> When Wikileaks revealed the DNC gamed the 2016 Democratic Party primaries, the punditry judged democratic derailments not newsworthy when the higher good was

> When Wikileaks revealed the DNC gamed the 2016 Democratic Party primaries, the punditry judged democratic derailments not newsworthy when the higher good was resistance to Trump. Media ran faster with narratives ripping Assange than questioning or correcting them. And rightfully so. Leaking classified government information about war-crimes is fundamentally different then hacking into the private email correspondence of organizations with the explicit intention of damaging them politically. And conflating the two is absolute madness and is antithetical to privacy advocacy. We have a right to know if the American election has been the victim of a CIA style mis-information campaign from a foreign government. Assange's ability to be an absolute hippocrate about transparency and play a dangerous shell game about where the emails came from has convinced me that the only people Assange believes deserve privacy are the people useful to Assange. I support Wikileaks. I do not think I support Assange.