Posted on 09/21/2017 6:02:17 PM PDT by Jagermonster
MODES OF THOUGHT The online activist group this week leaked documents from a company that provides solutions for Russian telecom giants and state agencies. The dump could signal new scrutiny of Russia from the long-time US bugbear.
MOSCOWIts been seven years since WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange threatened to drop an information bombshell on the Kremlin that would show Russians the inner workings of their government and business world.
That threat never materialized, though a handful of fairly tame Russia-related documents were published.
WikiLeaks went on to publish hundreds of thousands of secret US diplomatic cables and, more recently, a huge trove of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clintons campaign manager. That appearance of lopsidedness has led some to accuse WikiLeaks of being in the Kremlins pocket, and CIA director Mike Pompeo to denounce the group as a hostile intelligence service.
But Russia might now be back in WikiLeaks sights.
This week WikiLeaks uncovered Spy Files, the first of what it says will be a revealing series of document dumps on the nature and workings of Russias surveillance state. Most of what is contained in the 34 base documents from Peter-Service, a private St. Petersburg digital company that provides solutions for Russian telecom giants and state agencies, has long been known and appears to be within the framework of Russias fairly draconian national security legislation.
Still, it represents a significant departure for WikiLeaks, and experts say it casts a timely spotlight on the vast surveillance operations mounted by Russian security services.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Is it the Kremlins turn to get WikiLeaked? I don't know about "turns," but it would be entertaining. Too bad I don't read Russian.
Seth Rich worked for the Kremlin?
Still waiting on his big bombshell reveal from August 14 that Rep. Dana Rohrbacher was talking up.
Confucius say:
“He who leak Kremlin secrets, drink Polonium milk shake.”
The Russians reverted back to typewriters in 2013. Snowden was a major factor for it.
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