so here's something interesting:
https://sputniknews.com/us/201610191046476430-newsweek-journalist-claims-intelligence-conspiracy/https://sputniknews.com/us/201610191046516451-newsweek-silent-eichenwald-emails/this is rather long and complicated, so I'll summarise:
Bill Moran used to work for Sputnik, which is like a pro-Russian version of the Daily Mail. A more sensational version of RT if you're not familiar.
Bill received 'viral' screenshots from what he thought were the Wikileaks-released Podesta emails, apparently indicating that Clinton's top advisor, Sidney Blumenthal, was of the opinion that she was largely responsible for the incident. He wrote up an article, released it, then 30 minutes later realised that the screenshots he had been sent were not directly from the Podesta emails. They were commentary from Kurt Eichenwald of Newsweek, so he pulled the story. It's worth noting that the Trump campaign also saw the same screenshots and came to the same conclusion.
Kurt wrote a rebuttal article (
link) essentially accusing Bill and Trump of working together with Russia to spread false information in order to influence the election (especially given the article was originally posted on Sputnik).
Kurt then sent Bill a private email advising that he do not print any further clarification of the subject as the Russian conspiracy story was furnished to him by the 'Intelligence community' and offered him a well-paid job at another newspaper for his silence.“You need to ask yourself — how does someone like me who is deeply wired into the intelligence community know so fast that you had posted this? It’s not like I was sitting around reading Sputnik. Others are though, and they are not reading it 24-hours a day in real time for the purpose of keeping abreast of the news.â€
“I guarantee you one thing: there is already a file on you in one of the security intelligence divisions of the FBI,â€
"You have been playing in a sandbox surrounded by very large, and mostly unseen, players, engaged in games you don’t recognize.â€
“There are some things I know but I can’t tell you, but what I will say is that, as far as American intelligence agencies are concerned, the event involving this manipulated document is far from over,â€
“America is in the middle of a large-scale cyberwar with Russia; if you don’t know this, you need to read the coverage of what is going on, including the statements from the White House.â€
“What I was going to discuss with you was places you should consider working in Washington — ones that won’t serve to taint your reputation for the rest of your career,â€
TL;DR: Even the NSA/CIA/whoever else is backing Hillary and trying to push the idea that Trump works for Russia.As for Assange, there were rumours the other day that he was in the process of being extradited. That appears not to be the case
at the moment, but his situation has changed dramatically.
At the FARC peace negotiations in Colombia (as far back as the 26/09), John Kerry apparently came to an agreement with the Ecuadorian government; he was apparently afraid of the damage the upcoming Wikileaks releases were going to do and persuaded them to cut Assange's internet connection. This occurred 2 days ago, but the Podesta emails are still being released, now at an accelerated schedule (I find it amusing to imagine Kerry losing his mind over this; he is a colossal piece of shit).
Now that Assange is incommunicado, reports have surfaced that the US has brought two charges against him - one of paedophilia; grooming an 8-year-old girl over the internet, and one of receiving payments from Russia through a shell company. Both are highly suspect, but I'll hold off writing anything about this until I have a better understanding of the situation. If you'd like to do your own research, Reddit and 4chan have threads going, trying to dig for information, and it appears that (surprise!) the accusations can be followed back to intelligence officials linked to Hillary.
https://wikileaks.org/Background-and-Documents-on-Attempts-to-Frame-Assange-as-a-Pedophile-and.html?update2https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/587lbg/i_have_been_looking_into_the_san_fransisco/
