That’s...disappointing.

Suckered into Assange’s whole “I’m just for open government, that’s all” nonsense that most of us realized was bullshit long ago.

Where would we be without people like Daniel Ellsberg?

It claimed to be one thing and turned out to be something completely different.

To the extent it ever had the mission you claim it did, it lost it the moment it became a Russian agent to interfere in the elections of other countries.

Palast is not advocating for the person, Assange. It's about providing an outlet for whistleblowers and a place for investigative journalists to sift through documents from whistleblowers.

But Wikileaks is not a whistleblower, it's an intelligence operation aimed at undermining American (and all Western) democracies. That's a fact. Maybe they didn't start out that way, but that's what they are now and can never be trusted again. Real whistleblowers don't selectively leak they way they do.

investigative journalists and whistleblowers. Palast has been on the ground doing the legwork and he is expressing concern. His reports on election fraud have been invaluable. I find it hard to just dismiss what he is expressing.

But Greg's legwork does not change the facts about what Wikileaks is.

And I suspect neither do you.

What I do know is that Wikileaks is not a whistleblower. Again, that is an easily proven fact.

If you want to carry the torch for Wikileaks, that's your prerogative ... but don't expect a great reaction here.

investigative journalist and that's why I posted his concerns here. I never said wikileaks is a whistleblower. My understanding was that it was a place whistleblowers could unload documents. That's all I know.

People have fed him leaks embarrassing to Putin, and he won't publish it.
The whole purpose of his operation is to damage Western democracy and help Russia.

No one from Justice tried to muscle Credico. He had knowledge pertinent to the commission of a felony. Assange relinquished whatever credentials he had as a journalist when he decided to move beyond reportage to conspiracy to violate U.S. election law.

and no more a whistleblower than Michael Cohen. Wikileaks is a hostile intelligent entity targeting democratic institutions of the United States (& the West) and deserves to be treated as such. Any ancillary benefit they may have once provided means nothing now, and in fact that's only trotted out as a way to sew further division and obfuscate the organization's true intentions.

If you're an American, Wikileaks means you harm.

also, there have been credible allegations that several of the DNC or Podesta emails released by Wikileaks in 2016 had been falsified and altered for propaganda purposes. Also the coordination and deliberate timing of the releases to help Trump and hurt Clinton serving Putin's aims to sway our election undercuts Wikileaks claim to represent investigative journalism and honest whistleblowing.

preservation of freedom of the press

Wikileaks has turned itself, into a version of malware, for a reason I cannot fathom.

emails, which were no more than dirty laundry. They also gave us what Putin has on Trump then maybe I'd buy a tenth of the shit he is selling.
But go fuck yourself Greg.

The whistleblower aspect can be done by many outlets.

Also, Wikileaks has coordinated directly with Russian state run media.

Wikileaks is an agenda driven organization and simply releasing information given by others does not equate to journalism. That is a stretch too far.