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He comes off as a guy with integrity. But what about Julian Assange? The consensus in the US media now seems to be that he just wanted to hurt Hillary by helpin

• jonahbenton 7y ago
  The ad hoc but exceedingly purposeful collaboration between Wikileaks, Russian military and civilian agents, the Trump campaign and other actors is documented extensively in the Mueller report. The Report[1] podcast does an excellent job of making it more accessible. Longtime US intelligence community players eg [2] have made explicit claims that Wikileaks is in part a Russian intel operation. Those claims should be taken with some salt, all is not spy novels and deep state games, but it seems clear that motivated and intelligent "transparency" actors like Assange and Snowden can- want to- cause asymmetrical chaos, so are useful to support. 1. https://www.lawfareblog.com/introducing-report-podcast-series-lawfare https://www.lawfareblog.com/introducing-report-podcast-serie... 2. https://www.google.com/amp/s/20committee.com/2015/08/31/wikileaks-is-a-front-for-russian-intelligence/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/20committee.com/2015/08/31/wiki...
  • ryacko 7y ago
    If you can prove knowledge and intent, you can charge under a whole variety of crimes. Has the US criminal justice system gotten so weak from prioritizing easy wins for the sake of getting hired at a private law firm that they don’t even know how to prosecute or even ask Congress for transparent mechanisms to prosecute? What is even the end goal beyond giving US intelligence a bad day? Your allegations do not pass muster.