Assange Hits Back At The Intercept - "Obsessive And Obscenity-Laden" Campaign Against Him

[Swordsmyth]

Assange Hits Back At The Intercept - "Obsessive And Obscenity-Laden" Campaign Against Him

Julian Assange hit back at The Intercept over a February 14 article claiming he backed Donald Trump's presidential campaign in leaked group chats from a disgruntled former WikiLeaks associate who set up the chat room.

n the fall of 2015, Trump was polling at less than 30 percent among Republican voters, neck-and-neck with neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and Assange spoke freely about why WikiLeaks wanted Clinton and the Democrats to lose the election.
“We believe it would be much better for GOP to win,” he typed into a private Twitter direct message group to an assortment of WikiLeaks’ most loyal supporters on Twitter. “Dems+Media+liberals woudl then form a block to reign in their worst qualities,” he wrote. “With Hillary in charge, GOP will be pushing for her worst qualities., dems+media+neoliberals will be mute.” He paused for two minutes before adding, “She’s a bright, well connected, sadistic sociopath.” -The Intercept
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In a series of rebuttals over Twitter, Assange notes that The Intercept's Micah Lee failed to do basic fact checking, such as noting that the WikiLeaks account has a rotating staff (i.e. anyone could have written the controversial messages), and used "messages from late Oct 2016 when I infamously had no internet access."

- the @WikiLeaks account is run by a rotating staff as has been repeatedly stated over the years: https://t.co/RYrYbLeaNt
- basic fact checking would have shown this. another example: the article uses messages from late Oct 2016 when I infamously had no internet access.

— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) February 14, 2018​

Assange also notes Lee's long-standing grudge against the WikiLeaks co-founder, which he called "obsessive" and "obscenity laden."

- the editorial propriety of letting Micah F Lee, of all people, instrumentalize the Intercept to further his obsessive, obscenity laden campaign against WikiLeaks must be questioned. Lee was formally behind cutting off WikiLeaks' US tax deductible donations.
— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) February 14, 2018​

- after I wrote to the FPF board last year on that serious subject, Lee has become hysterical. The conflict of interest is obvious. Such a story should have been given to someone else. By failing to do so the story's credibility has been marred.
— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) February 14, 2018​

- here is the letter to the board on the financial threat to WikiLeaks together with the full context (as you expect and love from us) https://t.co/hAnISYZzX0
- the fragments referencing Lee are below, but I do recommend reading the whole letter. Bonus for John Perry Barlow fans. pic.twitter.com/8TdhCYfHsy
— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) February 14, 2018​

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...bsessive-and-obscenity-laden-campaign-against

 

[Danke]

“She’s a bright, well connected, sadistic sociopath.”

 

[Swordsmyth]

“he’s a bright, well connected, sadistic sociopath.”

Fixed it for you.

 

[AZJoe]

The Intercept is an accomplice/front organization for FBI.

From Kiriakou: "The Intercept has done it AGAIN! An FBI whistleblower has been arrested and charged with espionage because of The Intercept's gross incompetence. The moral of the story is to STAY AWAY from the Intercept. This forces me to consider the notion that perhaps The Intercept is an FBI front organization."

 

[Firestarter]

There is something were odd about Rothschild front WikiLeaks...

It was Cambridge Analytica that made Brexit happen and, together with WikiLeaks, got President Trump crowned as president.
In one of those strange coincidences, Julian Assange effectively headquarters WikiLeaks from the Ecuadorian embassy (in London), just a few miles away from Cambridge Analytica’s head office.

Just before the US election in November 2016, Alexander Nix (CEO of Cambridge Analytica) contacted Julian Assange to ask him if he wanted some “help” with WikiLeaks’s stolen emails.

In some more strange coincidences, Nigel Farage, who led the Brexit campaign, is friends with Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer (Mercer is financier of Cambridge Analytica, part of the SCL Group). Steve Bannon was part of Donald Trump’s team, is leading propaganda network Breitbart and was working with Cambridge Analytica.
Farage subsequently visited Donald Trump, Assange, and then Dana Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher is described in the US press as “Putin’s favourite congressman”.

Then Rohrabacher met Donald Trump’s Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya…
This was followed by Rohrabacher meeting with Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy: https://www.theguardian.com/comment...nnon-farage-bound-together-in-unholy-alliance
(archived here: http://archive.is/jp5ge)



Roger Stone, a long-time unofficial adviser to Donald Trump, has confirmed that was briefed in advance about the leaked Democratic emails by an American libertarian who was in contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Stone told the Daily Caller:

I’ve admitted I’ve been in communication with Assange through an intermediary.
They don’t tell me what they’re going to release.

In August 2016, Stone told a Florida audience:

I actually have communicated with Assange. I believe the next tranche of his documents pertain to the Clinton Foundation but there’s no telling what the October surprise may be.

A source also told the Guardian that Stone once boasted to meeting Assange personally. Stone denied to the Guardian having met Assange: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/02/trump-adviser-clinton-emails-wikileaks-roger-stone


For more on Cambridge Analaytica: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...on-Fake-News&p=6605758&viewfull=1#post6605758

 

[Swordsmyth]

The Intercept is an accomplice/front organization for FBI.

From Kiriakou: "The Intercept has done it AGAIN! An FBI whistleblower has been arrested and charged with espionage because of The Intercept's gross incompetence. The moral of the story is to STAY AWAY from the Intercept. This forces me to consider the notion that perhaps The Intercept is an FBI front organization."

The U.S. Justice Department has charged a former Minnesota FBI agent with leaking classified information to the online news site The Intercept, Minnesota Public Radio reported on Wednesday. It said Terry Albury was charged this week by the department’s National Security Division with two counts including “knowingly and willfully” transmitting documents and information relating to national defense to a reporter for a national news organization.
Albury, the only African-American FBI field agent in Minnesota, was assigned as Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport liaison working on counterterrorism matters, MPR News said.
Albury’s attorneys, JaneAnne Murray and Joshua Dratel, said in a statement that their client was “driven by a conscientious commitment to long-term national security and addressing the well-documented systemic biases within the FBI.”
The attorneys said Albury “accepts full responsibility” for the alleged conduct.
The Justice Department and the FBI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

More at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-leaking-classified-information-idUSKBN1H507T