Was Assange an asset for the US government? (criticalresist.substack.com)

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[-] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

You can’t make the claim Assange/Wikileaks is a US asset just because their leaks didn’t lead to the collapse of the US or significant change.

Did ye just handwave a bunch of evidence right here in the article?

Again, notably absent were US soldiers, intelligence analysts, senatorial aides or anything of the sort. But somehow, Wikileaks easily found Chinese dissidents to help them (despite Chinese dissidents saying for years that speaking up against the Chinese government is very dangerous to their lives!)

John Young, the founder of cryptome.org and a member of Wikileaks from the start, left the group in early 2007, calling it a “CIA conduit.” He has since rescinded that statement, but leaked more than 150 pages of emails sent between Wikileaks founders when he left.

It is however concerning that in 2011, Assange told Reuters that “China is [Wikileaks’] real enemy” and that Wikileaks was looking at ways to circumvent their “censorship”,

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

It is however concerning that in 2011, Assange told Reuters that “China is [Wikileaks’] real enemy” and that Wikileaks was looking at ways to circumvent their “censorship”,

That could be his "free speech absolutist" stance or perhaps his Australian/Anglo bias seeping in. I don't think it proves or indicates that he was a CIA asset. Hardcore Maoists also hate the current Chinese government/system, are they CIA assets too?

[-] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But consider the other evidence I just told ye;

if he wasn't indirectly an asset,

why tf did he join it when the website seemed to pried open to CIA influence as 'CIA conduit' and the acceptance of Chinese dissidents as such, according to co-founder John Young?

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

What do you mean join it? Didn't he start Wikileaks? As I said, the whole supporting Chinese dissidents thing is his free speech absolutist stance: if he supports US dissidents leaking stuff about the US govt. he also supports Chinese dissidents doing the same. That's what the idea behind Wikileaks was, a global dissident platform.

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