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We may as well note the Kurt Eichenwald thing

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It’s been all over. Here’s the summary.

  • Eichenwald is an unstable tool.
    • He spreads rumors about President Trump, then falls apart on TV when challenged.
    • The linked video is something to behold. Like one of our lefties, he stonewalls, picks at weeds, changes the subject, grandstands about others doing all that to him (supposedly), dissolves into babble.
  • MSNBC says “Yeah we want that!”, hires him.
  • Eichenwald keeps up the ranting instability on Twitter.
  • He happens to post a screenshot of his computer.
  • Yup. Lurking in the background, is a browser tab for Hentai (Japanese cartoon porn). Fine. Whatever.
  • But then, embarrassed, Eichenwald tweets “…my kids and I were trying to convince my wife that ‘tentacle porn’ existed. I tried to find some to show her it was real. But I couldn’t find any.”

I believe his “kids” are over 18, but still…Yuck. Either surfing porn with his kids is his idea of a wholesome family afternoon, or he uses his kids as props in ridiculous lies.

UPDATE: As long as we’re talking about unstable tools. That leaker, Reality Winner, has been denied bail. She has praised the Taliban and written “I want to burn the White House down.” Your basic anti-American loon with a security clearance.

They arrested a leaker

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…for a very recent offense. I would expect a more arrests to come. But for now, and via Breitbart, this one leaker:

Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year old contractor with Pluribus International Corporation, was charged in federal court Monday for allegedly leaking a National Security Agency (NSA) report on Russian Election hacking to left-wing news site The Intercept…

She was caught only when [The Intercept] asked the [NSA] to comment on the document last Tuesday. Upon realizing the document was, in fact, classified material, the agency quickly enlisted the FBI for an internal investigation that pointed to Reality Winner…

Each count of 18 U.S.C. §793, the crime with which Ms. Winner is charged, carries a penalty of up to ten years in federal prison.

By the way, The Intercept is into Fake News, such as fake hate crimes:

Intercept writer Juan Thompson was fired last year for fabricating stories about the racially-charged tragedy at South Carolina’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, apparently to play up stereotypes of racist white southerners and smear Donald Trump supporters. This March, Thompson was the first person arrested for calling in threats to Jewish community centers as part of a nationwide intimidation campaign that was also widely [ed: falsely] blamed by the media on Trump supporters.

Getting back to Reality Winner: Please let me know your thoughts in the comments. I have mixed feelings. I do think that leaks can be in the public interest. Example: the DNC and Podesta emails that came out in 2016, via WikiLeaks.

Another example: Edward Snowden, who has said that he would be willing to return to the U.S. and stand trial, provided that he will be allowed to mount a public-interest defense (which a jury could then accept or reject).

Should Reality Winner be tried on similar terms – that is, should she be allowed to mount a public-interest defense? Why? Or, lock her up and throw away the key? Again why?

UPDATE: I missed this last week, but it seems relevant. DOJ has gotten a FISA warrant to surveil journalists who have been receiving leaks.

The journalists are not the target…Instead, the Trump administration is looking for the leaker. Who could it be?

Some in the administration are focusing on a retired, high-ranking military officer who held important posts in the intelligence service, according to the source.

The possibly high-ranking leaker was getting some of his information from people inside the White House who were holdovers from the Obama administration, the source said.

Cernovich claims that the retired officer is former CIA Director Petraeus, passing along information from his alleged ally, current NSA McMaster. If true, that would be some messed-up stuff. Game of Thrones-level intrigue.