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zenabby

(364 posts)
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 10:59 AM Oct 2016

This is disgraceful and shameful.

First, wikileaks is a bunch of stolen communication. No different than if you go to your neighbor's mailbox and steal all their letters to find out what they are saying about you.

Second, this was stolen not by patriots or good people for good reasons, but by enemies to incite americans against one another.

Third, if there is something newsworthy - ie, someone was plotting an assassination, or overthrow of government or some huge fraudulent, deal, then there is some justification for talking or printing it as news.

When nothing like that is there, just reading all the juicy gossip and how business was conducted within the Clinton campaign and who was mean to who is just shameful. It is just beyond the pale. Yes, we all like to know more about celebrities but this is like peeping into their windows.

Why does no one ask the media about that?

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This is disgraceful and shameful. (Original Post) zenabby Oct 2016 OP
Yep stolen by bad actors! Madam45for2923 Oct 2016 #1
This is very far from Wikileaks original mission statement... Cakes488 Oct 2016 #2
And Republicans-Trumpsters are loving it!! riversedge Oct 2016 #4
There were many people, including myself, that felt supporter of wikileaks would turn against them. tonyt53 Oct 2016 #3
Bingo roscoeroscoe Oct 2016 #5
 

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
3. There were many people, including myself, that felt supporter of wikileaks would turn against them.
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 11:07 AM
Oct 2016

It is the same as what you described. It was a criminal activity from the get-go, but until they started releasing this info, people put them on a pedestal. Common criminals.

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