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Whisp

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1. what a coincidence...

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 01:00 AM

Sep 2013

Wikileaks’ ties to Snowden journalists

After being repeatedly threatened in 2010, banks and credit card companies declined to process any donations for Wikileaks. By the end of 2012 Wikileaks was running perilously short on cash. A new U.S.-based group, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, launched with the explicit purpose of funneling cash to Wikileaks.

On its board of directors are Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the two journalists to whom Snowden chose to leak his documents. In an interview with Harper’s, Greenwald, the only human being followed by the Wikileaks account and a long-time defender and correspondent of Assange, says Snowden initially emailed him around the same time this foundation launched. He says he initially ignored them.

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Has Wikileaks Been Infiltrated by Russian Spies? [View all] struggle4progress Sep 2013 OP

what a coincidence... Whisp Sep 2013 #1

Holocaust denier in charge of handling Moscow cables struggle4progress Sep 2013 #3

Truthout is on the front page of the FofPF for donations Whisp Sep 2013 #17

Does Glenn disclose this financial arrangement anywhere? nt msanthrope Sep 2013 #22

However Snowden began, he ended up being just another Russian defector. pnwmom Sep 2013 #2

Was Wikileaks started by Russian spies? Recursion Sep 2013 #4

Pandodaily has a piece saying NSA funded some of Assange's crypto-file work, then stopped struggle4progress Sep 2013 #5

Author should use an English-language dictionary. The work he's searching for is "coopted." leveymg Sep 2013 #26

Probably and also ... intaglio Sep 2013 #6

lol. Marr Sep 2013 #7

Could be. Then, again, the author at least provides fact after fact, arranged in a coherent struggle4progress Sep 2013 #8

Putin is admitting they have no control of their borders treestar Sep 2013 #9

Ya Mean Like This Guy??? KharmaTrain Sep 2013 #10

And that was during the Cold War treestar Sep 2013 #15

Straining2RedBait TheKentuckian Sep 2013 #11

um ... what? the ussr collapsed a quarter century ago, and the communist party holds barely 20% struggle4progress Sep 2013 #12

Which is why one must strain to red bait. TheKentuckian Sep 2013 #21

You evidently do not know what "redbaiting" is. I'll give you a clue: struggle4progress Sep 2013 #25

Freedom of the Press Foundation: Whisp Sep 2013 #13

Snowden, NSA, and Counterintelligence - September 4, 2013 Whisp Sep 2013 #14

..enormous damage assessment.. Whisp Sep 2013 #16

Let me see if I have this straight. The theory is that there is a conspiracy of Russian rhett o rick Sep 2013 #18

Perhaps you can explain the behavior of "Israel Shamir"? struggle4progress Sep 2013 #19

Greed and opportunism, but doesn't prove squat about the original purposes of Wikileaks leveymg Sep 2013 #27

It was reported back in December 2010 struggle4progress Sep 2013 #28

Quite a lot of busting up predated that January 2011 article. Come on, you're the one who's been leveymg Sep 2013 #31

Your excerpt has zip to do with the behavior of "Israel Shamir" -- and Assange later got a show struggle4progress Sep 2013 #32

Interesting. n/t tammywammy Sep 2013 #20

Kick Scurrilous Sep 2013 #23

Duh. Rex Sep 2013 #24

Did Wikileaks invent cancer? JackRiddler Sep 2013 #29

Your post seems to be the only one so far containing such bizarre speculation struggle4progress Sep 2013 #30

Has Wikileaks Been Infiltrated by Russian Spies? Madam45for2923 Nov 2017 #33