Мемическая сила

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У Ассанжа и Викиликс появился новый связной - небезызвестный Рорабейкер.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday told Rep. Dana Rohrabacher that Russia was not behind leaks of emails during last year’s presidential election campaign that damaged Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and exposed the inner workings of the Democratic National Committee.
The California congressman spent some three hours with the Australian-born fugitive, now living under the protection of the Ecuadorian embassy in the British capital. <...>
The conversation ranged over many topics, said Rohrabacher, including the status of Wikileaks, which Assange maintains is vital to keeping Americans informed on matters hidden by their traditional media. The congressman plans to divulge more of what he found directly to President Trump.
https://rohrabacher.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rohrabacher-assange-says-russia-not-behind-dnc-email-leak

На ступенях эквадорского посольства в Лондоне рядом с Рорабейкером запечатлен Чарлз Джонсон, изображающий знак "White Power". Джонсон - скандально известный нацистский alt-right тролль, который не только работал на избрание Трампа, но и каким-то образом оказался вовлечен в Переходную комиссию.

“The election was won by a bunch of people making memes,” Johnson proclaimed. “We memed the President into existence.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/01/09/chuck-johnson-troll-trump-transition-team/



Помимо связи с Ассанжем, которая не до конца понятна, Джонсон засветился связью с Питером Смитом в спецоперации по установлению контактов с российскими хакерами.

Johnson said he and Smith stayed in touch, discussing “tactics and research” regularly throughout the presidential campaign, and that Smith sought his help tracking down Clinton’s emails. “He wanted me to introduce to him to Bannon, to a few others, and I sort of demurred on some of that,” Johnson said. “I didn’t think his operation was as sophisticated as it needed to be, and I thought it was good to keep the campaign as insulated as possible.”
Instead, Johnson said, he put the word out to a “hidden oppo network” of right-leaning opposition researchers to notify them of the effort. Johnson declined to provide the names of any of the members of this “network,” but he praised Smith’s ambition.
“The magnitude of what he was trying to do was kind of impressive,” Johnson said. “He had people running around Europe, had people talking to Guccifer.” (U.S. intelligence agencies have linked the materials provided by “Guccifer 2.0”-an alias that has taken credit for hacking the Democratic National Committee and communicated with Republican operatives, including Trump confidant Roger Stone-to Russian government hackers.)
Johnson said he also suggested that Smith get in touch with Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker who goes by the alias “Weev” and has collaborated with Johnson in the past. Auernheimer-who was released from federal prison in 2014 after having a conviction for fraud and hacking offenses vacated and subsequently moved to Ukraine-declined to say whether Smith contacted him, citing conditions of his employment that bar him from speaking to the press.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/11/gop-researcher-who-sought-clinton-emails-had-alt-right-help-215359