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Difficult to imagine the person who called for Assange to be "droned" could influence anyone to cut his internet?

I see a lot of people repeating the claim that Clinton said that, but I've yet to see an actual source.

Have you looked? https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/782906224937410562

Respectable organizations don't copy text from unsourced articles on partisan blogs, change the font to Courier to make it look like a cable, and then screenshot the result.

Hmm, that's actually a good point, I didn't realize the primary source was so sketchy. Thanks for correcting me, seems I was too quick in my judgement. I'd like to edit/delete my comments, but I don't see the interface. Are HN comments immutable?

yes please link me to an article that actually says that

:shows truepundit article:

seems flimsy, doesn't really contain any actual sources other than "sources said". can you cite any other articles that don't use truepundit as the source?

:crickets:

yes. one article on an arguably either satire or hard-right website is the source of all the "drone him" talk

Here's Hillary's response to a question about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSTht4G4yJs

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