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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJulian Assange claims he was not given the hacked texts by Russia or any "state party."
If we believe him, then who gave him the leaks?
Could it be someone in the Trump camp?
Could someone like Manafort have received the hacked materiel from Putin and passed it on to Assange?
Is Trump is attacking the messenger (the intelligence community) about the hacking source so that when they discover he provided the leaks to Assange, he can say they are wrong as ever?
underpants
(182,806 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)By definition, he can't know this. He doesn't know it based upon simple logic. Logic says he doesn't know. Doesn't know.
think
(11,641 posts)He's a close associate of Assange; he was relieved of his position, and he states that a Dem operative gave him the info because of disgust at the corruption of the Clinton Foundation and the 'tilting of the primary election playing field against Bernie Sanders'.
First, he's a close associate of Assange. This tells me he believes the truth is a malleable commodity that can be used to advance the Wikileaks/Assange agenda. Second, you don't get relieved of an ambassadorship for no reason. Third, no halfway intelligent "Dem operative' would allege the Clinton Foundation was corrupt. It's the most investigated foundation in the history of the planet and nothing was found that would amount to "corruption". But you know that. Lastly, "the tilting of the primary election field against Bernie Sanders" is bullshit. He lost fair and square. Even he admits that.
None of this adds up to the truth. Craig just sounds like another Assange groupie who spews the bullshit he reads on 4chan to protect his dear leader against all the inconvenient facts piling up around him; the main one being his very obvious interference in our election on behalf of Trump. I actually think he did it just to destroy Hillary. The misogynistic prick could care less who our President is, as long as it wasn't Hillary.
But, if you actually believe this bullshit, that's your right.
think
(11,641 posts)skip fox
(19,359 posts)MineralMan
(146,311 posts)I've never been able to figure that out. Have we not yet figured out that he is NOT on our side?
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I don't believe him. Simple.
pnwmom
(108,978 posts)someone other Russian that DT paid to hack.
But Assange has no credibility.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Funny how he never releases anything damaging to Russia.
bigtree
(85,996 posts)mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)supposedly will announce? I smell a rat!
skip fox
(19,359 posts)I was brainstorming on the basis of this. Not that it's true, but waswondering what it might imply if it was true. And the implications are profound.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/03/assange-russian-government-not-source-wikileaks-emails.html
mcar
(42,333 posts)he may be chuckling to himself about how he is playing with the treasonous truth.
He may be signalling to Donald that unless he is is give political asylum in the US, he could spill the beans.
(Just speculating . . .)
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Truth be damned
Cattledog
(5,914 posts)That would be foolish and amateurish. They launder it through 3rd parties always. This is "covering your tracks". Plus I doubt Putin/KGB trusts J.A. They use him as needed.
Hekate
(90,690 posts)ASSange is just another tool, and a malicious one at that.