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  • Originally posted by frank ryan View Post
    Assange is pretty slimy.

    The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks

    The transparency organization asked the president’s son for his cooperation—in sharing its work, in contesting the results of the election, and in arranging for Julian Assange to be Australia’s ambassador to the United States.







    https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/545738/


    Let's all stop pretending Wikileaks is transparent. This tweet came out 15 minutes after wikileaks asked for the Trump people to push their story. https://twitter.com/YAppelbaum/statu...95080496984065
    Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year’s presidential election, the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr., the Republican nominee’s oldest son and campaign surrogate. “A PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch,” WikiLeaks wrote. “The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump.’
    Are all democrats dumbasses when it comes to passwords?
    "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
    "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
    "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
    GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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    • Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
      It can mean whatever you want it to mean.
      Normally, I would agree with you, but since you are the one insisting there's a Trump crowd, we have to go by your definition, not mine. So again, what exactly is your definition of the Trump crowd?
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      "Outlined against a blue, gray
      October sky the Four Horsemen rode again"
      Grantland Rice, 1924

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      • Originally posted by frank ryan View Post
        Assange is pretty slimy.
        That may be true, yet...

        <https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/11/1...underwhelming/>

        All in all more exonerating than inculpating, particularly given the expectations around that week.

        The other thing that doesn’t appear in these DMs is any hint that Don Jr knew of Peter Smith’s efforts to find and send to Wikileaks hacked copies of emails from Hillary’s server.

        It is definitely the case that Assange was trying to gain some value from Trump, but Don Jr, at least, didn’t comply (indeed, as Ioffe notes, with just a few exceptions Don Jr didn’t respond). But (unless Don Jr withheld DMs that Twitter would have already turned over to Mueller) this in no way backs the narrative that Democrats suggested might have happened.
        You're actually pretty funny when you aren't being a complete a-hole....so basically like 5% of the time. --Art Vandelay
        Almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. --Jeffrey Lebowski

        Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace. --President Donald J. Trump
        You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. --William Randolph Hearst

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        • Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View Post
          ...you serious, clark?
          Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.

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          • Originally posted by frank ryan View Post
            Assange is pretty slimy.

            The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks

            The transparency organization asked the president’s son for his cooperation—in sharing its work, in contesting the results of the election, and in arranging for Julian Assange to be Australia’s ambassador to the United States.







            https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/545738/


            Let's all stop pretending Wikileaks is transparent. This tweet came out 15 minutes after wikileaks asked for the Trump people to push their story. https://twitter.com/YAppelbaum/statu...95080496984065
            I thought Assange mentioned that he chats with Don Jr now and then? e.g.,



            It seems Assange's conversations with Don Jr are mostly one-way...



            All of this seems like yet another one of those "nothing burgers". We want to hear about the juicy stuff... like stories about the Russian hackers and how they convinced Hillary to not campaign in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, etc. Did they use those Russian mind control weapons?
            "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
            "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
            "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
            GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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            • They're real. Don Jr. releases his messages with them.

              http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a8053371.html

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              • Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post
                I thought Assange mentioned that he chats with Don Jr now and then? e.g.,



                It seems Assange's conversations with Don Jr are mostly one-way...



                All of this seems like yet another one of those "nothing burgers". We want to hear about the juicy stuff... like stories about the Russian hackers and how they convinced Hillary to not campaign in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, etc. Did they use those Russian mind control weapons?

                Ted, don't obtuse. Assange claims he is credible. He instructed Trump not to concede if he lost.

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                • Originally posted by old_gregg View Post
                  ...you serious, clark?
                  ...the fuck is that blog?

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                  • Originally posted by frank ryan View Post
                    ...the fuck is that blog?
                    Looks pretty good... I wonder if they have a podcast.
                    "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                    "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                    "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                    GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                    • Originally posted by frank ryan View Post
                      ...the fuck is that blog?
                      Marcy Wheeler? She writes for HuffPo, Daily Kos, and The Intercept (among others). Been a fan since I read her book "Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy" years and years ago. I follow her on twitter; you can too.
                      You're actually pretty funny when you aren't being a complete a-hole....so basically like 5% of the time. --Art Vandelay
                      Almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. --Jeffrey Lebowski

                      Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace. --President Donald J. Trump
                      You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. --William Randolph Hearst

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                      • Originally posted by cowboy View Post
                        Normally, I would agree with you, but since you are the one insisting there's a Trump crowd, we have to go by your definition, not mine. So again, what exactly is your definition of the Trump crowd?
                        Its like pornography; I know it when I see it.
                        Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss

                        There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese. --Coach Finstock

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                        • Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post
                          Looks pretty good... I wonder if they have a podcast.
                          This is a good follow for you. Very thorough analysis of topics from a neutral POV; what journalism should be (this despite her very obvious personal left-leaning affinities... which you may not care for). Her writing is certainly not the knee-jerk reactionary shallow shit that frank loves.
                          You're actually pretty funny when you aren't being a complete a-hole....so basically like 5% of the time. --Art Vandelay
                          Almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. --Jeffrey Lebowski

                          Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace. --President Donald J. Trump
                          You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. --William Randolph Hearst

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                          • Originally posted by frank ryan View Post
                            They're real. Don Jr. releases his messages with them.

                            http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a8053371.html
                            But they are not spectacular.

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                            • Originally posted by Donuthole View Post
                              Its like pornography; I know it when I see it.
                              If I did emojis I'd give you a slow clap. I actually laughed out loud.
                              sigpic
                              "Outlined against a blue, gray
                              October sky the Four Horsemen rode again"
                              Grantland Rice, 1924

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                              • I know this is a "nothing burger" and Russia in an angelic country that didn't impact the election, and is country that Trump doesn't single out for softening others' criticisms of it, but here you go anyway.

                                Secret Finding: 60 Russian Payments "To Finance Election Campaign Of 2016”
                                The FBI is scrutinizing more than 60 money transfers sent by the Russian foreign ministry to its embassies across the globe, most of them bearing a note that said the money was to be used “to finance election campaign of 2016.”


                                On Aug. 3 of last year, just as the US presidential election was entering its final, heated phase, the Russian foreign ministry sent nearly $30,000 to its embassy in Washington. The wire transfer, which came from a Kremlin-backed Russian bank, landed in one of the embassy’s Citibank accounts and contained a remarkable memo line: “to finance election campaign of 2016.”

                                That wire transfer is one of more than 60 now being scrutinized by the FBI and other federal agencies investigating Russian involvement in the US election. The transactions, which moved through Citibank accounts and totaled more than $380,000, each came from the Russian foreign ministry and most contained a memo line referencing the financing of the 2016 election.

                                The money wound up at Russian embassies in almost 60 countries from Afghanistan to Nigeria between Aug. 3 and Sept. 20, 2016. It is not clear how the funds were used. At least one transaction that came into the US originated with VTB Bank, a financial institution that is majority-owned by the Kremlin.
                                https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopol...5D0#.rj4DzMy09

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