Um, I Think It's Time for a Thread on WikiLeaks

RedState (RedState!) is like "oh come the fuck on": http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2017/05/09/chivalry-wikileaks-assange-rushes-to-defend-frances-le-pen-hillary-clinton/

https://www.rt.com/usa/387844-comey-assange-snowden-wikileaks/

I would like to funnel all of my future shits into whichever basement room he tweeted that from

c/f star trek poop poll thread

Sorry in advance for being obtuse. I'll admit to not really paying attention to almost anything Wikileaks-related. It's just every time I try to sort this stuff out for myself, next thing I know my chin's on my chest. It is that boring to me. When I read news reports that cover their latest leaks or whatever, there never seems to be any material that shocks or interests me, other than a general "these leaks could compromise agents in the field".

Did anything actually important come out of the Stratfor, DNC, Vault 7, etc., beyond just fucking with the US government? And can someone give me some sort of tldr timeline of how they slid from "this might be the next pentagon papers" to "oh, fuck this guy". Was it just last year with the anti-Hillary stuff when he turned, or was there some shift before that?

Not sure about before but their twitter feed definitely started to show sighs of a merger with alt-right pov concurrent with the anti-HRC leaks (which were deliberately contextually misleading in a lot of cases)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2016/07/wikileaks-officially-lost-moral-high-ground/amp/

Some breakdown on the vault 7 stuff. https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/03/23/wikileaks-permadrip-other-vault-7-documents/
The entire purpose of those dumps seemed intended to provide the illusion of back up to Trump's tweets about Obama spying on him.

Sweden drops charges: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39973864

Statute of limitations ran out?

Oh n/m I RTFA'd

British news still not sure how to pronounce his name, Assonzhe is winning out at the moment, as French as possible too.

First Rolf Harris now Zhulianne Assonzhe, any more Aussie sex criminals to be released in the UK?

At 13:48 yesterday police surveillance looks at me and makes a gun sign. Whether threatening to shoot me or shoot himself isn't clear. pic.twitter.com/eMeRbOOcOa

— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) June 27, 2017

Human rights are a conservative invention designed to protect basic liberties and property rights from communism https://t.co/AvbfKM1zEY

— Julian Assange (@JulianAssange) June 28, 2017

hate hillary clinton if you want but don't turn into ben shapiro over it

The guy's a stupid motherfucker who tried (and failed) to get elected to the Australian Senate by swapping votes with a neo-nazi group, and then pretending it was a mistake when it was pointed out

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/julian-assange-a-man-without-a-country

Part 3 includes one of the clearest timelines I've seen on the DNC leak. Without any need for Trump collusion, for those who are searching for that.

i hope he dies in that embassy

Trying to sound as neutral as possible, I'm fairly certain he will. He doesn't seem well, neither physically or mentally, from that long read, and he doesn't sound as if he wants to go anywhere.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-leaks-on-russian-government-during-u-s-presidential-campaign/

as much as it pains me to read anything about Assange, that is actually a really well reported article

julian assange, asking the hard questions once more

Did you know that 'journalists' are so cretinous they have launched 420k pages saying I live in a 'cupboard' and 261k in a 'basement'? pic.twitter.com/TVk8UVTGe4

— Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) August 22, 2017

the whole thread there is good stuff

Capitalism+atheism+feminism = sterility = migration. EU birthrate = 1.6. Replacement = 2.1. Merkel, May, Macron, Gentiloni all childless. pic.twitter.com/mkqowTABWx

— Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) September 2, 2017

not so difficult to understand any more why he supported trump

what a surprise, this scumbag is a neo-confederate:

I don't get it. If the buck stops with the President Isn't Lincoln the worst? Surely more tools to kill slavery than killing 2.3% of the pop

— Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) September 22, 2017

not so difficult to understand any more why he supported trump

― Mordy, Sunday, September 3, 2017 1:37 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he was red-pilled by being charged for his sex crimes

Those are some lyrics, right there

Somebody should pick up The Stranglers' torch, no kidding, and just take the piss out of the last 30 years

off topic but wtf

so it might be because I'm reading 'the disaster artist' but Assange is coming across like Tommy Wiseau in this piece:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/02/21/andrew-ohagan/ghosting

― kinder, Saturday, February 22, 2014 8:16 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've been reading the book containing this piece and have absolutely no recollection of reading it 3.5 years ago
Russians hacked my brane!

New mass leak on offshore companies:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/what-are-the-paradise-papers-and-what-do-they-tell-us

(Not Wikileaks, but a data dump.)

HELLO, COULD YOU PLS TWEET ABOUT HOW SMART AND TOUGH JULIAN ASSANGE IS?

SINCERELY,
WIKILEAKS CONTACT THAT IS DEFINITELY NOT JULIAN ASSANGE. pic.twitter.com/QTfiIGVLfT

— Stephanie Carvin (@StephanieCarvin) November 13, 2017

https://theintercept.com/2017/11/15/wikileaks-julian-assange-donald-trump-jr-hillary-clinton/

This fucking guy...

The recent spate of Congressional committees demanding privileged legal & journalistic communications is unacceptable. Such actions infringe on both press freedoms and the right to fair & effective legal representation. @WikiLeaks will litigate aggressively to protect its rights.

— Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) November 17, 2017

I cannot wait until Mueller’s team figures out how to bag this guy and cut him a deal

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ecuador-trying-kick-julian-assange-11825019

clicking through the story is sadly only that they are trying to kick him OUT, the url promised more

lmao

🚨 URGENT ASSANGE ALERT 🚨

Julian Assange has had his Internet disconnected and is not allowed any visitors

If you’re in LONDON please gather immediately outside the Ecuadorian Embassy

Demand “Reconnect Julian”
Until Julian is back online
Thank you

🚨 URGENT ASSANGE ALERT 🚨

— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) March 28, 2018

maybe try resetting the modem?

lol

"The government of Ecuador has suspended the systems that allow Julian Assange to communicate to the outside of the Ecuador embassy in London… The measure was adopted due to Assange not complying with a written promise which he made with the government in late 2017, by which he was obliged not to send messages which entailed interference in relation to other states," the government said in a statement.

would be hilarious if Assange gave himself up because he couldn't get online

Holding out for a fan with a hotspot? Meanwhile he struggles heroically to connect to Harrods free WiFi.

URGENT ASSANGE ALERT is a hilarious phrase

Do you think the Ecuadorians just keep him around because it’s funny to have a weird goon live with you under voluntary house arrest

last update I paid attention to was the Ecuadorians wanted him out because he stinks

as in he's not bathing?

he's just poopsocking the hell out of Overwatch

is this gonna end up with some Marquis de Sade shit where he winds up writing tweets like "Only time the regressive left likes the 1A is to protest against the 2A!! @hannity" in his own feces

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/revealed-ecuador-spent-millions-on-spy-operation-for-julian-assange/ar-AAxkepd

Money well spent, surely

The Committee to Protect Journalists:

In April, the Democratic National Committee, the governing body of the Democratic Party, announced that it was suing WikiLeaks and Julian Assange--along with a number of other defendants, including the Trump campaign and Russian operatives--for their alleged involvement in the theft and dissemination of DNC computer files during the 2016 election. On its surface, the DNC's argument seems to fly in the face of the Supreme Court's precedent in Bartnicki v. Vopper that publishers are not responsible for the illegal acts of their sources. It also goes against press freedom precedents going back to the Pentagon Papers and contains arguments that could make it more difficult for reporters to do their jobs or that foreign governments could use against U.S. journalists working abroad, First Amendment experts told CPJ.

"I'm unhappy that there's even an allegation that you could be held liable for publishing leaked information that you didn't have anything to do with obtaining," said George Freeman, a former lawyer for The New York Times and executive director of the independent advisory group, Media Law Resource Center. James Goodale, the First Amendment lawyer who defended The New York Times in the 1971 Pentagon Papers case, said that the suit appeared to be the first time WikiLeaks has been sued for a journalistic function. Goodale, a senior adviser to CPJ and former board chair, added that the DNC had "paid zero attention to the First Amendment ramifications of their suit."...

CPJ has long maintained that WikiLeaks and Assange should not be prosecuted under the Espionage Act for publishing classified documents procured by someone else. WikiLeaks, however, has not always been a responsible steward of its materials. In 2011, the organization released unredacted diplomatic cables that endangered the life of the Ethiopian reporter Argaw Ashine. And in general, WikiLeak's practice of publicizing large data dumps without probing the context or motivations of leakers can render it vulnerable to manipulation, as CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon has written. Still, as CPJ wrote in a letter to the Obama administration in 2010, arresting Assange would set dangerous precedent for publishers everywhere.

Despite the challenges in dealing with large scale leaks from state hackers, it has become an increasingly routine practice. In the most recent, attorneys for Republican fundraiser Elliot Broidy filed a subpoena May 16 for documents from The Associated Press as part of a civil suit against the Qatar government, which he accuses of hacking his emails and leaking them to journalists at the AP and other news organizations. The AP told the Freedom of the Press Foundation that it intends to fight the subpoena. And the Qataris denied any role in the hack, The New York Times reported.

The U.S. government already uses vague terminology, which is potentially damaging to publishers, to describe WikiLeaks. Last year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo--then CIA Director--labeled WikiLeaks a "non-state hostile intelligence service." The language was also inserted into a Senate appropriations bill. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who accused WikiLeaks of participating in an "attack" on American democracy, nonetheless raised alarms about the terminology. In a statement issued by his office last August, he said, "The use of the novel phrase 'non-state hostile intelligence service' may have legal, constitutional, and policy implications, particularly should it be applied to journalists inquiring about secrets."

The notion that journalistic activity such as cultivating sources and receiving illegally obtained documents could be construed as part of a criminal conspiracy is, according to Goodale, the "greatest threat to press freedom today." "It will inhibit reporters' ability to get whistleblower information, because as soon as you talk to them in any aggressive fashion you could be guilty of a crime," Goodale said.

https://cpj.org/blog/2018/05/by-suing-wikileaks-dnc-could-endanger-principles-o.php