Um, I Think It's Time for a Thread on WikiLeaks

"who knows, maybe trump as president would liberate all slaves, guarantee a national wage, and invent a really cool new synthesizer patch. it could happen!"

that particular J.A. quote has no mistakes in it.

but u guys get back to admiring statist thugs

hey morbs, why don't you devote some time to learning how to literally fellate yourself instead of just doing it rhetorically every 30 seconds on this discussion board? i imagine the sense of accomplishment will far exceed the minor jolts of ego satisfaction you get from posting here.

and fwiw yes assange is literally correct in that statement; it's the conclusion he draws from it that is deeply stupid.

the two of you get a room

god help us

“I used to defend WikiLeaks all the time on the grounds that they were not indiscriminate dumpers of information,” Greenwald told Slate. “They were carefully protecting people’s reputations. And they have changed their view on that—and no longer believe, as Julian says, in redacting any information of any kind for any reason—and I definitely do not agree with that approach and think that they can be harmful to innocent people or other individuals in ways that I don’t think is acceptable.”

wow, that's kind of big

I feel really bad that I keep mixing up WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden in my mind. Snowden seems like such a better dude than Assange.

ha yeah not even close

the lrb piece that kinder posted above is p much the most thorough dismantling of assange imaginable, a really ridiculous pos:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/02/21/andrew-ohagan/ghosting

Snowden did what he did to show how little control we have over our private data. Assange leaks everyones private data left and right for no good reason. They're kinda pretty much diametrically opposed at this point.

Also, Assange is a rapist. So there's that.

snowden pointedly gave the info he compiled to journalists who he trusted to sift through it all and reveal only the most pertinent stuff

he did the right thing

he seems a million times smarter and more decent than assange; there's no comparison.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/08/09/wikileaks_is_fanning_a_conspiracy_theory_that_hillary_murdered_a_dnc_staffer.html

Drudge + Roger Stone + Assange...if anyone can swift boat, it's them as a team.

holy shit - assange seems genuinely, worryingly unhinged these days

Guy is a rapist. He has been worryingly unhinged for years. He is constantly digging himself lower these days. Shame on Jill Stein for calling him a hero, and saying his rapes were his own personal business.

I don't disagree with Greenwald's comment.

Frederik B, star chamber judge

At one point wikileaks was pro-transparency. Know they use their own secrecy ("we don't comment on who our sources are") to fan conspiracy theories.

Has Greenwald commented on this? I can't find it.

Dude

Um, I Think It's Time for a Thread on WikiLeaks

Yeah, sure. I meant the Seth Rich allegations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/opinion/can-we-trust-julian-assange-and-wikileaks.html

I’ve had my own run-ins with Mr. Assange. During the making of my 2013 film, “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,” I spent an agonizing six hours with him, when he was living in an English country house while out on bail. I was struck by how insistently he steered the conversation away from matters of principle to personal slights against him, and his plans for payback. He demanded personal “intel” on others I had interviewed, and dismissed questions about the organization by saying, “I am WikiLeaks” repeatedly. (Later, Mr. Assange and his followers attacked both me and my film.)

NYTimes, a name you can trust

the author is alex gibney, not the nyt. gibney made such films as we steal secrets: the story of wikileaks & enron: the smartest guys in the room. the NYTimes is not the author, merely the publisher.

also basically everyone who has spent time with assange thinks he's a pos, including former colleagues.

read the lrb piece from Andrew O'Hagan that I reposted upthread 2 weeks ago.

Alex Gibney is also the maker of the recent documentary Zero Days, which relates the US-Israeli creation of the Stuxnet cyberwar virus.

I haven't seen all of Gibney's documentary work, but being in the business of constructing documentaries and doing the requisite interviews seems like a career that would help develop your sense of character

Alex Gibney is also the maker of the recent documentary Zero Days, which relates the US-Israeli creation of the Stuxnet cyberwar virus.

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 2:24 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what is your point?

ginbney's films aren't groundbreaking experiments in form but they are excellent both in their detective work and in telling stories. the james brown documentary was surprisingly meaty. but apparently he made a doc about israel so he can't be trusted.

my point is Mordy will love it

and stop addressing me, you prick.

are we on a playground?

xxp also could not figure out what his pt is but if it was really just a film recommendation i will check it out

it does sound interesting!

judging by the 16-year history of your posts, yes, nitwit

xxp

STUXNET

for a putatively left-wing gay shut-in, you sure act a lot like biff tannen online

idk I thought it was pretty obvious Morbs was just providing that as a point of information before getting oddly accosted for it

I get oddly accosted for breathing by board 'regulars'. too old for this shit.

given his history of reflexive anti-semitism zionism and baiting mordy, you can understand how we might have taken it as a jab

if you're too old for this shit, then stop doing it. don't blame us for "addressing" you. you have the power to step away from the board.

i guess this is why all the experts say that bullies are essentially filled with self-loathing...

^ban this fucker for life NOW.

you're a ridiculous self-parody.

anyway, sorry for derail. back to julian assange....

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1151/877040314_a4a912d946_o.jpg

NPR really knows their listeners expect whoring for the Dems

@theintercept
NPR host demands that Assange do something its own reporters are told never to do

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/17/npr-cant-accept-assange-protect-sources/

David Greene is an ass.

They did it again, this time exposing Saudi Arabian rape victims and doctoral records. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WIKILEAKS_COLLATERAL_DAMAGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-08-23-03-30-45

"giant library of the world's most persecuted documents."

persecuted documents

persecuted documents

the clintons have some kind of bizarre superpower: everyone who hates them turns into an idiot or a liar at some point.

i mean look at this quoted email

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/768076098555023361

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/world/europe/wikileaks-julian-assange-russia.html

i have some problems w/ this article -- on occasion they seem to take smoke for fire -- but it's still worth a read.

The Wikileaks response is here fwiw:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sp2gj0