Used to be a big Wikileaks fan until Assange basically turned into everything he claims to be against, threatening media who say things about him that he doesnt want said and trying to subvert the law. He can certainly dish it out, but he clearly can't stand it when people reciprocate. As much as I dislike the people he dislikes, he would make them all look like saints if the roles were reversed. I believe Asange would go full Stalin with unlimited power.
You mean like Russia's internal surveillance infrastructure, French arms sales to the UAE, domestic spying by the BND domestically in Germany, emails from the Macron campaign, the dirty war over resources between Chinese and Western mining companies in the Central African Republic, emails from the EKP (the ruling party of Turkey), a corrupt Swiss bank, Saudi Foreign Ministry cables, the Syrian Government, the TPP, the Trade in Service Agreement, or the United Nations ? China - 698,457 results Russia - 660,179 results Iran - 574, 273 results There's plenty. And unlike most American corporate media, Wikileaks has never had to issue a retraction.
I'm not interested in having him marry my sister or be his friend. I am interested in the transparency his organization provides. There's little doubt the guy has more than a few personality disorders, and rubs people the wrong way, but the overwhelming amount of confidential information that Wikileaks has provided that serves the public interest is without precedence.
So we are to take the word of Andrei Solidatov , a regular contributor to Foreign Affairs, itself a publication of the neo-conservative and hawkish Council on Foreign Relations on the subject of bias and Julian Assange? The same Council of Foreign Relations that published Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Hillary Clinton, Robert Kagan, and pretty much everyone that signed this letter? No reason to view that without any critical scrutiny!
Interesting take. Wouldn't an "intelligence organization" be directly involved in planning and executing operations? From what I understand, Wikileaks has billed itself as a conduit for "whistleblowers". It lets others do the operations and leaks the results. Whether this is a good idea, I leave up to the individual but it seems to me just the existence of such an organization might give pause to governments who have in the past always benefited from the knowledge their secrets remain secret....including the dirty and ugly ones.
Yes, conservatives and the Democratic hawks i.e, the bi-partisan foreign policy consensus says you should always take the word of Kissinger and the types of folks who lied us into Iraq. After enough years you can then sort of deny that you took their word and hope folks forget.
I'm tickled that all the conservatives who wanted him hit with a drone strike over Bradley Manning can't seem to recall how they used to feel. Seriously hilarious to go back and read conservative indignant outrage posts from 2010 and earlier and compare to how they view him today. Bigtexxx used to just tear into the guy mercilessly at every opportunity.
That must have been before assange became hannity's guest host and part of trump's oppo research and campaign team...
I agree. [you beat me to it] ************************** Gabbard: Assange arrest is a threat to journalists Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) condemned the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday, calling the arrest a threat to journalists. "The arrest of #JulianAssange is meant to send a message to all Americans and journalists: be quiet, behave, toe the line. Or you will pay the price," Gabbard tweeted. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/438542-gabbard-assange-arrest-is-a-threat-to-journalists
