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.
4. Assange lied and tried to frame Seth Rich, an innocent, dead, man. That's beyond despicable. That Seth Rich conspiracy theory has been thoroughly debunked. But why did Assange do that? Likely to provide a cover story for Russian intelligence, the real culprit.
5. Keep in mind that the original and fresh version in court from Assange's lawyers was that the pardon offer was contingent on Assange denying Russian involvement, which also backed Trump's false claims that the Russians did not interfere in the elections to help him win.
8. New version is spin. 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.
11. “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” Kevin McCarthy said. Paul Ryan immediately "swore the Republicans present to secrecy." washingtonpost.com/world/national…
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."
@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.
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."
@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."