The shocking online video that changed the world, and thrust Assange into the spotlight | nickdmiller
According to allegations in an indictment filed in July this year in the US, WikiLeaks had courted a hacker known as Guccifer 2.0, who had apparently stolen files from the Democratic National Committee’s computer server.
In Helsinki this July, Vladimir Putin admitted that he had wanted Trump to win, though he denied interfering in the election. WikiLeaks' and the Kremlin’s interests were aligned. Assange has made no secret of his dislike of Clinton, whom he blamed for persecuting him over his earlier leaks when she was secretary of state.
The Russians sent a Gigabyte of data through and WikiLeaks released over 20,000 emails and other documents three days before the convention began. There was another big release of emails and documents stolen from the Clinton campaign in October, precisely a month before voting day – and just an hour after Trump’s infamous “grab them by the pussy” tape was made public.
And he denied being motivated by revenge for the Obama administration’s “inhuman and degrading treatment of one of our alleged sources, Chelsea Manning”.Assange also stonewalled attempts to establish the source of the DNC emails - even dropping hints on Twitter and in interviews that the source was murdered Democratic Party worker Seth Rich, a right-wing conspiracy theory has been largely disproven by subsequent revelations.
Assange was a “narcissist who has created nothing of value”, Pompeo claimed, and had “made common cause with dictators” in the cause of “personal self-aggrandisement through the destruction of Western values”. The same month, Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, was released from prison after Barack Obama commuted her 35-year sentence.
At the end of 2017 Ecuador tried another solution. According to reports and official documents released by the Ecuador parliament, it appointed Assange as political consul at its Moscow embassy and tried to argue with the UK that Assange would be able to leave for Russia, or for Ecuador without fear of arrest, under the protection that international law provides for diplomats.
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