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Wikileaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Trump Tapes

posted by on Tuesday May 16 2017, @09:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the plenty-of-dirty-laundry-to-go-around dept.

takyon writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by BK on Tuesday May 16 2017, @11:13PM (3 children)

    by BK (4868) on Tuesday May 16 2017, @11:13PM (#510828)

    Certainly he can for now. A committee can subpoena things. Individual congressmen can't.

    It's worth mentioning that nobody has confirmed that conversations are, or are not, taped at the WH. I doubt DJT installed a new recording system... if there was a system, BHO's staffers would presumably leaked its existence by now. Still, interesting to contemplate.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:24AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:24AM (#510843)

    I doubt DJT installed a new recording system...

    That's an empty assumption.
    Back in the days of LBJ and Nixon a recording system was big, complicated and required staff to manage.
    Now you can record days of conversations on a device the size of a tie-tack.
    And yeah, Turmp uses scotch tape instead of tie-tacks, [esquire.com] but the point remains that the effort required is trivial. Trump could have been doing it all by himself if he wasn't such a technophobe. It doesn't require wiring up the oval office, just putting an innocuous paper-weight on his desk or a pen-shaped recorder in his suit pocket.

    BTW, Turmp has a history of deleting records in direct defiance of court orders. [newsweek.com] So if they exist, there is a good chance he's gonna delete them rather than hand them over.

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @02:47PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @02:47PM (#511115) Journal

      If only he had used duck tape instead, then we could laud him, right?

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:18AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:18AM (#510918) Journal

    History about to repeat itself? ;-)