Interesting, but.. why throw Assange in the mix? Was he a "useful idiot" in this? I expect so, his aspy tendencies may have blinded him to how he was being used maybe (I'm not an Assange fan, in case it isn't obvious, but tagging him and brietbart in the same web of intrigue is... well bizarre)
If Assange was a mere useful idiot in all this, would he not have taken the leaked info to the press - as happened with Snowden and every other leak - rather than directly to the Trump campaign team?
Went down a bit of a rabbit hole trying to fact-check myself on this, and I'm still unclear. What does seem clear though is that the releases were timed to cause as much damage Trump's enemies as possible, which would still leave open the useful idiot theory, as well as the actively complicit one. I guess neither is a good look.
I think for a certain kind of techno-anarchist-libertarian, "both sides are evil" leads to it being at worst morally neutral to help one fuck over the other. I suspect Assange fell into this hole: he hates either party, he decided to subvert a process because he could.
No, I don't find that plausible, personally. All that item does is confirm Stein was there. The accusation is long standing, was repeated in rolling Stone (from the Clinton camp) and other headlines suggest the GOP have been actively exploiting green votes to siphon otherwise democratic votes away.
There's enough shenanigans inside US domestic politics without invoking Russia.
(Stein strenuously denies receiving Russian funding btw, but she would say that anyway)
Putin looking at Flynn like "Hmm. I'll ask the boys what the other side of your call were saying later". It certainly is one strange table arrangement. (assuming that Flynn is listening to a phone. I can't exactly tell from the photo and I don't want to dive down some rabbithole of what he really is holding to his ear. Broccoli.)
