I can sniff you from afar

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Cake day: November 9th, 2022
  • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•Was Assange an asset for the US government?
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    9 days ago

    You can’t make the claim Assange/Wikileaks is a US asset just because their leaks didn’t lead to the collapse of the US or significant change.

    Did ye just handwave a bunch of evidence right here in the article?

    Again, notably absent were US soldiers, intelligence analysts, senatorial aides or anything of the sort. But somehow, Wikileaks easily found Chinese dissidents to help them (despite Chinese dissidents saying for years that speaking up against the Chinese government is very dangerous to their lives!)

    John Young, the founder of cryptome.org and a member of Wikileaks from the start, left the group in early 2007, calling it a “CIA conduit.” He has since rescinded that statement, but leaked more than 150 pages of emails sent between Wikileaks founders when he left.

    It is however concerning that in 2011, Assange told Reuters that “China is [Wikileaks’] real enemy” and that Wikileaks was looking at ways to circumvent their “censorship”,

  • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•Was Assange an asset for the US government?
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    9 days ago

    Then what happened to those Chinese anti-gov’t leaders that made up the original Wikileaks? Did they just go to other NED-funded USAID-funded projects?

    Assange may have been a federal asset, but he face turned in 2010, plus, didn’t ye type in this:

    I am purposely not singling out Assange here, and that is because he is only one piece of Wikileaks. We will come back to him later but Wikileaks is certainly bigger than just Assange — or at least started out that way — and it is important to separate the two.