NYTimes: Someone was secretly recording Julian Assange when he was in the Ecuadorian embassy.

[triron]

Link to tweet

[OnDoutside]

1. I would have thought that the British had been recording him

[brush]

26. Yep. Naive of him assume he wasn't recorded.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Or was it Ecuadoreans?

[JDC]

15. That was my first thought.

[soldierant]

21. If the British were recording the Ecuadoreans (which I dn't find far-fetched),

they would certainly have picked up Assange in the process.

Wouldn't you like to know what and with whom?

[Stallion]

3. This is Not a Shock-It Would Be a Shock if He Wasn't Recorded

[Wounded Bear]

18. Indeed! nt

[magicarpet]

4. Double edged sword blade....

One side cuts thee,
The other side cuts me.

Goose/Gander.

Smirk/Giggle - taste his own medicine.

[customerserviceguy]

9. Yeah, that karma

is certainly, well, we all know what...

[Karadeniz]

5. Let's hear them!

[UTUSN]

6. Well, he wanted transparency for others so surely he won't mind!1

[Maven]

7. +1

Let's see the transcripts. It's just "journalism"!

[orangecrush]

12. .,

[H2O Man]

19. Perfect response!

Well done.

[blm]

8. Assange believes in full transparency for everyone, including himself,

doesn’t he?

[Princess Turandot]

10. If this happened, I'm guessing that it was the Brits...

Originally, they had a visible police presence outside of the embassy. After a time, that was no longer the case. It seems likely that they continued to monitor him, but in a less obvious fashion.

Or perhaps it was Vlad, making sure that Assange wasn't planning to slip their leash.

[orangecrush]

13. I agree on the Brits

Although Vlad probably has his own copies.

[Corgigal]

11. Well, I would hope so.

However, since we have a Putin asset in our White House, we might be a little behind on our intelligence gathering. Unless we aren’t, then we may have bigger problems to fear.

[SonofDonald]

14. Isn't the embassy in London ?

The British have all sorts of ways to record his conversations, all sorts

Then there's the CIA and other five eye interests

It's all been recorded

If not by the embassy themselves also

[triron]

24. Yep

[Kurt V.]

16. it was 5 eyes. no doubt

[H2O Man]

20. +1

[ToxMarz]

17. Isn't that kind of standard operating peocedure

for every country in the world's intelligence agencies. Probably more than one country was able to.

[SkyDaddy7]

22. Well,

DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...It would be news if nobody were recording every word, burp, fart, yawn, snore, etc.

[Calista241]

23. I don't understand how this is even a story.

A guy, who's job is to solicit and publish leaked documents, and everyone is supposed to just forget he exists until the next batch of documents comes out?

[Iggo]

25. Meta!

[RandySF]

27. I don't want to watch, based on what I've read.

[jberryhill]

28. I believe the Ecuadorians would know if their embassy were bugged

I would assume the recording was made by the Ecuadorians. It’s their embassy.

[JonLP24]

33. I'm not sure

Countries try to bug other countries embassies.

[RockRaven]

29. SomeONE? Hell, the US, Russian, British, and Ecuadorians would be the minimum of those trying...

The only question is how many succeeded.

[Scurrilous]

30. @#$% Julian Assange.

Will Julian Assange and WikiLeaks Finally Tell the Truth About Seth Rich?

<snip>

"In the Dutch TV interview, Assange demurred on how he obtained the DNC emails, then dropped a tantalizing hint. “There’s a 27-year-old who works for the DNC who was shot in the back, murdered, just a few weeks ago, for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington.”

“That was just a robbery, I believe, wasn’t it?” the host interjected.

“No,” Assange said. “There’s no finding.”

“What are you suggesting?”

“I’m suggesting that our sources take risks,” Assange said, “and they become concerned to see things occurring like that.”

Assange never said Rich’s name, but the implication was obvious: Rich was his source. WikiLeaks then announced a $20,000 reward on Twitter for information about Rich’s murder."

<snip>

"Assange’s comments fueled bogus theories about Rich, the DNC, and the 2016 election — theories that continue to this day. Within the Trump administration, those theories reportedly reached as high as the CIA director and the White House. Indeed, the president’s insistence that it was Ukraine’s government, not Russia’s, that interfered in the 2016 election and his fixation on the American cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike overlap with the Rich theories: In both cases, Trump seeks to deny Russia hacked the Democratic Party, weaponized stolen emails, and published those emails in an effort to hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

But that, of course, is what happened, according to the U.S. intelligence community, the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month investigation. The special counsel’s probe offered the strongest evidence yet that Seth Rich had nothing to do with the DNC hack after Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for carrying out the hack and laid out in detail how they did it.

Mueller’s final report accused Assange of “falsely implying” Rich provided the stolen DNC emails to WikiLeaks. “Beginning in the summer of 2016, Assange and WikiLeaks made a number of statements about Seth Rich, a former DNC staff member who was killed in July 2016,” the report said. “The statements about Rich implied falsely that he had been the source of the stolen DNC emails.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/will-julian-assange-and-wikileaks-finally-tell-the-truth-about-seth-rich-918946/

[Recursion]

31. I'd assume Ecuador was doing it (nt)

[Blue_Tires]

32. It would be SO juicy if his transcripts were given to Wikileaks

but I'm not holding my breath...

[Codeine]

34. You were living in an embassy, dumbass.

Of course you were being recorded. Revel in the transparency. #hoistonyourownpetard

[OregonBlue]

35. Hillarious. Thanks for the good laugh this morning.