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Some people were wondering (well, I was at least), why Julian Assange seems to take such an active role in the USA presidency election (by publishing delicate emails at a sensitive point in time). While both candidates are somewhat controversial, the current leaks seem to be quite focused on the democrats candidate, Hillary Clinton. A tweet sent from wikileaks twitter-account, referencing this story on truepundit, might shed some light on these animosities between Hillary Clinton and Julian Assange: Allegedly, Clinton suggested in 2010 to kill Assange with a drone:
"Can't we just drone this guy?" Clinton openly inquired, offering a simple remedy to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned military drone strike, according to State Department sources. The statement drew laughter from the room which quickly died off when the Secretary kept talking in a terse manner, sources said. Clinton said Assange, after all, was a relatively soft target, "walking around" freely and thumbing his nose without any fear of reprisals from the United States.
This might heat up expectations and speculations regarding the announced upcoming leaks. Another interesting question might be, how neutral will the Ecuadorian government stay in this struggle. Afterall, Julian Assange does rely on their hospitality at the moment. Will they stay out of it? Or might they have some vested interest to make sure the future US-president is from the democrats? Or would they actually be interested to see Trump being elected?
takyon: WikiLeaks' Assange signals release of documents before U.S. election
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Tuesday the group would publish about one million documents related to the U.S. election and three governments in coming weeks, but denied the release was aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton. Assange, speaking via a video link, said the documents would be released before the end of the year, starting with an initial batch in the coming week. Assange, 45, who remains at the Ecuadoran embassy in London where he sought refuge in 2012 to avoid possible extradition to Sweden, said the election material was "significant" and would come out before the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election.
[...] "The material that WikiLeaks is going to publish before the end of the year is of ... a very significant moment in different directions, affecting three powerful organizations in three different states as well as ... the U.S election process," he said via a video link at an event marking the group's 10th anniversary. He said the material would focus on war, weapons, oil, mass surveillance, the technology giant Google and the U.S. election, but declined to give any details. "There has been a misquoting of me and Wikileaks publications ... (suggesting) we intend to harm Hillary Clinton or I intend to harm Hillary Clinton or that I don't like Hillary Clinton. All those are false," he said.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @05:17PM
Trump tends to focus on ethnic groups rather than just individuals.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @05:26PM
Trump tends to focus on ethnic groups rather than just individuals.
So says the mass media.
Clinton has her own legacy of ethnic-group bashing that somehow never gets mentioned.
(Score: 2) by weeds on Tuesday October 04 2016, @06:18PM
Please mention it.
Get money out of politics! [mayday.us]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @10:31PM
The few ethnic gaffes I know of she apologized for. Trump only half apologized on ANYTHING once.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Tuesday October 04 2016, @06:02PM
Hillary tends to focus on killing everyone against her..... "if your not with us, your again' us!"
Hillary will do ANYTHING for power.
Drones, bullets, bombs, freak smiles during a debate.....
Stay safe Jullian... keep on bringing it, but keep your head down.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @12:37AM
^ Fox-Foil Hat
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Wednesday October 05 2016, @01:59AM
find me one politician who does NOT fit the 'will do anything for more power' description.
go ahead. I'm waiting.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by KiloByte on Wednesday October 05 2016, @11:33AM
A vast majority of them stays above, for example, MURDER of opponents.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @09:07PM
Too bad that your opinion (the one that says that Clinton murdered/murders people) isn't backed up by facts... If you could nail the part where you actually have data or evidence, you may be able to one day make a compelling case...
(Score: 3, Informative) by edIII on Tuesday October 04 2016, @08:06PM
That's completely untrue. He has epic grudge matches against individual people all the time, and repeatedly threatens to destroy individual people for their offenses against him.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.