The proper assassination piece needs a bit more logic than this: 1. 6 years ago someone claimed with no evidence that RU owned leakers =>
2. this year leakers published *true* information on the beige cabal => 3. conclude that leakers are handled by RU. Note how a single proven event (#2) is sandwiched between the two baseless allegations to create a 'narrative'. This is dumber than 'Kalashnikov was used so it must be Russians' hacking bs. Need higher IQ staff on the payroll. >The above Atlantic Monthly article suggests that six years ago, Russia made >Assange and the Wikileaks crew an offer they couldn't refuse. If they ever >release anything out of Russia now, it'll likely be kompromat on Putin's >enemies. The article goes on to note that they did exactly that in >Belarus, whose leader Lukashenka used the information after the 2010 >election there to jail the losing candidate. Likewise with Trump. As much >as he benefited from Assange in his campaign, as President he won't be so >sanguine if Wikileaks puts his business in the street. Anyone looking to do >so would be well-advised to think hard about submitting anything to >Wikileaks. ... >Thanks, Julian (and Snowden and Greenwald) for saving the US from a beige >dictatorship. You may have cleared the way toward a more traditional one >instead. Nice one. Enjoy your "independence" and the thanks of a grateful >nation. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: