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Australian MPs to travel to US to fight pursuit, extradition of Julian Assange
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I would feel worse about this if Assange hasn't worked with Russian intelligence to specifically throw the 2016 US presidential election to the Republicans. If he had leaked everyone's emails I would believe the crowing about freedom of information, but it's all so disingenuous I can't help but laugh at it. Maybe the Russians can find him a set of Hillary's emails to get him out of trouble, they're good pals.
Wait.
1/ publishing evidence of the Clinton campaign actively undermining Sanders who was then the natural candidate of the Democrats according to their internal polls (including by using antisemitic slur) + actively boosting Trump campaign because "it's the only one we can beat" is "throwing the US presidential election to the Republicans"? How this genuine, authenticated information of public interest, published in the New York Times and WaPo is throwing the US elections more than the facts that were being reported?
2/ "worked with Russian intelligence" is absolute nonsense. What is your source on that? The Muller report says the opposite. If anything it is possible (but not proven) that the source may have been from within Russian intel, but a) Assange mentioned several times -way before that episode- that the entire architecture of WL made it impossible for them to actually know their sources, and we have all reasons to believe that (as it would be the smartest thing to do) b) if any journalist gets documents that are authentic and of public interest, regardless of the source, their duty is to publish it. If a Russian intelligence source had provided fake, doctored or otherwise altered material, and they would have been published as such, it would have been a real scandal. In the facts we are still talking of ground-breaking journalism.
I still can't figure that some people cannot realize that Hillary Clinton did all she could to actually lose this election on her own (this and a fundamentally fucked up electoral system), and are actually finding scapegoats like Assange to avoid looking at this reality in the eyes...
Weird, if they have a duty to publish it, why didn't they leak the Republicans' emails too? They had both and chose specifically to release only one. They were not seeking freedom of information but seeking a specific political agenda by releasing some info and concealing other info.
Hillary Clinton was a flawed candidate but it takes mental gymnastics to pretend there weren't shenanigans here.
Wait what? what Republicans' emails? where have you heard that? I followed the case quite closely and never heard they had access to these emails.
So the answer would be: because no source came forward to them offering Republicans' emails, otherwise they probably would have published them too...
A lot of the activity described in the US Army Warlogs in Afghanistan and Iraq happened under a Republican presidency... the Vaul7 release happened under a Republican presidency, etc. I think that reading WikiLeaks' history under the ultra-narrow US prism of Republican-Versus-Democrats is a bit of a mistake. Not the entire world can be reduced to one or the other of these two...