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  1. Comment on Ecuador will imminently withdraw asylum for Julian Assange and hand him over to the UK in ~news

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    LOL, I'm in good company: Charges against Russians undermine Assange denials about hacked email origins

    That sort of statement veers off into conspiracy-land.

    LOL, I'm in good company: Charges against Russians undermine Assange denials about hacked email origins

    The Justice Department's indictment Friday of 12 Russian military intelligence officers undermines those denials. And if the criminal charges are proved, it would show that WikiLeaks (referred to as "Organization 1" in the indictment) received the material from Guccifer 2.0, a persona directly controlled by Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, also known as GRU, and even gave the Russian hackers advice on how to disseminate it.

    Whether Assange knew that those behind Guccifer 2.0 were Russian agents is not addressed in the indictment. But it seems unlikely that Assange, a former hacker who once boasted of having compromised U.S. military networks himself, could have missed the extensive coverage blaming the Kremlin for the DNC hack.

    Assange told Hannity he exercised exclusive control over WikiLeaks' releases.

    "There is one person in the world, and I think it's actually only one, who knows exactly what's going on with our publications and that's me," Assange said.

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  2. Comment on Ecuador will imminently withdraw asylum for Julian Assange and hand him over to the UK in ~news

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    That is the key point, we don't know what we don't know. Mueller pointed at him and Wikileaks in the indictments, there is something there or he wouldn't have done that IMO.

    publicly available information

    That is the key point, we don't know what we don't know. Mueller pointed at him and Wikileaks in the indictments, there is something there or he wouldn't have done that IMO.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Ecuador will imminently withdraw asylum for Julian Assange and hand him over to the UK in ~news

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    You're right, that was incorrect of me to call him officially a traitor. He did not betray the US as a citizen. Regardless, his journalist status and whether or not journalists should be jailed is...

    You're right, that was incorrect of me to call him officially a traitor. He did not betray the US as a citizen. Regardless, his journalist status and whether or not journalists should be jailed is beside the point and a distraction. He is working with Russians and their goals. While the journalist thing is an issue, it's not the main issue in my mind, and it seems to be pointed out repeatedly to change the narrative IMO.

    8 votes

  4. Comment on Ecuador will imminently withdraw asylum for Julian Assange and hand him over to the UK in ~news

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    Again, this is not about jailing journalists, he's a traitor. It's about jailing him for being a traitor and working with and/or for the Russians. Edit:...

    Again, this is not about jailing journalists, he's a traitor. It's about jailing him for being a traitor and working with and/or for the Russians.

    Edit:

    The 11-count, 29-page indictment describes in granular detail a carefully planned and executed attack on the information security of Democrats, as Russian government hackers implanted hundreds of malware files on Democrats’ computer systems to steal information. The hackers then laundered the pilfered material through fake personas called DC Leaks and Guccifer 2.0, as well as others, to try to influence voters.

    One of their conduits, identified in the indictment only as “Organization 1,” was WikiLeaks, the global anti-secrecy group led by Julian Assange, according to people familiar with the case. The indictment describes WikiLeaks communicating with Guccifer 2.0 to obtain material.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/rod-rosenstein-expected-to-announce-new-indictment-by-mueller/2018/07/13/bc565582-86a9-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6f72fdf2e2d3

    8 votes

  5. Comment on A global guide to state-sponsored trolling in ~news

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    I'm linking Reddit because I created a sticky of tools for seeing/combat political influence. I keep checking it to stay aware of ways it's being used because it makes me more conversational about...

    I'm linking Reddit because I created a sticky of tools for seeing/combat political influence. I keep checking it to stay aware of ways it's being used because it makes me more conversational about it to know what they're doing/attempting: https://old.reddit.com/r/NewsofSeattle/comments/8z4gkl/ways_to_seecombat_political_influence/?st=jjw9lyib&sh=dd3202fd

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  6. Comment on Ecuador will imminently withdraw asylum for Julian Assange and hand him over to the UK in ~news

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    This is not about jailing journalists, he was working for Russia. Look at the indictments by Mueller, Wikileaks is almost mentioned by name as working with them.

    This is not about jailing journalists, he was working for Russia. Look at the indictments by Mueller, Wikileaks is almost mentioned by name as working with them.

    9 votes

  7. Comment on (The Danger of) Obama Nostalgia - "The Enemy Within" in ~news

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    You have to chip away at what you want, not expect perfectionism. Obama and Bernie aren't perfect, they were pointed in the direction of wanting what's best for our country, and that's refreshing.

    You have to chip away at what you want, not expect perfectionism. Obama and Bernie aren't perfect, they were pointed in the direction of wanting what's best for our country, and that's refreshing.

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