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FarPoint

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17. I sensed that immediately when released...

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Sat Nov 4, 2017, 01:33 AM

Nov 2017

It was a no brainier for me... WikiLeaks / Russian Trolls...had one mission..to be outrageous and inflammatory to the Presidential Election....

I posted at the time it happened that folks can not ever accept any information obtained illegally..ever....but media reports took them as accurate....

See...I told you so! Not official and scrubbed and run through the propaganda mill.

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The DNCs emails werent only hacked, they were edited: report [View all] CousinIT Nov 2017 OP

Just like the election itself. sandensea Nov 2017 #1

I believe that 100% angstlessk Nov 2017 #3

Strait Out Of A Fox News Playbook.. Grassy Knoll Nov 2017 #2

Of course, I never had evidence of this ... LenaBaby61 Nov 2017 #4

Nothing can be believed anymore. truthisfreedom Nov 2017 #5

Ripping apart a society from the inside BadgerKid Nov 2017 #19

So why go to the trouble of obtaining them in the first place? DoctorPepper Nov 2017 #6

Most of us knew many of the emails were altered a long time ago leftofcool Nov 2017 #7

Sure doesn't. DoctorPepper Nov 2017 #8

whatever floats your boat leftofcool Nov 2017 #11

The FBI wouldn't get involved.... SergeStorms Nov 2017 #13

Well, DoctorPepper, the DU community has been here a long time. "Some of us"--even "a lot of us"... Hekate Nov 2017 #16

I'll say goodbye now in case I don't get a chance later. Hortensis Nov 2017 #22

Red Herring. Russia tampered w emails, article is definitive. Yr bad at deflecting. emulatorloo Nov 2017 #26

It would be impossible ... NanceGreggs Nov 2017 #12

Thanks for clearing that up. Merlot Nov 2017 #25

Yes, exactly. n/t NanceGreggs Nov 2017 #32

The best lies have some truth in them. Demit Nov 2017 #20

Uh, it's a classic disinformation tactic . JHan Nov 2017 #21

Anti-democracy forces at work. L. Coyote Nov 2017 #9

Wow, huge hits mentioning Warren many times over but Hortensis Nov 2017 #23

And then Trump helped Gucifer by making up shit on top of that. SunSeeker Nov 2017 #10

Wikileaks published 3 days before guccifer floppyboo Nov 2017 #14

No yr mixing up Guccifers. Guccifer arrested, Guccifer 2.0 is a "persona" created by Russians emulatorloo Nov 2017 #28

As Rachel M said long ago, "weaponized" Hekate Nov 2017 #15

I sensed that immediately when released... FarPoint Nov 2017 #17

Have any of the DNC staffers or Pdesta ever denied the substance of the leaked emails? markpkessinger Nov 2017 #18

How do you know they didn't produce original copies? leftofcool Nov 2017 #27

I recall someone's summary of a Fox News panel was passed off as a DNC position by assange et al emulatorloo Nov 2017 #29

The Russkies used a propaganda tactic known as "tainted leaks" meow2u3 Nov 2017 #24

The unadulterated emails could be authenticated and released, right? David__77 Nov 2017 #30

The whole thing was a dark flag operation from the very beginning. Nitram Nov 2017 #31