the 2016 election, the Justice Department said Friday.

The defendants are from numerous countries, including Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Nigeria and Germany.

Some of them were charged in an indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Wilmington, N.C. They were accused of filing a false claim of citizenship in order to register, and then voting.

Others were charged separately for illegally voting.

The announcement comes amid an intense debate at the state level over voter fraud and efforts by Republican lawmakers to impose voter ID restrictions.

President Trump has long claimed widespread voting fraud took place in the 2016 election, an assertion that has not been substantiated. But Democrats argue voting fraud is not a widespread problem.

"It's not a conspiracy theory, folks," Trump said in April, claiming millions voted illegally in 2016.

Trump ordered the creation of a voting fraud commission after taking office, but disbanded it earlier this year after saying certain states refused to provide information.

Those charged in the latest plots, according to the DOJ, include:

Jose Cruz Solano-Rodriguez, age 41, of Mexico

Guadalupe Espinosa-Pena, age 63, of Mexico

Sarah Emilia Silverio-Polanco, age 35, of the Dominican Republic

Elizabeth Nene Amachaghi, age 44, of Nigeria

Maria Rufina Castillo-Boswell, age 31, of Philippines

Dora Maybe Damatta-Rodriguez, age 64, of Panama

Elvis David Fullerton, age 54, of Grenada

Olive Agatha Martin, age 71, of Guyana

Kaoru Sauls, age 54, of Japan

Jose Jaime Ramiro-Torres, age 52, of El Salvador

Juan Francisco Landeros-Mireles, age 64, of Mexico

Alessandro Cannizzaro, age 46, of Italy

Dieudonne Soifils, age 71, of Haiti

Hyo Suk George, age 69, of Korea

Merius Jean, age 54, of Haiti

Rosemarie Angelika Harris, age 60, of Germany

Daniel Tadeusz Romanowski, age 39, of Poland

Diana Patricia Franco-Rodriguez, age 26, of Mexico

Ramon Esteban Paez-Jerez, age 58, of Dominican Republic

The Justice Department said the grand jury also returned an indictment against a 20th person, 66-year-old Denslo Allen Paige, for allegedly aiding and abetting another defendant, Espinosa-Pena, in falsely claiming United States citizenship in order to register to vote.

The cases are being investigated by a taskforce in North Carolina led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Homeland Security Investigations, and assisted by Enforcement Removal Operations, and the Department of State - Diplomatic Security Service.

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ICE, Justice subpoena voter records from North Carolina

Tal Kopan

By Tal Kopan, CNN

Updated 6:23 PM ET, Wed September 5, 2018

Washington (CNN)Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Justice have gotten a court order for North Carolina to turn over eight years of voter registration records from the state.

The North Carolina board of elections made the subpoena public as part of the materials for a public meeting it is holding Friday, where the request will be considered.

There is little context provided for the request, which is only listed by the board as "Consideration of subpoenas issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina."

The subpoena asks the state records office to provide "any and all voter registration applications and/or other documents, as identified below, that were submitted to, filed by, received by, or maintained by the North Carolina State Board of Elections from January 1, 2010, through August 30, 2018, within any of the counties in North Carolina."

The list of documents include voter registration forms, absentee ballots, early voting application forms, provisional voting forms, "Admission or Denial of Non-Citizen Return" forms and voter cancellation or revocation forms.

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A separate subpoena issued to Pitt County requests poll books, voting records, voting authorization documents and "executed official ballots," including absentees, from August 30, 2013 through August 30, 2018.

It's not clear from the request whether this would apply to every single voter registration that has been filed in those eight years or just the forms that would be used.

The State Board Office provided CNN with what it says is a preliminary estimate of how many records would be involved. For the county ballots, the request could cover more than 2.2 million ballots that are traceable to individual voters, and more than 3.2 million that are untraceable to individuals.

The eight-year records request would cover more than 15 million documents, the state said.

A federal law enforcement official confirmed the request is related to indictments announced in late August, when the Department of Justice and ICE announced they had charged 19 foreign nationals with voting illegally.

That press release noted, "The indictments follow an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) as part of a newly created Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force (DBFTF) in the Eastern District of North Carolina."

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According to the official, the request was designed as a preservation request. North Carolina law would dictate that records are destroyed after two years, the official said, so as the ongoing investigation develops, law enforcement wants to be sure they can access relevant records. The request is confined to the Eastern District of North Carolina and two state agencies, including the Department of Motor Vehicles but only in regards to the Eastern District.

That scope is not spelled out in the actual subpoena, which informs records officials they can present the full records in hard copy or in person at a federal grand jury on September 25.

Both ICE and the US Attorney's office declined to comment, ICE citing an inability to comment on an ongoing investigation.

In a statement, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law called the subpoena a "clear voter suppression scheme" during an election cycle. The group advocates for civil rights and equal justice, particularly for minorities.

"At a time when the federal government should be deploying its limited resources to enforce the Voting Rights Act and to promote access to the polling place, we instead see them taking action intended to have a clear chilling effect on minority voters," President and Executive Director Kristen Clarke said in the statement. "We reject this campaign to intimidate voters and urge the federal government to immediately abandon this unprecedented and dangerous voter suppression scheme."

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that there was widespread election fraud in 2016 and has sought to use his administration to investigate it.

Fact checkers have debunked the President's false claims that there was widespread voter fraud during the 2016 election. Election experts emphasize that such fraud is rare in the context of more than 1 billion votes cast since 2000.

They are requesting for NC all the way back to 2010. I wonder if Obama didn't really win NC.

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Surely they are going to do the same thing in Cali and other states as NC.