The hatred WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange feels towards Hillary Clinton is far from being a secret. During the election campaign, the non-profit organization leaked Clinton emails in the hope that it would destroy her presidential hopes — and we all know the result of the election.
As we slide gently into 2017, the WikiLeaks Twitter account has turned on the ignition and is about to hit the accelerator. The tweet says: “If you thought 2016 was a big WikiLeaks year 2017 will blow you away”. On top of this, Assange himself is due to appear in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, denying Russia’s involvement in hacking DNC emails.
WikiLeak’s tweet comes as part of a plea for donations, but it promises that this will be the year of a ‘showdown’. It’s not quite clear from the tweet who the subject of the showdown will be, but based on the organization’s track record, there are a handful of targets that spring to mind.
Assange himself is still hiding away in the Ecuadorian embassy, trying to avoid extradition to Sweden where he faces questions about a rape allegation. The WikiLeaks founder’s interview is due to air tonight, and in it he will reiterate previous claims that Russia has no involvement in providing the organization with DNC emails:
We can say, we have said, repeatedly that over the last two months that our source is not the Russian government and it is not a state party.
The timing of the airing of the interview comes at an interesting time, as President Obama has just expelled a number of Russian diplomats from the county in retaliation for alleged attempts to interfere with the US election.
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JOHN MCAFEE: RUSSIA DID NOT HACK THE DNC
In case any of you believe that Hillary lost because Russia hacked the election, internet security guru John McAfee has a few words of advice for you.
Crazy, but brilliant, John said “if it looks like the Russians did it, then I can guarantee you it was not the Russians.”
“The Joint Analysis Report from the FBI contains an appendix that lists hundreds of IP addresses that were supposedly “used by Russian civilian and military intelligence services.”
While some of those IP addresses are from Russia, the majority are from all over the world, which means that the hackers constantly faked their location.
McAfee argues that the report is a “fallacy,” explaining that hackers can fake their location, their language, and any markers that could lead back to them. Any hacker who had the skills to hack into the DNC would also be able to hide their tracks, he said
“If I was the Chinese and I wanted to make it look like the Russians did it, I would use Russian language within the code, I would use Russian techniques of breaking into the organization,” McAfee said, adding that, in the end, “there simply is no way to assign a source for any attack.”
However, McAfee does see a problem with the National Security Agency (NSA) being able to listen in on every conversation and read every text message and email of every American. Rather than focusing on disrupting the bad guys in foreign countries, McAfee thinks that “all of that effort has been placed on a country that is afraid of its own citizens.”
He claims that the only way he has been able to fully block the NSA from infecting his phone with spyware is by using a flip-phone too old to be hacked. He even goes as far as to call the iPhone the “ultimate spy device.”
Since the stakes are so high, thermonuclear war and all, the least the CIA and other wonderful intelligence agencies can do is provide sufficient evidence to the American people before they get annihilated under the winds of a 10,000 degree winter breeze. Or is that too much to ask? Judging by just about everything they’ve told us over the past 15 years, I’m inclined to believe the exact opposite is true.
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Obama /Hillary / Soros etc and party are just bad losers and need to be wiped out