Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?
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Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?
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Re: Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?
#2Interesting article
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#3Is Clifford Gaddy sponsored by the CIA to discredit Russia?
from http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2014/mr-putin-2nd-ed...
> For anyone wishing to understand Russia’s evolution since the breakup of the Soviet Union and its trajectory since then, the book you hold in your hand is an essential guide. —John McLaughlin, former deputy director of U.S. Central Intelligence
Certainly more proof and more intuitively plausible than any theory presented in his article.
Re: Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?
#4Is Clifford Gaddy sponsored by the CIA to discredit Russia? from http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2014/mr-putin-2nd-ed... > For anyone wishing to understand Russia’s evolution since the breakup of the Soviet Union and its trajectory since then, the book you hold in your hand is an essential guide. —John McLaughlin, former deputy director of U.S. Central Intelligence Certainly more proof and more intuitively pl…
Yep. Another article supporting Betteridge's rule.
Re: Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?
#5It's more likely that the US leaked them and redacted all of the US companies.
Re: Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?
#6As long as the stuff in them is true I'm only slightly interested about the source.
In fact the ideal arrangement for me as a non-government entity is all the government entities constantly smearing each other.
It would be nice to get more of the full picture at least.
Re: Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?
#7Nothing in these papers also show anything about me so I must be behind it, you caught me!
Re: Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?
#8A big part of the author's logic is based on the assumption that this was a technically complex, state sponsored hack.
This was script-kiddie stuff - it could've been anyone from a teenager in Wisconsin to a couple of channers in Bangkok and Banjul in it for the lulz.
Anyway, any speculation on the source is just a distraction from the content.
Re: Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?
#9Or to use the same logic, maybe the lack of Americans implicated in the Panama papers indicates the the US is behind them?
Re: Are the Russians Actually Behind the Panama Papers?
#10Not worth reading. Full of prejudices, logically inconsistent, a bit like a conspiracy theory.