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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Proves what I said earlier - Washington got what they wanted from Assange

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Definitely seems that way.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Seeing as it was just patched together from other releases with Russian disinfo laced in between - it should have been removed a long time ago. Look up who submitted it to Wikileaks: Guccifer 2.0... who turned out to be a Russian agent (aka Fancy Bear).

Go look at Guccifer 2.0's Wikipedia page, or the US intelligence senate hearing that confirmed Russian interference in the 2016 election. All this info is put there.

Assange thought it was win favor with Trump and maybe get him a pardon. Went as far as to continue to attribute the "leak" to staffer Seth Rich, even after Rich's death in a botched burgulary.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I've never bought this spin.

Certainly Russia had a hand in getting the leaks to Wikileaks, and certainly because they had an obvious vested interest in the US electing Putin's sycophant Trump.

But I've never seen or heard of any specific evidence that any of it was "disinformation" - just the repeated unsubstantiated claim that it was. It appears to be exactly what it looks like - a detailed record of the DNC's overtly fraudulent maneuvering to torpedo the Sanders campaign in order to ensure the nomination of Clinton, or more precisely, to torpedo the campaign of a sincere progressive who would likely threaten the ongoing flow of big donor soft money in order to ensure the nomination of a transparently corrupt neo-lib who could be counted upon to serve establishment interests and keep the soft money flowing. And notably, early on that was how the DNC treated it themselves, even going so far as to issue a public apology to the Sanders campaign "for the inexcusable remarks made over email" that did not reflect the DNC's "steadfast commitment to neutrality during the nominating process."

So what it actually all boils down to was that the DNC really was acting in a manner contrary to the public good, driven by their own greed and corruption, and the fact that Russia had a hand in exposing that in order to serve their own interests doesn't alter that fact.

No matter how one slices it, the bulk of the blame for the whole thing rests squarely on the DNC. Yes - it served Russian interests to reveal the information, but had the DNC simply been operating in a legitimate, honest and neutral way, instead of self-servingly and dishonestly, there would've been nothing to reveal.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's Russia's fault that the DNC was caught. Clearly Russia is to blame for the DNC's corruption.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's pretty much what it seems to amount to.

All of the focus has been astroturfed onto the fact that the leaks came from Russian sources, and away from the content of the leaks. The clear (though of course unstated) implication is that the wrong isn't the DNC's corruption, but Russia's self-serving exposure of that corruption.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

What DNC corruption exactly are you referring to?

The corruption of the electronic was done by Russia and the RNC accepting and not reporting foreign election interference. As per:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_report_on_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Is this a bit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

From the Guccifer 2.0 Wikipedia page:

Some of the documents "Guccifer 2.0" released to the media appear to be forgeries cobbled together from public information and previous hacks, which had been mixed with disinformation.[9][10][11]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer_2.0

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Assange thought it was win favor with Trump and maybe get him a pardon.

??? The emails were leaked before any charges were filed. The Trump admin filed the charges. Ultimately the Biden admin cut him a deal. Obama or other democrats didn't seem to want to charge him.

Seeing as it was just patched together from other releases with Russian disinfo laced in between - it should have been removed a long time ago.

Could you show what specifically was fake?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

From the Guccifer 2.0 Wikipedia page:

Some of the documents "Guccifer 2.0" released to the media appear to be forgeries cobbled together from public information and previous hacks, which had been mixed with disinformation.[9][10][11]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer_2.0

Could you show what specifically was fake?

I'm not an intelligence agent, so no, I can't tell you what was and wasn't faked. You would have to look into the various reports and intelligence findings yourself for that info.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The charges against Assange were made in 2012.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Those were the Sweden rape charges and that was actually 2010. He went to the embassy in 2012. The Trump admin charged him under the Espionage Act in 2018.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is a comment from someone who has no idea what DKIM is.

Those emails were cryptographically proven to be sent from that email server.

Saying anything else proves you are ignorant of the technology and trying to provide cover for emails that were proven to come from the DNC servers at a mathematical level.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

From the Guccifer 2.0 Wikipedia page:

Some of the documents "Guccifer 2.0" released to the media appear to be forgeries cobbled together from public information and previous hacks, which had been mixed with disinformation.[9][10][11]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer_2.0

I never said anything about the technical details. I said the majority of the content was made up from information already released.

But yeah sure buddy, I'm sure the Senate Intelligence Committee got it wrong /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_report_on_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election

Maybe do basic research before you go after someone for something they didn't discuss. That way you won't be left looking like an idiot.

There was Russian interference whether you want to believe it or not. I'll let you go back to your qanon discussion group now.