When Julian Assange “tried to distance himself from Guccifer by scapegoating Seth Rich, freelance journalist Emma Best gave him a dose of his own medicine by sending Buzzfeed News some of his private Twitter direct messages (DMs), which Buzzfeed then published.” 1/ buckscountybeacon.com/2023/04/roger-…
2/ “The DMs showed that, before the first Wikileaks drop, Guccifer had offered his archive of stolen Democratic Party documents to both Wikileaks and Best, but that Wikileaks had persuaded Best to step aside and to let Wikileaks exclusively handle the release of those documents.”
3/ “The DMs also included a message that Wikileaks had sent to Guccifer on June 22, 2016, stating: ‘Send any new material here for us to review and it will have a much higher impact than what you are doing.’”
4/ Additional, explosive details were disclosed to the public in the DOJ’s July 2018 indictment against 12 Russian hackers. d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2018/07…
5/ The indictment alleged on page 18, for instance, that Guccifer had “sent WikiLeaks an encrypted attachment” on July 14, which provided “instructions on how to access an online archive of stolen DNC documents.”
6/ The indictment further alleged (also on page 18) that Wikileaks had confirmed accessing the archive and that it had told Guccifer on July 18, 2016, that it would begin publishing the material that week. Wikileaks began publishing the stolen emails four days later, but “did not disclose Guccifer 2.0’s role in providing them.”
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10/ I put this info in my Roger Stone series because of this…
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21/ Alex Jones, Jerome Corsi, and Jack Posobiec later retracted their claims. But Stone and Assange never did, presumably because they weren’t sued.
22/ A few more excerpts.
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25/ I also discussed Wikileaks in part 1 of my Roger Stone series. buckscountybeacon.com/2023/01/roger-…
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31/ I also discussed Wikileaks in part 3 of my Stone series. buckscountybeacon.com/2023/03/roger-…
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33/ Assange joined in the “fun” too.
34/ By “Guccifer,” I mean Guccifer 2.0. buckscountybeacon.com/2023/04/roger-…
.@threadreaderapp please unroll
35/ This was the impetus for my thread. cnn.com/2024/06/25/wor…
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