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This is a logical rabbit hole we don't really need to venture down. Why couldn't he have left the Hillary leaks for a different organization to publish? Why publish any leaks at all if you can just leave that job to someone else?Look I repeatedly asked you which dirt he refused to publish and to make a compelling argument why it's a problem that he left it for a different organization to publish.
We can't possibly know how it would've turned out had Assange gone against Putin's interests. Instead, he made for a good lapdog the entire time.Yes and unless I have overlooked it the article doesn't mention how the security screening of the package was handled after it was accepted.
For all we know it would require Russia to blow up the whole embassy to kill him with a package that got into the lobby.
If you want mass information warfare by proxy, then yeah, having third-party outlets publish whatever is given to them by the world's intelligence agencies is the quickest means to get there.If you can verify their validity, they're the exact same thing, these are unaltered documents. The worst that could happen is that they may omit some context but making the argument that these documents shouldn't be released because the source was an intelligence agency is asinine.
That would make verification so much harder to accomplish.Your argument is only compelling if you consider the platform the documents are hosted on to be more relevant than the contents of the documents, which I disagree on. For all I care the DNC leaks could be published on the site of the GRU itself as long as journalists are able to verify the documents.
It's a complete crapshoot as to whether any mainstream journalist will publish information about sensitive leaks. Which is a big part of why Wikileaks came to be in the first place. It's just unfortunate that they lost sight of their own mission at some point.The "greater effort" your mention is literally sending the download link to a handful of relevant journalists.
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