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Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by mpalmer »

kingleopold wrote: post #444
edg5000 wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We'd have to look at the longest-running democracies and observe how they handled periodic refactorings

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You know, it's very funny. This is the most reproduced quote from Tytler, and yet you also have these chestnuts:

    While man is being instigated by the love of power—a passion visible in an infant, and common to us even with the inferior animals—he will seek personal superiority in preference to every matter of a general concern.

    The people flatter themselves that they have the sovereign power. These are, in fact, words without meaning. It is true they elected governors; but how are these elections brought about? In every instance of election by the mass of a people—through the influence of those governors themselves, and by means the most opposite to a free and disinterested choice, by the basest corruption and bribery. But those governors once selected, where is the boasted freedom of the people? They must submit to their rule and control, with the same abandonment of their natural liberty, the freedom of their will, and the command of their actions, as if they were under the rule of a monarch.

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Post by 1234letshaveatw »

paxys wrote: post #166
nullable_bool wrote: post #126

Gone are the days of the strong silent type running the roles of high power in the government. He is a real embarrassment and I feel sorry for his mother.

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If “woke” means asinine politically motivated witch hunts and hiring practices then yeah, and rightfully so

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by defrost »

Amezarak wrote: post #449
defrost wrote: post #440

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remarkable that Epstein confined his pedophile activities to a single location. No, wait: In 2008, Epstein reached a plea deal with prosecutors after the parents of a 14-year-old girl told Florida police that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home. Hmm ... would that be the same Palm Beach home that Trump visited a good many times back when he was best of chums with Jeffrey and sending him the nud…

> Remarkable that Epstein confined his pedophile activities to a single location Correct, the vast majority of his criminal activity appeared to be in his Palm Beach home and in New York, where he recruited high dozens to hundreds of high school girls for his personal sexualized massages. It actually appears only a very small amount of his illicit activity ever took place on the island, which makes it all the more ir…

> the ironic thing is about the Epstein files is they revealed it was almost all smoke.

and a few massive conspiracy shaped holes - eg: the references to missing content regarding Trump and a few other. Oh, and the shortfall between what has been released Vs what has been indexed, the black paging, and the hints from those that have seen but are sworn to not tell about that which they have seen but cannot recount.

Still, at least we seem to agree that PedoIsland is a misdirect when it comes to determining who did what to whom and where.

I can't see Pam Bondi coming clean here anytime soon.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by 1234letshaveatw »

kstenerud wrote: post #99
epolanski wrote: post #79

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Can you blame them? Iran is fighting for its own survival and has to find help where it can. If the US had an educated administration not composed by lap dogs they would've known that attacking Iran was going to be a terrible idea. Saddam did the same mistake in 1980. He thought that the Iranian Kurds, the political opponents, the Iranian Arabs, civilians were going to raise against the regime. None of this happened.…

Iran has been preparing for this war for 40 years. So has Israel. They will engage in a battle of supremacy over the Middle East. Both want the USA knocked out so that the Americans can't use their influence there anymore (both consider the USA a nuisance). As soon as ground troops land in Iran, it's over for the USA. As it is, oil and goods shipping via the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea will be controlled by Iran for…

The corpses of Irans’s leadership have us right where they want us

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by Amezarak »

austin-cheney wrote: post #439
Amezarak wrote: post #436

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no credible evidence that either of the Presidents you alluded to visited "the island". It's amazing to see conspiracy theories promulgated on HN.

There is lots of evidence that these two presidents were on the pedophile island many times, and one of their wives. That is well established. There is no evidence released to the public directly linking those two men to specific sex acts by name. There is unnamed evidence released by the US DOJ specifically describing the assault I described in the prior comment. Again, none of this is theoretical, conspiracy, or co…

No doubt you are aware that the claims about Clinton originated with the founder of the Epstein Mythos, Virginia Giuffre, who we know for a fact was a serial confabulator. While she was inarguably one of Epstein's victims, she also made several claims that were demonstrably untrue, she could not keep her own stories straight, the FBI concluded internally that she was totally unreliable and that she was even lying about what the FBI told her, other victims contradicted her, and she was herself forced to recant on several subjects, including admitting that her "autobiography" book was a work of fiction. If you doubt me, feel free to read the FBI memo about her.

In the case of both Clinton and Trump, there is no evidence that either of them visited Little St. James, and plenty of evidence otherwise - for example, Epstein even says so about Clinton in an email.

> It’s in the documents released by the government that the government has confirmed as authentic.

The documents are "authentic" in that yes, a real schizo did really tell the government he heard it secondhand 30 years ago that this happened and also that he discovered Hilary Clinton was behind the WTC bombing. (For some reason, people like you always leave that part of the bombshell revelations out.) I am for total transparency generally, but this whole saga has been a major disappointment for me in that the level of public discourse is so lazy and low that its clear that in a purely utilitarian way, it would have been better to not release it. Hopefully long-term the sacrifice of many people whose reputations are being destroyed over little or nothing is worth it. Every crank call about celebrities is being treated as gospel.

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Post by hillarycliton »

phtrivier wrote: post #408

I'd feel obliged to add some "but, her emails..." reference. But it feels million years away. It's interesting to wonder how you get out of a spiral of incompetence and border-line (to be polite) corrumption at the highest level. Putting those people in charge was quick ; sure, a future administration could put them out quickly enough ; but how long will there be decently skilled people willing to take those position…

Referencing Hillary’s email would be kinda silly. She self hosted the email account she used for official government business. It was loaded with classified information.

This guy, while incompetent, had his personal email hacked.

Important distinction.

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Post by hillarycliton »

UncleMeat wrote: post #443
bergoid wrote: post #429

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>I'd feel obliged to add some "but, her emails..." reference. HRC's secret email server and the leaked Kash Patel emails couldn't be more different. The first one is, in the words of a federal District of Columbia judge: "one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency". [1] The second one is the malicious leaking of some private emails. These emails are frankly none of our business (unless you are part…

Was it equally grave when Colin Powell did the same thing?

Yes. That man lied us into the Iraq war. He is a traitor.

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Post by Amezarak »

defrost wrote: post #453
Amezarak wrote: post #449

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Remarkable that Epstein confined his pedophile activities to a single location Correct, the vast majority of his criminal activity appeared to be in his Palm Beach home and in New York, where he recruited high dozens to hundreds of high school girls for his personal sexualized massages. It actually appears only a very small amount of his illicit activity ever took place on the island, which makes it all the more ir…

> the ironic thing is about the Epstein files is they revealed it was almost all smoke. and a few massive conspiracy shaped holes - eg: the references to missing content regarding Trump and a few other. Oh, and the shortfall between what has been released Vs what has been indexed, the black paging, and the hints from those that have seen but are sworn to not tell about that which they have seen but cannot recount. St…

> the hints from those that have seen but are sworn to not tell about that which they have seen but cannot recoun

The people who were victimized by anyone other than Epstein and Maxwell could come forward at any time, just as dozens of Epstein's victims have. They have some of the highest-powered civil lawyers in America, hundreds of millions of dollars in settlement funds available, and vast swaths of the country behind them.

That they haven't should tell you something.

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Post by Bender »

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

Perhaps a little embarrassing related to communications security but come on, of all the people's email to grab they had to grab one of the most boring individuals? Ice hokey, cigars, classic cars...? Is that taboo in Iran? It is not taboo in the USA.

Be careful Iran. The country you are targeting know how to use AI and can make ultra realistic videos and images of your leaders doing unspeakable things and upload them to decentralized platforms. Such things can not be erased from the internet.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by ikr678 »

aqme28 wrote: post #418
throwaway27448 wrote: post #14

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I think this is actually the opposite of the correct conclusion—just look how influential Patreus cheating on his wife was ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal ). I seriously doubt that Kash Patel doesn't have a bunch of skeletons to dust off and show the world; the man is a weirdo (much like the rest of the administration). EDIT: I actually misread the comment; I think we're likely in agreement. My bad.

I think theirs was the right conclusion, but for the wrong reason. If there was anything really damning, Iran would rather use that as leverage. The fact that they released it publicly means that the most embarrassing part of it is just the hack in itself.

If I was Iran I'd leak the innocuous stuff first to let them know I had access to potentially more damning things, to try and force the US to the table.
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