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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYTimes: Someone was secretly recording Julian Assange when he was in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Link to tweet
OnDoutside
(19,988 posts)brush
(53,978 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,319 posts)JDC
(10,152 posts)soldierant
(6,968 posts)they would certainly have picked up Assange in the process.
Wouldn't you like to know what and with whom?
Stallion
(6,476 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,797 posts)magicarpet
(14,224 posts)One side cuts thee,
The other side cuts me.
Goose/Gander.
Smirk/Giggle - taste his own medicine.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)is certainly, well, we all know what...
Karadeniz
(22,607 posts)UTUSN
(70,807 posts)Let's see the transcripts. It's just "journalism"!
H2O Man
(73,715 posts)Well done.
blm
(113,141 posts)doesnt he?
Princess Turandot
(4,791 posts)Originally, they had a visible police presence outside of the embassy. After a time, that was no longer the case. It seems likely that they continued to monitor him, but in a less obvious fashion.
Or perhaps it was Vlad, making sure that Assange wasn't planning to slip their leash.
orangecrush
(19,677 posts)Although Vlad probably has his own copies.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)However, since we have a Putin asset in our White House, we might be a little behind on our intelligence gathering. Unless we arent, then we may have bigger problems to fear.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)The British have all sorts of ways to record his conversations, all sorts
Then there's the CIA and other five eye interests
It's all been recorded
If not by the embassy themselves also
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)for every country in the world's intelligence agencies. Probably more than one country was able to.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...It would be news if nobody were recording every word, burp, fart, yawn, snore, etc.
Calista241
(5,586 posts)A guy, who's job is to solicit and publish leaked documents, and everyone is supposed to just forget he exists until the next batch of documents comes out?
RandySF
(59,878 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I would assume the recording was made by the Ecuadorians. Its their embassy.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Countries try to bug other countries embassies.
RockRaven
(15,103 posts)The only question is how many succeeded.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)<snip>
"In the Dutch TV interview, Assange demurred on how he obtained the DNC emails, then dropped a tantalizing hint. Theres a 27-year-old who works for the DNC who was shot in the back, murdered, just a few weeks ago, for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington.
That was just a robbery, I believe, wasnt it? the host interjected.
No, Assange said. Theres no finding.
What are you suggesting?
Im suggesting that our sources take risks, Assange said, and they become concerned to see things occurring like that.
Assange never said Richs name, but the implication was obvious: Rich was his source. WikiLeaks then announced a $20,000 reward on Twitter for information about Richs murder."
<snip>
"Assanges comments fueled bogus theories about Rich, the DNC, and the 2016 election theories that continue to this day. Within the Trump administration, those theories reportedly reached as high as the CIA director and the White House. Indeed, the presidents insistence that it was Ukraines government, not Russias, that interfered in the 2016 election and his fixation on the American cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike overlap with the Rich theories: In both cases, Trump seeks to deny Russia hacked the Democratic Party, weaponized stolen emails, and published those emails in an effort to hurt Hillary Clintons campaign.
But that, of course, is what happened, according to the U.S. intelligence community, the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, and Special Counsel Robert Muellers 22-month investigation. The special counsels probe offered the strongest evidence yet that Seth Rich had nothing to do with the DNC hack after Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for carrying out the hack and laid out in detail how they did it.
Muellers final report accused Assange of falsely implying Rich provided the stolen DNC emails to WikiLeaks. Beginning in the summer of 2016, Assange and WikiLeaks made a number of statements about Seth Rich, a former DNC staff member who was killed in July 2016, the report said. The statements about Rich implied falsely that he had been the source of the stolen DNC emails.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/will-julian-assange-and-wikileaks-finally-tell-the-truth-about-seth-rich-918946/
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)but I'm not holding my breath...
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Of course you were being recorded. Revel in the transparency. #hoistonyourownpetard