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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Web roundup: Colin Powell email leak, Snowden pardon campaign

    Another week, another big email hack. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s email was hacked, and some of the juiciest nuggets include him calling Donald Trump a “national disgrace” and an “international pariah,” and writing that “everything H.R.C. (Hillary Clinton) touches she kind of screws up with hubris.”

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    By Madeleine Brand • Sep 15, 2016 • 1 min read

    Another week, another big email hack. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s email was hacked, and some of the juiciest nuggets include him calling Donald Trump a “national disgrace” and an “international pariah,” and writing that “everything H.R.C. (Hillary Clinton) touches she kind of screws up with hubris.” In other web-related news, a campaign to convince President Obama to pardon NSA leaker Edward Snowden gains steam the week the biopic “Snowden” is released.

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    Who are California’s multi-millionaire campaign donors?
    1. 0:30The California multi-millionaires spending big this election
    2. 10:32Did the collapse of immigration reform give rise to Trump?
    3. 20:21Web roundup: Colin Powell email leak, Snowden pardon campaignYou’re reading this
    4. 28:45Doug Aitken brings his large-scale installations inside at MOCA
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    The full episode

    3 of 4
    Who are California’s multi-millionaire campaign donors?
    1. 0:30The California multi-millionaires spending big this election
    2. 10:32Did the collapse of immigration reform give rise to Trump?
    3. 20:21Web roundup: Colin Powell email leak, Snowden pardon campaignYou’re reading this
    4. 28:45Doug Aitken brings his large-scale installations inside at MOCA
    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand