Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents.

  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    He’s an absolute scum bag and is directly responsible for Trump’s election.

    That said, my personal feelings about him are irrelevant. Whistle-blowers are an important part of democracy and must be protected.

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      7 months ago

      He’s an absolute scum bag and is directly responsible for Trump’s election.

      How so? Everything released was genuine. Maybe the Clinton campaign shouldn’t have been so shitty.

      Don’t shoot the messenger.

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        7 months ago

        As you well know, the release was timed to maximise the damage to Clinton’s campaign. Assange’s hatred of Clinton was well established long before.

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          maximise the damage to Clinton’s campaign

          No. Timed to maximise the exposure for wikileaks, to encourage more leaking.

          Assange’s hatred of Clinton was well established long before.

          More because she hates him. She was pushing to indict him after publishing the 2010 diplomatic cables showing complicit spying during her tenure as secretary of state. The same ones he’s now being held in prison for.