You're suggesting we never hack and use election information as part of good old-fashioned espionage?
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Replying to @emptywheel @JohnHultquist
Also, doesn't that presume a response can only be abt retaliation rather than mitigation?
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Replying to @emptywheel
Everyone targets political parties. That's also good old fashioned espionage. Dumping the take through personas crossed the line.
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Assad would be interested to hear that, given that Sabu-involved hacked documents got dumped to WL in 2012. And that's just best known ex.
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I may be misunderstanding you, but Sabu was a hacktivist working with a crew without state support (unless you count when the FBI ran him).
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Yes. This was when FBI was running him. The Syria targeting was reportedly at direction of FBI.
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Links in here: https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/07/31/did-wikileaks-do-us-intelligence-bidding-in-publishing-the-syria-files/ …
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Several different entities leaked Syria files via independent channels to WL. But that's true for some stuff attributed to WL last year too.
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