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Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by xenadu02 on Monday October 17, 2016 @03:24PM (#12728477)
Two things:

1. Having read the emails I disagree that there is anything damning in them. Even when campaign staffers suggested bad things they got shot down. The email releases have been one big nothing-burger after another. The media is like a toddler... unless you have something interesting going on their attention wanes quickly.

2. The Trump sexual assault tape is not bad because he had a foul mouth. In some cases focusing on that is a deliberate effort at mis-direction. Trump can swear all he likes and no one except a few pearl-clutching grandmas care. What is gross is Trump boasting that he commits sexual assault against women and they let him get away with it because he's rich and famous. That's what was so offensive about that video.

Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by bduerst on Monday October 17, 2016 @04:23PM (#12729328)
Definitely agree on #1 - even Assange knew there was nothing in the emails which is why there was no "October surprise."

Now they're releasing the emails in parcels to manipulate the 24 hour news cycle - e.g. "More Hillary Emails leaked!"

There's no smoking gun in those emails, and the majority of the "There's a lot there" statements boil down to examples like this: http://i.imgur.com/eRRc02n.png?1

Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by EdHominem on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:19PM (#12730712)
> they're releasing the emails in parcels to manipulate the 24 hour news cycle

That's be the tail wagging the dog.

They release daily to participate in the 24h news cycle.

Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by bduerst on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:34PM (#12730795)
Yes, semantically speaking, manipulating the 24 hour news cycle does require participating.

If there was any actual news in the emails, released each day, then it wouldn't be manipulation. It would be news, like how WashPo released the Trump sex assault tape the same day they got it.

As it is now, they're withholding empty, hacked information and timing the releases to participate and manipulate headlines during the U.S. election period.

Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by EdHominem on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:33PM (#12746381)
Yes, but it's silly to say that the smallest participant is manipulating the largest. Poor Fox News and CNN, being rick-rolled by that evil Assange... /s

Empty information? What does that even mean?

Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by shard972 on Monday October 17, 2016 @10:55PM (#12731672)
> Having read the emails I disagree that there is anything damning in them.

So you think it was fine for the current head of the DNC to leak questions from CNN to hillary during the primary?

And you think it's fine for the under secretary of state to be trying to bribe the FBI to reduce the classification of emails found on her server? Personally I don't see how that isn't a crime.

A subpoena was already in place for those documents, it's tampering with evidence.