Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for DNC emails

Re:Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for... by simonh on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:34AM (#24517272)

As always with cases like this we need to review the actual situation, not just distil it down to a hyper-simplistic minimal summary and then base a conclusion on that.

It's not just a case of believing what the CIA say, they and other independent cyber security teams who have also investigated this, have also presented evidence to back up their investigations to show why they think this. There are also other cases of known proven Russian hacking. Assange has provided nothing. So let's not pretend this is a symmetric case of word versus word.

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Re:Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for... by fetbaffe on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:56AM (#24517553)

How about an investigation into CIA hacking?

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Re:Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for... by simonh on Friday September 18, 2020 @12:25PM (#24518755)

It's not just a matter of hacking though, I'm sure states do this sort of thing, it's the fact that this hacked information was used in a very targeted way to influence the US electoral system with specific political aims.

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