There’s supposed to be a steady stream of Wiki leaks releases in the remaining days of this election.
The Majority will feature Hillary and her aides. There’s always a chance Wiki leaks will surprise us with Trump campaign emails too.
This will be a huge data dump. Most of the emails won’t be noteworthy. I don’t have the time or interest in reading several thousand emails. The press will report on the ones that pertains to the election.
I suggest posting links to interesting leaks and then commenting in a separate post.
Dude I’m not implying any of this will effect how people vote. It sure as hell won’t effect mine. I’ll be sending in my absentee ballot in the next week or so.
It’s news that pertains to the election. Interpret it as you will.
I have no interest in even mentioning Trump in this thread unless his campaign emails get leaked.
Most of what I haveseen is that virtually all is very mundane and not news. But we shoud beware of what the right has done with dumped and stolen emails before:
In a nutshell: the right already has plenty of experiende on making out of context or misleading quotes from mundane emails and turning them into the crimes of the century, so you have been warned.
And I do remember seeing already a very pathetic example made with the stolen emails from the DNC claiming that it showed collution with the DNC and Clinton against Sanders in the primaries, it really did not show that, that was mostly spin.
The emails bitching about media figures (Jake Tapper, Chris Cillizza, David Frum, etc) are amusing. Why, you would almost think that politicians/campaigns have an adversarial relationship with the media trying to investigate and report on them. But that can’t be, I was told that the media is a complete liberal lovefest and always helping one another out…
Anyway, people are warning of fraudulent documents and Megyn Kelly was already forced to give a retraction after reading one ‘leaked’ document that proved fake so… eh.
Considering the probable source of the leaks and the purpose behind them(the sabotaging of an American election), I think asking for verification isn’t really beyond the pale. It’s not like Wiki Leaks itself is a disinterested third party in this, btw.
I can see that what Czarcasm said does not lead one to claim that what Wikileaks released was fraudulent, as my examples from climategate and the DNC showed, a lot of the confirmation is related to the misleading spin many on the right will apply and the one that was already used with the emails.
Hence the confirmation, that I’m talking about, will be mostly related to confirming what the right wing sources of information are mistakenly or maliciously thinking that the emails are telling them is the truth.
I’m interested in knowing more about Hillary’s plans and the inner workings of her campaign.
It’s pretty much a given that she will be the next President. A lot of her aides will get powerful positions in her administration. Private emails are a unique glimpse into what is to come. The ones from her aides will be the most candid and revealing.
Any reasonable person should inform themselves about the new administration’s real agenda for the next four years. These people will be in charge for the next 4 years.
Real agenda? I’m pretty sure she will try to implement the stuff she says she cares about. Generally center-left. Do you believe there is some secret plan to get into office and do something very different than her campaign platform?
And I would not be so sure, while it is true that politicians have made efforts to prevent emails from being released it is more likely that most politicians are already aware that their email can be dumped, so while there are clueless politicians still; I think that almost all the emails will not be very useful. For political hack jobs out there, they will be.
I realize these early email leaks aren’t earth shattering.
Wiki leaks is saving the most important ones for just before the election. Get the most bang for their buck. That’s SOP for any media. Start slow and build up interest.
I doubt anything they have will change the election result. But, until the information is released we just don’t know.
A lot of people vote absentee and those votes are locked in regardless.
Of course, these are the same guys who dropped their last leaks during Trump-Tape day. We will, to be polite, pretend that they weren’t trying to deflect from Trump and that they’re just really bad at their job.
One of the emails dumped was a letter by Sidney Blumenthal to John Podesta. In it, Sidney said the following:
“one important point that has been universally acknowledged by nine previous reports about Benghazi: The attack was almost certainly preventable… Clinton was in charge of the State Department, and it failed to protect U.S. personnel at an American consulate in Libya. If the GOP wants to raise that as a talking point against her, it is legitimate”
Damning revelation, coming from Sidney Blumenthal. Remember, Clinton wanted to hire this guy but the Obama admin rejected him. And now there’s an email where even he admits that Clinton failed. The smoking gun. The cover up.
Except it is not true. This quote, the italicized part of it, is from Kurt Eichenwald in a piece written by him a few months ago:
Clinton has a hankering for regime change in Russia. Of course this is Dr. Strangelove level craziness, but I’m sure there will be some Clinton supporters who get off on this type of stuff.
“I formed something called the U.S.-EU Energy Council and began trying to look at what more we could do to really wean people away from Russian supplies. The more we can do that the **more difficult it will be for Putin to maintain his hold on leadership, even with his inner circle **without changing course.”-Clinton