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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."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday November 20 2017, @07:44PM (3 children)
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 . . .
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 5, Touché) by maxwell demon on Monday November 20 2017, @07:49PM
That's not a comma vs. period substitution, that's a movement of the period.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @07:53PM
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
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.