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Re:Julian Assange Is Free by KennyBlanken on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @01:31PM (#40791173)
Further, if that reporter claimed to be all "free the secrets!"

...but when handed documents from one another foreign government refuses to publish them

and then it becomes obvious that the leaks were targeting liberal Swedish politicians facing election versus conservative candidates favored by that same one particular other foreign government...

I don't understand why people don't see wikileaks as anything other than a proxy Russian foreign intelligence operation.

Re:Julian Assange Is Free by smsm42 on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @02:33PM (#40791898)
If they leak info against our opponents, they are free speech heroes and paladins of truth. If they leak info against our party, they are filthy dirty spies. I don't understand why people can't see it.
Re:Julian Assange Is Free by A1kmm on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @06:31PM (#40794439)
Wikileaks has also leaked things the Russian political establishment almost certainly doesn't like, e.g. https://wikileaks.org//spyfiles/russia/.

Apparently Wikileaks were given documents that had already leaked elsewhere before and refused to publish them because their purpose is novel leaks, not repeating leaks from elsewhere. That has been spun into a narrative that they refused leaks because they are biased, without much evidence.

When there are a lot of disingenuous arguments like this being made to discredit someone that turn out to be unreasonable once you dig a little deeper, like we see with Wikileaks and Assange, it generally is a strong suggestion someone is trying to manipulate people into believing a false narrative.

Re:Julian Assange Is Free by mullingitover on Friday June 28, 2024 @02:40PM (#40823680)
We knew the US wasn't happy with Assange when he landed in prison.

You know that Russia isn't happy with someone when they end up dead. If the Russian files that Wikileaks published didn't make Russia happy, Assange would be in a box right now, and not headed home.

Re:Julian Assange Is Free by teddyh on Friday July 05, 2024 @07:51AM (#40881921)
So, because Assange is not dead, he must be a “proxy Russian foreign intelligence operation”?