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The US Government’s Plot to Murder Julian Assange (www.thenation.com)

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[–] derf82 -1 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Also, I don't really feel empathetic towards Assange, he acted as a Russian mouthpiece with his show on RT and his interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

I wish more people would see this. He isn’t some freedom fighter. He happily became Putin’s useful idiot and published the selective leaks Russia provided to swing the 2016 election to Trump. I find it hilarious that after that, Trump wanted to kill him.

[–] youngGoku 3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I just read the whole wiki on assange, didn't see anything about selective leaking or any bias from him.

Could you please provide sauce for this claim?

Assange is a brilliant man and a hacktivist from what I read.

[–] derf82 -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-the-russians-hacked-the-dnc-and-passed-its-emails-to-wikileaks/2018/07/13/af19a828-86c3-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html

[–] youngGoku 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sorry I can't get passed the paywall.

[–] derf82 -3 points 10 months ago

I get no paywall. I’m betting you want to stay willfully ignorant. Where do you think Assange/wikileaks got the info from the DNC?

Try Wikipedia

On December 9, 2016, the CIA told U.S. legislators that the U.S. Intelligence Community concluded Russia conducted operations during the 2016 U.S. election to prevent Hillary Clinton[13] from winning the presidency.[14] Multiple U.S intelligence agencies concluded people with direct ties to the Kremlin gave WikiLeaks hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee.[14]WikiLeaks did not reveal its source. Later Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, claimed that the source of the emails was not Russia or any other state.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Committee_email_leak

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