Were the wikileaks release altered?

[LaydeeBug]

I thought they were...and now I need to be sure before I double down on it

[Shrike47]

1. Yes.

[democrattotheend]

2. This latest batch must have been

There is an e-mail from Palmieri to Podesta saying that Hillary has begun to hate ordinary Americans, but had to promise to be their champion at least once to avoid a false start in Iowa. The e-mail makes no sense and it seems like an obvious fake, but who knows?

[Democat]

6. The email clearly says she doesn't want to use the cliche "everyday Americans" in speeches

They are talking about speech writing and she doesn't want that cliche to be used in a speech.

As if she said she doesn't want to say "hoist with his own petard".

[democrattotheend]

15. That's my take as well

After reading the whole e-mail it seems obvious it was a reference to the phrase or maybe to the speech, but not to everyday Americans themselves.

[Foggyhill]

3. Why even ask, they were proven faked

And this one is barely English and makes little sense
And looks more like something straighr from breitbart

If they faked one, they can fake them all

[LaydeeBug]

4. where? Where were they proven fake?

I saw on here that Fox News Megyn Kelly had to read an apology on air for having read some of them, but couldn't find the clip of that.

[Foggyhill]

5. The Friday one

Had excerts from Newsweek article pasted in and attributed to another person

[LaydeeBug]

7. God Bless You, and God Bless America. nt

[pinboy3niner]

10. Here's a link to Kurt Eichenwald's piece explaining this particular case...

Dear Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, I Am Not Sidney Blumenthal
http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635

[Democat]

9. One email is clearly about speech writing and they are pulling small quotes out of context

Even though it's clear they are talking about speech writing, the Russians and Trump say that means she doesn't like what the phrase means.

See this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512497246

[NCTraveler]

11. Even if they weren't, the context will be abused.

An op taking one of the emails completely out of context was just hidden here.

[duncang]

12. Sidney Blumenthal is a journalist.

Eichenwald is also a journalist, but he noticed something strange about one of the emails. Apparently who ever hacked didn't do a good job of faking the email content.

http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635

During the DNC convention when the first email leaks came out from the dnc. Ex-cia Nance (Can't remember his full name) and security commentator warned a normal procedure would be to release something that had not been modified to gain trust. Then when what is really the goal to release modified info so it would have a better chance of being believed. He apparently hit the nail on the head.

[LaydeeBug]

19. I might need to use this, and I hope that's ok. nt

[renate]

13. this is different, but here's an article about how Trump uses Russian propaganda

"Feeding conspiracy theories to Donald Trump is like getting cats interested in catnip. Trump and the people who follow him have that toxic blend of being pretty dumb while also thinking they’re smarter than everyone else — a blend that makes one an easy mark for every two-bit conspiracy theory that comes along. All the Russians need to do is apprise themselves of the obsessions of right wing America — an easy enough task when they blare them out night and day from their own propaganda outlets — and craft stories that feed off those obsessions.

What this does confirm, however, is that the Trump camp’s half-hearted disavowals about loving Putin and his right-wing government are so much bullshit, since they clearly don’t even wait for Russian propaganda to filter out to American websites to read it. No, Trump exposed that he or someone on his team is constantly hitting Russian propaganda outlets, waiting for Russian-crafted talking points to work into his speeches.

“The Russians engage in a sloppy disinformation effort and, before the day is out, the Republican nominee for president is standing on a stage reciting the manufactured story as truth,” Eichenwald wrote."

http://www.salon.com/2016/10/11/russian-propaganda-on-wikileaks-makes-its-way-into-a-donald-trump-speech-in-record-time/

[factfinder_77]

14. Im sure there were a lot of Russian Opratives active in social media during the primary.

At DU and other sites, there were posted a lot of Hillary hatred threads. And a lot of the Clinton critics used right wing talking Points that were easily debunked.

The debate environment were quite venomous, and to some degree it still is

[factfinder_77]

16. SOCIAL MEDIA AS A TOOL OF HYBRID WARFARE - NATO STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS

http://www.stratcomcoe.org/social-media-tool-hybrid-warfare

[Sunlei]

17. files -stolen- by 'some group' & then dumped on wikileaks are all suspect of alteration.

[NWCorona]

18. I haven't seen any proof that the documents from wiki are fake

But some of the other hacks have definitely been altered.

[LaydeeBug]

20. I am not kidding, this is what came at me...

Prove it .... Because no one has ever proven one word of anything he has ever released as being false

[sinkingfeeling]

21. Appears so