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Re:Assange offered pardon if he co-operated over email leak,... by monocasa on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @08:04PM (#22371851)
I never really got this argument. If someone embedded the username "J Edgar Hoover" in some documents, would we make the assumption that they pined for a return to cold war era FBI control over politics, or that they were just trolling? Dzerzhinsky was basically J Edgar's counterpoint in the east.
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Re:Assange offered pardon if he co-operated over email leak,... by pandaman on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @09:53PM (#22372311)
For the complete analogy, it should be the pinning of CIA control over politics based on Edgar Hoover's name because the GRU, which is accused of this operation is the military intelligence and Dzerzhinsky is the founder of NKVD/KGB/FSB - an FBI+DHS equivalent.
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