{"id":4146,"date":"2019-04-19T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2019-04-19T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T17:20:24","slug":"assange-and-wikileaks-worked-for-the-trump-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4146","title":{"rendered":"Assange and Wikileaks Worked for the Trump Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mueller report makes that crystal-clear. Wikileaks directly communicated with Donald Trump, Jr. and deliberately timed its releases to benefit its preferred candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Wikileaks also worked to actively deny that the GRU, Russia&#8217;s state intelligence agency, was the ultimate source of the information being passed on to them by &#8220;DC Leaks&#8221; and &#8220;Guccifer 2.0&#8221; (two sources later shown to be GRU pseudonyms).<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not Wikileaks <em>knew<\/em> that Guccifer 2.0 and DC Leaks were the GRU is a different story. I have found no definitive evidence for this proposition in the report, though it&#8217;s a lengthy document and thus entirely possible my searching has missed something.<\/p>\n<p>I will note, however, that Wikileaks has to the best of my knowledge never leaked damning inside information on the Russian state. Curious, isn&#8217;t it, that a self-professed &#8220;transparency&#8221; organization is so uninterested in blowing the whistle on a secretive, right-wing dictatorship yet at the same time is so persistently interested in blowing it on more open and free societies?<\/p>\n<p>Just makes one wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mueller report makes that crystal-clear. Wikileaks directly communicated with Donald Trump, Jr. and deliberately timed its releases to benefit its preferred candidate. Wikileaks also worked to actively deny that the GRU, Russia&#8217;s state intelligence agency, was the ultimate source of the information being passed on to them by &#8220;DC Leaks&#8221; and &#8220;Guccifer 2.0&#8221; (two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}