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Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks

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Re: Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks

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The ridiculous hypocrisy of the "official" wikileaks organization sending out a document labeled "CONFIDENTIAL LEGAL COMMUNICATION NOT FOR PUBLICATION."

Perhaps they wrote this label with the intent of the document being published?

That's exactly what I was thinking as well. Nobody would have published this super interesting and long list, if it was like "wikileaks complaining about stuff".

Re: Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks

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post #6

The ridiculous hypocrisy of the "official" wikileaks organization sending out a document labeled "CONFIDENTIAL LEGAL COMMUNICATION NOT FOR PUBLICATION."

Isn't this something that Assange should be releasing personally, anyway? Feels a little weird for him to have his org do his dirty work. An org that claims such objectivity.

Re: Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks

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I have always love wikileaks for what they do. It is very sad to see that there is so much wrong information and it makes me believe that there is indeed a smear campaign against Julian Assange and wilileaks.

If anything, can't but help feel that WikiLeaks informed how the ICIJ handled the leaked 11.5 million leaked documents that comprised the 'Panama Papers.' The involvement of multiple journalists, across different organisations, really adds authenticity that the information was handled objectively and fairly. There's been very little criticism of that fact, at least when compared to WikiLeak's handling of other materials.

Re: Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks

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It is sad to see how low WikiLeaks has fallen, and makes me think more and more that there has never been much of WL beyond Assange himself. It has reached comical levels of insanity, illusion of grandeur and narcissism.

WikiLeaks has almost certainly been compromised by global intelligence agencies and is operating as a front.

But the real question is: has Assange/WL ever been any different? Has it ever not been a tool sponsored/handled by some intelligence agency?

Re: Things You Can’t Say About Assange or WikiLeaks

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post #6

The ridiculous hypocrisy of the "official" wikileaks organization sending out a document labeled "CONFIDENTIAL LEGAL COMMUNICATION NOT FOR PUBLICATION."

Isn't this something that Assange should be releasing personally, anyway? Feels a little weird for him to have his org do his dirty work. An org that claims such objectivity.

Multiple news agencies have reported that the Ecuadorians cut off his Internet access in the spring of 2018, after unspecified or wildly speculated-upon "misbehavior" by Assange.
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