Huh, interesting wrinkle:
Date set for questioning of Julian Assange over rape allegation
Swedish prosecutors said the questioning would take place on 17 October and be conducted by an Ecuadorian prosecutor.
That’s today.
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Wikileaks just confirmed Ecuador did it after Saturday’s release of the full Goldman transcripts
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So, basically, the people that are currently housing Assange got sick of how he was using the Internet they were providing him, and cut him off.
In one fell swoop, this suddenly got a whole lot less sinister.
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Conceivably she didn’t release them as a pure power exercise. Not as you say, because there was anything in them that was incriminating, but because by keeping them back she signaled her fealty to the class of people who attended those evenings.
A ‘molehill’ of course. But one that is diagnostic of Clinton’s path to power and likely style of governance.
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No worries, the true believers are still finding ways to blame Clinton.
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That’s an interesting development.
I’ve wondered for some time who was paying his expenses while he’s been under his self-imposed house arrest. Sounds like the Ecuadorians may not be very happy with him right at the moment. I wonder if they’ll kick him out?
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I think he was afraid she’d burst into song.
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I don’t do Twitter, so perhaps I’m missing something… but I find it pretty hard to take this dude seriously, given that the first tweet I see past this one is offering to sell me a “Bill Clinton Rape Whistle” from his own site. That said, if there’s a MSM site reporting this, I’d like to know about it.
https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/787283110442393601
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Roger Stone, serial fabricator, long time Clinton conspiracy theorist, and Trump strategist has a totally reliable and definitely true explanation.
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Er, no. I wouldn’t take him seriously.
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Maybe just something as simple as Ecuador getting tired of Wikileaks trashing someone they consider a friend. I found this on Wikileaks 
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Rumours have been they haven’t been happy with him for a while. (Or, at least, the embassy staff haven’t.)
As for kicking him out? That probably depends on who wins February’s elections.
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Wikileaks has intervened in the US election debate with a series of leaks from the Democratic Party machine
Purported leaks, or has anyone confirmed that all the emails are untampered?
With Chelsea Manning, the volume of information was so vast that it was improbable that a single person filtered or tampered with the information in any large way.
With a much smaller batch of emails, and the resources apparently backing the hackers, that isn’t the case, unless they’ve been digitally signed.
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I’ve spent some time reading through the emails. I’m inclined to believe they’re genuine. If they weren’t, that would be the starting, and only, argument. Instead, the focus is on the “russian hackers” versus the content of the email. I mean, CNN even told everybody recently that it was illegal for its viewers to actually read the emails. If they were fake, they’d be playing it off as such.
As far as I know, the only person to explicitly disavow the email authenticity was Donna Brazile w.r.t. her sending the death penalty question to Clinton’s camp prior to the CNN townhall (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/wikileaks-email-hack-clinton-donna-brazile-229609). Well, on further reading, she’s disavowing the connotation of the email. Hmm…
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It’s probably just his router… Power-cycle that puppy
and you’re back in business!
What do you bet his host embassy has never bothered to change the router’s
default password? Password? These things have passwords?
Cant find the article now, but there was a trove of emails released about a year ago where some messages that were embarrassing to Russia were mysteriously missing from the Wikileaks source, while another source showed them. There was metadata in the DNC dump that suggested altering, though nothing’s been identified:
http://www.peacock-panache.com/2016/07/russian-hackers-emails-wikileaks-23928.html
The Wikileaks releases are coming from a foreign intelligence agency with the intent to affect a US election (and selectively fed to Wikileaks for longer than this election for similar political purposes), but I think they’re focusing more on a policy of exclusively releasing documents they think will help towards that goal than modifying the content which is a riskier approach.
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Or because she knew, based on decades of personal experience, that if they were released then the right wing attack machine would just go after something else. Constantly defending yourself from mainly-groundless vicious attacks from both the right and left for 30 years has got to be tiring as hell.
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4 years ago: http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikileaks-syria-files-syria-russia-bank-2-billion/
And yeah, I agree that it would be easier just to cherry-pick which documents to exclude than to actually alter. (Since the amount of cruft in their dumps suggests to me that tactic as more likely than cherry-picking which ones to include.)
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No problem, he can just pop over to the Tesco 'round the corner, pick up a new SIM, and be back online in a jiffy. Oh, wait…
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