Surprise! Russia playbook - here it comes again - this episode, France (Clint Watts) (Wikileaks)

[MelissaB]

Wikileaks has emails (9GB) relating to French Presidential hopeful Macron. Sound familiar at all? Hummm....

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Information gathering phase is over, now Kremlin front disseminates material- Florian Wagner

[unblock]

1. quelle surprise!

[juxtaposed]

2. deja vu all over again!

[dalton99a]

3. WikiLeaks fronting for Putin, as usual

[Sculpin Beauregard]

4. Wiki leaks is getting their asses handed to them by

By DGSE (French equivalent to CIA).

[spanone]

5. timing is everything. maybe the french are smarter than we are?

[TheBlackAdder]

6. I can't wait for the CIA to dump a shitload on Putin right before his pending election.

[Ilsa]

10. That will be fun reading! nt

[MelissaB]

7. French ambassador to D.C.. "To be expected. Last ditch offensive for a candidate preferred by a

French ambassador to D.C.. "To be expected. Last ditch offensive for a candidate preferred by a foreign govt"

Link to tweet

[joshcryer]

8. At what point does Wikileaks leaking only on the centrist/leftist become suspect?

At what point ever?

[Igel]

9. The real question's unasked.

So there's a subversively dumped pile of documents.

What next? "Oh, this shows this embarrassing and scandalous fact. However it's from a source we don't like so we will all pretend that it doesn't exist"?

I don't see this happening. We wouldn't even notice if it were, say, a French expose against Trump. Needless to say, ignoring it wouldn't happen. Any more than the dissent over what "intelligence" shows about Trump serves the primary Russian purpose, according to various reports.

It's like opposition research, no more and no less, but by another country. Countries meddle in other countries' politics. The US does. Russia does. Even Obama's endorsement of Macron is an attempt to sway the electorate.