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

Yeah where did these ones come from? I assumed Snowden when I started the article but he refers to "the source"and doesnt say.

WikiLeaks ‏@wikileaks 12m12 minutes ago
ANNOUNCE: We have obtained the contents of CIA Chief John Brennan's email account and will be releasing it shortly.

hmm....

This doesn't really belong here, but is there a thread for discussing Anonymous? Cuz, uh, they just accused the gay democrat modern-art-loving mayor of Lexington, KY of being in the KKK. Good sleuthing guys.

a few mentions on the general US politics thread

Also the first female mayor of Knoxville who was an organizer for Cesar Chavez in the 1970s.

Assange on the coming Clinton disaster etc:

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/22/detained_whistle_blower_julian_assange_remains_hopeful_hell_be_able_to_leave_embassy_warns_a_clinton_presidency_would_bring_disaster/

well now we know who the fsb supports

via gawker

the site published 19,252 emails from top US Democratic National Committee members, many of which included personal information about innocent donors including credit card, social security numbers, and passport numbers.

If you visit the WikiLeaks DNC emails website, you can browse the emails using a simple boolean search. Typing a word like “contribution” will actually turn up hundreds of results. The emails include unencrypted, plain-text listings of donor emails addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, passport numbers, and credit card information. WikiLeaks proudly announced the data dump in a single tweet.

WikiLeaks ✔ @wikileaks
RELEASE: 19,252 emails from the US Democratic National Committee https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/ #Hillary2016 #FeelTheBern

cool guys for sure

DemNow interview w/ Assange

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/7/25/exclusive_wikileaks_julian_assange_on_releasing

This is indefensible:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zeynep-tufekci/wikileaks-erdogan-emails_b_11158792.html

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/wikileaks-accused-of-anti-semitism-for-using-echoes-in-tweet-insulting-critics/

Yeah wikileaks are aligning themselves with white supremacists so if their leader being on the run from sexual assault charges weren't bad enough can we stop glamorizing them now

What a weird tweet. Is that a failed attempt at irony? It's hard for me to believe they'd go that obvious. "Tribalist" too.

Weird in that DemNow interview that they say Assange is afraid of being extradited to US for treason charges, when he's running from rape charges in Sweden.

that is the standard pro-Assange line.

dude is such a wormy piece of shit

maybe; he also got one fired

yeah I remember that time DWS had all those sexual assault allegations levied against her so she had to go scrambling for asylum in a local embassy

ah ok Your Honor. i rest.

Assange admitted a month ago that he was trying to hurt Hillary and would prefer Trump: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/us/politics/assange-timed-wikileaks-release-of-democratic-emails-to-harm-hillary-clinton.html

he's such a puuuutz

Mr. Assange replied that what Mr. Trump would do as president was “completely unpredictable.” By contrast, he thought it was predictable that Mrs. Clinton would wield power in two ways he found problematic.

real smart guy.

"who knows, maybe trump as president would liberate all slaves, guarantee a national wage, and invent a really cool new synthesizer patch. it could happen!"

that particular J.A. quote has no mistakes in it.

but u guys get back to admiring statist thugs

hey morbs, why don't you devote some time to learning how to literally fellate yourself instead of just doing it rhetorically every 30 seconds on this discussion board? i imagine the sense of accomplishment will far exceed the minor jolts of ego satisfaction you get from posting here.

and fwiw yes assange is literally correct in that statement; it's the conclusion he draws from it that is deeply stupid.

the two of you get a room

god help us

“I used to defend WikiLeaks all the time on the grounds that they were not indiscriminate dumpers of information,” Greenwald told Slate. “They were carefully protecting people’s reputations. And they have changed their view on that—and no longer believe, as Julian says, in redacting any information of any kind for any reason—and I definitely do not agree with that approach and think that they can be harmful to innocent people or other individuals in ways that I don’t think is acceptable.”

wow, that's kind of big

I feel really bad that I keep mixing up WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden in my mind. Snowden seems like such a better dude than Assange.

ha yeah not even close

the lrb piece that kinder posted above is p much the most thorough dismantling of assange imaginable, a really ridiculous pos:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/02/21/andrew-ohagan/ghosting

Snowden did what he did to show how little control we have over our private data. Assange leaks everyones private data left and right for no good reason. They're kinda pretty much diametrically opposed at this point.

Also, Assange is a rapist. So there's that.

snowden pointedly gave the info he compiled to journalists who he trusted to sift through it all and reveal only the most pertinent stuff

he did the right thing

he seems a million times smarter and more decent than assange; there's no comparison.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/08/09/wikileaks_is_fanning_a_conspiracy_theory_that_hillary_murdered_a_dnc_staffer.html

Drudge + Roger Stone + Assange...if anyone can swift boat, it's them as a team.

holy shit - assange seems genuinely, worryingly unhinged these days

Guy is a rapist. He has been worryingly unhinged for years. He is constantly digging himself lower these days. Shame on Jill Stein for calling him a hero, and saying his rapes were his own personal business.

I don't disagree with Greenwald's comment.

Frederik B, star chamber judge

At one point wikileaks was pro-transparency. Know they use their own secrecy ("we don't comment on who our sources are") to fan conspiracy theories.

Has Greenwald commented on this? I can't find it.

Dude

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

Yeah, sure. I meant the Seth Rich allegations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/opinion/can-we-trust-julian-assange-and-wikileaks.html

I’ve had my own run-ins with Mr. Assange. During the making of my 2013 film, “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,” I spent an agonizing six hours with him, when he was living in an English country house while out on bail. I was struck by how insistently he steered the conversation away from matters of principle to personal slights against him, and his plans for payback. He demanded personal “intel” on others I had interviewed, and dismissed questions about the organization by saying, “I am WikiLeaks” repeatedly. (Later, Mr. Assange and his followers attacked both me and my film.)

NYTimes, a name you can trust

the author is alex gibney, not the nyt. gibney made such films as we steal secrets: the story of wikileaks & enron: the smartest guys in the room. the NYTimes is not the author, merely the publisher.

also basically everyone who has spent time with assange thinks he's a pos, including former colleagues.

read the lrb piece from Andrew O'Hagan that I reposted upthread 2 weeks ago.

Alex Gibney is also the maker of the recent documentary Zero Days, which relates the US-Israeli creation of the Stuxnet cyberwar virus.