A pathetic narcissistic asshole and nothing more.

and our civil liberties being abused.

But I see you've put a lot of thought into this.

is a fucking crime. When he steals yours, I hope you don't expect any sympathy whatsoever. Does that clear things up for you?

So is spying on Americans. So the NSA can steal my info, and that seems to be OK with you, but if wikileaks exposes that they run afoul of LeftyNYC.

OK. I got that.

I'm an American, first. I don't support whistleblowers depending on which party is being exposed for being up to no good. Can you handle that??

Just because the NSA fucks up doesn't make it okay for some schmuck with internet access to STEAL and decide what information should be public. Nobody voted for Jullian Assange. I'm able to carry those two thoughts in my head at the same time. That you can't isn't my problem in the slightest. Stealing a private citizen's email - like he did with Podesta - proved what a slug he is. As if being an alleged rapist wasn't enough to prove that.

Did you see the pedophile charge that got floated on Kos? Did you see the follow-up report??

Probably not. We don't post stuff that might be considered hurtful to those who run the Democratic Party.

Nobody voted for Podesta, BTW.

and releasing it to the public.

And if he's so honorable to you, why doesn't he release Trump's email too?

He's obviously trying to steer the election to Trump by only releasing Clinton's emails.

That's not honorable. He should've stuck with war crimes instead of trying to even a grudge against Hillary. And on top of that he's working with the Russians, helping Trump's friend Putin to influence our election outcome.

He's turned out to be a huge disappointment.

Does wikileaks have Trumps email? But I' wouldn't be interested in that because I'm not interested in HIS yoga schedule.

Now if they had stuff from the RNC showing that they were favoring, say, one candidate or the other...that would be in the public interest.

I don't assume that "He's obviously trying to steer the election to Trump by only releasing Clinton's emails."

That, to me, is a really big stretch. So is the idea that the Russian's are helping him. The NSA saying so means squat to me...and it would have meant squat to you, I suspect, if there was a repub in office.

intelligence agencies have concluded that the Russians are behind Wikileaks' email dump of Clinton campaign emails.

Did you forget that so soon?

Got it.

Perhaps that shouldn't surprise me.

One would assume posters on this site at this stage of the election would be for the Dem candidate but that's not coming through.

What is your position?

A formerly great tradition on DU.

The election is over. Where have you been? TRUMP is running. Did you see the Brietbart poll?

What's not obvious is what you're trying to say.

"Where have you been? TRUMP is running. Did you see the Brietbart poll?"

STEAL somebody's email and decide on his own what gets released? Let Assange - that fucking coward - face the rape charges and clear himself. No - he'd rather hide out and snipe from the sidelines about OUR elections. Fuck him. He's scum.

Seriously.

seems to be completely out of sorts about not everyone agreeing with your absurd position that assange is some kind of hero. The stamping of your feet is quite amusing. Are you going to hold your breath next?

I'll just go straight to boo-hooing.

Exposing the NSA spying is different from exposing information for the benefit of one political Party over the other, it would seem?

to do on this thread. Try and convince everyone else what a hero that pig is because the only one defending him here is you.

That would be spineless, for one.

Like a fucking high schooler. I never told you to get in line - I said you had some work to do to convince DUers that your hero isn't a scumbag. Sorry I gave you the impression I give a crap what you do because I couldn't possibly care less.

Plenty of DUers are already convinced. Many may figure that he did us a great service. Is what the DNC was up to in service of our party?? Of course not. So they got busted and it happened when it WON'T effect the election...because Trump is going nowhere.

Seems you have a teeny minority opinion that the slug is a hero.

He's a narcissist. He will reveal whatever it is he thinks will feed his ego. He has grudge against Clinton, and is now selectively trying to influence the election. Fuck him.

I won't say he didn;t reveal some stuff that needed revealing, but his dumbfuckery and efforts to help Trump have overwhelmed the good he did.

with this release of the emails for purely political reasons.

And I also got it that that is a 'narrative'.

Yesterday's 'narrative', that he's a child molester, fell on it's face.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/17/1583749/-Julian-Assange-investigated-for-online-grooming-of-8-year-old-girl

So tell me all about "whistleblowers" and "narcissists" "revealing whatever it is" someone "thinks will feed" their "ego". Tell me all about "grudges". Tell me all about Donna "selectively trying to influence the election".

Talk about "dumbfuckery".

Ever since then, he's been on a downward spiral. Getting exposed for being a liar does that to some.
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and did not edit it it themselves.

http://gawker.com/5513068/the-full-version-of-the-wikileaks-video-is-missing-30-minutes-of-footage

What have you got?

A computer forensics expert testified on Wednesday that confessed WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning said in a 2010 email exchange that he had “approved” edits to video of a U.S. Army helicopter attack in Iraq that killed two Reuters journalists.

That so-called “Collateral Murder” video was perhaps the most explosive document among the 700,000 that Manning sent to WikiLeaks. The organization’s founder, Julian Assange, was criticized for releasing it initially in an edited and shortened form in 2010.

We missed two times when the crew did NOT fire because of the concern for innocents. Great.

What happened before and after STILL happened.

It's amazing how for some, these little, oh he didn't cross a T or dot an i, becomes an excuse to be angry at him and AVOID the material exposed.

So what do you think about Donna Brazille?

It should never have been a war zone. There should never have been a curfew. But it is no war crime to kill combatants in a war zone.

Not sure what Brazille has to do with this.
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That simple

For almost 12 years I've been using the same bookmark to browse to DU and I guess it just wore out. Now when I click on it, I have "no idea what world I'm in".

Soon I'll not know if I am a moderate or a progressive or who knows what else. But I have to be careful and keep a "public face", least I run into trouble with the narrative police.

I know what you mean

His claims of wanting a radical lack of privacy are sharply undercut by his own unwillingness to face accountability for his actions.

WikiLeaks is at best incompetent in releasing things like John Podesta's password and at worst criminal assholes. None of them have put their own passwords up online.

Well said.

to pond scum

Does that make him a good friend?

steal your hub caps and help you look for them.

The man is an unrepentant rapist, an anti-Semite, a misogynist, and a darling of the Alt-Right Trump support group on Reddit. Hell, they even have an Assange Pepe; google it!

He's no friend of ours.

Choosing to help Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton. How thoughtful can he be?

He is avoiding possible criminal charges for rape in Sweden. So possible rapist if proven guilty no matter what toward the foe side of decency.

He has used triple parenthesis so apparent anti-semantic. That to me is toward the foe side again of any kind of decency.

With the dead man switches posted from wikileaks he and those associated with him apparently are using to blackmail countries. Again not someone who actually has a moral standing.

Just the fact of holding back different information (see above) he is not some kind of freedom of information advocate. Since he apparently also had been sitting on information about Ecuador and the U.K. F.C.O.. You have to wonder what else he is holding back for his own personal agenda.

Apparently withholding any information from the rnc while leaking dnc only would show he has a agenda. And that appears to be the case here. Trying to influence the vote for one party to me would make him a foe of American elections.

He's stuck in the embassy with now way out, so he's lashing out at those in power.

Heading to the USA or Sweden.......Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

the bedroom as well as the boardroom. Doesn't surprise me in the least that he's a Trump supporter as they both share certain idiosyncrasies; sexual assault being chief among them.

Misogyny... check.

Antisemitism...check

Racism... check

Libertarian idiocy... check.

Digging through the crap filled closets of the internet and posting what you find there on your website, with a lot of PGP mumble magic and sleights of hand, that isn't rocket science, and it doesn't make you any kind of hero.

Assange was building a celebrity "product" of himself (he has a lot in common with Trump that way...) and he got tripped up by his own fat ego.

I'm not sure why the Ecuadorian embassy staff haven't put roofies in his drink, stuffed him into a diplomatic mail pouch, maybe with a few hundred quid cash because nobody wants to be a monster, and thrown him out of a nondescript white van onto the side of a road in some nation with very confusing extradition laws.

Assange is not exactly a credible witness about anything at this point. Even if he's got the goods on a few people nobody is going to believe him. This boy has called wolf too many times.

WikiLeaks is doing the bidding their master, Putin. His refusal to do anything that might hurt Russia proves how unethical WikiLeaks is. Assange is a scumbag.

Either he wants the US to fall apart or he loves Donald Trump

No political sense.
He didn't realize there is a Democratic Party wave coming in?
He thought Clinton's emails would turn this in favor of the Orange disaster?

He's in trouble very soon.

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bragged about it.

(Grover Norquist comes to mind.) But, just because Rove says something right once a decade, doesn't mean i have to disagree with him and favor Assange. They're both pieces of crap.

They have a great deal in common.

if rove says charles manson is murderous scum, we should hail him as some kind of hero. Does that really make sense in your universe?

The Wikileaks / Julian Assange documentary is about to debut. The more friend and foe confusion there is the better for the success of the movie -- OR Laura Poitras is stuck with a bomb that will fizzle and embarrass her..

If you want to build a reputation as a leaker, you should not be playing favorites. And until he faces his accuser in court he can piss off all together.

YMMV.

Wrong most of the times, right a lot of times. We loved him when his organization exposed the open secrets of the Bush Administration and contractors in Iraq. Not so much when his organization hacks into personal data of people who have an expectation of privacy so that they can be smeared with scandals.
Look at his actual actions to see his motives. Who is his organization targeting and for what purpose? What can be expected to be the outcome for his targets by exposing their "secrets"?

IMO, He's an ideologue who sees himself as being able to profit off being a "hero of the people". Sort of like a Cyber Al Capone; instead of actually looking for finding what is behind so much of the misery in the world, he and his compatriots go around looking to find political "enemies" to throw under the bus of world opinion by exposing anything that can be hacked and seeing what sticks.

It's really easy to pick up something that is already fairly easily available with a minimum of searching on the 'net and scream "look here what I found". It's also easy to just grab and dump data without curating it to see if you're actually exposing a scandal, or putting relatively innocent low-level people's identities and potentially lives in danger. Like the recent Wikileaks Turkish data dump, exposing hundreds of thousand of civilians to the threat of political arrest and potentially death for activity that had previously been legal under a more secular leader.

The appearance of shaking up the system and thumbing one's nose at "the man" without digging into the files of certain people/organizations who are actually profiting off a targeted situation is an easy way of being attractive to a lot of people who are unhappy with being on the bottom, without being responsible for actually working to make their lives better.
From what I've seen, there is very little Wikileaks has exposed over the years had not already been discussed and disparaged on forums and at sites that were interested in those subjects.

Haele

Well, you already know where I stand

When he leaks emails in an attempt to influence the election in favor of Donald Trump, perhaps we should take pause?