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Re:Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits l... by Thorentis on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:37PM (#27717751)
Releasing information about a political candidate during an election is exactly the right time to release it. People should have as much information as possible when trying to make an informed decision when voting. Trying to make this into a partisan issue is just shifting the goal posts.
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Re:Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits l... by deviledeggs on Saturday July 03, 2021 @04:52PM (#27724830)
Disagree. Releasing unverified slog about your opponent days before an election when there's no time to find out if the claims are even true is the definition of a smear campaign.
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Re:Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits l... by jerkstate on Saturday July 03, 2021 @06:21PM (#27725422)
The emails contain DKIM keys, you can verify them yourself if you like
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Re:Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits l... by deviledeggs on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:12PM (#27726962)
They're also completely out of context and dumped on the media so close to election that nobody had a chance to go through them.

When they did, they found nothing wrong. But it didn't stop the pure FUD cloud around them from affecting Hillary's reputation.

When something is leaked, people automatically assume it's bad. Republicans rode that high through election day.

The emails got dumped the same day extremely damaging "grab em by the pussy" video evidence of Trump was release. The whole thing screams political hitjob.

It's like when Trump's lawyer magically got his political rival's son's laptop and paraded it around, even though nothing damaging was on it. Republicans are resorting to banana republic style hacking and theft against their political enemies, which should terrify everyone

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Re:Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits l... by Thorentis on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:18PM (#27726979)
Completely out of context? It is not Wikileaks job to provide context.
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Re:Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits l... by deviledeggs on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:23PM (#27726992)
Is it their job to protect Trump? Because they happened to release the emails on the same day as the most damaging info about Trump came out during entire campaign.
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