Former CIA engineer who gave Wikileaks "Vault 7" secrets, sentenced to 40 years

Courtroom sketch by Joshua Schulte at March 4, 2020 jury deliberations in NYC

Note that some of what is written here is meant as sarcasm, snark, and my opinion about the guy. It should be easily recognizable to those of you who read Brain Flushings.

Joshua Schulte, 35, is a former CIA software engineer who provided Wikileaks with a treasure trove of stolen CIA secrets that was released to the public in 2017. It is described as the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history. 

He was sentenced in Manhattan federal court on Thursday and will serve only 40 years in prison.

But along with the classified information, Schulte was also found to be in possession of child sexual abuse images and videos, making him not only a traitor, but a pile of human garbage. 

"We will likely never know the full extent of the damage, but I have no doubt it was massive," Judge Jesse M. Furman said as he announced the sentence.

The so-called Vault 7 leak exposed how the CIA hacked Apple and Android smartphones in overseas spying operations, and efforts to turn internet-connected televisions into listening devices. 

Prior to his arrest, Schulte had helped create the hacking tools as a coder at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. So he learned to code but perhaps should have been a coal miner and would have avoided the incarceration. Oh wait, he still would have been busted for the child porn.

In requesting a life sentence, Assistant U.S. Attorney David William Denton Jr. asked for a life sentence. He said Schulte was responsible for "the most damaging disclosures of classified information in American history."

Given a chance to speak, Schulte complained mostly about harsh conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, calling his cell, "my torture cage." 

Boo-freaking-hoo.

The traitor also claimed that prosecutors had once offered him a plea deal that would have called for a 10-year prison sentence and that it was unfair of them to now seek a life term. He said he objected to the deal because he would have been required to relinquish his right to appeal. It looks as if he chose the wrong door and won the booby prize.

"This is not justice the government seeks, but vengeance," the piece of human excrement whined.

Immediately after sentencing, the judge criticized some of Schulte's half-hour of remarks, saying he was "blown away" by Schulte's "complete lack of remorse and acceptance of responsibility."

The judge said Schulte was "not driven by any sense of altruism," but instead was "motivated by anger, spite and perceived grievance" against others at the agency who he believed had ignored his complaints about the work environment and lack of child porn access.

Furman said Schulte continued committing crimes from behind bars by trying to leak more classified materials and by creating a hidden file on his computer that contained 2,400 images of child sexual abuse that he continued to view from jail. 

I don't know about you, but I'm all in for the death sentence for people who commit and support child sexual abuse if it can be clearly proven.

During a two-hour proceeding, Furman noted a one-page letter the government had forwarded from CIA Deputy Director David S. Cohen, who described Schulte's crimes as causing "exceptionally grave harm to U.S. national security and the CIA."

Cohen added: "His actions cost the Agency hundreds of millions of dollars; degraded its ability to collect foreign intelligence against America's adversaries; placed directly at risk CIA personnel, programs, and assets; and jeopardized U.S. national security by degrading the CIA's ability to conduct its mission. In short, Mr. Schulte's actions inflicted heavy costs on the United States."

A mistrial was declared in 2020 at Schulte's original trial after the jury was deadlocked on the most serious counts, including illegal gathering and transmission of national defense information. 

He was convicted at a July 2022 trial of charges in connection with the classified leak.

Last fall, he was convicted in the case over the child sexual abuse images, which originated when a computer that Schulte possessed after he left the CIA and moved to New York from Virginia was found to contain the images and videos that he had downloaded from the internet from 2009 to March 2017.

Of the 40-year sentence, Furman said the bulk of it was for the CIA theft while six years and eight months of it were for the convictions over the child sexual abuse materials.

In a statement afterward, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Schulte "betrayed his country by committing some of the most brazen, heinous crimes of espionage in American history. When the FBI caught him, Schulte doubled down and tried to cause even more harm to this nation by waging what he describe as an 'information' war' of publishing top secret information from behind bars."

Meanwhile, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange remains in Britain, where he has battled the courts for years to avoid being sent to the U.S., where he faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse.

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Assange indicted on 18 counts, alleged coordination with Manning to leak security docs

A federal grand jury returned an 18-count superseding indictment on Thursday and charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with a number of offenses over his alleged role in one of the largest leaks of classified information in U.S. history.

It's alleged in the indictment that Assange coordinated with former Army intelligence analyst then-Bradley, now-Chelsea Manning to leak classified documents related to U.S. war and diplomacy efforts around the world.

U.S. officials say Assange worked in concert with Manning to hack into a classified government computer, kind of espionage-ish.

Manning, who served only a few years in prison for leaking to WikiLeaks, was again jailed in March after he refused to testify to a grand jury regarding WikiLeaks.

Ben Brandon, a U.S. government attorney, said in court earlier this month that American investigators had acquired details of communications between Manning and Assange in 2010. The two had allegedly “engaged in real time discussions regarding Chelsea Manning’s dissemination of confidential records to Mr. Assange.” 

Brandon said that the downloaded records from a classified computer included 90,000 Afghanistan war activity reports, 250,000 State Department cables, 400,000 Iraq war reports, and 800 Guantanamo Bay detainee assessments.

Earlier this month, Assange, 47, told a British court he would not agree to be extradited to the U.S. where he’s facing the charges of conspiracy to hack a classified Pentagon computer.

He addressed the court on May 2 via video link from a prison in London, saying he wouldn’t “surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many awards and protected many people.”

Hacking into a classified computer isn't journalism. It's espionage and if Assange is found guilty, which he probably would be, he would face extremely long prison time.

That May 2 hearing came just a day after the WikiLeaks founder was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison in the U.K. for jumping bail in 2012 and hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in an effort to avoid extradition to Sweden where he was wanted for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations.

More to follow.

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Federal judge orders Manning jailed again

You can put lipstick on a . . . 

Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning has been ordered back to jail by a U.S. District Judge, Anthony Trenga, Thursday after he refused to comply with a new grand jury subpoena in the WikiLeaks case in which he assisted WikiLeaks in obtaining over 100,000 classified military documents. This was the biggest classified document dump in American history but in spite of that, former President Obama commuted his sentence.

“Attempting to coerce me with a grand jury subpoena is not going to work. I will not cooperate with this or any other grand jury,” Manning said before entering the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va. This was his way of "Manning up."

Manning told the court he “would rather starve to death” than cooperate with the grand jury. I say give him his wish.

Manning, a man who believes himself to be a woman,  was freed earlier this month after 62 days in jail for refusing to testify with the previous grand jury. He was released from jail when the grand jury’s term ended but was served with another subpoena requiring him to appear before a new grand jury.

An indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange alleges he conspired with Manning to hack into a Pentagon computer network in 2010. Remember, you can't have Assange without "Ass."

Manning was convicted at a court martial trial in 2013 of leaking a trove of documents to WikiLeaks. Manning's 35-year prison sentence was commuted by former failed President Barack Obama just days before the end of his presidency in January 2017.

Assange, who was living in asylum in Ecuador’s Embassy in London since 2012, was arrested last month and sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaking his bail conditions after he took refuge in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden to face a rape allegation.

U.S. prosecutors are seeking to extradite Assange after he’s released from jail, but Sweden recently reopened the rape investigation, complicating those efforts.

Hopefully justice will be done and Manning will rot in prison.

The judge ruled that if Manning doesn't comply with the grand jury subpoena after 30 days he will be fined $500 a day, the official said. The fine would go up to $1000 a day if he continues to refuse to testify after 60 days, according to the official.

It is unknown whether Manning has officially had his genitals removed and reshaped to sort of resemble the genitalia of a woman. Inquiring minds don't care one way or the other.

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Assange rape case to be reopened by Swedish prosecutors

Making a "White Power" fist, Assange faces
extradition to the US

Swedish prosecutors will be reopening a rape case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, at the request of the alleged victim's lawyer.

The case's reopening comes a month after he was basically thrown out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. His leaving wasn't pretty, though, as it was reported that he smeared feces on the walls and was kicking and screaming as he was manhandled out of the embassy.

Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions Eva-Marie Persson announcement the plan at a news conference in Stockholm. She said that “there is still a probable cause to suspect that Assange committed a rape.”

Swedish prosecutors filed preliminary charges against Assange, a probable agent of Russia, after he visited the country in 2010. Assange denied the charges and has avoided extradition by seeking refuge in London's Ecuadorian embassy.

Seven years later, a case of alleged sexual misconduct was dropped when the statute of limitations expired. That left a rape allegation, which couldn't be pursued while Assange was living at the embassy. The statute of limitations on that case expires in August 2020.

Mr. Bradley/Chelsea Manning

Assange was evicted from the embassy last month and sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for violating his bail.

The United States has also begun extradition proceedings for Assange's alleged role in leaking diplomatic and military secrets in 2010. The evidence for his involvement with Chelsea [aka Bradley] Manning is overwhelming and if he is extradited back to the US and stands trial, it is highly probable that he will be convicted and spend some serious time in prison, where he belongs.

Assange is not a journalist by any stretch of the definition. He allegedly stole classified information by allegedly hacking into a US government computer system, and put it all out on the internet without perusing it. Moreover, he did not reveal the data for any journalistic intention other than to create a public shock.



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BREAKING: Assange arrested by British police after Ecuador withdrew his asylum

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British police Thursday moments after Ecuador announced it withdrew his asylum for “repeatedly violating international conventions and protocol.”

He is wanted in Sweden for sexual misconduct and in the United States for exposing highly confidential information through fellow scumbag, Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. Army member who provided Assange with the information, and who thinks he's a woman.

Ecuadoran Foreign Minister Jose Valencia told Teleamazonas this week that living indefinitely in the embassy is harmful for Assange’s "state of mind, his health,” but that the POS has a right to a fair trial and right to a defense.

London's Metropolitan Police said earlier this month that they would arrest Assange if he were freed. They did.

Assange faces possible extradition to the U.S. for publishing thousands of classified military and diplomatic cables through WikiLeaks.

Assange, 47, has been in the embassy since 2012 when British courts ordered him extradited to Sweden to face questioning in a sexual assault case. That matter has since been dropped, but Wikileaks is facing a federal grand jury investigation over its publication of American diplomatic and military secrets during the Iraq War. It was the largest classified information dump in U.S. history and put many lives at risk.

Assange, an Australian native, was arrested on a Westminster Magistrates’ Court warrant which was issued on June 29, 2012, for failing to surrender to court, Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

“The MPS had a duty to execute the warrant, on behalf of Westminster Magistrates' Court, and was invited into the embassy by the Ambassador, following the Ecuadorian government's withdrawal of asylum,” the statement said.

UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt thanked the Ecuadorean government for their cooperation with the Assange arrest.

"Julian Assange is no hero and no one is above the law. He has hidden from the truth for years," Hunt tweeted. "Thank you Ecuador and President @Lenin Moreno for your cooperation with @foreignoffice to ensure Assange faces justice."

“This man is a son, a father, a brother. [So was Stalin.] He has won dozens of journalism awards. [So has CNN.] He's been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year since 2010 [because the Nobel Peace Prize committee is so suck-worthy they gave Yassar Arafat, Al Gore and Barack Obama the award, and in the latter case, after only being in office a few months, having accomplished nothing.] Powerful actors, including CIA, are engaged in a sophisticated effort to dehumanise, delegitimize and imprison him,” WikiLeaks tweeted.

Assange is no hero. Chelsea Manning is no hero. The left says they are heroes because the left has a hatred for the country and Western Civilization in general.

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Russia's Snowden still sucks and has no cred

Former National Security Agency contractor/spy Edward Snowden thinks that he has the right to make his traitorous opinions known after he fled to Russia in to escape the law in a case of espionage in which he exposed government information about our surveillance programs.

He exposed tons of classified information in 2013 to WikiLeaks. For some strange reason, some Trump supporters as well as the president, "like" WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, it's founder because they also went after Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

Now Snowden, the pencil-neck weasel, is ripping President Trump over his CIA pick, Gina Haspel, because she managed black-site prisons. 

Who gives a rat's butt?

Snowden and his liberal buddies would have the targets of those prisons come to the US as illegal immigrants as long as they'd vote Democratic.

Haspel is alleged to be a key player in the enhanced interrogation techniques that took place at the black-site prisons. This will obviously come up in the hearings for her Senate confirmation. 

While some media outlets are claiming she was directly involved, it's hardly credible they would know--that's why they call them "black-sites."

Snowden, on the other hand, has likely gotten CIA clandestine agents killed.

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Possible pardon of Assange worries intel community

You have to admit it--sometimes President Trump says dumb stuff. Like the time he said that he loves WikiLeaks because they revealed Hillary Clinton's emails. Now a GOP lawmakers suggested that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be pardoned by Trump and that isn't sitting well with the intelligence community.

The probability for a pardon of Assange appears unlikely, but the fact that not only has the president praised the website, Assange's own efforts to question the intelligence community's conclusion that Russia tried to influence the presidential election helped get Trump off the hook to some degree.

So the idea that Trump might pardon Assange is being taken seriously by intelligence organizations.

"It would send a terrible message to the intelligence community," said Robert Deitz, former senior counselor to the director of the CIA and general counsel at the NSA. 

Deitz is currently a professor at George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government.

"What moral are people supposed to draw from that? Why on Earth would you believe Julian Assange before the intelligence community?" asked Deitz.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) is being investigated for having ties to Russia and he's behind the Assange pardon pursuit. 

The deal Rohrabacher is pushing: pardon Assange in exchange for information he claims proves Russia didn't collude with the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential race.

He was the first lawmaker to meet with Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London last month. Assange is holed up there for years in order to avoid arrest. Rohrabacher claims at that time, Assange offered him "firsthand" evidence that would prove there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Rohrabacher also claims that a meeting is in the works with himself and Trump to discuss Assange's information and a potential pardon. 

If President Trump pardons the scumquat seditionist, it would be a horrible mistake and it's possible that many people will see it as an indication of some sort of conspiracy.

But a pardon of Assange, while it would be self-serving for Trump, would also cast doubt on the CIA, NSA, FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

And if you don't think that would suck, you might be reading this post from Russia.

"He'd [Trump, that is] show that he'd do anything to skate out of the not just allegation, but clear fact of Russia's involvement [in the election]. That would be appalling," said Glenn Carle, a 23-year veteran of the CIA's clandestine service and who ended his career as deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats on the National Intelligence Council.

Remember, however, Assange hasn't been charged or convicted of any wrongdoing by the United States, so "It would be extremely unusual to pardon someone who hasn't been charged," said Margaret Love. 

Love served as Department of Justice pardon attorney between 1990 and 1997, and noted the exceptions: Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, Carter's pardon of Vietnam draft dodgers, and Reagan's pardon of illegal immigrants. 

Michael Borohovski, a former intelligence contractor said that a pardon of Assange would reinforce the idea the it's okay to leak.

"Assange allegedly was involved with a few of the largest intelligence leaks of all time. Pardoning him would make it seem okay," he said.

No, most informed Americans don't love WikiLeaks.

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Assange says he urged Don Jr. to publish on WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks founder and enemy of our national security Julian Assange said he contacted Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday morning to convince him to publish the emails involved with his meeting with a Russian lawyer who lured him with the claim that she has damaging information about Hillary Clinton on the site.

"Contacted Trump Jr this morning on why he should publish his emails (i.e. with us). Two hours later, does it himself," the self-serving slug tweeted.

Julian Assange @JulianAssange

Contacted Trump Jr this morning on why he should publish his emails (i.e with us). Two hours later, does it himself: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/884795916720406529 …

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Earlier on Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. published an email exchange he had with British publicist Rob Goldstone. It showed they corresponded about a meeting with Russian attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya, last year.

Goldstone told Don Jr. that the lawyer had damaging information about Hillary Clinton, and this was part of Russia's government's efforts to help defeat the shrieking felon. [He didn't actually write that--I just did]. 

Ultimately, Trump Jr., former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in June 2016. According to Trump Jr., the meeting didn't discuss any information about Hillary and seemed somewhat confusing to Trump Jr., and appeared to have focused on the adoption issue of Russian children.

Donald Trump Jr. will be speaking to Sean Hannity Tuesday night and will discuss the emails, and Bob Muller will also be looking into the situation as well.


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Obama commutes sentence of American traitor

It comes as no surprise that Lame Duck President Obama would commute the remaining prison sentence of Bradley (aka Chelsea) Manning, the convicted Army intelligence analyst who, in 2010, provided WikiLeaks with over 700,000 documents on military and domestic activities across the world. 

It wouldn't even surprise me if Obama agrees to pay for Manning's penis removal procedure to make him look like the woman his delusion has him believe.

This is just another "flipping of the bird" by Obama to the American right and Trump. It's his last hurrah as president and it stinks.

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, said that if Obama agreed to commute Manning's sentence that he would agree to extradition and come to the United States.

Manning tried to commit suicide twice last year, fearful of being a transgender person at an all male military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He has been there for almost 7 years and his 35-year sentence was the longest ever imposed in the USA for a leak conviction. Perhaps that was due to the fact that it was the largest leak of classified military information in the history of the United States. 

Manning is lucky he didn't get the death sentence.

Now he's scheduled for release on May 17th of this year, rather than in 2045. This will take the burden off the military who is being pushed by Manning for treatment of his gender dysphoria (a fancy term for delusions) and for surgery to remove his penis and replace it with tissue to make him look like a woman.

Now all Obama has to do to put the icing on the finger is for him to pardon Edward Snowden and allow him to leave Mother Russia and come home again.

Sad!

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WikiLeaks says Assange would agree to extradition on one condition

WikiLeaks, the multi-national media organization specializing in publication of large datasets of censored or restricted official materials involving war, spying or corruption, whether or not it be at the expense of government security or individual privacy, said that its founder, Julian Assange, will agree to be extradited to the United States if Lame Duck President Obama grants clemency to Bradley (aka Chelsea) Manning.

As is their wont, WikiLeaks made the announcement online, using Twitter, and remained steadfast that the case by our DoJ against Assange was unconstitutional.

They did not mention that putting classified material online that could ultimately get our military killed is also unconstitutional and highly illegal, but that must have simply been a small oversight.

Manning provided WikiLeaks with over 700,000 documents from the State Department and is serving a mere 35 year sentence (rather than being given the death penalty). 

And now, as he serves his time as a traitor under the Espionage Act, he is asking for the US taxpayer to go along with his delusion that he is a woman so that he can have his genitals mutilated to appear to look like those of an actual woman without having to pay for the procedure.

Assange, on the other hand, is hiding out at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since June 2012. He is doing so to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations. His biggest fear is that Stockholm would then extradite him to the U.S. because of the WikiLeaks publishing of those Manning-stolen documents containing secret cables from our military, which were leaked by him when he was a U.S. soldier.

The ACLU and the LGBT have lobbied Obama to commute Manning's sentence. In the first case because they are a leftist, USA-bashing group. In the latter case, because they need to support people who are as delusional as they are in terms of transgender issues.

Manning has twice tried to commit suicide but each time screwed it up. 



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Wiki's Julian Assange fires back

WikiLeaks founder and head leaker Julian Assange fired back at the U.S. intelligence community for reporting his anti-secrecy website was used by Russia to distribute hacked information from Democratic staffers during the presidential campaign season.

The blond wonder spoke during a Periscope Q&A session and claimed that his source of information was not a member "of any government" or "state parties" nor did the source "come from the Russian government." He said Friday's declassified intelligence report on "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions on Recent US Elections" was inadequate and misleading.

"It was not an intelligence report," Assange said. "It does not have the structure of an intelligence report. It does not have the structure of a Presidential Daily Brief. It was frankly quite embarrassing."

How does Assange know how a Presidential Daily Brief is structured? Or an intelligence report, for that matter. 

That's the scary part.

He then added: "It was clearly designed for political effect."

As much as Assange is a detestable piece of rat excrement on the shoe of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi's sandal, I kind of believe him. The reason for this is because it has become so obvious how often the Obama administration has lied to us, it becomes almost impossible to believe anything they say, including "hello."

When Assange was asked if it's possible that WikiLeaks' source was a go-between affiliated with the Russian government, he answered saying he didn't want to "play twenty questions with our sources."

An answer filled with more questions.

The intelligence report was prepared at the direction of Lame Duck President Obama, with whom even going to a mens room can be a political act. He laid the blame for the breach of the Democratic officials' emails at the feet of Putin and the Russians, without mentioning the breathtaking stupidity of John Podesta and Hillary Clinton for the ways in which they failed to protect their emails. 

Podesta's password was 'password.' Clinton's server was in a toilet in Colorado. Do you know anything about what Colorado toilets are like? 

Seriously, how can you trust the judgment of either one of those clowns?

But the real irony is that our government knew about Russia's hacking for several years, but only now, with the election defeat of Hillary Clinton, the Obamatron, is our so-called president going after Russia with silly sanctions that make Vladimir's nipples hard.

The intelligence report stated: "We assess with high confidence that Russian military intelligence . . . relayed material to WikiLeaks."

That may or may not be true, but if the report said otherwise, I would bet that people in the intelligence community would be asking: "Do you want to supersize those fries?"

When asked if he believed the report was "fabricated" Assange said "Most of this so-called intelligence report is not even fabricated. That is, it does not even make assertions for the most part to rise to the level of fabrications . . . it uses speculative terms and admits its own speculation."

When it got down to the nitty-gritty, Assange said that he didn't think it mattered who gave WikiLeaks the information. "Even if you believe that hackers of some kind illicitly obtained the Podesta emails and the DNC emails we published . . . what are we talking about in terms of impact?" He then said, "What was discussed are the words of Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and her team revealing unethical practices, corruption, hypocrisy, etcetera."

Then Assange asked: "Should the American people have been denied that true information?"

And the truth shall set you free--unless you're a Democrat.



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Assange cut off from digital civilization

According to WikiLeaks (the website that Donald Trump raves about) its founder Julian Assange's Internet link was severed by a "state party" but added "appropriate contingency plans" have been activated.

The announcement was made soon after it published three tweets referencing Secretary of State John "Hair-plugs" Kerry, Ecuador and the UK's Foreign Commonwealth Office. Each tweet was matched with a string of numbers whose meanings are unclear.

It was originally thought that the 64-character codes may have indicated that Julian Assange had died, and the characters were actually a "dead man's switch," but the latest information is that he is alive and well.

Assange is ready to continue making Hillary Clinton's life miserable, as he did to our government when he released about 700,000 classified emails sent to the website by Edward Snowden, who has become a hero to American libtards.

Last October, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton allegedly was quoted to ask if Assange could be killed in a drone strike. And back in the day when Bob Beckel was still on Fox News Channel, he said that "a dead man can't leak stuff."

This month, 'specific information' alerted Assange to cancel a London balcony address to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the website.

Assange hinted that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich, 27,  may have been an anonymous WikiLeaks source. Rich was shot multiple times in the back at a Washington D.C. street in July. He died soon thereafter and was believed to be a target of a robbery that went bad. 

Seth Rich is with Vince Foster, Walter Scheib, Mary Mahoney, Charles Ruff and Jim McDougal now, not to mention several scores of other Clinton associates. Google it.

WikiLeaks released a load of emails allegedly stolen from the account of John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chair. Over 12,000 emails of a purported 50,000 were released illuminating the inappropriate relationship between the Clinton campaign and some make-believe journalists. The emails also showed how Hillary's team handled sundry scandals.

It isn't certain if the Podesta emails are the "October surprise" Assange hinted that WikiLeaks would release.

Many so-called 'experts' believe the organization is actually a front for the Russian government, and Assange suggested that his emails had been hacked by the Russians. Also, officials have determined that a recent hacking of the DNC's computer files was probably the work of Russian hackers.

Vice President Joe Biden told NBC News that the U.S. would be "sending a message" to Putin, "at a time of our choosing, and under the circumstances that will have the greatest impact."

He probably means the U.S. will send the message to Putin when "Lead from Behind" Obama is finally gone. If Trump replaces Obama as president, the message may be in the form of a greeting card. If Clinton wins, the message may be in the form of a first strike.

Whatever .  .  .  let's just get on with the election.


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Clinton campaign says with straight face that WikiLeaks leak is bogus

The Hillary Clinton campaign suggested with straight faces that the new documents released by WikiLeaks are bogus and that they would like to drone the crap out of Julian Assange for making such a false claim--but this time they're not kidding, an anonymous spokesperson said.

The new documents show Hillary's candid views about the middle class and Wall Street.

Clinton campaign manager John Podesta told "Fox News Sunday" that "They've put out documents that are purported to be from my account," sounding a lot like government officials going after WikiLeaks when the website released 700,000 secret government documents given to them by Bradley/Chelsea Manning of traitor fame.

As much as I deplore WikiLeaks and their scumcrumpet Julian Assange for compromising our classified military information, I believe the documents are as real as NBC's Trump tape.

Podesta tried to explain Clinton's comments by arguing they were acquired by "Russians" hacking into the DNC computer files in order to influence the presidential election.

While that might even be a possibility, that doesn't make the Clinton documents a "hoax."

WikiLeaks said there were thousands of emails hacked from Podesta's personal email account.

One document posted online revealed an internal review of Hillary's Wall Street speeches to survey any political damage her speech could cause her if they became public. (Kind of reminds me of Trump's comments going public and the fallout that is currently ensuing.)

Clinton aides figured the most damaging passages from her remarks reflected on the necessity of "unsavory" political dealing, telling real estate investors "you need both a public and private position." And she admitted to Goldman Sachs and BlackRock bankers that she is "kind of far removed" from her middle-class upbringing in spite of her touting it in her campaign. 

Podesta minimized the argument about Clinton's tailored message to her audiences. "She said all throughout this campaign she will crack down on Wall Street," fork-tongued Podesta said. "There's nothing that she said that she hasn't said in private that she doesn't say in public; she's put forward the most aggressive Wall Street plan of any candidate" [in spite of her taking $3 million from Wall Street that she doesn't talk about publicly].

He also said, without laughing out loud, that Clinton wants to crack down on that Wall Street culture in order to ensure that there exists no institution "too big to fail and there's no person that's too big to jail" [not including herself].

Shifty-eyed Tim Kaine the Democratic VP nominee also questioned the authenticity of the 2,000 documents WikiLeaks released. "I don't think we can dig in documents dumped by WikiLeaks and just assume they're all accurate and true," the rude interrupter told the Clinton News Network (CNN).

Other documents show Hillary to be a free-trade advocate, a position she had to do contortions over during her campaign. In the first general election debate she said she supports "smart and fair trade."

Earlier in the year she conceded that presidential candidates need Wall Street to back them in order to mount a competitive campaign. Donald Trump, of course, attacked that position accusing Clinton of being bought and paid for by Wall Street.

That's only partially true. She has also been bought and paid for by Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries who have made large donations to the Clinton Foundation.

According to another document, Clinton referred to Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) supporters as "losers."

And yet, in spite of all this, there will be low-information voters who will support her bid to become "THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!"




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WikiLeaks' Assange not ready to leak

After much anticipated ballyhoo, promising the American public and the world that he was going to announce the "October surprise," Julian Assange fizzled out. 

I know if anyone is surprised, it's Alex Jones, but perhaps he can make up a conspiracy theory that his gullible fans will believe and tweet 'till their fingers turn blue. 

In any case, there is the possibility that Assange, founder of WikiLeaks and purveyor of U.S. intelligence information to our enemies, will make a video for Tuesday on the 10th anniversary of the website.

Currently, Assange, 45, lives in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for the past 5 years due to the fact that the Swiss want him to stand trial for sexual assault. Evidently, he took advice from Bill Clinton and found sanctuary in the embassy whereas Bill had the government on his side.

If Assange speaks, the Trumpers believe Hillary Clinton will be the target of the verbal assault and what he might say will be extraordinarily damaging to her campaign hopes.

James Comey has vowed that if anyone stands in the way of Hillary's quest for the presidency, they will have him to contend with.

"I don't want to give it away," Assange told Megyn Kelly of Fox News in August, "but it's a variety of documents, from different types of institutions that are associated with the election campaign, some quite unexpected angles, some quite interesting, some even entertaining," (perhaps involving Hill and Huma, if you ask Donald).

Last month, Assange told Sean Hannity of Fox News and the Trump Fan Club for Life, that his next round of revelations was coming "reasonably soon." Hannity went all gaga and moist.

Assange released 20,000 internal DNC emails in August showing what appeared to be an anti-Bernie Sanders conspiracy, to keep him from winning the Democratic nomination. It led to the resignation of Debbie "Downer" Wasserman Schultz and should have embarrassed the Clinton campaign.

But in order to embarrass someone, that person (or campaign) must have a sense of right and wrong. The Clintons have always been able to justify their nefarious behavior as long as it served their political ambitions. The Clinton campaign believes that it is so important to elect Hillary Clinton as president, that any means necessary to accomplish this goal is justified.

While Assange in saying that he cannot make the announcement in person due to security concerns, there is no evidence that any danger for him exists. That said, some officials and pundits have made threats directed at him in the past. 

WikiLeaks tweeted an alleged quote from Hillary Clinton from a 2010 State Department meeting. She asked if Assange could be killed in a drone strike (see below.)

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The sad part in all this is that in spite of Hillary wanting to 'drone' Assange, or anyone, would not make any difference to her zombies, anymore than it would make a difference to Trump's if he shot someone on Broadway.

This is perhaps the strangest and most frightening election in our country's history--and that's not Trump hyperbole or a Clinton lie.




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WikiLeaks may not drop the bomb

Julian Assange was about to drop the bomb on Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, but had to cancel the anticipated announcement due to 'security concerns.' 

Jesse Rodriguez of NBC reported the cancellation of the announcement, which was to go forward on Tuesday from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. 

Assange has sought sanctuary from the United States for five years and is living at the embassy. This was due to a sex scandal that happened in Sweden in 2010 when he had sex with two women who later filed charges that they were forced against their will.

The so-called 'security concerns' have not been elucidated and WikiLeaks has not announced when it will make its "announcement."

When Assange appeared on Fox News last month, he said that WikiLeaks has damaging information on Hillary and may soon release "teasers." But so far, this has not happened.

Although #NeverHillary people hope like crazy Assange has material to destroy Clinton's chances in the election, there is no evidence that this information even exists.

But if anybody has information that could destroy her presidential hopes, it would be the five people the FBI granted immunity to, and the guy who did the granting--James Comey. 


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Manning gets solitary confinement, poor dear

Leavenworth, Kansas -- Chelsea Manning, formerly a fully-equipped dude and now a transgender soldier, is serving a mere 35-year sentence for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks' Julian Assange. 

Now Manning is facing 14 days in solitary confinement in part for attempting to off him/herself, according to a bleeding heart group, Fight For the Future, supporting him and her.

On Thursday, Manning was given 14 days in solitary for a July suicide attempt and for having a "prohibited" book: "Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy," by Gabriella Coleman. This was confirmed by his/her lawyer. 

Half of the 14 days were suspended but if she/he/it screws up in the next 6 months, those days could be added on again. Manning said in a statement that she/he could appeal the sentence and there is no confirmed date of when the discipline is to begin.

Manning was arrested in 2010 as Bradley Manning and convicted in 2013 in a military court for leaking over 700,000 secret military and State Department documents to WikiLeaks. Hillary Clinton has allowed all of her secret State Department documents to be hacked from her illegal private server and is running for "PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!" she likes to scream.

The ACLU filed a lawsuit in 2014 against the US Department of Defense over its refusal to remove Manning's penis and make his genitals appear somewhat like those of a woman due to his gender dysphoria.

Nancy Hollander, a woman and a lawyer for Manning said in an email, "Forcing Chelsea back into solitary confinement as a punishment for her suicide attempt is extremely worrisome to me and counterproductive to Chelsea's mental and physical health. Essentially she is now being tortured as punishment for an act of desperation."

Poor dear Chelsea. All she did was give away state secrets that set back America's intelligence community for decades. I believe her jailers should have allowed her/him to do what she/he/it wanted to do to itself.

I give Manning no sympathy.

Traitor.


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Julian Assange ready to drop the hammer on Hillary

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, claims to have obtained information that he says will be released soon. Once it's released, it will guarantee Hillary Clinton's indictment. He told ITV that his next email release will "provide enough evidence" to see Hillary arrested.

If true, Hillary Clinton will make history--or in her case, herstory--but not in the way she has dreamed of it. She would be the first presidential candidate to have a criminal indictment hanging over her head.

The blog Silence is Consent reports that WikiLeaks has already published 30,322 emails from Hillary's private email server. Although Assange didn't reveal what was in those emails, he told ITV that WikiLeaks "accumulated a lot of material about Hillary Clinton, which could proceed to an indictment."

He hinted that emails to be published contain more information about the Clinton Foundation. He told ITV's Robert Peston that previously released emails contained one damning piece of information from Hillary that instructed a staffer to remove the classification settings from an official State Department communication and send it through a "nonsecure" channel.

Assange went on to point out that the Obama administration previously prosecuted many whistleblowers for violating the proper handling of classified documents. Of course, Assange had no faith in Obama's Justice Department to indict Clinton, and he's likely correct to think that AG Loretta Lynch would fire someone who will likely allow her to keep her job in 2017.

Sadly, the chances of Hillary Clinton getting indicted, even with incontrovertible proof of guilt, is as likely as winning the Power Ball Lottery and getting hit by lightning on the way to turning in the ticket on a clear day.

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Liberals Defined by their Emails

Whether or not the Sony Pictures document dump obtained by WikiLeaks is, as Julian Assange claims, "public domain," the information Assanges' Web site revealed is incredibly illuminating and reveals the true hearts of liberals.

WikiLeaks unveiled the database of over 30 thousand documents and 172 thousand emails the hacker group Anonymous stole from the Sony film division back in last November.

Assanges' actual quote was: "This archive shows the inner workings of an influential multinational corporation. It is newsworthy and at the center of a geopolitical conflict. It belongs in the public domain. WikiLeaks will ensure it stays there."

Some of the information revealed in the WikiLeaks documents was that Sony has close ties to the Democratic party and the company also tried to gather "intelligence" on rival studios including Oliver Stone's soon to be released film on the scumcrumpet, Edward Snowden. (Yes, I know that some of you might see Snowden as a hero, but I see him as a traitor for allowing the information to get into the hands of Putin.)

Amy Pascal, a liberal, and the head of Sony movies left her position with the company after her hacked emails were revealed to the public. She had emailed a friend, Scott Rubin, asking him what questions she should ask President Obama at a breakfast they would be attending for Hollywood brass.

Pascal emailed: "What should I ask the president at this stupid Jeffrey breakfast?" referring to a breakfast hosted by DreamWorks Animation head and important Democratic donor Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Rudin replied: "Would he like to finance some movies."

Pascal, ever the racist, replied: "I doubt it. Should I ask him if he liked DJANGO?" to which Rubin responded: "12 YEARS."

Pascal continued trying to guess the movies a black president might prefer, perhaps those starring black actors: "Or the butler. Or think like a man? [sic]."

Rudin: "Ride-along. I bet he likes Kevin Hart."

Amy Pascal donated $5000 to the Obama re-election campaign and $30,800.00 to the DNC, according to OpenSecrets. So in spite of the fact that she seems focused on race, being a liberal trumps her racial feelings.

Of course, after they were "outed" Rudin wrote to Deadline.com: "Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended. I made a series of remarks that were meant to only be funny, but in the cold light of day, they are, in fact, thoughtless and insensitive--but not funny at all. To anybody I've offended, I'm profoundly and deeply sorry, and I regret and apologize for any injury they might have caused."

Scotty, words don't cause injury unless you're a liberal who wants to shut up people with opposing opinions (see American college professors, for more on this). 

Pascal sent her apology to Variety: "The content of my emails were insensitive and inappropriate but are not an accurate reflection of who I am," she lied. "Although this was a private communication that was stolen, I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended."

If she was being genuine in her apology, she wouldn't have tried to soften it with mentioning that the emails were stolen. 

It's what people say to their friends when they believe nobody else is able to hear them, that is most revealing about what they really think. 

The same is true of corporations.

Sony Entertainment CEO, Michael Lynton, thought the email issues with WikiLeaks was old history but instead, they drew attention to Lynton's directorship at the Rand Corporation, a US military intelligence think tank. WIkiLeaks then went on to mention a dinner Lynton attended with our so-called president at Martha's Vineyard and that Sony tried to establish a fund-raising collective "to get around the $5,000 limit on corporate campaign donations," the site stated.

But the real FunFact was WikiLeaks revealing that actor, Ben Affleck, the guy who went off on Sam Harris's criticism of Islam on Bill Maher's show, was trying to hide the fact that his ancestors were slave owners and tried to hide the fact by censoring it from the PBS show "Finding Your Roots."

In a hacked email from July 22, 2014 now in the hands of WikiLeaks, the "Finding Your Roots" host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., wrote to Michael Lynton asking him how to go forward with this: "One of our guests has asked us to edit out something about one of his ancestors--the fact that he owned slaves. Now, four or five of our guests this season descend from slave owners, including Ken Burns. We've never had anyone ever try to censor or edit what we found. He's a megastar. What do we do?"

Guess what the sneaky liberal Lynton replied.

His advice was to leave out Affleck's family secret, as long as nobody would find out. He wrote: "On the doc the big question is who knows that the material is in the doc and is being taken out. I would take it out if no one knows, but if it gets out that you are editing the material based on this kind of sensitivity then it gets tricky."

Gates admitted to Lynton that he was aware that censoring the documentary goes against PBS rules. Lynton responded that "It is tricky because it may get out that you made the change and it comes down to editorial integrity," to which Gates then responded "It would embarrass him and compromise our integrity."

What integrity?

Lynton caved and liberal injustice was served.

I marvel at the lies liberals (and some conservatives) will tell in order to appear to be seen in the image they see themselves. I don't care one iota if Affleck's great-grand-whatevers owned slaves, but he is worried that people will see him as less a liberal. 

I do believe, however, that if his ancestors owned slaves, the chances are excellent that they were Dixiecrat/Democrats.


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Snowden's Lament

Edward Snowden is saying that the United States government isn't playing fair with him. They revoked his passport and countries that may have offered him asylum, are now hesitant out of fear of losing trade with us. If Eddy had his way, we'd give him back his passport and tell other countries to take him under their wing. So what that he gave up classified information about the National Security Agency. (When you say the full name, rather than simply saying the NSA, the agency sounds a lot more important to the country, doesn't it?)