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Ecuador Admits It Has 'Temporarily Restricted' Assange's Internet Access

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Ecuador's govt has acknowledged that it has "temporarily" cut off Julian Assange's internet access:

Ecuador admits it has 'temporarily restricted' Assange's Internet access

Ecuador acknowledged Tuesday that it has “temporarily restricted” Internet access for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its embassy in London, after his whistleblowing site published documents from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign

Ecuador's foreign ministry said in a statement that while the government stands by its decision in 2012 to grant asylum to Assange, it doesn’t interfere in foreign elections. President Rafael Correa’s government said it was acting on its own and not ceding to foreign pressures, the Associated Press reported.
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So at least they admit this is a deliberate action being taken in connection with protecting Hillary's electoral prospects from further damage.

But no "foreign pressures"? Come on, that's absolutely unbelievable.

Why is the Obama govt not taking action against the New York Times for publishing private tax info on Donald Trump? What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander.
The double standards of the Obama Whitehouse regarding electoral matters are showing just what kind of govt it is.
 
sanman said:
Ecuador's govt has acknowledged that it has "temporarily" cut off Julian Assange's internet access:

Ecuador admits it has 'temporarily restricted' Assange's Internet access



So at least they admit this is a deliberate action being taken in connection with protecting Hillary's electoral prospects from further damage.

But no "foreign pressures"? Come on, that's absolutely unbelievable.

Why is the Obama govt not taking action against the New York Times for publishing private tax info on Donald Trump? What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander.
The double standards of the Obama Whitehouse regarding electoral matters are showing just what kind of govt it is.
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When you are right you are right.

And firebombing a Trump office, let's not forget that bit of dust as it is being swept under the rug.
 
sanman said:
But no "foreign pressures"? Come on, that's absolutely unbelievable.
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You're right. Rafael Correa has no problem with the US looking stupid. So for him to stop Assange HAS to be from some promise from Clinton. When she's elected, we'll see Ecuador get some favored deal. Count on it.
 
Brewdog said:
You're right. Rafael Correa has no problem with the US looking stupid. So for him to stop Assange HAS to be from some promise from Clinton. When she's elected, we'll see Ecuador get some favored deal. Count on it.
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The road has been well traveled, yes, we must assume that norms apply in this case.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
The road has been well traveled, yes, we must assume that norms apply in this case.
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And you know well that if Clinton and Correa talked on the phone, the NSA captured it. I'd love to hear what was discussed.
 
Brewdog said:
And you know well that if Clinton and Correa talked on the phone, the NSA captured it. I'd love to hear what was discussed.
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You seem to believe the NSA was actually listening to the calls themselves, good grief propaganda lives forever.
 
Brewdog said:
And you know well that if Clinton and Correa talked on the phone, the NSA captured it. I'd love to hear what was discussed.
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Maybe Vlad can help us out.

Tell U What, at the rate we are going he is going to have the last laugh.
 
Casper said:
You seem to believe the NSA was actually listening to the calls themselves, good grief propaganda lives forever.
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We've known since well before Snowden that the NSA is in collusion with AT&T and other phone providers to collect ALL telephone and internet traffic in the US. Two senior NSA supervisors were charged in 2005? with whistleblowing.

The US gov't is watching and listening to everything you do. You think they're not? Okeedoke.
 
Wikileaks is supposedly about to release an 80GB contingency file that contains a lot of smoking guns. So far they haven't met their own deadline, and a lot of their operatives have gone offline. Seems like Wikileaks has info that the U.S. government doesn't want anyone knowing about.

I hope the file gets out.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
When you are right you are right.

And firebombing a Trump office, let's not forget that bit of dust as it is being swept under the rug.
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How is that being swept under the rug? And why is the "Obama govt" responsible for it?
 
Brewdog said:
We've known since well before Snowden that the NSA is in collusion with AT&T and other phone providers to collect ALL telephone and internet traffic in the US. Two senior NSA supervisors were charged in 2005? with whistleblowing.

The US gov't is watching and listening to everything you do. You think they're not? Okeedoke.
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God, what a boring surveillance job that must be. They watch me all the time? What the hell for? They need information in reading journals and playing video games?
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Maybe Vlad can help us out.

Tell U What, at the rate we are going he is going to have the last laugh.
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Speaking of laughs...
I see that you and Putin are on a 1st name basis now. He wants you to have this pic to put on your mantle.

Trump-putin-image.jpg
 
LowDown said:
God, what a boring surveillance job that must be. They watch me all the time? What the hell for? They need information in reading journals and playing video games?
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The NSA has a huge data center underground in Utah which collects all the data and computers monitor it for certain words and phrases. Like I just said "NSA" just now, so some tech will eventually read this to see if it was nefarious. But the problem is that we're just having a light political discussion in here. No one here is subversive or dangerous (I don't guess). So it may take MONTHS for the NSA to get a tech to check on these posts.

Instead, they should be monitoring suspected bad guys instead of EVERYONE. A lot can happen in a few months, and that's the problem with mass surveillance.
 
Ecuador Ordered Assange’s Internet Cut Off to Tilt Election Toward Clinton: Experts

Experts are saying that Ecuador ordered Assange's internet to be cut off in order to tilt the election towards Hillary Clinton:

Ecuador ordered Assange?s internet cut off to tilt election toward Clinton, experts say | Fox News Latino

While both WikiLeaks and Ecuadorean officials have only made sparse comments on the cutting of Assange’s internet access, there is speculation that President Rafael Correa is looking to repair the icy relationship between his country and the U.S. and he is hedging his bets that Clinton will win the race for the White House.

“It may in part have to do with Correa thinking that to assist the campaign of Donald Trump would be unconscionable,” Eric Hershberg, the director of American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, told Fox News Latino in reference to the idea that the WikiLeaks’ releases are helping the GOP nominee’s run for the White House.

Correa, a leftist leader who has maintained friendly relations with the anti-U.S. governments in Venezuela and Bolivia and whose term expires next year, recently voiced his support for Clinton’s presidential run and says he knows her personally from her time as secretary of state.

"For the good of the United States and the world... I would like Hillary to win," Correa told Russia Today last month.
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So here's a Lefty foreign leader, and he wants Hillary to win. Is he interfering with the US elections?
 
Northern Light said:
Wikileaks is supposedly about to release an 80GB contingency file that contains a lot of smoking guns. So far they haven't met their own deadline, and a lot of their operatives have gone offline. Seems like Wikileaks has info that the U.S. government doesn't want anyone knowing about.

I hope the file gets out.
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Maybe they don't have it.
 
Re: Ecuador Ordered Assange’s Internet Cut Off to Tilt Election Toward Clinton: Exper

Are we supposed to feel sorry for the guy trying to fiddle with our elections?
 
Re: Ecuador Ordered Assange’s Internet Cut Off to Tilt Election Toward Clinton: Exper

How many threads do we need on this subject?
 
Re: Ecuador Ordered Assange’s Internet Cut Off to Tilt Election Toward Clinton: Exper

Yawn.
 
Northern Light said:
Wikileaks is supposedly about to release an 80GB contingency file that contains a lot of smoking guns. So far they haven't met their own deadline, and a lot of their operatives have gone offline. Seems like Wikileaks has info that the U.S. government doesn't want anyone knowing about.

I hope the file gets out.
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Unitedwestand13 said:
Maybe they don't have it.
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So far the smoke coming out of their guns have been from squibs, rather than the sharp crack of high-powered magnums!
 
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Unitedwestand13 said:
Apparently as many as schism and sanman want....
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Can you post a link to my Assange thread? I'd like to read it.
 
Unitedwestand13 said:
Maybe they don't have it.
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Or perhaps they're holding it as blackmail against Hillary until she gives them something they want. That's why they made the press release public, to show that they were serious about releasing the data unless she concedes to what the Ecuadorans want from her as president.

Rafael Correa is sort of a kooky guy. He's strange at times. But he's not stupid. And if you underestimate him, you'll find yourself wishing you hadn't. The guy has taken control of a country that went though some extremely hard times, and now they have nice highways and highspeed internet and good plumbing and reliable electricity. They went through 5 presidents in 7 years. But he's loved very much, in spite of his weirdness, because he's made Ecuador better. Much better.

And he's not anti-American, I don't think, he's just not willing to be pushed around by the USA. And I respect that. He went to university in the US. He doesn't hate us, he just wants us out of their business. And I agree with him.
 
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sanman said:
So here's a Lefty foreign leader, and he wants Hillary to win. Is he interfering with the US elections?
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The entire election has been a psyops of misdirection, running interference, and lying. How people can continue to support this nonsense is beyond me.
 
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