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The possible defense would be that Julian wasn’t trying to mislead people, but he was actually telling the truth. He hinted that Seth rich was a Leaker to him,

The possible defense would be that Julian wasn’t trying to mislead people, but he was actually telling the truth. He hinted that Seth rich was a Leaker to him, and encouraged people to think that without saying it explicitly. He was either A) lying to cover up getting information from The Russians, or B) telling the truth and the “analysis” that says the Russians hacked the DNC server is actually false.

slg 6y ago
>A) lying to cover up getting information from The Russians, or B) telling the truth and the “analysis” that says the Russians hacked the DNC server is actually false. Assange was still communicating with and receiving DNC documents from his source after Seth Rich was already dead. Assange was not telling the truth. It was obviously option A. A journalist should try to hide their sources. A journalist doesn't try to hide their actual source by pretending their source is a dead person and as a result opening that dead person's family up to repeated harassment. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/us/mueller-report-seth-rich-assange.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/us/mueller-report-seth-ri...
- nl 6y ago
  Notably the Republican led Senate report confirms that the GRU used fake personas to try to cover their links to Wikileaks, including this ("Seth Rich did it") specific theory (page 220) The report itself has a number of technical details of the hack. See page 174 onwards: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...