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posted by janrinok on Tuesday October 04 2016, @04:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the she-was-joking,-right? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @06:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @06:50PM (#410197)

    I don't see what these viewpoints have in common.

    The three groups are pretty unified in trying to get a malignant narcissist (Donald Trump) elected to office. Yes, the libertarian party has a candidate, but most libertarians I know are voting for Trump (a few thankfully not). If we judge a group's members by their behavior, and not the platform of the party they self-identify with, one finds little to differentiate the alt-right, so-called "mainstream" republicans like Mike Pence, and so-called libertarians (with a small 'L'). Yes, the core "elite" of the parties may be different, but the masses following them are pretty difficult to tell apart.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @04:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @04:14AM (#410496)

    but most libertarians I know are voting for Trump

    If they're voting for a fascist like Trump, they're obviously not libertarians.