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Assange: Clinton leaks could come as early as next week
By CRISTIANO LIMA at Politico
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/julian-assange-clinton-leaks-could-come-as-early-as-next-week-227811
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said leaks on Hillary Clinton and other American politicians are coming reasonably soon and that information teases could drop as early as the next couple weeks.
The first batch is reasonably soon. We are quite confident about it now, Assange said on Fox News Hannity.
The WikiLeaks editor-in-chief opted not to provide specifics on a release, but added that the organization might put out some teasers as early as the next week or the week after.
In an August interview on the same network, Assange promised to leak thousands of document pages pertaining to Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and the presidential election, adding that he anticipated it would have a significant impact come November.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/julian-assange-clinton-leaks-could-come-as-early-as-next-week-227811#ixzz4JXQc5xd2
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jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)What a tool. And if this doesn't expose the entire wikileaks project as a russian tool and completely undermine their supposed mission I don't know what would.
applegrove
(118,677 posts)as exactly what you say.
creeksneakers2
(7,473 posts)Last week, we learned something else: The Russians arent just hackers theyre also hacks. Turns out that before leaking their stolen information, they are in some cases doctoring the documents, making edits that add false information and then passing the documents off as the originals.
Foreign Policys Elias Groll reported last week that the hackers goofed: They posted both the original versions of at least three documents and their edited versions. These documents, stolen from George Soross Open Society Foundations, were altered by the hackers to create the false impression that Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny was funded by Soros. A pro-Russian hacking group, CyberBerkut, had inserted Navalnys name, bogus dollar amounts and fabricated wording.
This raises an intriguing possibility: Are Vladimir Putins operatives planning to dump edited DNC documents on the eve of the presidential election?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-putin-sponsored-october-surprise/2016/08/29/d7f21d16-6e33-11e6-9705-23e51a2f424d_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.3f7cb5df8528
redStateBlueHeart
(265 posts)Remind me why he has a vendetta against HRC?
Demsrule86
(68,582 posts)Trump has also promised Putin Eastern Europe.
Divine Discontent
(21,056 posts)Edited documents already discovered to be tainted by Russians, and say anything coming from the Putin camp is going to be doctored, and when did Americans put an ounce of belief in anything a vicious dictator had his hands in?
MFM008
(19,814 posts)Just like the maggot.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)in a way that looks plausible.
There have already been leaked emails that were proved to have been altered. Why should we trust any further leaks?
Divine Discontent
(21,056 posts)"Altered Clinton emails could be released by Russian Operatives Next Week"
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)as he tries to claim he is and big on the Truth - he would simply dump the raw data.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)remaineruk
(156 posts)We generally disregard the ferret rapist and would love to see him tried in Sweden asap. He has zero credibility. Surely that can be shown in the US as well?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)prove a negative which takes a lot of time. Perhaps why he is withholding - to shorten the window before the election to disprove anything.
Welcome from afar to DU !!
remaineruk
(156 posts)In the UK as he has no credibility he just wouldn't be listened to. Every time we see him talk....which isn't often we just think about him holed up without bit d in the embassy
Wouldn't an attack on credibility be the best thing. Brexit has taught me playing their game is the only way
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)It is now obvious that wikileaks is now a front operation for Russian intelligence services.
remaineruk
(156 posts)Assange should be focused on....by someone...and pulled through the mire for being a rapist and Russian puppet
Don't under estimate these people. In the UK for the leave campaign they spread their bile in all the forums and social media. Parenting sites, women's sites anywhere that has a politics or news section. Then after the vote the posters went puff into smoke
It is genearly gossip ed about that we have Russian plants in our social media
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)There I fixed it.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)I have never been a fan of his. I don't think he has done any nation any favors and has sucked some really naive people into his orbit through the utter bs he puts out there.
Lord Magus
(1,999 posts)He doesn't actually have anything of substance, because there's nothing of substance to have.
Demsrule86
(68,582 posts)You can't be even sure they were not altered or fabricated by his Russian buddies...Assange is a tool of Putin and has lost all credibility.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)He's nothing more than Putin's tool.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)because he already lost the right to pretend he has anyone's best interest in mind except his own.