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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 c0lo on Monday November 20 2017, @08:51PM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 20 2017, @08:51PM (#599382) Journal

    when the Government next door starts walking across the border and doing whatever it wants to?

    Yes, it is known that the Canadians and Mexicans are waring rapacious bastards.
    They haven't had, across their history, an entire year without wagging war; it is so ingrained in the cultural psyche they can't even imagine living without war...
    Oh, wait. [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday November 22 2017, @08:37PM (1 child)

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Wednesday November 22 2017, @08:37PM (#600334) Journal

    They are not given the opportunity to. And you can't generalize what they might do until it occurs. And it doesn't take just geography: Can you guarantee me Libya, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Yemen, or North Korea wouldn't snap off a piece of the U.S. by force if they couldn't? And you don't think the players might change over time in any event?

    Aside from that, guarantee me that either would want to make up [history.com] for past indiscretions [history.com] of the U.S. And I mean guarantee it in a way that I don't have to think about defending my wife from rape by marauding soldiers. Literally. (Hint: I'm asking you to prove a negative, which you can't do. The U.S. does indeed need to defend itself.)

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:42PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:42PM (#600395) Journal

      They are not given the opportunity to.

      Idiot, brain-bleached or hypocrite.
        Cost of actions vs resources, cost vs benefit considerations and many other things will show you why they can't.
      Until they actually have and show signs** to, you have no rational reason for an armed intervention.

      Except that your mindset is actually turned into a posthoc justification to invade, so that anything rational which don't fit the picture will be rejected.

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      ** Even today you are paying through your nose the cost of 'but... Saddam and WMD... and Axis of evil'. I must conclude you either like to pay for it or you have something to gain while others are paying for it.

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