SoylentNews

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.

---

Original Submission

• Re:What is to be learned? Re:What is to be learned? (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @05:29PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @05:29PM (#715810)

  The two civilians who came by and tried to render assistance? I have a little bit of a hard time justifying that. But, you'd have a much harder time trying to bring charges under the Geneva conventions for shooting them up. They were, in fact, attempting to render assistance to members of a known enemy unit.

  You should be having a much harder time, not just a little. Two civilians rendering aid and you think they were like "oh I know these guys, they are totally members of ISIS or whatever trying to fight off the US imperials, I will totally help them out while they're being shot!" Gimme a break, besides the entire situation occurred because of US imperialism and lies to get the public on board with another war. Oh sorry, military action!

  Who brings kids to a shootout? Uuuugggh, your victim blaming is strong today! Why didn't these civilians know an attack helicopter was scheduled for that day and keep their kids at home??? What degenerate parents /s

  Parent

  Starting Score:	0		points
  Moderation		+2
  Touché=2, Total=2
  Extra 'Touché' Modifier		0
  Total Score:		2

• Re:What is to be learned? (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:13AM

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:13AM (#716002) Homepage Journal

  You obviously have a lot of war zone experience, and are unaffected by the "fog of war". Is your name Mephistopholes, or Jesus Christ?

  --
  “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.” ― George S. Patton on Ukraine

  Parent

Privacy Policy: We don't track anyone except on this site, so DNT requests aren't relevant and are ignored. We don't collect any personally identifiable information from you except your email address, which: you can change at any time, never has to be real in the first place, is only used to contact you if necessary or requested, and we share with nobody.