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The @washingtonpost on the Guardian's Manafort/Assange story: "the bombshell looks as though it could be a dud," writes @farhip. Worse, "the @guardian has said little to defend itself amid mounting criticism." Many other criticisms of @Guardian's conduct: washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
The @washingtonpost quotes me about a long-standing irony I've loathed about news outlets: “It’s so ironic that the institutions that demand disclosure from others are the least willing to be transparent about themselves.” See the questions I've emailed below to @guardian
If the @Guardian's blockbuster Manafort/Assange story turns out false, it's probably the worst media debacle since the "Jackie"/UVA rape story fell apart. But since the @Guardian's targets were people US elites hate - namely, WL & Assange - they're willing to ignore/forgive it.
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NBC and MSNBC Blamed Russia for Using “Sophisticated Microwaves” to Cause “Brain Injuries” in U.S. “Diplomats” in Cuba. The Culprits Were Likely Crickets. theintercept.com/2019/01/07/nbc…
NBC and MSNBC repeatedly put @KenDilanianNBC all over the air to do what he does - mindlessly repeat what @CIA tells him to say - to state that Russia attacked US diplomats in Cuba with microwaves. The likely culprit was this pretty Caribbean male cricket theintercept.com/2019/01/07/nbc…
It's important to note these new scientific findings, as well as the prior statements from numerous neurological experts, don't dispositively prove that NBC story was false. They just raise very serious doubts. It's *possible* these alarming things happened in the Cuba incident:
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Yes, the US press is so brave & free - when it comes to foreign leaders. Remember when, after 9/11, all TV networks obeyed the government's orders not to broadcast video of Osama bin Laden explaining the attack on the ground he'd included coded messages to activate sleeper cells?
US media obeyed the government's orders to impose a blackout on Al Qaeda explaining their motives for the 9/11 attack (US violence & interference in the Muslim world), which is what let @DavidFrum & friends create the bullshit "they-hate-us-for-our-freedom" fairy tales.
Then there was that time in 2004 when NYT discovered Bush/Cheney was *illegally* eavesdropping on Americans, but sat on the story upon the orders of the WH, only to publish it *after* Bush's win because Jim Risen was going to break the story in his book theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-…
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Now that Warren emphatically supported Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria & Afghanistan - ignoring @Maddow's desperate bait to bash Trump & instead condemned Endless War - the silence on these issues of Sanders (&, to a lesser extent, @AOC) becomes harder to maintain:
I emailed Sanders' office on Dec 26 to ask his view on Syria troop withdraw - was told they were discussing it but he didn't yet have a position. As I said, people are entitled to time to address complex matters, but these debates are central & ongoing silence is hard to justify.
To be clear, the quote I got when I emailed Sanders' office on Dec 26 about Syria troop withdrawal was this: "We’ve been discussing but he hasn’t made a statement yet." They're now suggesting this doesn't mean he has no position, just that he hasn't publicly expressed one yet.
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1/ What happened to Reality Winner is an injustice. But @theIntercept compounds it & is journalistically derelict by continuing to a) avoid owning up to its own role & b) pretend she exposed a Russian intel operation, when they are fully aware she didn’t. theintercept.com/2018/12/23/rea…
2) re: a), here’s Glenn Greenwald, per the New Yorker:

“The site ‘fucked up,’ Greenwald said. He added that, if he didn’t work there, he might be wondering aloud why nobody was fired.”

newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
3) The same accountability we’ve all sought from the Guardian over the Manafort-Assange story should also be sought over TI’s Russian vote hacking story. They’re not perfectly analogous, but what GG says here about the Guardian story also applies to TI: theintercept.com/amp/it-is-poss…
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The Guardian is reporting that Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy

No independent confirmation as of yet
amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
The Guardian has weakened some of the language in their Manafort/Assange story: newssniffer.co.uk/articles/17061…
.@carlbernstein reports Mueller's team has been investigating a meeting between Manafort and Ecuador’s president in Quito in 2017, and has specifically asked if Wikileaks or Julian Assange were discussed in the meeting.
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Julian Assange's Legal Defense 'GoFundMe' has internet links to other entities including an Online Poker Gambling entity that uses only BitCoin
Here's the skinny on SWCPoker
Here's the skinny on CourageFund - the Legal Defense for Julian Assange and Pals
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#Assange Prosecution Will Focus On #ChelseaManning Era Releases, Not #DNCEmails

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Recent reports have indicated that formerly secret charges pending against #JulianAssange will focus on material relating to @xychelsea and the earliest releases published by #WikiLeaks.
This latest news directly counters allegations published by #Russiagate hysterics, who suggested the charges would relate to WikiLeaks’ 2016 publications of the #DNC and #JohnPodesta emails.
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I just published: “Paul Manafort = Evidence of Collusion”

Bottom line up front: Nine significant pieces of info in public record point to conspiracy with Russians and violations of federal campaign finance law...

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justsecurity.org/57863/paul-man…
1. Manafort proposes to Putin-linked, Russian oligarch a plan to “greatly benefit Putin,” and they get to work (2005-)

Original Scoop for this story is @AssociatedPress story by @JeffHorwitz @ChadSDay:

apnews.com/122ae0b5848345…
2. Manafort joins Trump Campaign and stays in frequent contact with a Kiev-based operative who has active ties to Russian military intelligence (March 2016-)

(WaPo got their emails @thamburger @PostRoz @CarolLeonnig @adamentous)
washingtonpost.com/politics/manaf…
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