{"id":49675,"date":"2016-09-19T12:03:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=49675"},"modified":"2016-09-19T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:03:51","slug":"hacked-colin-powell-email-bohemian-grove-attendees-will-vote-against-trump-some-support-third-party-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=49675","title":{"rendered":"Hacked Colin Powell Email: Bohemian Grove Attendees Will Vote Against Trump, Some Support Third Party Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure class=\"figurearticlefeatured\">\n<div class=\"featured-container\">\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-isc-bbn-full size-isc-bbn-full wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2016\/09\/powell-clinton-getty-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>By Aaron Klein<br \/>\nBREITBART<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&#038;widgetId=1&#038;trackingGroup=69016&#038;siteSection=breitbart_nws_pol_sty_vmpp&#038;videoId=31392213\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" noresize marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>NEW YORK \u2013 Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this one.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>An email hacked from Colin Powell\u2019s Gmail account has him writing that he had just returned from the famed Bohemian Grove \u2014 a place the <em>Washington Post<\/em> once<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/blogpost\/post\/bohemian-grove-where-the-rich-and-powerful-go-to-misbehave\/2011\/06\/15\/AGPV1sVH_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">described<\/a>\u00a0as \u201cwhere the rich and powerful go to misbehave\u201d \u2014 and that most attendees there will not vote for Donald Trump and find him to be a \u201cdisaster.\u201d Powell further reported that \u201cquite a few will not vote for Hillary and will vote for a third party candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here is Powell\u2019s full July 24, 2016 email, which was hacked by DCLeaks and accessed by Breitbart News via a password provided to this reporter by the hacking group:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peter,\u00a0I am back from the Bohemian Grove. Surprise, surprise, I sat next<br \/>\nto Stephen Harper a couple of times and had a nice discussion.\u00a0 Grove<br \/>\nattendees know that Trump is a disaster. Most will vote against, but quite<br \/>\na few will not vote for Hillary and will vote for a third party candidate.<br \/>\nStrange doings down here. Otherwise all is well with the Powells. We\u2019ll<br \/>\nsneak away for a few days in August. Of course I\u2019d love to see you. Let me<br \/>\nknow your dates.\u00a0 I told Stephen that you seemed quite content in your new<br \/>\nplace in life.<\/p>\n<p>All the best, Colin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The email was addressed to Canadian politician and lawyer Peter Gordon MacKay, a former Canadian Member of Parliament, who also served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Minister of National Defense, and Minister of Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Harper, referenced in the email, served as Canada\u2019s prime minister from February 6, 2006 to November 4, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Bohemian Grove is a 2,700-acre campground in Monte Rio, Calif that has served as a meeting place for top politicians and businessmen.\u00a0 The site\u2019s major annual secretive meeting takes place for two weeks in July, with Powell writing that he was present at last July\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous email to MacKay, Powell wrote about the policy of not bringing communication devices to Bohemian Grove.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am racing out of town to the California Redwoods for the weekend,\u201d Powell wrote, referring to the Grove. \u201cNo phones, email or even Kindles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/blogpost\/post\/bohemian-grove-where-the-rich-and-powerful-go-to-misbehave\/2011\/06\/15\/AGPV1sVH_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profile<\/a>,\u00a0the <em>Washington Post<\/em> reported thusly on the annual July event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every July, some of the richest and most powerful men in the world gather at a 2,700 acre campground in Monte Rio, Calif., for two weeks of heavy drinking, super-secret talks, druid worship (the group insists they are simply \u201crevering the Redwoods\u201d), and other rituals.<\/p>\n<p>Their purpose: to escape the \u201cfrontier culture,\u201d or uncivilized interests, of common men.<\/p>\n<p>The people that gather at Bohemian Grove \u2014 who have included prominent business leaders, former U.S. presidents, musicians, and oil barons \u2014 are told that \u201cWeaving Spiders Come Not Here,\u201d meaning business deals are to be left outside. One exception was in 1942, when a planning for the Manhattan Project took place at the grove, leading to the creation of the atom bomb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i><b>Aaron Klein is Breitbart\u2019s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program, \u201c<\/b><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectpal.com\/aaronklein\" target=\"_blank\"><em><b>Aaron Klein Investigative Radio<\/b><\/em><\/a><em><b>.\u201d Follow him on\u00a0<\/b><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronKleinShow\" target=\"_blank\"><em><b>Twitter @AaronKleinShow.<\/b><\/em><\/a><em><b>\u00a0Follow him on\u00a0<\/b><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aaronkleinshow\" target=\"_blank\"><em><b>Facebook.<\/b><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>With research by Joshua Klein.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/jerusalem\/2016\/09\/14\/hacked-colin-powell-email-bohemian-grove-attendees\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/jerusalem\/2016\/09\/14\/hacked-colin-powell-email-bohemian-grove-attendees\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}