• NOT_RICK
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    2 years ago

    Curious how all the leaks about Russia were deemed unimportant

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            2 years ago

            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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      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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        2 years ago

        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

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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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                2 years ago

                I mean, did you see the other guy?

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                    It’s a fact that WL refused to publish the document cache with the justification being that the data was already out in the open but that wasn’t true as only half of it had already been reported on. How is that innuendo?

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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?