Wikileaks
March 10th, 2009 | by Sqotty |I have received the following email tonight from wikileaks:
Senator Norm Coleman supporter / contributor list leaked.
Your name, address and other details appear on a membership list
leaked to us from the Norm Coleman Senate campaign.If you have contributed financially to the Coleman campaign there
are additional details.We understand that Norm Coleman became aware of the leak in January.
The information has been passed around out of public view.
We have sent you this note as a curtesy in case Norm Coleman has
not contacted you previously.We have not released the material yet, but may do so within the
next few days.In line with our policy of completely neturality for whistleblowers
and political sources, the material will be treated impartially. We
support all those who engage in the struggle for political reform
and wish you well.For additional details, see:
http://wikileaks.org/
http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&hl=en&q=wikileaks&scoring=n&nolr=1
I sent them the following response:
will you also be publishing a list of supporters/contributors to the Al Franken Campaign?
I suspect the answer, if I get one, will be “no.” But they may surprise me.
I have also forwarded the email to the Coleman Campaign.
What wikileaks is attempting to do is intimidate conservatives into not contributing to political campaigns in fear of having their name, address, and other details, released on their website.
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6 Responses to “Wikileaks”
By Andrew on Mar 10, 2009 | Reply
Wikileaks can’t release Al Franken versions of those lists unless they have them. All this just tells me that there are probably more amoral extremists on the Franken side.
By Andrew on Mar 11, 2009 | Reply
I should also add, however, that making these lists available doesn’t seem to support WikiLeak’s goal of supporting the “struggle for political reform,” unless that reform is reducing political participation.
By steve on Mar 11, 2009 | Reply
I suspect some sort of deliberate dirty tricks here. I *am* a republican but never donated to Coleman. Here’s the letter I sent back to Wikileaks.
I sent to help@wikileaks.org in case the return addy from the email was spoofed.
“Good morning,
I saw this information early this morning and was obviously concerned.
However…repeated searches of the sheet using the ‘find’ feature of excel do not turn up my last name, any fragment of my email address, or even the town I live in.
Further, I know at least two people who are strong supporters of Coleman and I *know* at least one of them donated online and neither is on that list.
I have to wonder if this is true or perhaps some new dirty tricks campaign - either by a political foe of Coleman or by wikileaks…or both?.
Is this truly from wikileaks? Since I’m not actually on the list, how did you get my email address? “
By steve on Mar 11, 2009 | Reply
Interesting.
This email was sent from @wikileaks.org, yet ALL of the email contacts for wikileaks are actually @sunshinepress.org.
There IS a Coleman link http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Senator_Norm_Coleman:_detailed_list_of_4%2C721_contributions%2C_28_Jan_2009 (I looked pretty damn quickly, to see if I had stupidly clicked on a malware link spoofed in the email), so what this smells like is a real piece of information but the PUBLICITY of it may not have been done by wikileaks.
By steve on Mar 11, 2009 | Reply
Update: checking wikileaks (duh, should have done that first) suggests that this is dirty-trick spam.
ALL of the email address contacts for Wikileaks end in @sunshinepress.org. Yet this email was sent by @wikileaks.org. Smells like spam disguised as an actual leak. Of course, then the
By Sqotty on Mar 11, 2009 | Reply
I have since received a second email from them with a link on the wikileaks.org domain to an excel spreadsheet of donors with credit card information. It is legit. I’ll post an image of the full headers later.