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Re:The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange f... by boomboomsubban on Friday September 25, 2020 @07:08PM (#24594991)
Your "proof" has always struck me as bizarre. Wikileaks gave a reason that they refused the data, they believed it had already been posted elsewhere. They were wrong, but it's understandable that they'd think that as part of the leak was already public and they lack a Russian speaking staff.

At no point do the people offering the documents seem to reply with "only part of it is public." Without saying that, this doesn't serve as proof of anything except Wikileaks making a mistake.

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Re:The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange f... by mint2 on Friday September 25, 2020 @07:36PM (#24595129)
Okay you want more? How’s about their texts with the trump campaign.

That was overtly partisan and thus their actions and exposures were not neutral exposure of all secrets, but targeted exposures with goals.

Thus again, not what the OP claimed.

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Re:The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange f... by boomboomsubban on Saturday September 26, 2020 @01:25AM (#24596656)
The OP offered no opinion on whether Assange was partisan, but I also don't see how his Twitter messages to Trump Jr. makes him partisan either. He encouraged Trump to talk about Wikileaks and to leak information to them. Nothing suggests his communication was stopping the exposure of any secrets.
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