The WikiLeaks-Russia connection started way before the 2016 election

[DonViejo]

Updated by Zack Beauchamp@[e-mail] Jan 6, 2017, 9:10am EST

Julian Assange insists, against all evidence, that the hacked Democratic emails WikiLeaks published didn't come from Russian intelligence services. “Our source is not the Russian government,” he said in a Tuesday interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity.

This is a touch hard to believe. Publicly available evidence, including unique code and Russian writing in the hacked documents themselves, links the document theft to Russian state-sponsored hacks. Every US intelligence agency that has investigated the issue has concluded Russia is, in fact, responsible. Leaks from their analyses, reported by CNN and the Washington Post, indicate that the US has identified the go-betweens used by Russia to hand documents to WikiLeaks. Assange is either lying or willfully blind to the facts.

Indeed, when it comes to Russia, Assange doesn’t have a ton of credibility.

Throughout WikiLeaks’ existence, the allegedly pro-transparency group has had strange, shadowy, but very well-documented connections to the Russian state. The connections range from sharing purloined documents with a pro-Russian dictator to Assange receiving money for appearing on Russian state TV to WikiLeaks’ key involvement in NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden ending up in Russia.

These incidents don’t prove, as some have alleged, that Assange is some kind of paid Russian agent, or that WikiLeaks is a Russian front organization. But they do show that WikiLeaks, an organization purportedly devoted to transparency, is at a minimum okay with helping out the world’s most aggressively authoritarian leader.

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http://www.vox.com/world/2017/1/6/14179240/wikileaks-russia-ties

[LonePirate]

1. WikiLeaks tweeted their hypocritical objection to the leak of the Russian hacking report to NBC.

I think they just discredited themselves from now on with that objection.

[herding cats]

2. I'm in the 'Assange didn't ask the source so he could deny his connection to Russia' camp.

Julian Assange is a tool for Russia, wether he openly admits it or not, and any good he may have done is forever overshadowed by the harm his collusion with Russia is causing the world.

[2naSalit]

3. I guess someone should ask..

and who is paying the tab at the Ecuadorian embassy?