12-12-2016, 01:52 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Tracy Riddle Wrote:Anyone defending Wikileaks/Assange needs to explain why they never released any hacked emails from the Republicans. Either wittingly or unwittingly, they allowed themselves to be used as a Russian intelligence asset to interfere in a US election.
Because they don't have any.
Wikileaks depends on others to upload documents to them. One day a disgruntled Trump insider might do that the same way that some Democrat insider did. Wikileaks would be more than happy to publish those documents when they come. No Russians needed.
Sorry, I think that's just B.S. The NYT reported that the RNC was hacked as well (according to the CIA, though the pro-Trump faction in the FBI denies that - the two agencies have never shared information well, or even trust each other). The hacked RNC emails were never released, except for the ones from Colin Powell and Condi Rice saying unflattering things about the Clintons (Hillary's email server and Bill's bimbos).
It's basic spycraft to use third party cutouts to pass along information to a group like Wikileaks. They can easily represent themselves as "disgruntled insiders," when in fact they are acting on behalf of Russian intelligence.
Maybe you didn't notice the Exxon CEO who is going to be Secretary of State, even though he received a personal award from Putin? This isn't cold war paranoia. Putin doesn't like Hillary and didn't want her to win. Anyone who doesn't believe that the Russians hacked both parties is naive. They are holding the Republican emails as future blackmail material to influence Trump, which may be one reason the GOP and its right-wing media allies are curiously afraid all of a sudden to criticize Russia anymore.
As a side note, we have Trump and his people trying to argue that Russian Hacking=WMDs, so there's no story folks, don't believe what the CIA says. Never mind that the cooked intelligence on WMDs actually came from Dick Cheney's personal intelligence unit (Office of Special Plans) staffed by neo-cons, while many people at CIA actually argued that Cheney's intelligence was wrong.