Is Julian Assange interfering in US election?

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When Ecuador cut Julian Assange's internet at its London embassy, something unexpected happened.

The Wikileaks Twitter account, which had previously been commenting on its release of internal US Democrat party emails, instead began tweeting what appeared to be computer code.

The three tweets - accompanied by the words John Kerry, UK FCO (Foreign Office) and Ecuador - led to speculation they could be part of a "dead man's switch": an automated release of information triggered if someone did not regularly "check in" to prove they were alive.

Ecuador said it took the temporary step because it did not wish to interfere in the race for the White House, implying that Mr Assange had been doing just that.

'Insurance file'

It took several hours before the Wikileaks Twitter account was running again. By that time someone else in another location - it isn't known who - had taken over, says Dr Einar Thorsen from Bournemouth University.

He believes the automated Twitter messages could relate to Mr Assange's "insurance file" - said to contain information more damaging than anything yet released and automatically made public were anything to happen to him.

It follows the release during the summer of a large 88-gigabyte file "seeded" onto "torrent" download sites, where it is rapidly duplicated, meaning it cannot be removed by government authorities, Dr Thorsen says.

"You or I could download the file but without the code it would just be a lot of data that we couldn't access," he said.
Putin's pawn?

Mr Assange fears for his future.

He sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex assault allegations that he says are a US plot to jail him for leaking US military and diplomatic files.

US authorities say the Clinton emails were stolen by Russian hackers, leading to accusations that Wikileaks was being used by the Kremlin.

Wikileaks has since found itself denying allegations that Mr Assange received money from the Russian government and attempted to groom a child online. The latter claim appeared on the US blog the Daily Kos.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has found herself denying claims that appeared on a right-wing blog that she once said of Mr Assange: "Can't we just drone this guy?"

"It would have been a joke, if it had been said, but I don't recall that," Mrs Clinton said, Politico reported.

oes Wikileaks have a beef with Clinton? Yes they probably do," says Dr Thorsen, referring to the drone comment. "Is there a concerted effort to smear Assange? Yes absolutely."
Pandora's box

But he and other observers say it is still unlikely Mr Assange is deliberately trying to skew the US election.

"Julian said that choosing between Trump and Clinton is like choosing between gonorrhoea and syphilis," his former colleague and partner Sarah Harrison told London's Evening Standard newspaper last month.

"He has always said that Wikileaks is just a tool, it's neutral, Assange is anti-power. He's an anarchist in the pure sense, someone who wants self-determination for everybody," says Sean Dodson from Leeds Beckett University.

he resulting impact has been felt far and wide, from the Arab Spring to Brexit and the rise of Mr Trump, Mr Dodson says.

Wikileaks revelations of corruption contributed to the overthrow of Tunisia's dictator, sparking a wave of unrest in the Middle East, and the atmosphere of cynicism has since only grown, he says - particularly among the young.

"People are seeing geopolitics as a series of back door deals," he says. "They have become dissatisfied and see the whole system as somehow corrupt."
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interesting situation...given the dearth of investigative reporting by US newspapers - are not Wiki the only source
that provides accountabilily?

Does anyone think John Kerry didn't lean on Ecuador ? That's using the power ofthe gov't for electoral reasons in itself.

Notice the Clinton Machine hasn't denied the Wikileaks ( there are a a couple of typical "I don't recall" when asked about the veracity)-
instead complaining about the source..

So how do we get transparency when the press will not do it's job, and where we have seen Clinton's penchant for secrecy..
the wall st speeches are particulary damning.. Of course Trump won't release his taxes, so there is that too.

Is wiki the new 4th estate?
 
anatta said:
When Ecuador cut Julian Assange's internet at its London embassy, something unexpected happened.

The Wikileaks Twitter account, which had previously been commenting on its release of internal US Democrat party emails, instead began tweeting what appeared to be computer code.

The three tweets - accompanied by the words John Kerry, UK FCO (Foreign Office) and Ecuador - led to speculation they could be part of a "dead man's switch": an automated release of information triggered if someone did not regularly "check in" to prove they were alive.

Ecuador said it took the temporary step because it did not wish to interfere in the race for the White House, implying that Mr Assange had been doing just that.

'Insurance file'

It took several hours before the Wikileaks Twitter account was running again. By that time someone else in another location - it isn't known who - had taken over, says Dr Einar Thorsen from Bournemouth University.

He believes the automated Twitter messages could relate to Mr Assange's "insurance file" - said to contain information more damaging than anything yet released and automatically made public were anything to happen to him.

It follows the release during the summer of a large 88-gigabyte file "seeded" onto "torrent" download sites, where it is rapidly duplicated, meaning it cannot be removed by government authorities, Dr Thorsen says.

"You or I could download the file but without the code it would just be a lot of data that we couldn't access," he said.
Putin's pawn?

Mr Assange fears for his future.

He sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex assault allegations that he says are a US plot to jail him for leaking US military and diplomatic files.

US authorities say the Clinton emails were stolen by Russian hackers, leading to accusations that Wikileaks was being used by the Kremlin.

Wikileaks has since found itself denying allegations that Mr Assange received money from the Russian government and attempted to groom a child online. The latter claim appeared on the US blog the Daily Kos.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has found herself denying claims that appeared on a right-wing blog that she once said of Mr Assange: "Can't we just drone this guy?"

"It would have been a joke, if it had been said, but I don't recall that," Mrs Clinton said, Politico reported.

oes Wikileaks have a beef with Clinton? Yes they probably do," says Dr Thorsen, referring to the drone comment. "Is there a concerted effort to smear Assange? Yes absolutely."
Pandora's box

But he and other observers say it is still unlikely Mr Assange is deliberately trying to skew the US election.

"Julian said that choosing between Trump and Clinton is like choosing between gonorrhoea and syphilis," his former colleague and partner Sarah Harrison told London's Evening Standard newspaper last month.

"He has always said that Wikileaks is just a tool, it's neutral, Assange is anti-power. He's an anarchist in the pure sense, someone who wants self-determination for everybody," says Sean Dodson from Leeds Beckett University.

he resulting impact has been felt far and wide, from the Arab Spring to Brexit and the rise of Mr Trump, Mr Dodson says.

Wikileaks revelations of corruption contributed to the overthrow of Tunisia's dictator, sparking a wave of unrest in the Middle East, and the atmosphere of cynicism has since only grown, he says - particularly among the young.


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Of course he is....as one the democratic "cohorts" said.....its simply a PROLOGUE attempting to enlighten the people. Enlighten us.....how is this not news when these emails can be tested via electronic recovery technology.....and talking gossip void of any kind of evidence charging and accusing the other candidate of sexual misconduct...NEWS? Funny as Hell. The press by not covering hard news is guilty of attempting to direct the election cycle.
 
Ralph said:
Of course he is....as one the democratic "cohorts" said.....its simply a PROLOGUE attempting to enlighten the people. Enlighten us.....how is this not news when these emails can be tested via electronic recovery technology.....and talking gossip void of any kind of evidence charging and accusing the other candidate of sexual misconduct...NEWS? Funny as Hell. The press by not covering hard news is guilty of attempting to direct the election cycle.
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Trumpf is his own worst enemy.
 
Ralph said:
Of course he is....as one the democratic "cohort" said.....its simply a PROLOGUE. Enlighten us.....how is this not news when these emails can be tested via electronic recovery technology.....and talking gossip void of any kind of evidence accusation the other candidate...NEWS? Funny as Hell.
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but even if they are tested, they are not disclosed. Some of this stuff is of great importance:
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Covert' Syrian action

According to the latest leaked emails, Mrs Clinton told a Goldman Sachs conference she would like to intervene secretly in Syria.

She made the remark in answer to a question from Lloyd Blankfein, the bank's chief executive, in 2013 months after she left office as secretary of state.

"My view was you intervene as covertly as is possible for Americans to intervene," she told employees of the bank in South Carolina, which had paid her about $225,000 to give a speech.

Mrs Clinton - who is accused of being a war hawk by liberal critics - added: "We used to be much better at this than we are now. Now, you know, everybody can't help themselves.

"They have to go out and tell their friendly reporters and somebody else: Look what we're doing and I want credit for it."

'Ring China'

Mrs Clinton said in emails that she had told Chinese officials if they were not able or willing to control North Korea's aggression then the US would be forced to put up missile defences in the region.

"So China, come on. You either control them or we're going to have to defend against them," she purportedly told a Goldman Sachs conference in June 2013.

She also remarked that the US would send additional warships to the region to counter the North Korean missile threat.

Catholic 'bastardisation'

A 2011 exchange between Mrs Clinton's now-communication's director Jennifer Palmieri and liberal think tank fellow John Halpin mocked a magazine article describing media mogul Rupert Murdoch raising his children as Catholics.

Mr Halpin, a self-described Catholic, writes that many of the "most powerful elements of the conservative movement are Catholics... they must be attracted to the systematic thought and [severely] backwards gender relations", adding that "it's an amazing bastardisation of the faith".

Ms Palmieri responds that those people must think it is "the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion". Ms Palmieri recently said she doesn't recognise the emails, adding that "I'm a Catholic".

'A public and a private position'

In excerpts from one of Mrs Clinton's paid speeches to Wall Street bankers, she said: "Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be.

"But if everybody's watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position."

She introduced this comment by saying that she had just watched Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln, which shows the political negotiations the US Civil War-era president undertook to pass the 13th amendment to the US constitution, abolishing slavery.

Bernie Sanders, who campaigned against Mrs Clinton during the Democratic primary season, had called repeatedly for Mrs Clinton to release the transcripts of her paid Wall Street speeches.

Clinton 'was fed a question'

Donna Brazile, the former CNN contributor, notified the Clinton campaign in advance of a question she would be asked at a town hall-style event hosted by the cable network in March, according to the leaked emails.

"From time to time I get the questions in advance," Ms Brazile, now chair of the Democratic National Party (DNC), wrote in the subject line of a 12 March email to Clinton aides.

She went on to paste the text of a question about the death penalty that Mrs Clinton would be asked. The question, with very similar wording, ended up being posed to the White House hopeful at the event.

Hours after WikiLeaks broke the news of the alleged collaboration, Ms Brazile wrote in an statement: "I never had access to questions and would never have shared them with the candidates if I did."

The leaked email has also caused embarrassment for CNN, which Donald Trump has mockingly referred to as the "Clinton News Network".

Ms Brazile took over at the DNC when its former chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz over hacked emails which revealed the party establishment's favouritism towards Mrs Clinton.

The DNC was meant to be neutral in the contest between Mrs Clinton and her Democratic primary season challenger, Bernie Sanders.

While serving as DNC vice-chair in January 2016, Ms Brazile forwarded to Clinton's staff an email revealing the Sanders camp's plan to court African-American voters.

"FYI," Ms Brazile wrote to campaign spokesperson Adrienne Elrod, who responded: "Thank you for the heads up on this Donna."
 
Justice Department 'collusion'

Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon wrote in a May 2015 email: "DOJ folks inform me there is a status hearing in this case this morning."

He was referring to a Freedom of Information Act request by a journalist seeking disclosure of Mrs Clinton's emails from her time as the secretary of state.

Mr Fallon, who is a former Department of Justice spokesman, was relaying information that was already publicly available and being reported by multiple news outlets.

Nevertheless, Donald Trump seized on the communication between the Clinton campaign and the DOJ, saying, "this is collusion and corruption of the highest order".

Clinton 'wary of refugees'

In a leaked 2013 paid speech to the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, Mrs Clinton said that Jordan and Turkey "can't possibly vet all those refugees so they don't know if, you know, jihadists are coming in along with legitimate refugees".

Trump supporters seized on these remarks to criticise her call for the US to accept 65,000 refugees per year, an increase on President Obama's plan to allow 10,000 per year.

Many refugees from Syria transit through Jordan, Turkey, or Lebanon on their way to the West.

Donald Trump has called for a ban on all Muslim immigration, but said in the second debate his plan had "morphed into an extreme vetting from certain areas of the world".

'Open borders' dream

Mrs Clinton's newfound opposition to trade deals contradicts remarks she made in a 2013 paid speech to Brazilian bank Banco Itau.

She said: "My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere."

Critics seized upon those remarks, pointing to Mr Trump's frequent talking point that "without a border, we just don't have a country".

Mrs Clinton reportedly earned over $26m for speeches she gave after leaving the State Department.

Keystone XL pipeline

Several Clinton aides discuss what political opinion their candidate should take on the controversial energy pipeline known as Keystone XL.

In May 2015 Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook pointed to a report that the Clinton Foundation had received money from one of the project's backers, emailing that "the enviros may latch onto this going forward. Have we discussed when she will come out against Keystone?"

He also asks if they should wait until after President Obama vetoes the pipeline, which he did in November 2015. Mrs Clinton announced her opposition in September.

When she was asked in 2010 about when the pipeline would be approved, the then-secretary of state said the analysis was not yet complete, "but we are inclined" to approve the project.

Critics said her subsequent opposition to the pipeline was a "flip flop".

Chelsea Clinton a 'brat'

Doug Band, a long-time personal aide to Bill Clinton, complained that Chelsea Clinton was meddling in his consulting firm, where the former president served as a paid adviser, and also interfering with his work at the Clinton Foundation.

In a 2011 email, he wrote "she is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but create issues to justify what she's doing because she, as she has said, hasn't found her way and has a lack of focus in her life".

Needy Latinos and 1 easy call'

That's the subject line of an August 2015 email sent by Mr Podesta to Hillary Clinton and one her closest aides, Huma Abedin.

Mr Podesta's email suggests that Mrs Clinton reach out to former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former Energy Secretary Federico Pena to ask for their support during her primary campaign.

Mr Podesta also uses a profane term to refer to Gov Richardson, who had implied in an earlier email that he would require a phone call in order to provide his support.
 
If the press was doing its job we wouldn't need Assange.

So I say it's a good thing. Liberals can cry me a river about influencing the election when the media is colluding with the DNC and Hillary's campaign.
 
Clinton regime doesn't really deny the truthfulness of the WL contents. After all...they were quick to start firing people connected to the Bernie leaks.

WL has a 100% perfect record of releasing truth over the years. People and regimes all over the world have gotten "caught" by the truth. That's the way it should be. Truth is the great equalizer.

WL has taken over the mainstream media as the reporter of facts. No emotion. No editorial. No bias. No personality.
"Just the facts ma'am" as Jack Webb used to say in Dragnet.

Truth has no friends or enemies. Truth is an equal opportunity accuser.

"Be sure your sin will find you out." Numbers 32:23

"For nothing is hidden that will not become evident, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light." Luke 8:17
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
If the press was doing its job we wouldn't need Assange.

So I say it's a good thing. Liberals can cry me a river about influencing the election when the media is colluding with the DNC and Hillary's campaign.
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a lot of this would be readily available if the press cared to look

Clinton 'wary of refugees'

In a leaked 2013 paid speech to the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, Mrs Clinton said that Jordan and Turkey "can't possibly vet all those refugees so they don't know if, you know, jihadists are coming in along with legitimate refugees".
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Mrs Clinton said in emails that she had told Chinese officials if they were not able or willing to control North Korea's aggression then the US would be forced to put up missile defences in the region.

"So China, come on. You either control them or we're going to have to defend against them," she purportedly told a Goldman Sachs conference in June 2013.

She also remarked that the US would send additional warships to the region to counter the North Korean missile threat.
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where are these warships gonna come from? Do you think China is going to sit back while we ring them?
I mean these are really basic ideas that are not being discussed -because of P-gate
 
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