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Assange’s wife says ‘the world is watching’ extradition appeal hearing (thehill.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

His lawyer in Sweden to help him avoid the rape charges extradition who got into the embassy as his lawyer and secretly got pregnant twice and had two children while Assange was in an embassy annoying everyone.... That married him in 2022.

The only good thing about her is that she doesn't sound like a Russian operative like Assange and whatever the fuck happened to WikiLeaks.

In the summer of 2016, as WikiLeaks was publishing documents from Democratic operatives allegedly obtained by Kremlin-directed hackers, Julian Assange turned down a large cache of documents related to the Russian government, according to chat messages and a source who provided the records.

WikiLeaks declined to publish a wide-ranging trove of documents — at least 68 gigabytes of data — that came from inside the Russian Interior Ministry, according to partial chat logs reviewed by Foreign Policy.

In the months leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of potentially damaging emails about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign, information the U.S. intelligence community believes was hacked as part of a Kremlin-directed campaign. Assange’s role in publishing the leaks sparked allegations that he was advancing a Russian-backed agenda.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So the argument from Assange was that all relevant information from the cache was already public from previous publication. The entire cache was public when FP published the article you're referring to so they could have pointed out what was actually worth reporting if there was anything.

Here's the article for everyone else:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-leaks-on-russian-government-during-u-s-presidential-campaign/

The point about the 2012 Syria emails is more interesting, but the whole point about Wikileaks running cover for Russia never made a lot of sense to me since they have published damaging info about Russia.

ETA: I'd be remiss not to mention that the discussion of Assange's biases is a red herring to the real problem which is the US's attempt to criminalize publication of state secrets.