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Wikileaks has abruptly canceled a much-anticipated announcement on Tuesday. The announcement had been expected to be founder Julian Assange's long-promised document dump on Hillary Clinton.
NBC's Jesse Rodriguez reported that the Tuesday announcement — which was to come from the balcony of London's Ecuadorian Embassy, where Assange has sought sanctuary for years – was canceled due to security concerns.
Wikileaks has not said when it will now make its announcement.
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"October Surprise" Thwarted? Wikileaks Cancels Tuesday Announcement Due to Security Concerns
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @11:09AM
The media would LOVE an "October Surprise", which is why they will label anything "scandalous" this month with that moniker. Then they can christen it with the much beloved "-gate". Everybody knows Trump hasn't paid taxes in decades. What's the "surprise" here?
(Score: 3, Informative) by butthurt on Monday October 03 2016, @11:41AM
> Everybody knows Trump hasn't paid taxes in decades.
How do you know that? I don't know that. The New York Times writers don't claim to know that: they write
The figure is so substantial that it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying federal income tax for 18 years.
> What's the "surprise" here?
The magnitude is just tremendous. That he sustained such losses during what, for others, was a boom, I mean economically, is surprising. Also there is the fact that today he's very, very rich, with a net worth "in excess of ten billion dollars."
http://fox59.com/2015/07/15/donald-trump-im-worth-10-billion/ [fox59.com]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 03 2016, @12:55PM
Tremendous. Huuuuge even.
His people were justifying it by saying that it proves he is the right choice for tax reform [nbcnews.com], because he is a master of loopholes.
It would be ironic for them to bash NYT while quietly supporting Wikileaks, but it seems they are avoiding drawing extra attention to the leak:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/02/the-new-york-times-risked-legal-trouble-to-publish-donald-trumps-tax-return/ [washingtonpost.com]
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/us/politics/giuliani-calls-donald-trump-a-genius-for-minimizing-his-taxes.html [nytimes.com]
It's too bad that Wikileaks hasn't been able to release any Donald Trump info. Maybe leakers think they can get a more prompt reaction from liberal news outlets that are also regularly derided by Mr. Trump.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @08:01PM
His people were justifying it by saying that it proves he is the right choice for tax reform [nbcnews.com], because he is a master of loopholes.
Then shouldn't his tax accountant be running for President?
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday October 04 2016, @05:07AM
It's too bad that Wikileaks hasn't been able to release any Donald Trump info. Maybe leakers think they can get a more prompt reaction from liberal news outlets that are also regularly derided by Mr. Trump.
Why would they? Donald Trump wasn't part of the Obama administration, of whom, rightly or wrongly, Assange is terrified.
He hates Obama and Clinton because he thinks that they've worked a deal with the Swedes to turn him over to the CIA for 'Extraordinary Rendition' [wikipedia.org]. Which is why he's been hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassyin London.
He won't release anything that puts Trump in a bad light, because that would help his nemesis. Which is amusing, since I'm sure Clinton considers him a scuttling cockroach or, at most, an annoyance. I guess it just goes to show that he's got an ego the size of Brazil, and no cojones.
He only has another 3-1/2 years before the statute of limitations runs out on the last charge against him in Sweden. I hope he likes Ecuadorian cooking! I know I do. Fortunately, there are a couple of Ecuadorian restaurants near me.
So he'll be able to leave before Hillary finishes her first term.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 5, Interesting) by VLM on Monday October 03 2016, @01:00PM
What's the "surprise" here?
Hillary has been a criminal for decades and is teflon otherwise she'd be in prison with every other criminal like her. I suppose it helps her that people around her keep showing up dead for decades. She really is pretty much a James Bond class of villain.
The "surprise" is the worst thing Trump's apparently ever done is hire an accountant who follows all the tax laws and some folks don't like the outcome of the social engineering laws they themselves wrote. Oh and he called some people some names out of context. Supposedly that comparatively makes him unsuitable for office, LOL.
The analogy we're lead to believe by the news media is "the joker" has the moral high ground because its true that everyone knows he's an insane mass murderer with psycopathic plans that will cause destruction in the future, but "batman" lost the moral high ground because he once called "catwoman" the C-word so we're all supposed to be happy and accepting of "the joker" being in charge. I mean, how dare he use the "C-word", so I guess we all deserve nuclear WWIII with Russia.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @05:08PM
What's more likely under Occam's Razor
A. Clintons are criminal masterminds who got away with 60+ murders/conspiracies under the microscope of D.C. press and haters
B. Fox/Rush/GOP full of spin-shit, paranoia, and statistical Play-Doh for political gain and/or profits.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @05:26PM
They didn't get away with them ALL; their very important Great Evil BJ was caught, and it only cost tax payers a couple of hundreds of millions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @09:09PM
What's more likely under Occam's Razor
What's more likely is HRC used Occam's Razor to kill people and then blame it on poor Occam.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @02:19AM
How about we let her OWN tax returns speak for themselves. https://i.sli.mg/kxNJrh.jpg [i.sli.mg]
(Score: 2) by KiloByte on Tuesday October 04 2016, @04:07AM
What's more likely under Occam's Razor
A. Clintons are criminal masterminds who got away with 60+ murders/conspiracies under the microscope of D.C. press and haters
B. Fox/Rush/GOP full of spin-shit, paranoia, and statistical Play-Doh for political gain and/or profits.
In this case, it's both.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @08:16AM
What's more likely under Occam's Razor
A. Clintons are criminal masterminds who got away with 60+ murders/conspiracies under the microscope of D.C. press and haters
B. Fox/Rush/GOP full of spin-shit, paranoia, and statistical Play-Doh for political gain and/or profits.
They got Al Capone on tax evasion, not any of thirty plus murders and countless other crimes he was associated with. The press was often happy to sit on stories it had about the Clintons unless they had a reason to publish them. Example: Newsweek had the Monica Lewinski story but sat on it. It was Matt Drudge that leaked the information, and made his reputation. Even when the press does publish they can still minimize the story and set it aside at the first opportunity instead of covering it in detail.
(Score: 1) by DeVilla on Wednesday October 05 2016, @04:17AM
C. Al Capone only ever committed income tax evasion.