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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: 4, Insightful) by Arik on Monday November 20 2017, @07:24PM (15 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Monday November 20 2017, @07:24PM (#599344) Journal
    Yes, they replaced a comma with a period, and in that way reversed the apparent meaning of the utterance. And then all their political allies just repeat what they said. No one seems to care in the least that it's an obvious falsehood, as long as it suits their 'narrative.'
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 20 2017, @07:25PM (14 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday November 20 2017, @07:25PM (#599345) Journal

    It didn't change the meaning at all.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Monday November 20 2017, @07:27PM (9 children)

      by Arik (4543) on Monday November 20 2017, @07:27PM (#599347) Journal
      English, do you speak it?
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      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @07:30PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @07:30PM (#599350)

        What?

        • (Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Monday November 20 2017, @08:59PM (2 children)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 20 2017, @08:59PM (#599391) Journal

          Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time!

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @09:03PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @09:03PM (#599394)

            какие?

            • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday November 20 2017, @09:34PM

              by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 20 2017, @09:34PM (#599415) Journal

              что?

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      • (Score: 2, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 20 2017, @07:48PM (1 child)

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday November 20 2017, @07:48PM (#599361) Journal

        English, do you speak it?

        If it's so clear why haven't you posted the actual quotes yet?

        • (Score: 2, Flamebait) by Arik on Monday November 20 2017, @09:11PM

          by Arik (4543) on Monday November 20 2017, @09:11PM (#599404) Journal
          I did, first link.

          Pretending you don't understand simple English isn't going to work in your favor.
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          If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @07:50PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @07:50PM (#599364)

        English, do you speak it?

        Yoda says what?

        • (Score: 2) by t-3 on Monday November 20 2017, @08:59PM (1 child)

          by t-3 (4907) on Monday November 20 2017, @08:59PM (#599390)

          Never seen pulp fiction?

          • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @09:05PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @09:05PM (#599396)

            I think it was a double joke, good language compression there.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday November 20 2017, @07:44PM (3 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 20 2017, @07:44PM (#599357) Journal

      Let me give you an example of what a single comma vs period substitution can do.

      Ephesians 4:28 from the Bible.

      Let him who stole, steal no more. Let him labor with with his hands, working for things . . .

      Let him who stole, steal. No more let him labor with his hands, working for things . . .

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      • (Score: 5, Touché) by maxwell demon on Monday November 20 2017, @07:49PM

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday November 20 2017, @07:49PM (#599363) Journal

        That's not a comma vs. period substitution, that's a movement of the period.

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      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @07:53PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @07:53PM (#599367)

        Now about we look at what actually happened here and not some hypothetical example from some book about more hypothetical things?

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday November 20 2017, @07:53PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday November 20 2017, @07:53PM (#599368) Journal

        Yes, it can. But in this case, it didn't.

        "We don't want this to look shady."

        Vs.

        "We don't want this to look shady, which is something we're accused of."

        That doesn't change the meaning of the "we don't want to look shady" part.