WikiLeaks Warns MSNBC’s Reid: ‘Our Lawyers Will Monitor Your Program’

[DonViejo]

by Josh Feldman | 3:42 pm, July 24th, 2016 1254

WikiLeaks, the site that dumped the DNC email leak a few days ago, warned MSNBC’s Joy Reid yesterday after she teased a discussion on her show about the “affinity” between Donald Trump, Russia, and WikiLeaks:

23 Jul
Joy Reid ✔
@JoyAnnReid

Tomorrow on #AMJoy we'll explore the unprecedented affinity between an American presidential candidate - Trump - Russia and Wikileaks.

WikiLeaks ✔
@wikileaks

@JoyAnnReid You are pushing a discredited conspiracy theory. There is no affinity, whatsoever. Our lawyers will monitor your program.

1:57 AM - 24 Jul 2016
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The emails were reportedly breached by hackers connected to the Russian government, which has led to talk that maybe Russia is doing this to help Donald Trump, who has said things that Putin might find attractive in an American president. (There’s also the fact that the only part of the GOP platform his team amended was the anti-Putin part.)

There were naturally some people stunned by this, including Reid’s own MSNBC colleague Rachel Maddow:

Rachel Maddow MSNBC ✔
@maddow

"our lawyers will monitor your program"? seriously? and will you lurk in the alley, too? https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/757092238400913408 …

11:43 AM - 24 Jul 2016

Kim Ghattas ✔
@BBCKimGhattas

Wow. Wiki leaks is now into intimidating journalists @JoyAnnReid https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/757092238400913408 …

9:09 AM - 24 Jul 2016
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/wikileaks-warns-msnbcs-reid-our-lawyers-will-monitor-your-program/

[Scuba]

1. How ominous! We will tune in to your broadcast! Oh, the horror!

[NCTraveler]

10. No shit. What a pathetic group they have become.

No surprise that a group largely founded by a narcicistic rapist would be supporting Trump. Trump and Assange have similar and very sick personalities.

Scuba, it's never been a secret to either of us as to how strong the forces working against progressive change are. We will continue our fight to make the US more progressive and we will not be stopped by xenophobic, sexist, bigoted, racist who condone the rape of women and regressions of Putins Russia.

We will win this one my friend.

[geek tragedy]

2. Wikileaks is a front group for the Russian government. nt

[JustAnotherGen]

6. Plus 1000

[RonniePudding]

9. Plus 1,000,000

They're all in cahoots including that fat slob antisemite Kim dot com.

[uponit7771]

22. +1, starting to look like AstroTurf

[CrowCityDem]

3. When crime is the main part of someone's business plan, they're bound to be horrible people.

[giftedgirl77]

29. When crime is a major part of your business it just makes you

look stupid when you then start threatening ppl with lawyers.

[Cha]

4. Ha! wikileaks is denying it and warning Joy Reid.. I don't think they scare her..

Joy Reid
✔ ?@JoyAnnReid
Tomorrow on #AMJoy we'll explore the unprecedented affinity between an American presidential candidate - Trump - Russia and Wilileaks.

WikiLeaks
✔ ?@wikileaks
@JoyAnnReid You are pushing a discredited conspiracy theory. There is no affinity, whatsoever. Our lawyers will monitor your program.
7:57 PM - 23 Jul 2016
1,569 1,569 Retweets 2,609 2,609 likes

Kim Ghattas
✔ ?@BBCKimGhattas
Wow. Wiki leaks is now into intimidating journalists @JoyAnnReid https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/757092238400913408 …
3:09 AM - 24 Jul 2016
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Joy Reid ?@JoyAnnReid · 4h4 hours ago
This isn't getting as much attention, but Russian meddling in the U.S. election IS the biggest bombshell out there.
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://theobamadiary.com/2016/07/24/president-obama-on-face-the-nation/

Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole opposition research on Trump

The DNC said that no financial, donor or personal information appears to have been accessed or taken, suggesting that the breach was traditional espionage, not the work of criminal hackers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html

Ronald Brownstein
?@RonBrownstein
More @SangerNYT "metadata from the released emails suggests that the documents passed through Russian computers"

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-emails.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

It's Official: Hillary Clinton Is Running Against Vladimir Putin

Fulfilling what might be the Russian autocrat’s dearest wish, Trump has openly questioned whether the U.S. should keep its commitments to NATO.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/clinton-trump-putin-nato/492332/

Loki~http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2288850

While Sen Tim Kaine's son is being deployed this week to go help NATO.

[Tempest]

8. The hack was classic state sponsored spy trade craft

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/07/how-putin-weaponized-wikileaks-influence-election-american-president/130163/

[Cha]

11. Thank you, Tempest!

[Historic NY]

25. How Putin weaponized wikileaks to influence election of American President....

Here’s the timeline: On June 14, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, under contract with the DNC, announced in a blog post that two separate Russian intelligence groups had gained access to the DNC network. One group, FANCY BEAR or APT 28, gained access in April. The other, COZY BEAR, (also called Cozy Duke and APT 29) first breached the network in the summer of 2015.

Cybersecurity company FireEye first discovered APT 29 in 2014 and was quick to point out a clear Kremlin connection. “We suspect the Russian government sponsors the group because of the organizations it targets and the data it steals. Additionally, APT 29 appeared to cease operations on Russian holidays, and their work hours seem to align with the UTC +3 time zone, which contains cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg,” they wrote in their report on the group. Other U.S. officials have said that the group looks like it has sponsorship from the Russian government due in large part to the level of sophistication behind the group’s attacks.

It’s the same group that hit the State Department, the White House, and the civilian email of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The group’s modus operandi (a spearphishing attack that uploads a distinctive remote access tool on the target’s computer) is well known to cyber-security researchers.


http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/07/how-putin-weaponized-wikileaks-influence-election-american-president/130163/

[oasis]

5. Yo Wikileaks, monitor this.

_l_

[Tempest]

7. It's not a conspiracy theory if it's true

US security companies have traced the hack and leak to Wikileaks back to the Russian government.

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/07/how-putin-weaponized-wikileaks-influence-election-american-president/130163/

[DetlefK]

12. Who "discredited" this? And why is Wikileaks claiming it was discredited?

The mere defence "You are pushing a discredited conspiracy theory." sounds like political spin. It doesn't sound honest, it sounds carefully calibrated. No non-partisan journalist and no hacker would talk that way.

[RonniePudding]

15. They're trying to deflect

My hunch is they're realizing this has the potential to backfire on them and their preferred candidate (trump) and their master (Putin).

[DetlefK]

16. My guess is, Wikileaks is right now realizing that it has been played by Russia.

They have been dragged into geopolitical power-play, right into a Mini-Cold-War.
They have been used.
They have been politicized.
They have been compromised.
They think they are on the side of "Good" and now they have to realize that they had been tricked into committing a political hit-job.

They cannot undo the leak. The damage to their reputation is already done. The only thing they have left is denying everything and hoping this goes away.

[uponit7771]

23. +1, at the least they're making sure to cover their ass's on this

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

13. Someone's scared

The good thing is, criminals don't call the cops.

[C_U_L8R]

14. Did Trump acquire wikileaks?

This sounds like him

[baldguy]

27. No, but he seems to be advising them.

They have soooo many lawyers .... the Best lawyers ... the lawsuit will be yooooge!

[JaneQPublic]

17. Someone needs to hack Wikileaks.

No doubt their email traffic would reveal far more newsworthy secrets than that of their hacking targets.

[randome]

18. Transparency, my ass!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Aspire to inspire.[/center][/font][hr]

[Peacetrain]

19. This is how the Russians do it.. intimidate the Press!

[RKP5637]

26. And Trump's tactics too! n/t

[Historic NY]

28. Putin's state TV RT ran all the pro-Russian Ukrainian the coverage...

there were people here siding with him and RT. Joe Goebbels couldn't run a better disguised program.

[uhnope]

20. Wikileaks has sucked since the beginning

regardless of the leaks

[leftofcool]

21. He wiki, fuck you. I hear there are rumors on the internet!

[dsc]

24. newsflash rapists can't stand women they can't control

why we are treating this rapist like a newsman is beyond me.

[alcibiades_mystery]

32. Bottom-lined it

[alcibiades_mystery]

30. From C.R.E.E.P. to creeps

Good lord.

[giftedgirl77]

31. Lol, & ppl think Snowden ended up there by accident.