I don't disagree, but here's why I posted this. First, the author has credibility: ex-counterintelligence officer (including NSA) whose blog posts are consisten

I don't disagree, but here's why I posted this. First, the author has credibility: ex-counterintelligence officer (including NSA) whose blog posts are consistently interesting and who doesn't seem to be a propagandist. Second, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a pretty common principle in the political realm. It's poisonous, because human affairs ought not to be treated at the crude level of a Boolean formula. But it's also dismayingly normal. And Assange seems to be this kind of binary operator (sorry). So it wouldn't be surprising if they had thrown in with Belarus in some strange way. (The Shamir thing is bizarre, though.)