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Title: Hacker Forces Colin Powell To Deny Affair
Source: The Smoking Gun / Reuters / GUCCIFER
URL Source: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/docume ... ell-guccifer-email-hack-594321
Published: Aug 1, 2013
Author: "anonymous"
Post Date: 2013-08-01 17:06:45 by noone222
Keywords: None
Views: 203
Comments: 8

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AUGUST 1--As a notorious hacker seeks to distribute “very personal” e-mails sent to Colin Powell by a female Romanian diplomat, the retired general is denying that he engaged in an extramarital affair with the woman while he served as Secretary of State, though he recently advised her to delete all their online exchanges, The Smoking Gun has learned.

In a statement addressing his relationship with Corina Cretu, a member of the European Parliament who previously held a series of senior posts in the Romanian government, Powell, 76, wrote that he has known Cretu for about 10 years, having first met her “when I was the Secretary of State and she was an assistant to the President of Romania. We occasionally attended the same diplomatic and international meetings.”

Powell, who served in President George W. Bush’s cabinet for four years, said that he kept in touch with Cretu, 45, by e-mail after leaving the State Department in January 2005. “Over time the emails became of a very personal nature, but did not result in an affair. Those type of emails ended a few years ago. There was no affair then and there is not one now,” Powell added.

Powell issued his statement (a copy of which can be found here) to TSG after a reporter sought to question him about the content of Cretu’s 2010 and 2011 correspondence, which was posted online this week. “This note responds to a series of posts placed by a ‘hacker,’” Powell wrote.

While TSG did not mention Cretu (seen above) by name or refer to a possible romance, Powell’s swift denial of an affair--especially one possibly conducted with an official of a foreign government while he served as America’s chief diplomat--was clearly prompted by the sensitive nature of the e-mails sent to his personal AOL account. And likely by a desire on Powell’s part to address any appearance of impropriety, especially in light of last year’s crash-and-burn by retired General David Petraeus.

In the “very personal” correspondence cited by Powell, Cretu calls him the love of her life and describes a relationship that spanned more than a decade. The 2010-2011 e-mails would leave most readers with the clear impression that the forlorn Cretu is writing about the twilight of a lengthy romance.

As reported here in March, Powell’s e-mail and Facebook accounts were illegally accessed by “Guccifer,” the hacker who has spent the last eight months breaking into the online accounts of Clinton, Bush, and Obama administration officials; former FBI agents; defense contractors; Bush family members and friends; and assorted public figures, including journalist Carl Bernstein, author Candace Bushnell, and John Doerr, the billionaire venture capitalist.

Immediately after the Powell hacks, “Guccifer” sent some of the pilfered e-mails and photos to a variety of news outlets (and the anti-secrecy site cryptome.org, which posted the material).

This week--four months after the online break-ins--“Guccifer” returned, like a nasty rash, to continue vexing Powell.

Armed with the Cretu correspondence, which “Guccifer” apparently copied during the initial AOL incursion, the hacker uploaded 10 e-mails sent to Powell and a variety of photos to Google Drive. Then, in a bid to expose the material directly to Powell’s Facebook followers (his page has nearly 87,000 “likes”), the hacker posted a message on Powell’s wall that included a link to the Google Drive page.

The posting--which was subsequently spotted by Powell’s staff and deleted--had been uploaded via the Facebook account of a retired general with whom Powell had once worked. After hacking into the man’s account, “Guccifer” masqueraded as the general when making his post to Powell’s Facebook wall.

While in control of the second general’s Facebook account, “Guccifer” also posted an update to the man’s page that included a photo of Cretu and a link to the Google Drive collection of e-mails and photos. As of this morning, the post remains on the page of the former military commander, who did not return TSG phone messages. Oddly, five of the man’s friends have “liked” the post made in his name by “Guccifer.”

When told that the update and Google Drive link remained publicly available on the second general’s Facebook page, Powell replied in an e-mail that, “Yes, we haven’t been able to reach him.”

Early this morning, “Guccifer” added a second update to the general’s Facebook page. It contained a new Google Drive link that led to e-mails and photos--some dating back eight years--that were lifted from Cretu’s newly hacked Yahoo e-mail account.

The online bandit copied correspondence exchanged earlier this week by Powell and Cretu about “Guccifer” ransacking Powell’s AOL account and attempting to disseminate e-mails and photos via Facebook links. At one point, Powell warned Cretu that the hacker “may have lots of your emails, maybe not.” He then advised, “so best to delete all between us.”

In an e-mail to TSG, Powell explained, “In light of what was happening it seems obvious to ask Ms. Cretu to delete emails.” Referring to personal photos Cretu e-mailed to him, Powell wrote, “She sent photos on a regular basis. Lots of family photos with her nieces, who she adores, family reunions, formal business sessions, her wedding and some bathing suit photos… Never anything improper.”

“This was a friendship that electronically became very personal and then back to normal,” said Powell.

In his statement, Powell--who has been married to his wife Alma for 50 years--reported that he and Cretu “remain friends and are in touch,” but that they have only seen each other “once or twice” over the past eight years. On those occasions, Powell noted, Cretu traveled to Washington, D.C. for “group conferences” that he also attended. At a July 2011 conference, Cretu and Powell posed together for a photo (as seen above) that Cretu later uploaded to her web site.

Cretu, who did not respond to a TSG e-mail seeking comment about the “Guccifer” hack, was married late last year. After serving as a presidential advisor and a senator in the Romanian parliament, Cretu, a member of the country’s Social Democratic party, was elected in 2007 to the European Parliament. One of 32 representatives from Romania, Cretu is vice-chair of Parliament’s “Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.”

When she worked as a presidential advisor, Cretu was part of the Romanian delegation that greeted Powell and President George W. Bush when they visited Bucharest in 2002. Photos on Cretu’s web site show her with Powell and First Lady Laura Bush and Powell and Adrian Nastase, then Romania’s prime minister. The following year, Cretu accompanied Romania’s president in meetings with Bush and Powell. In March 2004, she was part of the Romanian delegation that traveled to Washington for a ceremony, overseen by Powell, marking the former Soviet bloc nation’s accession to NATO.

In his statement, Powell noted that after leaving the State Department, he frequently gave Cretu “advice on the prospects of finding a position with the UN or other international organizations.” He concluded, “I am pleased that she is having a successful career. I am pleased that she is recently and happily married.” (1 page)


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Colin Powell is a compromised socialist traitor just like all of the people he's worked for like the Bush clan.

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#1. To: All (#0)

How's that NSA Spying (GUCCIFER could be an NSA whistle blower with a better idea) working for ya, Colin ?

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood’s school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.

– Plato (429-347 BC)

noone222  posted on  2013-08-01   17:13:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: noone222 (#1)

At least, he's not porking little alter-boys.

(For whatever that's worth)

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2013-08-01   17:27:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: noone222 (#0)

FedGov is nothing more than a mob of gangsters masquerading as humble public servants.

Meanwhile, us peasants had better keep filing our tax returns ON TIME and with NO ERRORS or FedGov will crucify us to the fullest extent of their sketchy, on- the-fly tax "laws".

“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group."
-Alex Kurtagic

X-15  posted on  2013-08-01   17:38:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: noone222 (#0)

Pics!

The 25 Rules of Disinformation

18. Emotionalize, Antagonize, and Goad Opponents. If you can’t do anything else, chide and taunt your opponents and draw them into emotional responses which will tend to make them look foolish and overly motivated, and generally render their material somewhat less coherent. Not only will you avoid discussing the issues in the first instance, but even if their emotional response addresses the issue, you can further avoid the issues by then focusing on how “sensitive they are to criticism”.

SilverStorm  posted on  2013-08-01   17:46:15 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: SilverStorm (#4)

Nice job ... I screwed it up and didn't check ... whaaaa !

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood’s school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.

– Plato (429-347 BC)

noone222  posted on  2013-08-01   18:35:07 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: noone222 (#0)

C'mon Hackers!!!!! Get Hillary's "love notes" from Huma!!!! :-)

"If we don’t adhere to the Constitution on matters as significant as presidential eligibility, then the Constitution ceases to be a meaningful document for guiding our nation."

ndcorup  posted on  2013-08-01   19:23:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: All (#6)

I, Carlos Danger, demand that this thread end immediately!!!!!!!!

Jethro Tull  posted on  2013-08-01   19:34:05 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: noone222 (#5)

She got off on those aluminum tubes, however.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2013-08-01   19:57:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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