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WikiLeaks' Latest: An Even More Massive Trove of Sony Documents
Newsweek is one of many outlets to report that Wikileaks' latest dump is a trove of Sony's company emails and other documents that consists of even more individual pieces than the 200,000-plus leaked in April. Included, says the Newsweek story, are "276,394 Sony Corp. communications, including email, travel calendars, contact lists, expense reports and private files." One interesting tidbit revealed by the documents thus revealed, spotted by Apple Insider, is that "Apple requested [from Sony] 4K content for potential digital distribution and on-demand services testing nearly two years ago, suggesting the company has been exploring ultra high-definition streaming for some time."
https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/112743
FW: Heads up - Potential Call from Iger or United States Trade Representative, Michael Froman & Call from Dodd regarding $$$ for Republicans
Email-ID 112743
Date 2013-11-07 21:57:25 UTC
From keith_weaver@spe.sony.com
To leah_weil@spe.sony.com
FW: Heads up - Potential Call from Iger or United States Trade Representative, Michael Froman & Call from Dodd regarding $$$ for Republicans
I’m going to start working on the TPP (and overall trade issues) briefing regardless of who goes (or no one goes) – despite the focus on Investor day, I don’t want folks unaware of what’s going on.
More to follow.
From: Weaver, Keith
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 1:51 PM
To: Lynton, Michael; Blake, Jeff
Cc: Weil, Leah; Diamond, David
Subject: Heads up - Potential Call from Iger or United States Trade Representative, Michael Froman & Call from Dodd regarding $$$ for Republicans
Importance: High
Michael,
I wanted to give you a heads up regarding a couple of issues, as you may be contacted in the next day or so.
Potential contact from IGER: I understand you may be contacted by Bob Iger or United States Trade Representative, Michael Froman to invite you (+ one) to a meeting at Disney next Friday (the 15th). While I’m not aware of the details of this meeting (time or agenda), my sense is that much of the discussion will center on the TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP, which is a pending multilateral trade agreement with 12 countries that boarder the Pacific Ocean) – you’ll recall this was one of the key topics of your meeting with Froman and your peers at the White House last year. It seems as though these negotiations are drawing to a close this year and the President/Froman want key industries saying positive things about the benefits. The trick is it’s a closed process, so we don’t know how IP is handled in the text. Should this meeting come to fruition and you’re inclined to attend, I’ll prepare a briefing for you and Jeff.
Call from Dodd re NRCC/Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte: Chairman Goodlatte has established a new fundraising committee that would allow contributions to his effort WITHOUT giving to the NRCC (all of the studios had the same sensitivity on this as we did). Dodd is likely to call you with this news, tell you that the studio should support with $40k each, and tell you about the tentative date/time for this fundraiser (likely a lunch on 11/22). Our PAC can give $15k, the rest would need to come from individual execs.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Regards,
KW
The Sony docs and emails are chock full of this stuff. Serious stuff like an almost this almost quid pro quo to Republican Congress members for TPP goodies . The fact the media only concentrates on celebrity bullshit is not Wikileaks fault.
Internal strategy over buying politicians isn't really "internal", or at least shouldn't be. When the politician passes a law because he's bought, no judge will be impressed if you say "that law was an internal Sony matter so I shouldn't go to jail".