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posted by martyb on Friday October 27 2017, @09:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-internet-never-forgets dept.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has confirmed that he received an email from the chief executive of data firm Cambridge Analytica inquiring about Hillary Clinton's deleted emails:

The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Wednesday that he had rebuffed a request for help last year from the head of a data firm that worked for Donald J. Trump and is now facing congressional scrutiny.

On Twitter, Mr. Assange said he had been approached before the 2016 election by Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, which worked for Mr. Trump during the final months of the campaign. Mr. Assange did not disclose what kind of help Mr. Nix sought, only that he had declined the request. "I can confirm an approach by Cambridge Analytica," Mr. Assange wrote, "and can confirm that it was rejected by WikiLeaks."

But The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday that Mr. Nix had emailed Mr. Assange looking for copies of more than 30,000 emails that were deleted from Hillary Clinton's private server and never publicly released. Mrs. Clinton has said that the emails were personal in nature.

[...] It is also unclear why Mr. Nix would have believed that Mr. Assange had copies of the missing emails. Earlier last year, WikiLeaks had posted a searchable database of more than 50,000 emails from Mrs. Clinton's private server, all of them previously released by the State Department. But Mr. Trump himself seemed eager to find the missing emails: At a campaign rally in July, Mr. Trump publicly asked Russia to obtain the deleted emails.

"There's no such thing as a dumb question." :-) 😂😂😂

Also at The Guardian, CNN, The Hill, and Politico.

Previously: Assange Thanks USA for Forcing Him to Invest in Booming Bitcoin


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by cubancigar11 on Saturday October 28 2017, @05:34AM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Saturday October 28 2017, @05:34AM (#588584) Homepage Journal

    Pakistan consists of rather rich, rather "I drink at my home but talk about Sharia in the morning" religious people who live in a small area of Pakistan called Punjab and who control all the wealth and power. They are friends of the Washington since the days of NATO.

    The rest of the Pakistan is illiterate bunch of villagers who used to give shelter to mujahedins with full support of Punjab and the Washington. You know, the freedom-fighters from all across the world used to come there and get free training in guerrilla warfare. And it was all good...

    Then after 9/11 Washington decided to leave these mujahedins to the lurch. Important note: Punjab maintains its control by pointing out the common enemy India. To do that it needs to constantly fund the "freedom fighters" in Kashmir and others parts of India. As Paskitani economy tanks, it needs to pump more money into this fight. So it needs Washington's support. Long story short, they let Washington bomb the people who suddenly found themselves sheltering "terrorists".

    The back-stabbing is felt by all the villagers in that area and is loudened by each drone strike, which begets bombing against Punjabi profeeters, and so even more drone strikes.

    Is Pakistan an enemy of USA? A dog gets into a fight to save its master, and contacts rabies.

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