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Activist Publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter Direct Messages

posted by chromas on Wednesday August 01 2018, @01:31PM   
from the delete-this dept.

takyon writes:

Activist publishes 11,000 Wikileaks Twitter direct messages

An activist has published 11,000 direct messages on Twitter between the Wikileaks account and a group of its supporters. The direct messages were published by Emma Best on her own website. Her Twitter account states that she is a journalist on the East Coast. Best has been critical of Wikileaks and has advocated for government transparency. Some of the direct messages were previously published, but this is the first time all of the direct messages have been posted.

The messages show that Wikileaks wanted the GOP to defeat Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential elections. "We believe it would be much better for the GOP to win," the Wikileaks account states to a supporter named "Emmy B" in one of the messages from 2015.

Why would they do that?

Clinton: I don't recall joking about droning Julian Assange

Oh.

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• Re:Teflon (Score: 5, Interesting) by schad on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:43PM

  by schad (2398) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:43PM (#715786)

  WL is also majorly responsible for Trump winning.

  Really? Without speaking to the merits of the candidates themselves, I'd put the blame in all these places first:

  1. The people who voted for Trump (naturally). They're all adults; no one is responsible for their votes but them.
  2. The people who were so blinded by the prospect of a woman president that they voted for Clinton despite her many well-documented and extremely obvious deficiencies.
  3. The DNC, for trying to ensure that Clinton would win the primaries despite the fact that, again, she had serious problems as a candidate.
  4. The people who were so disgusted by Trump and Clinton that, rather than voting, they stayed home.
  5. Clinton, for assuming that Democrats would just vote for her no matter what.

  It's at around this point in the blame-list that I'd start talking about Comey, Wikileaks, the Russians, etc. I just don't think they had much of an effect on the election. We all knew what we'd be getting with Trump or Clinton. I don't think any Trump supporters have been terribly surprised by anything that's happened since his election. It's why Stormy Daniels, pussy-grabbing, Miss America peeping, etc. never got much traction. Everyone already knew that Trump was a slimeball. They voted for him anyway. By the same token, everyone already knew what Clinton was: a cutthroat politician who would say or do whatever it took in order to win, and had little or no care for anything beyond her own personal advancement. What did we learn from the DNC emails? That Clinton had done and said whatever it took in order to win. What did we learn from Comey? That Clinton had little or no care for anything beyond her own personal advancement. Nothing shocking there.

  Oh, I'm sure that there were people out there who were naive enough to think that Trump was basically a nice guy who was just misunderstood, and Clinton was secretly a big ol' softie. Well... writing that, I'm not actually sure that there were people that naive. Maybe if you knew literally nothing about either of them?

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