Clinton’s “rider” of her requirements for a $225,000 Las Vegas speaking engagement was full of Hollywood star-level demands including:
• a round trip on a private jet (“Gulfstream 450 or larger”)
• first class, round-trip airfare for one of her aides
• business class, round-trip airfare for two advance aides
• a “presidential” hotel suite for Mrs. Clinton at the five star Bellagio, plus “up to three adjoining or contiguous rooms for her travel aides and up to two additional single rooms for the advance staff”.
The hacker who calls himself “Guccifer 2.0” released a second treasure trove of documents allegedly stolen from the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday.
In what perhaps was a defensive move, the DNC appears to have been looking into Clinton’s notorious 2014 speaking engagement at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas in 2014, which prompted an uproar because of her $225,000 fee. The DNC retained copies of demands for perquisites her staff made to the University. These demands have been made public before, but their resurfacing Tuesday indicates that the DNC may have persistent concerns about their propriety.
In addition to the controversial fee, we now know for certain that Hillary Clinton has near Jennifer Lopez-level tastes. Unlike the pop star, however, who famously requested white couches, white candles and only white foods, Clinton requested luxury air travel on a private jet – a Gulfstream 450 or better. The future Presidential candidate also requested to prepare herself for the White House treatment with a “Presidential suite” at the posh Bellagio Las Vegas hotel.
UNLV was also responsible for all of then-former-Secretary Clinton’s meals and ground transportation, as well as lodging and transportation for her staff, and to pay for a stenographer who could transcribe Clinton’s words as she said them at the event.
Guccifer 2.0, taking credit for the hack, blogged that his revelation was “a big folder of docs devoted to Hillary Clinton that I found on the DNC server.”
In addition to the dossier on UNLV, the document stash contains the candidate’s detailed policy development materials on everything from ISIS and Libya to Hillary’s involvement the Clinton Foundation, tracking in detail the positions of her fellow Democratic candidates, as well as opposing, Republican ones – and what they all said about Hillary Clinton in the media. The documents also outline crisis communications strategies and give detailed instructions on how to respond to specific attacks.
Team Clinton was, oddly, very focused on Jeb Bush and Rand Paul – and not very focused on Donald Trump.
Most importantly, though, the stash seems to indicate that Clinton’s team has been busy researching Hillary Clinton, collecting lists of Clinton foundation donors and contractors and records of Clinton’s hundreds of private flights (and affiliated reimbursements).
Unsurprisingly, the documents also show that Bernie Sanders was of no concern to the Democratic National Convention, an anomaly we noticed in the last DNC document dump. Much of the DNC research on Clinton’s speaking engagements and Clinton Foundation activities was compiled several weeks before Clinton officially announced.
Bernie never stood a chance.
It is, of course, unclear as to whether the documents are authentic, and questions remain as to Guccifer’s idenity. Security services working with the DNC traced the initial hack on the DNC’s servers, which happened in early June, to Russian hacker collectives known as “Cozy Bear” and “Fancy Bear.”
