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

I don't know who Liz Crokin is, but...yeah.

Liz Crokin is "beyond ecstatic" and on the verge of tears at the news that Julian Assange was arrested, because it means that Pizzagate will finally be proven to be real. pic.twitter.com/nYKobiOW2E

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) April 12, 2019

what's with her fingers? :-/

Apparently she lost several digits in a surfing accident, which she naturally blames on Marina Abramovic and the Clintons:

“These people that I expose engage in witchcraft,” Crokin said. “You know, the people like Marina Abramović, the people like Hillary Clinton, [the people] from the deep state articles that are getting ready to write a hit piece on me right now. Well, look it up. Look it up. Do research on Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton and their trip to Haiti and how—I think it was on their honeymoon—they admitted to doing voodoo there together. Research Marina Abramović; she talks about the rituals she does, she’s an occultist. All these people dabble in witchcraft and spirit cooking,” she added. “So, do these people do witchcraft against me? Of course they do. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they were casting spells on me the night before.”

oh no! maybe they got her brain too.

Lol, i think assange should definitely have stood trial in sweden, still should. But let's not pretend this has happened because of the rape allegations, or because of skipping bail 7(?) Years ago. Nobody of importamce in this business cares about the rape allegations, (or Sweden, word to Mattdc)

I mean, i think it's pretty funny that he's going to get to visit trump's america after all he did to help get him elected.

one reason putin-izing usa works is because some people will wonder if trump somehow got this to happen so he can get him here and pardon him lol. it wouldn't avoid impeachment except when it does indirectly lol

he needs help locating the p. tape

I’m a little surprised that trump wants him extradited, assuming he had any knowledge of this at all. what happened to reciprocity?

Ola Bini, who also works with Wikileaks, was arrested in Ecuador yesterday - with a minister alleging he was ‘working with Assange to destabilise the Ecuadorean government ‘.

Rafael Correa has had his Facebook page (with 1.5m followers) blocked after making further corruption allegations against Moreno. Facebook has justified it by saying it prohibits sharing the financial records of other users.

Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of his asylum / detention, the idea Ecuador just got sick of him being a bad house guest, which a lot of the tabloids and Vice have been pushing, is clearly very silly.

idk trying to out your host's misdemeanours is bad guest behaviour

That and smearing your shit on their walls.

at least smeared shit washes off. some pissed up bad guest of mine once poured honey into my television.

Tonight over 70 parliamentarians stand with victims of sexual violence, and are calling on both the Home Secretary and the shadow Home Sec to urge them both to be champions of action to ensure Julian Assange faces Swedish authorities and is extradited there if they so request: pic.twitter.com/uaJMM984Cc

— stellacreasy (@stellacreasy) April 12, 2019

signed by john woodcock, somewhat undermining its message

yes.. even CHUK didn't want to taint their brand with that slimeball.

abbott’s response

British government should grant extradition of Julian Assange if authorities reopen rape allegations, Diane Abbott says in letter to colleagues. pic.twitter.com/2qY1Yctrt7

— Ashley Cowburn (@ashcowburn) April 13, 2019

Wikileaks started out with a noble purpose of complete openness, but in the last few years Julian Assange sold out to Russian interests and betrayed the trust of innocent whistleblowers such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden (though Snowden still seems to be operating under the delusion that Assange actually gives a damn about him). Manning needs to be released as soon as possible, now that Assange is in custody. Also, I used to defend Wikileaks but when I was expressing my support for Manning I found a whole host of transphobic tankies who didn't give a shit about her. Fuck Julian Assange and fuck Wikileaks; transfer whatever useful is left of the project to a secondary source and destroy the whole site.

I have a young boss who has turned out to be an Assange cultist and is convinced there's been a "dead drop" of "explosive information" that's been released post-arrest, including "proof that white genocide is real." Might be time to go job hunting.

huge if true

Not sure what I thought about wikileaks at the time but have ended up thinking it's a bit too good to be true: the hacking and leaking of State A's secrets is just too good a technique for States B and C not to buy in/take over, surely? So it would just end up being used as a tool by one state against another rather than being some objective watchdog/truth-teller.

Wikileaks massive file release. A quick scan shows newsworthy files on Microsoft, Steve Jobs, Guantanamo, US torture briefings, Vatican bank, and much more. https://t.co/x6D79rh6hE

— Dr Naomi Wolf (@naomirwolf) April 14, 2019

lol BIlderberg meeting reports 1956-1980

surely this is....everything?

Note: https://t.co/q9lDUo7sSn is not a release, insurance dump, or response to Assange’s arrest. It is the page where published documents are available for bulk download so that people can create mirrors, access publications offline, or use the raw data. It has existed for years.

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 13, 2019

sad trombone

i am reading the scientology docs anyway

Mueller Report: Julian Assange Smeared Seth Rich to Cover for Russians

Julian Assange not only knew that a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer wasn’t his source for thousands of hacked party emails, he was in active contact with his real sources in Russia’s GRU months after Seth Rich’s death. At the same time he was publicly working to shift blame onto the slain staffer “to obscure the source of the materials he was releasing,” Special Counsel Robert Mueller asserts in his final report on Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election.

“After the U.S. intelligence community publicly announced its assessment that Russia was behind the hacking operation, Assange continued to deny that the Clinton materials released by WikiLeaks had come from Russian hacking,” the report reads. “According to media reports, Assange told a U.S. congressman that the DNC hack was an ‘inside job,’ and purported to have ‘physical proof’ that Russians did not give materials to Assange.”

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With Assange behind it, the Seth Rich hoax moved into the almost-mainstream, spawning a quickly-retracted report on Fox News, and a series of “investigations” by Assange ally Sean Hannity. It also wreaked havoc in the lives of Rich’s surviving family, particularly his anguished parents who later begged perpetrators of the charade “to give us peace, and to give law enforcement the time and space to do the investigation they need to solve our son's murder.”

Even as he was ruthlessly framing Rich to protect himself, the GRU, or both, Assange was privately communicating with his real sources to arrange the transfer of the second election leak, material the GRU stole from John Podesta’s Gmail account.

Fuck. This. Guy.

Came here to post exactly that

yup

whistleblowers are still very necessary and they shouldn't be punished, but this guy: fuck him.

50 weeks in chokey

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48118908

Sy Hersh: “Today Assange. Tomorrow, perhaps, The New York Times and other media that published so much of the important news and information Assange provided.”

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) May 24, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jun/13/julian-assange-sajid-javid-signs-us-extradition-order

myeah. he may be a cnut but free press and whistleblowing should still be possible too

I already said that. anyway.

Sorely tempted to say ah fuck it in this case.

Nah, it's important he goes to Sweden. Rape needs to be punished.

Lol he'll get punished alright

According to several sources Mike Pompeo told Ecuador's El Universo newspaper that Assange will definitely be extradited to the US: for instance,
https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2019/07/21/mike-pompeo-affirme-que-julian-assange-sera-extrade-vers-les-etats-unis_1741282

However, when looking for what he said (not that I speak Spanish or anything, but go to the El Universo site, type "Pompeo Assange" and then click Buscar = search, right?
finds this article: https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2019/07/20/nota/7434186/mike-pompeo-secretario-estado-eeuu-llego-guayaquil-reunirse-lenin
that only has one paragraph mentioning Assange and it's only something like "he will have to defend his actions before a court"

?

There doesn't appear to be a dedicated Chelsea Manning thread? She's recovering following a suicide attempt.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/11/chelsea-manning-suicide-attempt-hospital

just saw this, amazing news if it's true:

BREAKING: Chelsea Manning ordered released from jail, where she has been held for over a year for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury. Her testimony "is no longer needed, in light of which her detention no longer serves any coercive purpose." https://t.co/Q1vC1VsrBn

— Freedom of the Press (@FreedomofPress) March 12, 2020

If I understand correctly, she still owes the court 250k in punitive fees, but I'm sure a fundraiser or two will take care of that if so.

Speaking of which:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-chelsea-pay-her-court-fines

BREAKING

Julian Assange NOT extradited because of suicide risk.

— Latika M Bourke (@latikambourke) January 4, 2021

key witness admits he may have lied a bit

https://stundin.is/grein/13627/

Not Wikileaks, but new major leak:

BREAKING: massive, global leak of the targets of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. *huge deal.*

Forensic investigation by @AmnestyTech
in collaboration with @FbdnStories reporters.

We @citizenlab conducted peer review.

Here's an explainer THREAD.https://t.co/TasFCy5EGW pic.twitter.com/rGGKAkfSry

— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) July 18, 2021

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-pitched-trump-officials-plans-130727657.html

https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2024/jun/25/julian-assange-prison-release-live-updates-plea-deal-return-australia-wikileaks-leaves-uk

I did not think I'd see the day of Assange walking freely. And it sounds so easy. Did the US realize they were not going to get him ? Or they don't care anymore. A sentence of 5 years is less than what Chelsea Manning spent in prison...

glad he will be free