To: Brumar89 who wrote (988280 ) 12/16/2016 6:28:44 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to Assange and WikiLeaks absolutely IS allied with Russia. WikiLeaks have endangered the lives of Americans and our allies in both Iraq and Afghanistan. They've never done a single thing hostile to Russian interests. They ARE a Kremlin tool and probably always have been.The group has released a number of significant documents that have become front-page news items. Early releases included documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war and a report informing a corruption investigation in Kenya . [14] 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi journalists were among those killed by an AH-64 Apache helicopter, known as the Collateral Murder video. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary , a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available to the public. [15] Iraq War Logs " in coordination with major commercial media organisations. This allowed the mapping of 109,032 deaths in "significant" attacks by insurgents in Iraq that had been reported to Multi-National Force – Iraq , including about 15,000 that had not been previously published . [16] [17] 779 secret files relating to prisoners detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp [18] Cui bono???? In August 2016, after Wikileaks published thousands of DNC emails, it was claimed that Russian intelligence had hacked the e-mails and leaked them to Wikileaks. At the time, DNC officials made such claims, along with a number of cybersecurity experts and cybersecurity firms. [317] [318] In October 2016, the U.S. intelligence community announced that it was "confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations". [319] [319] CNN reported that "there is mounting evidence that the Russian government is supplying WikiLeaks with hacked emails pertaining to the US presidential election ." [320] [320] [229] [230] In September 2016, the German weekly magazine Focus reported that according to a confidential German government dossier, WikiLeaks had long since been infiltrated by Russian agents aiming to discredit NATO governments. The magazine added that French and British intelligence services had come to the same conclusion and said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev receive details about what WikiLeaks publishes before publication . [321] [322] New York Times story that suggested that WikiLeaks may be a laundering machine for compromising material about Western countries gathered by Russian spies . [323] On December 10, 2016, several news outlets, including The Guardian and The Washington Post , reported that the Central Intelligence Agency concluded that Russia intelligence operatives provided materials to Wikileaks in an effort to help Donald Trump’s election bid. The Washington Post article stated: "The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter." [324] [325]
