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turbinetree

(24,720 posts) Tue Feb 25, 2020, 12:41 PM Feb 2020

Assange tried to call White House, Hillary Clinton over data dump, his lawyer says

TECHNOLOGY NEWS FEBRUARY 25, 2020 / 9:55 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Michael Holden 3 MIN READ

LONDON (Reuters) - Julian Assange tried to contact Hillary Clinton and the White House when he realized that unredacted U.S. diplomatic cables given to WikiLeaks were about to be dumped on the internet, his lawyer told his London extradition hearing on Tuesday.

Assange is being sought by the United States on 18 counts of hacking U.S. government computers and an espionage offense, having allegedly conspired with Chelsea Manning, then a U.S. soldier known as Bradley Manning, to leak hundreds of thousands of secret documents by WikiLeaks almost a decade ago.

On Monday, the lawyer representing the United States told the hearing that Assange, 48, was wanted for crimes that had endangered people in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan who had helped the West, some of whom later disappeared.

U.S. authorities say his actions in recklessly publishing unredacted classified diplomatic cables put informants, dissidents, journalists and human rights activists at risk of torture, abuse or death.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/assange-tried-to-call-white-house-hillary-clinton-over-data-dump-his-lawyer-says-idUSKBN20J1W9

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Assange tried to call White House, Hillary Clinton over data dump, his lawyer says (Original Post) turbinetree Feb 2020 OP

Yeah, that's bullshit. Wikileaks has never shown any empathy for people hurt by their leaks. DetlefK Feb 2020 #1

DetlefK

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1. Yeah, that's bullshit. Wikileaks has never shown any empathy for people hurt by their leaks.

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Tue Feb 25, 2020, 01:03 PM

Feb 2020

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/wikileaks-officially-lost-moral-high-ground/

WikiLeaks has endangered individuals before, but their release of the so-called Erdogan Emails was particularly egregious. The organization said that the infodump would expose the machinations of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan immediately after the attempted coup against him, but instead turned out to be mostly correspondence and personal information from everyday Turkish citizens. Worse, it included the home addresses, phone numbers, party affiliations, and political activity levels of millions of female Turkish voters. That's irresponsible any time, and disastrous in the week of a coup.

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Wikileaks got those diplomatic cables. THEY stored them in their databases. THEY failed to keep the unredacted cables a secret.
THEIR DATA, THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.

Imagine someone stealing your property, then losing that property, then trying to blame YOU for the damages caused by the consequences.

Plus, Wikileaks warning people and getting them to safety is in VIOLATION of their own mission-statement. Their mission-statement is to leak everything and if you get hurt by a leak, that means you are a bad person who deserves to get hurt.

Here is the underlying philosophy and mission-statement of Wikileaks. READ IT!
http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf

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