A loaded term? The term existed long before the DNC leaks http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/24/world/yeltsin-s-inner-circle-under-investigation-for-corruption.html … and was routinely applied to describe similar operations
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Replying to @asteris
I don't object to use of the term, I'm saying it describes a specific/different tactic than dumping docs, kompromat is blackmail material.
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Replying to @kennethlipp
Such troves are arguably blackmail material (Greek politics also work like that). Dumping is just usually a last recourse tactic
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Replying to @asteris
Allllllllllll I'm saying is that info made public can't be kompromat.
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Replying to @kennethlipp
Agreed, in that after the fact, it's rendered unusable for blackmail :)
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Replying to @asteris
But that's the only part we have any info on, Asteris!
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Replying to @kennethlipp
That doesn't preclude methodological observations. Btw, I got similar flak when talking about Israeli hasbara during the Gaza wars
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Replying to @asteris
I'm not giving you flack, just a point of definition between colleagues.
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Replying to @kennethlipp
Not offended, mate, saying it's hard to pin down the live minutiae of such practices. Wish we had more overt examples for academic research
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Replying to @asteris
Hasbara is a bit easier in that even its proponents label it such, as a mitzvah.
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Not during the Gaza wars, though. The more it became an organized practice, the more the term was driven into taboo status for observers
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Replying to @asteris
Unaware of that, my better half was recently in Haifa for a spell, there are active, overt hasbara workshops.
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