[jearle]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/article-2311199/Britam-Defen...

The emails were faked.

[wonderyak]

Really? A Daily Mail story for which the source is Infowars?

[intslack → wonderyak]

The "source" was a german hacker:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130507122447/http://www.cyberwa...

[WayneDB → intslack]

No, the source was the set of documents that he released.

~200MB worth of documents to be approximately exact. Are they fake? Who do we trust and why? Every "fact" we're given comes second hand.

[jareds]

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

[WayneDB → jareds]

What is extraordinary about it?

The oldest trick in the book: "Mom, she's hitting me!" (she wasn't hitting me.)

Nations have been attacking each other in this way since forever. Is it more or less extraordinary than a nation attacking it's own people?

[mumbi]

original: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270219/U-S-planned-...