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posted by martyb on Monday November 20 2017, @05:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the couldn't-have-done-it-without-Shiva-Ayyadurai dept.

The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks

The Atlantic writes:

The transparency organization asked the president's son for his cooperation—in sharing its work, in contesting the results of the election, and in arranging for Julian Assange to be Australia's ambassador to the United States.

[...] The messages, obtained by The Atlantic, were also turned over by Trump Jr.'s lawyers to congressional investigators. They are part of a long—and largely one-sided—correspondence between WikiLeaks and the president's son that continued until at least July 2017. The messages show WikiLeaks, a radical transparency organization that the American intelligence community believes was chosen by the Russian government to disseminate the information it had hacked, actively soliciting Trump Jr.'s cooperation. WikiLeaks made a series of increasingly bold requests, including asking for Trump's tax returns, urging the Trump campaign on Election Day to reject the results of the election as rigged, and requesting that the president-elect tell Australia to appoint Julian Assange ambassador to the United States.

Its a quite long, but interesting article.

Kushner Failed to Hand Over Emails

Senators: Kushner Didn't Disclose Emails On WikiLeaks, 'Russian Overture'

Senior White House adviser and son-in-law to the president Jared Kushner failed to hand over to Senate investigators emails concerning contacts with WikiLeaks and a "Russian backdoor overture," according to a letter sent by two senior lawmakers.

The letter, released Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and its ranking Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, says Kushner failed to turn over "September 2016 email communications to Mr. Kushner concerning WikiLeaks" and other emails pertaining to a "Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite."


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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Sulla on Monday November 20 2017, @05:50PM (6 children)

    by Sulla (5173) on Monday November 20 2017, @05:50PM (#599311) Journal

    So TJr handed over the stuff he was asked to hand over and the media leaked it like they always do. How is this secret? Or was it secret becausre the media hadn't found a way to hack it yet. Talking to someone over twitter is hardly secret communication.

    I was waiting for stuff to come out about Kushner, I haven't seen much of him lately so figured he was being pushed out.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 20 2017, @07:00PM (3 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday November 20 2017, @07:00PM (#599332) Journal

    So TJr handed over the stuff he was asked to hand over and the media leaked it like they always do.

    No, TJR said he had no contact with WikiLeaks. He was forced to make these records public as part of the investigation. And, BIG SUPRISE, it turns out he was lying.

    How is this secret?

    It was secret, now it's public.

    Or was it secret becausre the media hadn't found a way to hack it yet.

    Oh, you care about hacking now?

    Talking to someone over twitter is hardly secret communication.

    It is when it's a private message.

    I was waiting for stuff to come out about Kushner, I haven't seen much of him lately so figured he was being pushed out.

    Wait a couple weeks....

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by frojack on Monday November 20 2017, @08:28PM (1 child)

      by frojack (1554) on Monday November 20 2017, @08:28PM (#599376) Journal

      No, TJR said he had no contact with WikiLeaks. He was forced to make these records public as part of the investigation. And, BIG SUPRISE, it turns out he was lying.

      It was wikileaks that was filling his spam mailbox, one sided. How does that make him lying?

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      • (Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 20 2017, @09:24PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday November 20 2017, @09:24PM (#599410) Journal

        It was wikileaks that was filling his spam mailbox, one sided. How does that make him lying?

        Because he responded:

        The next morning, about 12 hours later, Trump Jr. responded to WikiLeaks. “Off the record I don’t know who that is, but I’ll ask around,” he wrote on September 21, 2016. “Thanks.”

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @02:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @02:20AM (#599485)

      > Talking to someone over twitter is hardly secret communication.

      It is when it's a private message.

      Secret from the public- superficially at least. Secret from the NSA/CIA, not so much.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @07:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @07:04PM (#599334)

    So TJr handed over the stuff he was asked to hand over and the media leaked it like they always do

    That's not how it works. Someone in Congress or the White House leaded it to the media. The media reported it but the media is the recipient of leaks, not the source.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @01:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @01:10AM (#599472)

    Kushner negotiated a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia.

    He quietly took a trip over there. Right after he left, all those princes got arrested. One of them operated the upper floors of the Mandalay Bay, which you might have heard of. One of them owns 1/3 of twitter.