WikiLeaks announced Friday it is prepared to pay $100,000 for any tapes of conversations between President Donald Trump and former FBI Director James Comey. The message was sent out from its Twitter account just hours after Trump sent out his own tweet apparently warning Comey not to leak information to the media because of tapes he has of their meetings.
Update: U.S. lawmakers ask Trump to turn over any Comey tapes. Background on Comey's firing.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by takyon on Tuesday May 16 2017, @11:04PM (8 children)
WikiLeaks has money:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Financing [wikipedia.org]
Between donations and BitCoins, they probably can spare $100k. But that $100k could be recovered since posting the hypothetical tapes would likely result in an influx of donations.
WikiLeaks likely wins either way with these cute bounties, since at a minimum they get free press, at a maximum they get the material that they wanted, resulting in donations, and offering the bounty could help increase the chances that the leaked material reaches WikiLeaks first rather than some other organization or data dump location.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:02AM (7 children)
> WikiLeaks likely wins either way with these cute bounties,
It can backfire. At least it did for me when they pulled that stunt of wink-wink implying that Seth Rich was killed because he leaked something about clinton to them.
It wasn't just the sensationalistic courting of conspiracy, but their disregard for Rich and his family, callously using their tragedy for wikileaks's own self-promotion that still rears its head on a regular basis. [buzzfeed.com] Not unlike loony-right accusations (and tormenting [google.com] of) the parents of sandy hook kids.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:28AM (6 children)
We should wait and see. Rich's death smells funny and until the public gets a comprehensive status update and a glimpse at some or all of the evidence, then Assange either knows something or is dangling it in front of them, and that's a good thing tacky or not.
Besides, if there's anything this election did prove, it's that neither side has any dignity -- both sides have devolved to grade-school name-calling and baseball-field rumor-whispering of the kind you'd read about Disney sluts in a trash tabloid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:49AM (1 child)
> then Assange either knows something or is dangling it in front of them,
Read the linked article. Assange explicitly disavowed knowing something after he was shamed.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday May 17 2017, @02:37AM
One drop of tackiness in a bucket of tackiness, wow, I'm hopping in a frenzy. The American political process can be summarized as a bunch of angry Blacks brawling in a Waffle House, and you no longer know who's punching who and for what reason. We can go back and forth till we're blue in the face and only agree to disagree.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:12AM (3 children)
I see you're complicit in this attempt to equalize the two parties. Sorry bub, your friends are still racist white supremacists and you're still an angry internet troll trying to spew your emotional baggage on to everything.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:28AM
I may be a racist, but you're a nigger. And we all know niggers can't be psychologists...though they can be good athletes and rappers. Quit your day-job and pick up the ball or the mic, DJ Sambo!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @05:39AM (1 child)
"Sorry bub, your friends are still racist white supremacists "
And you're still a clueless SJW who uses an ad hominem attack because he is too stupid to
think up something better.
I met one of your kind outside a bar the other night. He mouthed off to me and I kicked
his fucking ribs in. He wasn't saying too much after that :-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:03PM
Good for you mate, tell that cuck to siddown!! Libtards just don't know when to quit.