IN LEAKED CHATS, WIKILEAKS DISCUSSES PREFERENCE FOR GOP OVER CLINTON, RUSSIA, TROLLING, AND...

[DonViejo]

IN LEAKED CHATS, WIKILEAKS DISCUSSES PREFERENCE FOR GOP OVER CLINTON, RUSSIA, TROLLING, AND FEMINISTS THEY DON’T LIKE

Micah Lee, Cora Currier
February 14 2018, 2:04 p.m

ON A THURSDAY afternoon in November 2015, a light snow was falling outside the windows of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, despite the relatively warm weather, and Julian Assange was inside, sitting at his computer and pondering the upcoming 2016 presidential election in the United States.

In little more than a year, WikiLeaks would be engulfed in a scandal over how it came to publish internal emails that damaged Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and the extent to which it worked with Russian hackers or Donald Trump’s campaign to do so. But in the fall of 2015, Trump was polling at less than 30 percent among Republican voters, neck-and-neck with neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and Assange spoke freely about why WikiLeaks wanted Clinton and the Democrats to lose the election.

“We believe it would be much better for GOP to win,” he typed into a private Twitter direct message group to an assortment of WikiLeaks’ most loyal supporters on Twitter. “Dems+Media+liberals woudl then form a block to reign in their worst qualities,” he wrote. “With Hillary in charge, GOP will be pushing for her worst qualities., dems+media+neoliberals will be mute.” He paused for two minutes before adding, “She’s a bright, well connected, sadistic sociopath.”



Assange’s thinking appeared to be rooted not in ideological agreement with the right wing in the U.S., but in the tactical idea that a Republican president would face more resistance to an aggressive military posture than an interventionist President Hillary Clinton would.



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https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks-election-clinton-trump/

[Wwcd]

1. The Intercept is a RW source. Re: Glen Greenwald

Just fyi

[DonViejo]

2. Incorrect. The Intercept is not RW. OTOH, Greenwald?....

[Wwcd]

4. Greenwald & The Intercept

https://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwald/

[DonViejo]

5. And where does it say the Intercept or, for that matter Greenwald, is a RW?...

Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald is one of three co-founding editors of The Intercept. He is a journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four New York Times best-selling books on politics and law. His most recent book, No Place to Hide, is about the U.S. surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. Prior to co-founding The Intercept, Glenn’s column was featured at The Guardian and Salon. He was the debut winner, along with Amy Goodman, of the Park Center I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism in 2008, and also received the 2010 Online Journalism Award for his investigative work on the abusive detention conditions of Chelsea Manning. For his 2013 NSA reporting, he received the George Polk award for National Security Reporting; the Gannett Foundation award for investigative journalism and the Gannett Foundation watchdog journalism award; the Esso Premio for Excellence in Investigative Reporting in Brazil (he was the first non-Brazilian to win), and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award. Along with Laura Poitras, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013. The NSA reporting he led for The Guardian was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service.

[Wwcd]

6. Seriously! Greenwald?

Wow.
Greenwald's affiliation should need no explanation by this point in time.
Ask Julian Assange

I'm not even touching that nasty duo.
Later..

[joshcryer]

8. The Intercept has independent journalists.

Who knows how long they forced them to sit on this knowledge, though. I would be surprised if these texts haven't been in their possession the entire time. It's all a part of the illusion of remaining impartial to liberals.

[uponit7771]

3. K&R, *** IMPORTANT *** this is exactly what the Russians thought about HRC. She was NOT afraid to ..

... mix it up with the Russians that doesn't mean she was itching for war.

[Gothmog]

7. Assange works for Putin and so supports Putin's selected candidate