by JDHURF » Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:34 am
I don't think that she proclaimed to be "undercover," only that she crashed the party; I was only citing the fact that there is a long history of activists attending right-wing meetings and groups in order to gather intelligence, expose them, confront them, etc. I've not heard of Cassandra before and as far as "friend," Chelsea is quoted in that article as saying "Hell no." As far as her candidacy, yeah, essentially my estimate as well which is unfortunate.
Wikileaks has been very agenda driven, all the more so since Assange's isolation in the Ecuadoran embassy. I don't know about compromised. But yeah, I hadn't seen too much of significant interest from Wikileaks for a while and Assange's communication with the Trumps really turned me off. Scahill and Greenwald's analysis of it was quite interesting and seems to me accurate. I've always enjoyed Barrett's writing, it's a good combination of important analysis and immense hilarity (some of the humor in his prison writing was the absolute lulz for me), as were a lot of his cams before he was raided live on one of them. I was critical of some of his participation in various anonops that I was critical of, such as the op against the cartels which was a failure from the start. I don't know how you can assert that Glenn isn't a journalist. I cannot even guess as to how he could've lost any confidence. He had been writing for The Guardian well before the Snowden story and it was, in fact, precisely his writing there that attracted Snowden to choose him as a valid and reliable journalist to contact for the story in the very first place.