House Intelligence Committee Democrats have received new materials from the estate of Peter Smith, a GOP operative who reportedly led a campaign to obtain missing Hillary Clinton emails from Russian hackers during the 2016 election abcn.ws/2IpegR5
More on Peter Smith in this thread - Smith had deep ties within the GOP, and in the '90s was known as "Newt Ginrich's money man" and was involved in the Bill Clinton Troopergate scandal
In 2016 an article on a hack of the Illinois GOP identified Peter Smith as one of the people hacked, emails showed conversations he had with Matthew Boyle, Washington political editor for Breitbart
Peter Smith knew Sam Clovis and Smith met with Charles Johnson (ex-Breitbart writer & Rohrabacher friend) in 2013 and Pax Dickinson - co-founders of alt-right fundraising platform WeSearchr - in Smith's search for HRC emails
Charles/Chuck Johnson suggested Peter Smith contact convicted hacker Andrew Auernheimer (aka "Weev")
Peter Smith had implied he was working with Michael Flynn - and Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, and Sam Clovis, were all listed by Smith in a recruiting document
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