Leaked private Twitter message shows WikiLeaks wanted Republicans to win 2016 election

[RandySF]

An activist has published 11,000 direct messages on Twitter between the Wikileaks account and a group of its supporters.

The direct messages were published by Emma Best on her own website. Her Twitter account states that she is a journalist on the East Coast. Best has been critical of Wikileaks and has advocated for government transparency.

Some of the direct messages were previously published, but this is the first time all of the direct messages have been posted.

The messages show that Wikileaks wanted the GOP to defeat Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential elections.

"We believe it would be much better for the GOP to win," the Wikileaks account states to a supporter named "Emmy B" in one of the messages from 2015.

Another Twitter message from the Wikileaks account describes Clinton as a "bright, well-connected, sadistic sociopath."


http://thehill.com/policy/technology/399547-activist-publishes-11000-wikileaks-twitter-direct-messages

[donkeypoofed]

1. Hey, look ! They called Hillary "bright and well connected"!!

Then someone forgot to insert the name Donald before the words "sadistic sociopath".

[dalton99a]

2. Even Pompeo called Wikileaks a "hostile intelligence service"

That piece of shit Assange belongs in prison

[SunSeeker]

3. K & R for exposure.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Is anyone surprised?

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. Didn't we already know this? Even so, it's nice to see it confirmed in print. n/t

[Cha]

6. We already knew this! And, this..

Link to tweet

[Scurrilous]

7. K&R

[kcr]

8. That tweet about Clinton was just so much projection

I didn't read the whole thing yet, but some parts just stuck out for me. Like when a couple of them were talking about their parents' service in the Peace Corps and how they grew up hearing their stories and how it inspired them. Then Assange barges in to Assplain how evil the Peace Corps is. They bow and scrape to agree with him like the good little acolytes they are, while pitifully defending their parents' good intentions.

[appal_jack]

9. Excellent transparency!

As an organization that believes in sunlight and the free flow of information, I wonder why Wikileaks did not publish these e-mails themselves?



Seriously, it's good that reporter Emma Best has corrected the oversight.

k&r,

-app