• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    9 个月前

    I wouldn’t characterize him as a Russian spy, more of an asset. Wikileaks selectively released information rather than being the safe harbor for all intelligence leaks that they purported to be.

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      9 个月前

      lying shill

    • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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      >Wikileaks selectively released information rather than being the safe harbor for all intelligence leaks that they purported to be.

      what makes you think that it was any more than only releasing important leaks? no one cares about the timeclock at mcdonald’s on 5th and main.

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          9 个月前

          curious how you’re obsessed with repeating that lie over and over again…

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              9 个月前

              keep on obsessively repeating that lie without actually checking it out, then

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                9 个月前

                It’s not a lie, he refused to publish the Kremlin leaks for reasons I found paper thin. Sorry we don’t agree, I’ll refrain from calling you names because what’s the fucking point?

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                  yeah well can you provide a real source for that? maybe other than “one secret person told this paper, and by golly we believe them!”

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          wasn’t he taking asylum in russia? do you really think he should have made enemies there when the US et al were already trying to jail him?

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            9 个月前

            You’re thinking of Snowden. Assange was at an Ecuadorian embassy in London. Two very different cases.

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                Someone who worked inside Wikileaks certainly felt they were newsworthy

                We had several leaks sent to Wikileaks, including the Russian hack. It would have exposed Russian activities and shown WikiLeaks was not controlled by Russian security services,” the source who provided the messages wrote to FP. “Many Wikileaks staff and volunteers or their families suffered at the hands of Russian corruption and cruelty, we were sure Wikileaks would release it. Assange gave excuse after excuse.”

                You can read more here

                • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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                  Foreign Policy endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election. This was the first time in its 50-year history the magazine endorsed a candidate.

                  you will forgive me if i don’t find your source to be credible in this regard.

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            wasn’t he taking asylum in russia? do you really think he should have made enemies there when the US et al were already trying to jail him?

            what makes you think that it was any more than only releasing important leaks?