#eugene doing the hacker's bidding

[arohawrites]

𝔇𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔫𝔰

Gᴇɴʀᴇ﹕ Dᴇᴍᴏɴ AU﹐ ᴀɴɢsᴛ

Tʀɪɢɢᴇʀ Wᴀʀɴɪɴɢ﹕ Mᴇɴᴛɪᴏɴs ᴏғ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ﹐ ɢʀɪᴇғ, Lɪɢʜᴛ sᴡᴇᴀʀɪɴɢ.

Wᴏʀᴅ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ﹕ 2𝚔

Cʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 𝟷 || 𝟸 || 𝟹 || 𝟺 || 𝟻 || 𝟼 || Mᴏᴏᴅʙᴏᴀʀᴅs ||

The wake is over and the funeral is quickly held. Some of Sanha’s classmates are present and most are his parents’ colleagues. He tried hard to memorize each faces that came to his parents wake so he knew that there are few people whom he didn’t see in the wake.

“I would avenge you no matter what” Sanha mumbled as he offers flowers for both his parents. People are wondering why the only son doesn’t look sad, he doesn’t even look grieving, but they keep it to themselves.

The ceremony ended and people are starting to disperse after saying goodbye to Sanha. One group approached him, the group are not familiar to him.

“We’re in the same team as your parents and Donghyuk” The only woman in the group introduced and Sanha’s attention is quickly piqued.

Sanha observed each person in the group. The woman who approached him looks a bit younger than her mother. Her short hair made her look more sophisticated and her smile is quite intimidating.

“I’m Lee Nari, this kid is Im Eugene-” The kid Nari called quickly protested “-I’m not a kid!” He spoke in English, Sanha already noticed that he has foreign blood.

“Whatever, this is Noh Taemin. He only looked smug but he’s just shy,” Sanha did a small bow for courtesy, “We’re sorry that we didn’t make it through the wake. We still finished some business overseas.” The woman explained.

“It’s okay” Sanha simply answered, his eyes are wandering discreetly. He saw JinJin nearby.

“Here’s my number, call me anytime. I know it’s hard, we also lost good friends. Yuri Unni is like my sister, she helps me in everything. She always talk about you too so I know that you’re a nice child” Nari said, he can also see the pain in everyone’s eyes. It’s either genuine or a very good acting. He reminded himself.

“We’ll be going now. Remember, you’re always welcome in the company.” Eugene said and the whole group bid its farewell.

“They look suspicious… That’s written on your face. You should learn to hide your emotions a bit Sanha” JinJin appeared beside him.

Sanha glared at him, “Give me that flash drive”

“Let me eat first, I’m starving” The demon insisted.

“Sanha” They heard a low voice from behind. The demon sighed, he forgot about the kid’s best friend.

“I’m going now” JinJin patted Sanha’s shoulder, the younger tried hard to hide his repugnance, just for the sake of Minhyuk not asking any questions.

“Sanha, we’re going now. Should we drop you off to your house?” Minhyuk promptly offered after Jinwoo walked away. Minhyuk wanted to stay as long as possible with Sanha, he wanted to help his friend in any way he could do.

“Thank you for the offer Minyuk, I really appreciate it but I wanted to stay here longer,” He lied, he wanted to get away as soon as possible but he can’t be with Minhyuk now that he has a demon to handle, “are you sure? Then should I stay here with you?” Minhyuk insisted.

“No! I mean, you must be tired. You’ve been accompanying me for days, please don’t worry about me” Sanha wished that Minhyuk wasn’t offended. He simply doesn’t want Minhyuk to get involved in the mess he entered.

Minhyuk’s dad approached them and motioned Minhyuk to go with him. He assumes that Sanha just wanted to be alone for the moment.

“Contact me anytime, okay?” was Minhyuk’s last words before leaving Sanha.

Sanha stood there, all alone.

–

“Do you feed on sadness too?” Sanha asked the demon embracing him, people must be wondering why he didn’t shed a tear earlier. He wonders why too.

“I don’t feed on pure sadness. I can’t” JinJin answered after a few moment.

“Then why do I feel so empty? I should be crying right now right? My parents are dead, they are no longer coming back. Am I bad child?” Sanha murmured; familiar emotions are flooding his system.

The demon lets go after satiating his endless hunger, “don’t ask me with such trivial questions. I’m a demon, not your emotional supervisor or something” Sanha heaved a deep sigh.

Tears trickled down his cheeks but he quickly wiped it away, “I hate you” Sanha mumbled without much weight. He said it to JinJin numerous times already ever since they started the contract.

“Do you think I even care?” JinJin answered with boredom in his tone, “I’ll come back when you’re sane enough to handle your problems” Sanha picked up a pillow and threw it to JinJin but he already disappeared and the pillow hit the door of his room.

“What’s with that outfit?” Sanha grimaced. Jinwoo is wearing an oversized sweater, pants and large eyeglasses. Jinwoo puts down the laptop bag he’s holding at Sanha’s study table and quickly retaliated, “You don’t have any fashion sense in you so don’t you dare critique my outfit.”

“I hate you, I hate myself, I hate everything” He collapsed on his bed, mumbling the same words over and over until consciousness slipped away from his system.

–

Jinwoo held out a laptop and sat beside Sanha. He still wonders where the demon gets all of his things but he’s too tired to even ask.

“Let’s check the flash drive now” JinJin mumbled and plugged the flash drive, “I have my own laptop you know” Sanha mumbled.

“Idiot, do you think they don’t have any security measures installed in their devices? Plug this in your laptop and they would know by seconds who stole this flash drive. Good luck on explaining how the hell you manage to steal it in the first place” Sanha didn’t answer anymore as the demon had a point.

JinJin started opening the files in the flash drive, Sanha’s eyes widened when the screen showed a glitch. The demon started typing fast and one last click then the screen went to normal.

“Where and when did you learn all of that?” Sanha asked. His mouth is slightly open in wonder.

“How do you think we are able to survive through the years? Of course we need to cope with humans” JinJin answered in a smug tone and fixed his glasses like some genius (a nerd, Sanha whispered) in a movie.

Name: Lee Nari

“I got the right file” JinJin said and Sanha’s eyes quickly went to the screen again. The only folder in the flash drive composed of the data of the agents in his parents’ group.

Expertise: Stealth

Other information about the woman Sanha met earlier flashed in the screen which he couldn’t catch because JinJin quickly scrolled through the data.

Name: Im Eugene

Expertise: Hacking

“So that kid is a hacker” JinJin mumbled and Sanha swore he saw JinJin’s eyes burned with competition.

Expertise: Combat

Name: Noh Taemin

“Should I also teach you to fight?” JinJin looks at Sanha and was quickly discouraged, “Nah, it’ll take hundred years. I’’ll just handle it myself” The demon didn’t give him time to argue and continued scrolling.

Name: Shin Donghyuk

Expertise: Analyst

Sanha took note of the information he could see about Donghyuk, he’s the most suspicious, he doesn’t have a basis but it’s what his gut feels tell him.

“They’re on the same team until the last mission your parents received before they were ambushed” The demon said, not removing his eyes to the screen.

“You need to get closer to them if you want more information about them but at least you have prior knowledge about that group. Use your brain” JinJin pushed his glasses up and put down the laptop. Sanha was about to retaliate but his phone vibrated.

“Unknown number?” He mumbled, “Let me guess, one of those agents” the demon mused and rested his chin to his knuckles.

“What are you waiting for? Aren’t you going to answer the phone?” Sanha picked up his phone and quickly answered the call.

“Hello, who is this?” Sanha answered with formal tone.

“Sanha, this is Eugene, yesterday, do you remember?”

“Yeah,” he looked at JinJin who’s now wearing his infamous smirk, “Why did you call, and how did you get my number?”

“Your number is listed on your parents’ info and the boss wanted to talk to you, he asked me to fetch you. Can we meet in the nearby café? I’ll just need to get somewhere before picking you up. Is that okay?” he spoke in a fast yet calm manner, Sanha also noticed how hard the agent tried to remove his accent.

Sanha didn’t answer and let Eugene to continue, “I’ll be there exactly 4 pm. Would it be okay?”

“Okay…” Sanha simply answered and looked at JinJin again. The demon smiled, everything seems like an amusing movie for him.

–

“Why do you think I’m being summoned, did they know that we stole the flash drive?” Sanha asked nervously as they walk on their way to the café where he and Eugene are supposed to meet.

“We? It’s only you, child” The demon answered with a bored tone. Sanha continued nagging with obvious panic but JinJin didn’t give any care to Sanha’s sentiments.

“Rui!” Someone shouted. Their eyes went on a child running towards the middle of the road to follow his ball. Sanha’s feet automatically moved to sprint his way to the child but the demon held his hand to stop him.

Sanha can only close his eyes as a rushing truck is about to hit the poor boy. He heard a loud thud, Sanha slowly opened his eyes, expecting a grim accident. Instead, he saw something unusual in front of the truck. It looked like a barrier, a barrier made of feathers.

Sanha later realized that it was Myungjun after he withdrew his wings. The angel used his own wings to cover the child from being hurt.

The driver of the truck is surprised, he is sure that he has hit something but the child is totally unharmed. He went out of the vehicle and checked the child. The mother of the child also rushed towards the child. The place is quickly filled by people, by authorities and other by-passers.

“You don’t need to act like a super hero. The kid has his own protector” JinJin coldly pointed out and let go of Sanha’s hand. He couldn’t help but look at the angel’s magnificent wings.

He felt a familiar pain on his back.

The angel looked at their direction and the demon quickly averted his gaze and disappeared without notice. Sanha on the other hand is still frozen from where he is standing, he hasn’t recovered with what he have witnessed yet.

JinJin materialized in a rooftop of a random building nearby, he hissed in pain. The familiar pain on his back keeps on intensifying.

“Damn” He cussed and bared his own wings, his broken wings.

The only reminder of what he is in the past.

He laughed bitterly, he barely recalls how his own wings used to look like. All he can remember is how he was punished, how his whole body is seared through the holy blue flame.

He only remembers the excruciating pain and how unjust it is when he was banished from the heavens.

“So you’re an exiled” Myungjun spoke and observed the demon’s broken wings. The divine white color of its remaining feathers is now a mixture of blue and black. The angel heard that remnants of the exiled wings are purposely spared as an eternal reminder of their condemned sins.

The demon hid his wings and faced Myungjun. “Remove that pity in your eyes before I gouge it out” The demon threatened but the angel remained unfazed.

“What is the sin that you have committed?” Myungjun asked, somehow feeling sympathetic.

“Hah! I know you’re well aware of the heaven’s rules regarding humans,” the demon stood from where he is situated, “Two grave sins that you shouldn’t commit; to love a human or to kill the same, why choose when I can do both?” The demon grinned as the angel’s expression quickly changed.

The demon gave another annoying laugh and jumped off the rooftop.

“I can’t believe he’s an angel in the past…” Myungjun murmured.

[ariaanna27]

THE DONALD TRUMP JR. PILE ON

(By Roger Stone) There is nothing illegal or improper with someone having contact with Julian Assange or WikiLeaks. Julian Assange is not a Russian asset and WikiLeaks is not a Russian propaganda organization. I understand that the US intelligence agencies insist otherwise but they are utterly unable to prove it. It’s true in their minds because they wanted to be.

Contact between Donald Trump,jr.. and Julian Assange certainly does not constitute collusion with the Russians!

In fact Assange is a journalist publishing information given to him by sources just as they do at the Washington Post and the New York Times but Wikileaks record for accuracy and authenticity is far better.

Neither Donald Trump Jr. or Alexander Nix of Cambridge Analytica did anything inappropriate. Having tried so hard to drive the phony Russian collusion narrative to distract from their own Russian profiteering (Uranium One, Gazprom, Joule) they make casual contact with a first rate Journalist muckraker treason.

Did Donald Trump Jr. Cross the Line With WikiLeaks?

(TheAtlantic.com) Messages between the president’s eldest son and the radical transparency organization don’t reveal evidence of any clear-cut crimes.

Donald Trump Jr.’s private exchanges with WikiLeaks on Twitter during the 2016 campaign raise a host of new questions about the Trump team’s communications with foreign entities before the election. But the messages alone don’t appear to cross any clear-cut legal lines.

“I certainly didn’t see anything that looks like a smoking gun in the descriptions that we were given,” Rick Hasen, a University of California, Irvine, law professor who specializes in election law, told me.

My colleague Julia Ioffe reported Monday that Trump Jr. exchanged multiple private messages on Twitter with the radical transparency organization before the election. In some cases, Trump Jr. appeared to act on requests from the group. In one instance, for example, he tweeted a link it had sent his way. A message posted by his father’s account soon after the group contacted Trump Jr. also mentioned WikiLeaks. The messaging, which WikiLeaks initiated during the election and continued as recently as July, was not previously known to the public.

The earliest known conversations came as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his organization were under immense scrutiny for their role in disseminating stolen Democratic emails. U.S. intelligence agencies later concluded that Russian government hackers laundered the emails through Assange’s website to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid and bolster Donald Trump’s chances.

Most of the public discussion about the Russia investigation centers on the question of collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign to undermine Clinton. But “collusion” isn’t a specific crime under federal law. Instead, legal experts have questioned whether any Trump campaign officials may have violated a campaign-finance statute that bars foreigners from donating money or any other “thing of value” to a campaign. That same provision also forbids campaign officials from soliciting such a donation.“If I’m a foreign citizen and I give a thousand dollars to the campaign, then that’s a thing of value,” Hasen explained. “If I provide a dossier, that also could be [a thing of value]. And so the question that came up during the last Don Jr. controversy was whether providing dirt on Hillary Clinton—opposition research—could be a thing of value for purposes of the statute.”That debate first arose in July when The New York Times revealed that Trump Jr., his brother-in-law Jared Kushner, and then-campaign Chairman Paul Manafort met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in Trump Tower in June 2016 after she promised “information helpful to the campaign” about Clinton. Trump Jr. denied any wrongdoing and said that Veselnitskaya, who has ties to the Kremlin, provided no such information to them.

The Twitter conversations made public so far don’t show deliberate solicitation of WikiLeaks’s help on the part of Trump Jr. The closest he came to such a request was on October 3, 2016, when he asked WikiLeaks, “What’s behind this Wednesday leak I keep reading about?” (Roger Stone, an occasional Trump adviser, had tweeted “Wednesday@HillaryClinton is done. #WikiLeaks.” the day before.) Indeed, it was WikiLeaks that solicited from Trump Jr. throughout the exchanges—asking for his father’s tax returns, highlighting links for Trump Jr. to tweet, and even suggesting that the elder Trump publicly float Assange as a possible Australian ambassador to the United States.

Even if the exchanges did show Trump Jr. soliciting damaging information from WikiLeaks, federal prosecutors could run into difficulty pursuing charges for violating foreign-spending rules. “Assange is or could be considered a journalist, and we might have different rules for foreign-news media,” Hasen explained. “Certainly that’s how domestic campaign-finance law works, where we treat media differently than others.” And while he believes that a “thing of value” under the statute can include opposition research or stolen emails, that view isn’t unanimous among legal experts. He cited arguments made in July by Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor, that such a broad interpretation of the term could run afoul of the First Amendment.

“If anyone actually entered in the username and password or entered in the password to the website, that’s a federal crime.”

Trump Jr.’s messages also show WikiLeaks providing him with the login information of an anti-Trump website. “A PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch,” the account wrote to Trump Jr. “The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump.’ See ‘About’ for who is behind it. Any comments?” Trump Jr. replied that he would “ask around” about the website’s provenance.

But Trump Jr. doesn’t indicate whether he actually used the password. Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor who specializes in computer-crime law, said that doing so would violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. “If anyone actually entered in the username and password or entered in the password to the website, that’s a federal crime,” he said. “And whoever would have passed on the email with the intent that someone else use it is committing a crime.”

Prosecutions under the CFAA are relatively uncommon. Kerr estimated that federal prosecutors use it to bring charges between 100 and 120 times a year. Using a stolen password to gain unauthorized access can be a felony if it’s used to further another crime, he added. But what matters under the statute is a potential defendant’s intent when accessing a computer system without permission.

“The criminal law is very focused not just on what somebody did, but on what they were thinking and what they wanted to achieve,” Kerr explained. “That could be established by the emails and messages associated with it from the context. You don’t need him saying, ‘I have an intent to further this.’ It could be, ‘Hey can somebody check into this?’ or ‘Can somebody try this out?’”

Even if the messages don’t directly show criminal behavior, Hasen said he found their contents troubling. On Election Night, when Clinton still seemed likely to prevail, WikiLeaks encouraged Trump Jr. to urge then-candidate Trump to cast doubt on the electoral outcome “if your father ‘loses.’” The elder Trump had spent the weeks before Election Day claiming without evidence that the vote was rigged, only to drop the allegations after he won. “We think it is much more interesting if he DOES NOT conceed [sic] and spends time CHALLENGING the media and other types of rigging that occurred—as he has implied that he might do,” WikiLeaks wrote. Trump Jr. did not respond.

“We were already worried that Trump wouldn’t concede if he lost and that this could undermine the legitimacy of our democracy and the electoral process, and here’s a foreign citizen egging him on,” Hasen said. “That’s very disturbing.”

from Roger Stone – Stone Cold Truth https://stonecoldtruth.com/the-donald-trump-jr-pile-on/

from Roger Stone https://rogerstone1.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/the-donald-trump-jr-pile-on/

[milaleah]

THE DONALD TRUMP JR. PILE ON

(By Roger Stone) There is nothing illegal or improper with someone having contact with Julian Assange or WikiLeaks. Julian Assange is not a Russian asset and WikiLeaks is not a Russian propaganda organization. I understand that the US intelligence agencies insist otherwise but they are utterly unable to prove it. It’s true in their minds because they wanted to be.

Contact between Donald Trump,jr.. and Julian Assange certainly does not constitute collusion with the Russians!

In fact Assange is a journalist publishing information given to him by sources just as they do at the Washington Post and the New York Times but Wikileaks record for accuracy and authenticity is far better.

Neither Donald Trump Jr. or Alexander Nix of Cambridge Analytica did anything inappropriate. Having tried so hard to drive the phony Russian collusion narrative to distract from their own Russian profiteering (Uranium One, Gazprom, Joule) they make casual contact with a first rate Journalist muckraker treason.

Did Donald Trump Jr. Cross the Line With WikiLeaks?

(TheAtlantic.com) Messages between the president’s eldest son and the radical transparency organization don’t reveal evidence of any clear-cut crimes.

Donald Trump Jr.’s private exchanges with WikiLeaks on Twitter during the 2016 campaign raise a host of new questions about the Trump team’s communications with foreign entities before the election. But the messages alone don’t appear to cross any clear-cut legal lines.

“I certainly didn’t see anything that looks like a smoking gun in the descriptions that we were given,” Rick Hasen, a University of California, Irvine, law professor who specializes in election law, told me.

My colleague Julia Ioffe reported Monday that Trump Jr. exchanged multiple private messages on Twitter with the radical transparency organization before the election. In some cases, Trump Jr. appeared to act on requests from the group. In one instance, for example, he tweeted a link it had sent his way. A message posted by his father’s account soon after the group contacted Trump Jr. also mentioned WikiLeaks. The messaging, which WikiLeaks initiated during the election and continued as recently as July, was not previously known to the public.

The earliest known conversations came as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his organization were under immense scrutiny for their role in disseminating stolen Democratic emails. U.S. intelligence agencies later concluded that Russian government hackers laundered the emails through Assange’s website to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid and bolster Donald Trump’s chances.

Most of the public discussion about the Russia investigation centers on the question of collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign to undermine Clinton. But “collusion” isn’t a specific crime under federal law. Instead, legal experts have questioned whether any Trump campaign officials may have violated a campaign-finance statute that bars foreigners from donating money or any other “thing of value” to a campaign. That same provision also forbids campaign officials from soliciting such a donation.“If I’m a foreign citizen and I give a thousand dollars to the campaign, then that’s a thing of value,” Hasen explained. “If I provide a dossier, that also could be [a thing of value]. And so the question that came up during the last Don Jr. controversy was whether providing dirt on Hillary Clinton—opposition research—could be a thing of value for purposes of the statute.”That debate first arose in July when The New York Times revealed that Trump Jr., his brother-in-law Jared Kushner, and then-campaign Chairman Paul Manafort met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in Trump Tower in June 2016 after she promised “information helpful to the campaign” about Clinton. Trump Jr. denied any wrongdoing and said that Veselnitskaya, who has ties to the Kremlin, provided no such information to them.

The Twitter conversations made public so far don’t show deliberate solicitation of WikiLeaks’s help on the part of Trump Jr. The closest he came to such a request was on October 3, 2016, when he asked WikiLeaks, “What’s behind this Wednesday leak I keep reading about?” (Roger Stone, an occasional Trump adviser, had tweeted “Wednesday@HillaryClinton is done. #WikiLeaks.” the day before.) Indeed, it was WikiLeaks that solicited from Trump Jr. throughout the exchanges—asking for his father’s tax returns, highlighting links for Trump Jr. to tweet, and even suggesting that the elder Trump publicly float Assange as a possible Australian ambassador to the United States.

Even if the exchanges did show Trump Jr. soliciting damaging information from WikiLeaks, federal prosecutors could run into difficulty pursuing charges for violating foreign-spending rules. “Assange is or could be considered a journalist, and we might have different rules for foreign-news media,” Hasen explained. “Certainly that’s how domestic campaign-finance law works, where we treat media differently than others.” And while he believes that a “thing of value” under the statute can include opposition research or stolen emails, that view isn’t unanimous among legal experts. He cited arguments made in July by Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor, that such a broad interpretation of the term could run afoul of the First Amendment.

“If anyone actually entered in the username and password or entered in the password to the website, that’s a federal crime.”

Trump Jr.’s messages also show WikiLeaks providing him with the login information of an anti-Trump website. “A PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch,” the account wrote to Trump Jr. “The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump.’ See ‘About’ for who is behind it. Any comments?” Trump Jr. replied that he would “ask around” about the website’s provenance.

But Trump Jr. doesn’t indicate whether he actually used the password. Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor who specializes in computer-crime law, said that doing so would violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. “If anyone actually entered in the username and password or entered in the password to the website, that’s a federal crime,” he said. “And whoever would have passed on the email with the intent that someone else use it is committing a crime.”

Prosecutions under the CFAA are relatively uncommon. Kerr estimated that federal prosecutors use it to bring charges between 100 and 120 times a year. Using a stolen password to gain unauthorized access can be a felony if it’s used to further another crime, he added. But what matters under the statute is a potential defendant’s intent when accessing a computer system without permission.

“The criminal law is very focused not just on what somebody did, but on what they were thinking and what they wanted to achieve,” Kerr explained. “That could be established by the emails and messages associated with it from the context. You don’t need him saying, ‘I have an intent to further this.’ It could be, ‘Hey can somebody check into this?’ or ‘Can somebody try this out?’”

Even if the messages don’t directly show criminal behavior, Hasen said he found their contents troubling. On Election Night, when Clinton still seemed likely to prevail, WikiLeaks encouraged Trump Jr. to urge then-candidate Trump to cast doubt on the electoral outcome “if your father ‘loses.’” The elder Trump had spent the weeks before Election Day claiming without evidence that the vote was rigged, only to drop the allegations after he won. “We think it is much more interesting if he DOES NOT conceed [sic] and spends time CHALLENGING the media and other types of rigging that occurred—as he has implied that he might do,” WikiLeaks wrote. Trump Jr. did not respond.

“We were already worried that Trump wouldn’t concede if he lost and that this could undermine the legitimacy of our democracy and the electoral process, and here’s a foreign citizen egging him on,” Hasen said. “That’s very disturbing.”

from Roger Stone – Stone Cold Truth https://stonecoldtruth.com/the-donald-trump-jr-pile-on/ from Roger Stone https://rogerstone12.tumblr.com/post/167525186723

[rogerstone12]

THE DONALD TRUMP JR. PILE ON

(By Roger Stone) There is nothing illegal or improper with someone having contact with Julian Assange or WikiLeaks. Julian Assange is not a Russian asset and WikiLeaks is not a Russian propaganda organization. I understand that the US intelligence agencies insist otherwise but they are utterly unable to prove it. It’s true in their minds because they wanted to be.

Contact between Donald Trump,jr.. and Julian Assange certainly does not constitute collusion with the Russians!

In fact Assange is a journalist publishing information given to him by sources just as they do at the Washington Post and the New York Times but Wikileaks record for accuracy and authenticity is far better.

Neither Donald Trump Jr. or Alexander Nix of Cambridge Analytica did anything inappropriate. Having tried so hard to drive the phony Russian collusion narrative to distract from their own Russian profiteering (Uranium One, Gazprom, Joule) they make casual contact with a first rate Journalist muckraker treason.

Did Donald Trump Jr. Cross the Line With WikiLeaks?

(TheAtlantic.com) Messages between the president’s eldest son and the radical transparency organization don’t reveal evidence of any clear-cut crimes.

Donald Trump Jr.’s private exchanges with WikiLeaks on Twitter during the 2016 campaign raise a host of new questions about the Trump team’s communications with foreign entities before the election. But the messages alone don’t appear to cross any clear-cut legal lines.

“I certainly didn’t see anything that looks like a smoking gun in the descriptions that we were given,” Rick Hasen, a University of California, Irvine, law professor who specializes in election law, told me.

My colleague Julia Ioffe reported Monday that Trump Jr. exchanged multiple private messages on Twitter with the radical transparency organization before the election. In some cases, Trump Jr. appeared to act on requests from the group. In one instance, for example, he tweeted a link it had sent his way. A message posted by his father’s account soon after the group contacted Trump Jr. also mentioned WikiLeaks. The messaging, which WikiLeaks initiated during the election and continued as recently as July, was not previously known to the public.

The earliest known conversations came as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his organization were under immense scrutiny for their role in disseminating stolen Democratic emails. U.S. intelligence agencies later concluded that Russian government hackers laundered the emails through Assange’s website to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid and bolster Donald Trump’s chances.

Most of the public discussion about the Russia investigation centers on the question of collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign to undermine Clinton. But “collusion” isn’t a specific crime under federal law. Instead, legal experts have questioned whether any Trump campaign officials may have violated a campaign-finance statute that bars foreigners from donating money or any other “thing of value” to a campaign. That same provision also forbids campaign officials from soliciting such a donation.“If I’m a foreign citizen and I give a thousand dollars to the campaign, then that’s a thing of value,” Hasen explained. “If I provide a dossier, that also could be [a thing of value]. And so the question that came up during the last Don Jr. controversy was whether providing dirt on Hillary Clinton—opposition research—could be a thing of value for purposes of the statute.”That debate first arose in July when The New York Times revealed that Trump Jr., his brother-in-law Jared Kushner, and then-campaign Chairman Paul Manafort met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in Trump Tower in June 2016 after she promised “information helpful to the campaign” about Clinton. Trump Jr. denied any wrongdoing and said that Veselnitskaya, who has ties to the Kremlin, provided no such information to them.

The Twitter conversations made public so far don’t show deliberate solicitation of WikiLeaks’s help on the part of Trump Jr. The closest he came to such a request was on October 3, 2016, when he asked WikiLeaks, “What’s behind this Wednesday leak I keep reading about?” (Roger Stone, an occasional Trump adviser, had tweeted “Wednesday@HillaryClinton is done. #WikiLeaks.” the day before.) Indeed, it was WikiLeaks that solicited from Trump Jr. throughout the exchanges—asking for his father’s tax returns, highlighting links for Trump Jr. to tweet, and even suggesting that the elder Trump publicly float Assange as a possible Australian ambassador to the United States.

Even if the exchanges did show Trump Jr. soliciting damaging information from WikiLeaks, federal prosecutors could run into difficulty pursuing charges for violating foreign-spending rules. “Assange is or could be considered a journalist, and we might have different rules for foreign-news media,” Hasen explained. “Certainly that’s how domestic campaign-finance law works, where we treat media differently than others.” And while he believes that a “thing of value” under the statute can include opposition research or stolen emails, that view isn’t unanimous among legal experts. He cited arguments made in July by Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor, that such a broad interpretation of the term could run afoul of the First Amendment.

“If anyone actually entered in the username and password or entered in the password to the website, that’s a federal crime.”

Trump Jr.’s messages also show WikiLeaks providing him with the login information of an anti-Trump website. “A PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch,” the account wrote to Trump Jr. “The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump.’ See ‘About’ for who is behind it. Any comments?” Trump Jr. replied that he would “ask around” about the website’s provenance.

But Trump Jr. doesn’t indicate whether he actually used the password. Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor who specializes in computer-crime law, said that doing so would violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. “If anyone actually entered in the username and password or entered in the password to the website, that’s a federal crime,” he said. “And whoever would have passed on the email with the intent that someone else use it is committing a crime.”

Prosecutions under the CFAA are relatively uncommon. Kerr estimated that federal prosecutors use it to bring charges between 100 and 120 times a year. Using a stolen password to gain unauthorized access can be a felony if it’s used to further another crime, he added. But what matters under the statute is a potential defendant’s intent when accessing a computer system without permission.

“The criminal law is very focused not just on what somebody did, but on what they were thinking and what they wanted to achieve,” Kerr explained. “That could be established by the emails and messages associated with it from the context. You don’t need him saying, ‘I have an intent to further this.’ It could be, ‘Hey can somebody check into this?’ or ‘Can somebody try this out?’”

Even if the messages don’t directly show criminal behavior, Hasen said he found their contents troubling. On Election Night, when Clinton still seemed likely to prevail, WikiLeaks encouraged Trump Jr. to urge then-candidate Trump to cast doubt on the electoral outcome “if your father ‘loses.’” The elder Trump had spent the weeks before Election Day claiming without evidence that the vote was rigged, only to drop the allegations after he won. “We think it is much more interesting if he DOES NOT conceed [sic] and spends time CHALLENGING the media and other types of rigging that occurred—as he has implied that he might do,” WikiLeaks wrote. Trump Jr. did not respond.

“We were already worried that Trump wouldn’t concede if he lost and that this could undermine the legitimacy of our democracy and the electoral process, and here’s a foreign citizen egging him on,” Hasen said. “That’s very disturbing.”

from Roger Stone – Stone Cold Truth https://stonecoldtruth.com/the-donald-trump-jr-pile-on/

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