Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani has said North Korea's leader "begged" for their summit to be rescheduled after the US president cancelled it. Speaking at a conference in Israel, Mr Giuliani said Mr Trump's tough stance had forced Pyongyang's hand. Mr Trump called off the summit in May, accusing North Korea of "tremendous anger and open hostility". But plans for the 12 June bilateral in Singapore were revived after a conciliatory response from Pyongyang. Mr Giuliani was speaking at an investment conference in Israel when he made the remark. The Wall Street Journal first reported that Mr Giuliani said: "Well, Kim Jong-un got back on his hands and knees and begged for it, which is exactly the position you want to put him in." Trump-Kim to meet on Sentosa island What not to say to North Korea Dennis Rodman: The Trump-Kim matchmaker? How Kim the outcast became popular Mr Giuliani is an attorney for the president tackling the Russia collusio
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Twitter probes deep into WikiLeaks' CIA hacking dump
Edward Snowden and others unleash tweetstorms after WikiLeaks releases docs claiming the CIA can get into our gadgets.
The social network was all over WikiLeaks' Tuesday bombshell of thousands of documents it says were taken from the agency. It's not clear how WikiLeaks got the data, which it dubbed "Vault 7," but the release features more than 8,700 documents and files.
The contents prompted an onslaught of opinion, ideas and theories of the data, whose authenticity has yet to be confirmed. CNET hasn't been able to authenticate the documents and CIA spokesman Jonathan Liu said, in an email, "We do not comment on the authenticity or content of purported intelligence documents."
Twitter was quivering with theories for the WikiLeaks dump of documents alleged to be from the Central Intelligence Agency.AFP/Getty Images
Nonetheless, #Vault7 was a top trending topic on Twitter. WikiLeaks's own tweets, which explain how it got the information, have been retweeted thousands of times:
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked documents detailing spy programs to journalists in 2013, was among those tweeting as he scanned the WikiLeaks documents.
If you're writing about the CIA/@Wikileaks story, here's the big deal: first public evidence USG secretly paying to keep US software unsafe. pic.twitter.com/kYi0NC2mOp
Snowden later tweeted, "It may not feel like it, but computer security is getting better."
Then there's this thread by noted University of North Carolina sociology professor Zeynep Tufecki, who focuses on cybersecurity, tried tweeting some explanations, as well as some advice.
The CIA didn't tweet about the document dump. But the organization, which calls itself the country's "first line of defense," did tweet out its artifact of the week. The antique spycraft: An "Escape & Evasion Survival Kit."
Meanwhile, oft-quoted political strategist Harlan Hill, a Democrat who supported Donald Trump for president, called for more government oversight of the CIA from the White House:
Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani has said North Korea's leader "begged" for their summit to be rescheduled after the US president cancelled it. Speaking at a conference in Israel, Mr Giuliani said Mr Trump's tough stance had forced Pyongyang's hand. Mr Trump called off the summit in May, accusing North Korea of "tremendous anger and open hostility". But plans for the 12 June bilateral in Singapore were revived after a conciliatory response from Pyongyang. Mr Giuliani was speaking at an investment conference in Israel when he made the remark. The Wall Street Journal first reported that Mr Giuliani said: "Well, Kim Jong-un got back on his hands and knees and begged for it, which is exactly the position you want to put him in." Trump-Kim to meet on Sentosa island What not to say to North Korea Dennis Rodman: The Trump-Kim matchmaker? How Kim the outcast became popular Mr Giuliani is an attorney for the president tackling the Russia collusio
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