Wikileaks and Assange looking extra funny

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"CAIRO (AP) — WikiLeaks’ giant data dumps have rattled the National Security Agency, the U.S. Democratic Party, and the Saudi foreign ministry. But its spectacular mass-disclosures have also included the personal information of hundreds of people — including sick children, rape victims and mental health patients, The Associated Press has found.

In the past year alone, the radical transparency group has published medical files belonging to scores of ordinary citizens while many hundreds more have had sensitive family, financial or identity records posted to the web. In two particularly egregious cases, WikiLeaks named teenage rape victims. In a third case, the site published the name of a Saudi citizen arrested for being gay, an extraordinary move given that homosexuality can lead to social ostracism, a prison sentence or even death in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom.

“They published everything: my phone, address, name, details,” said a Saudi man who told AP he was bewildered that WikiLeaks had revealed the details of a paternity dispute with a former partner. “If the family of my wife saw this ... Publishing personal stuff like that could destroy people.”

WikiLeaks’ mass publication of personal data is at odds with the site’s claim to have championed privacy even as it laid bare the workings of international statecraft, drawing criticism from longtime allies."

Private lives are exposed as WikiLeaks spills its secrets

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And this was Wikileaks response to that AP article.

 

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Wilkileaks is an arm of russia hackers. Not a bad thing about leaking secret but they clearly are out to divide the country.
 

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Wilkileaks is an arm of russia hackers. Not a bad thing about leaking secret but they clearly are out to divide the country.
there is nothing wrong with leaking the world's secrets, there is something wrong with only leaking a particular country's secrets though. they're a russian intelligence outfit and not some global force for good.
 

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Glenn Greenwald's own outlet publishes this story on and he's Twitter attacking the writer and shouting:

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I was shocked to see The Intercept publish this, now my faith in Greenwald's hypocrisy is restored.

I actually like this situation - Greenwald making a fool of himself, yet it upholds the integrity of The Intercept (which does a lot of good reporting) at the same time. Difficult needle to thread.
 

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I’ve always wondered what caused Assange/Wikileaks to flip from rogue band of truth tellers to Russian operatives. Anyone got an explanation for that?
since about 2010. that's when they said they had a bunch of shyt on russia that they were going to dump and then they didn't after the FSB made them fall back
"It's essential to remember that given the will and the relevant orders, [WikiLeaks] can be made inaccessible forever," the anonymous official told the independent Russian news website LifeNews.

and then they made a deal with the russians. he even had a show on russia today afterwards.

WikiLeaks ready to drop a bombshell on Russia. But will Russians get to read about it?

TIME.com - WikiLeaks: Is Russia the Next Target?
 
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