2. "Despite being confined to the embassy.., Assange met with Russians and world-class hackers at critical moments, frequently for hours at a time. He also acquired powerful new computing and network hardware to facilitate data transfers just weeks..."
3. before WikiLeaks received hacked materials from Russian operatives....[T]here was "no doubt that there is evidence" that Assange had ties to Russian intelligence agencies."
4. WikiLeaks founder Assange lied to protect Russia, charges on hacked emails suggest
8. Trump offered the pardon in exchange for Assange denying that Russian intelligence was the source. Assange obeyed, thus making him an accomplice in the Trump/Putin cover-up of Russian interference in the elections. Trump and Assange are enemies of America.
9. Assange had good reason to know it was Russians behind it, and he lied and tried to frame Seth Rich, an innocent, dead, man. Beyond despicable.
11. Using an "analysis of the metadata collected from the WikiLeaks site" and "information about Assange's computer and its possible operating system", the Special Counsel investigation found evidence that the Russians, using the pseudonym Guccifer 2.0, transferred ...
12. stolen emails to WikiLeaks, which then leaked the stolen documents. Assange and WikiLeaks have denied any connection to or co-operation with Russia in relation to the leaks. The Mueller Report stated that those denials about the source of the stolen materials ...
13. were "dissembling", and that the "file-transfer evidence described above and other information uncovered during the investigation discredit WikiLeaks's claims about the source of material that it posted."
14. The source for some of the above: "An analysis of the metadata collected from the WikiLeaks site revealed that the stolen Podesta emails show a creation date of September 19, 2016.171 Based on information about Assange's computer and its possible operating system, ...
15. this date may be when the GRU staged the stolen Podesta emails for transfer to WikiLeaks (as the GRU had previously done in July 2016 for the DNC emails)." Mueller Report, page 47
16. "[F]ormer CIA Director Mike Pompeo referred to WikiLeaks as "a non-state hostile intelligence service" and described founder Julian Assange as a narcissist, fraud, and coward." cia.gov/news-informati…
17. "It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is, a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,” Pompeo said." reuters.com/article/us-cia…
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2. "Once again, the President of the United States is running interference for Russia, a hostile foreign adversary.... It’s hard to know what to even call this. Carrying water for Vladimir Putin? A disinformation campaign? A treasonous subversion of national security?"
3. "Trump has spent years calling concerns over his ties to Russian interference a “hoax,” and his Republican enablers have reinforced his propaganda. But it’s not a hoax."
Recent coverage spins previous reports from Assange's=WikiLeak's own lawyers. Now WikiLeaks is trying to make it sound like Trump asked Assange to reveal the sources for the DNC leaks, and that he refused. That's a new spun version.
3. The facts are that Assange did claim that (1) Seth Rich leaked the documents, and he also claimed that (2) Russia was not involved in any way. Both claims were proven false. Seth Rich was already dead when Assange was communicating with Russian intelligence.
@RedSpringsSlick I understand that point. I guess it's a technical matter of how to count contacts. ;) No matter how, there were lots of illegitimate contacts and lying about it. Lots of bad faith.
@RedSpringsSlick 1. Reliable sources have many different numbers for the contacts, likely based on the time of the tabulation & differing methods. Earlier ones obviously won't count later revelations, since all these contacts were kept secret by the Trump campaign & lied about. "Time will tell."
@RedSpringsSlick 2. Here are a few sources, so check the dates. Let's start with this article which summarizes the whole subject. The sources can be checked.
@RedSpringsSlick There were many secret meetings held all over Europe between Trump associates and known Russian intel agents in 2015-2016. Those agents were being monitored, so the conversations were recorded. Our allies were so alarmed that they informed the FBI. Trump campaign lied about it.
@RedSpringsSlick Over a period of several months, starting in August 2015, and before U.S. intelligence agencies started any investigations, they began to receive alarming reports from eight foreign intelligence agencies ....
@RedSpringsSlick ...(United Kingdom, Germany, Estonia, Poland, Australia, France, a Baltic state, & Holland) describing overheard conversations between known Russian agents & Trump campaigner. This was not spying on the Trump campaign. This was incidental to normal spying on foreign agents.
1. @AshaRangappa_ this message needs to get out. This makes it clear that @realdonald Trump is #PutinsPuppet and a traitor. The bipartisan, GOP-led, Senate Intelligence Committee report is devastating.
2. @AshaRangappa_ It says:
"It is our conclusion, based on the facts detailed in the Committee's Report that the Russian intelligence services assault on the integrity of the 2016 U.S. electoral process..."
"... and Trump and his associates' participation in and enabling of this Russian activity, represents one of the single most grave counterintelligence threats to American national security in the modern era."