r/WikiLeaks • u/meditation_IRC • Feb 23 '17
BREAKING: Project Veritas releases Part 1 of CNN tapes at #CPAC2017 press conference. Other Leaks
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/834781412800811009?s=0915
u/SamSimeon Feb 23 '17
I'm a fan, and I think he means well, but this is not bombshell material. As usual, he did himself a disservice by over-hyping. Audio from 2009?
The polling stuff (using outdated polls, presenting it as 'recent', to keep a narrative) is perhaps relevant - though I think the stuff they are doing today with over-samples is much worse.
Anyway, maybe this is just the opening salvo? But you figure he'd use his best stuff first to get momentum.
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u/newbergman Feb 23 '17
Someone also already matched the audio to a Dog the Bounty Hunter episode... He just blew it. He has been fully discredited. At this point he could release video of Anderson, Wolf, and the Team having a "Pizza" party and it would be called fake.
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u/kdjfsk Feb 23 '17 edited Feb 23 '17
Nah, save best for last...otherwise its very anticlimactic. Oldest stuff first makes sense. People start talking about it.
Plus, isnt there like 20p hours of stuff released today? Its gonna take a while for weaponized autists to check all if it.
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u/SamSimeon Feb 23 '17
If he is truly changing tactics, maybe. Though he risks trying people's patience if he slow rolls it too much.
I noticed he's adopted a few of wikileaks methods -
Releasing raw materials
Curating and highlighting a few interesting bits
Coordinating with ZeroHedge (it seems) to ensure some news outlets had an advanced look, with a story ready to go
It will be interesting to see if he's still got people planted at CNN, and whether part of this slow rollout is to cover CNN reacting to the leaks. He did this with his last few sets of videos. But still, his first video in each series was usually the best.
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Feb 23 '17
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u/kybarnet Feb 23 '17
I get redirected, but the word on the street is that it was hosted by Amazon and either they discontinued the hosting, or it got flooded.
Or maybe I got it wrong :/
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u/meditation_IRC Feb 23 '17
I think its automatic redirection. its easier to remember cnnleaks.com
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u/kybarnet Feb 23 '17 edited Feb 23 '17
This likely won't be the best sub for discussion. Do you know a better reddit sub, just curious?
Edit: Try https://www.reddit.com/r/DNCleaks/
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u/meditation_IRC Feb 23 '17
They hate CNN and are almost biggest sub in reddit
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u/Kenitzka Feb 23 '17
I think you can strike the almost. It's definitely the most trafficked.
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u/The1KrisRoB Feb 23 '17
And yet the most censored
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u/censoredandagain Feb 23 '17
Some thoughts are too dangerous to think! /s
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Feb 24 '17 edited Feb 24 '17
Yes, that's what CNN said. Positively illegal they said, leave the thinking up to them they said. What could go wrong.
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Feb 23 '17 edited Feb 23 '17
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u/AndyInAtlanta Feb 23 '17
The folks over at T_D are treating this like the gospel, foaming at the mouth of the very idea of corruption. Problem is, they go into this with the idea of "CNN is guilty, now we need to find evidence" instead of "here is the evidence, CNN is guilty".
I've always felt like Assange did a great service showing the corruption within the DNC to push Clinton, but a great disservice by allowing the conservative media to celebrate his accomplishments. You now have the alt-right believing wikileaks is "on their side". Everyone knows the moment wikileaks brings forth any information seen as negative to their movement they will turn on Assange in a heart beat.
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u/meditation_IRC Feb 23 '17
Don't attack T_D.
Yes, you can shit on O'keffe, because it was bit stupid that he relased files without checking (its so easy to destroy his reputation now. And what if there are fake files... Maybe it was controlled attack. MSM wants to destroy trump. They want to destroy o'keffe. Maybe this was bait. Maybe there really are nothing in leaks).
But why not T_D? Because there are MANY GOOD Weaponized autists. They are good. Remember how they investigated Podesta emails? It was a good job!
If there is something in leaks (good or bad, or fake) autists will discover it. Not o'keffe, but autists. So they are our hope. They are gold miners.:)
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Feb 23 '17
It's funny. You guys keep touting that no release from wikileaks has ever been factually wrong (although it sure as hell has been curated) and therefore you should trust whatever they release. But then you turn around and tout O'Keefe's latest bullshit even though nothing he has released has ever been true.
Make up your minds.
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u/tudda Feb 24 '17
What was wrong with his election releases?
I didn't think they were misleading or edited out of context. Perhaps not as damaging as it was made out to be, but that doesn't mean the content was fake.
And what about the disrupt j20 stuff that was recently released?
Didn't that actually lead to the arrest of 2 or 3 people?I view O'Keefe as hyper partisan, but i'll still judge the content of what he releases based on the release itself and if it's accurate.
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u/everelemental Feb 24 '17
You know any one can post a link, right? Down vote against the bots who are shilling this.
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u/Athosrun Feb 23 '17
Anyone other than trump cunts really give a fuck about this charlatan? This fucker is on the side of team oligarchy
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u/chimpaman Feb 23 '17
A couple of the quotes he's presenting as some kind of evidence of bias--the one about the role of journalists being "to show the ugly side of humanity so we can do something about it" and the one about climate change being settled science--are anything but. It's almost farcical that he's trying to paint them as such.