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Rep. Rohrabacher says 'rendezvous' being set up with Trump to relay info from WikiLeaks' Assange on DNC hack
Eric Garland
Eric Garland @ericgarland
Putin saw our - I mean journalists' -hack of his Panama banking as a "personal attack." (on oligarch money)
www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/28/putin-saw-the-panama-papers-as-a-personal-attack-and-may-have-wanted-revenge-russian-authors-say/
But here's a kicker: a lot of people involved in this operation have been dismissed, jailed, or turned up dead.
While publicly Putin has always denied Russian government involvement, all the top-level Russian gatekeepers between the Russian cyber agencies and the West were either sent to jail or quietly dismissed, for the obvious reason to prevent them from leaking.
And hope this is an olive branch to those who believed in Wikileaks and strongly opposed the narrative of them as political operatives.
It is a very sad story for us personally, as we believed back in 2010 in the mission of WikiLeaks — we've been writing about the Russian secret services since 2000, and we run our website Agentura.ru as a security services watchdog, thus transparency and holding power in check are important words for us. We also have friends who are investigative journalists who cooperated with WikiLeaks in the past.
The most horrible thing we found out that in the spring and summer of 2016 WikiLeaks suddenly compromised the very principles [founder Julian] Assange proclaimed, and didn't stop from attacking the very journalists the group had been working with. And he knew full well the danger these journalists faced exposing the offshore schemes of Putin's personal friends. For us, it's a story of betrayal, both principles and people.
Something I've heard from many: "But Wikileaks started with such noble aims!"
I think it did. And then...it changed. Tragic.