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110: He Loves WikiLeaks


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For candidate Trump WikiLeaks was a tool that allowed him to draw a clear line of distinction between who you could trust and who was “crooked.” It didn’t matter that it was an outside actor clearly working to interfere with the election, the leaks made his opponent look worse and that was good business. Looking at the long game of how such condoning and validation could impact national security simply didn’t factor into the October campaign game plan. In this episode of The SCIF Juliette Kayyem discusses the danger of unleashing the mayhem of WikiLeaks as a candidate and the reality of the organization now faced by President Trump.
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