Re: [New post] Wikileaks Russian Ties: Julian Assange’s Forgotten Trips To Moscow

[Mark Thibodeau]

I hate to contradict, but in terms of track record, Louise Mensch is NOT
"more often right than wrong", particularly in her predictions. In fact,
the opposite is the case.

However, much of the information she presents isn't based on her own
reporting, and what she delivers here about Assange's biographical details
and his temporal/geographical footprint squares with what I've learned
about him over the years via mainstream and somewhat off-mainstream sources
(nothing clandestine, "sexy" or otherwise impressive, source-wise), so if
anyone were to ask me whether it's safe to trust this information (and I
claim no authority other than that of a decently informed, long-time
observer of the milieu and its denizens), I'd say yes.

Jerky

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 7:30 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ms Mensch is more often right than wrong as I read her spottily. She seems
> to save single sources ok much/ most of it which is why she is anathema
> within established journalism.
> Yet, sources in Intel seem to inform her of much truth.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Jan 3, 2020, at 7:20 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What he said...;-)
> >
> > Www.keithdavismusic.com
> >
> >> On Jan 3, 2020, at 6:37 PM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >> Given the source of the information it might be sensible to look for
> some other verification before assuming the facts are accurately presented.
> Louise Mensch who runs Patribotics has form, to say the least. She was a
> rising star in the Conservative Party here before she resigned from
> Parliament and decamped to New York.
> >>
> >> And a happy (?) new year to you all.
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 03/01/2020 20:36, David Morris wrote:
> >>> When you say you don't ascribe to this article, does that mean you
> doubt
> >>> the faces presented re. Assange's history w Russia?  Like, this might
> be
> >>> fake facts?
> >>>
> >>>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 2:18 PM Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I don’t endorse this. I just saw it
> >>>> and thought it might spark some conversation.
> >>>> kd
> >>>>
> >>>> Www.keithdavismusic.com
> >>>>
> >>>>>> On Jan 3, 2020, at 9:59 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Www.keithdavismusic.com
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> From: Patribotics <donotreply at wordpress.com>
> >>>>>> Date: January 3, 2020 at 12:51:15 AM EST
> >>>>>> To: kbob42 at gmail.com
> >>>>>> Subject: [New post] Wikileaks Russian Ties: Julian Assange’s
> Forgotten
> >>>> Trips To Moscow
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> New post on Patribotics
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Wikileaks Russian Ties: Julian Assange’s Forgotten Trips To Moscow
> >>>>>> by Louise Mensch
> >>>>>> Julian Assange, who rang in the New Year in Her Majesty's Prison,
> >>>> Belmarsh, appears to have spent a significant amount of time in
> Russia in
> >>>> the 1990s. Additionally, he lived in Paris with a Russian-speaking
> >>>> 'girlfriend' and was part of group of hackers intimately connected
> with
> >>>> Russia and the then KGB as a teenager. Assange has also admitted to
> being
> >>>> deeply steeped in Russian culture, reading Russian and pro-Russian
> Ukranian
> >>>> authors, and even being devoted to Russian vintage children's
> cartoons.
> >>>>>> Biographies and profiles of Assange have, inexplicably, glossed over
> >>>> the Wikileaks' founder's youth and activities prior to starting
> Wikileaks.
> >>>> As attention focused on Assange's ties to Russia in 2016, and even
> before
> >>>> then, as Assange fled to the Ecuadorean Embassy while dodging a trial
> for
> >>>> rape in Sweden, countless biographies and profiles of Assange have
> been
> >>>> published.
> >>>>>> Bizarrely, most of them completely omitted Assange's clearly
> extensive
> >>>> ties to Russian intelligence, that go back as far as his early years
> as a
> >>>> proto-hacker, part of an international group of 'phone phreakers'. The
> >>>> general impression has been left of Wikileaks as an idealistic
> organization
> >>>> that somehow 'went wrong' as Assange's anti-Americanism drove him
> into the
> >>>> arms of the Kremlin, as an 'unwitting idiot'. The facts, however,
> make it
> >>>> clear that this approach gives the Australian both too much, and too
> >>>> little, credit. Too much, in that it assumes Assange meant no harm,
> and was
> >>>> merely tricked by the GRU into his assault on American democracy; too
> >>>> little, in that it underestimates the length and witting depth of
> Assange's
> >>>> treacherous association with Russian intelligence, dating back to the
> days
> >>>> of Yeltsin and the KGB.
> >>>>>> Biographies and profiles such as those on Wikipedia, The New Yorker,
> >>>> the Guardian, (by no less an authority than David Leigh and Luke
> Harding),
> >>>> the Independent, and several others this author found simply omit, and
> >>>> apparently do not even know about, Assange's travels to Russia before
> >>>> founding Wikileaks and his connections to Russian intelligence. The LA
> >>>> Times profile of Assange, for example, published last spring, says
> only:
> >>>>>> Born in 1971, Assange’s coming of age coincided, somewhat fatefully,
> >>>> with the dawn of the internet era. He showed an early talent for
> >>>> puzzle-solving and mathematics that swiftly morphed into a knack for
> >>>> computer programming and coding – and for hacking, which led to a
> brush in
> >>>> his 20s with Australian law enforcement.
> >>>>>> A 2013 CNN 'Fast Facts' on Assange simply starts in 2006, with the
> >>>> foundation of Wikileaks. The New York Times' timeline on Assange and
> the
> >>>> United States likewise starts in 2010, with the Chelsea Manning (then
> known
> >>>> as Bradley Manning) link to Wikileaks.
> >>>>>> In 1996, Julian Assange was tried for hacking in Australia. In
> 2006, he
> >>>> founded Wikileaks.  In the ten years in between, according to almost
> all
> >>>> public biographies, Assange 'lived quietly' in Melbourne, attending,
> then
> >>>> dropping out of, university. Nothing to see here. In their book on
> Assange,
> >>>> "Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy", David Leigh and
> Luke
> >>>> Harding, both highly respected Guardian journalists, describe some
> (not
> >>>> all) of Assange's programming activities after the trial and before
> >>>> Wikileaks, but they also mistakenly report:
> >>>>>> As early as 1999 he came up with the idea of a leakers' website, he
> >>>> said, and registered the domain name 'Wikileaks[.]org'. But
> otherwise, he
> >>>> didn't do much about it. Assange was living in Melbourne and quietly
> >>>> raising his son.
> >>>>>> That wasn't true. In 1998 and 1999, Julian Assange was traveling in
> >>>> Eastern Europe, Russia and China. And since 1999 is when "he came up
> with
> >>>> the idea of a leakers' website" this seems galactically significant.
> >>>>>> Julian Assange Pre-Wikileaks: Money and Moscow
> >>>>>> According to Assange himself, in a now-deleted 2011 interview
> >>>> originally hosted on Wikileaks,  and preserved on archives of both
> >>>> Wikileaks mirrors and other sites, he was a frequent visitor to
> Moscow, and
> >>>> was intimately familiar with its system and even its TV shows:
> >>>>>> When I was in Russia in the 1990s, I used to watch NTV in Moscow.
> NTV
> >>>> was the freest TV I have ever seen. I don’t know if you’re familiar
> with
> >>>> Spitting Image. It was a British public satire that was very
> politically
> >>>> aggressive, but NTV and other Russian channels had far more guts. And
> that
> >>>> was because at that time, Russia had something like 10 independent
> points
> >>>> of power. It had the army. It had the remnants of the KGB and the
> external
> >>>> KGB, which ended up becoming the SVR. It had Yeltsin, and his
> daughter, and
> >>>> that mob. It had some broader mish-mash of bureaucracy that was left
> over
> >>>> from the Soviet Union. And it had seven oligarchs. That meant, in
> terms of
> >>>> media control, the state plus the oligarchs with own their own
> independent
> >>>> media. As a result, you could actually put out almost anything you
> wanted
> >>>> under the patronage or protection of one of these groups. And when
> Putin
> >>>> came in, he tamed the oligarchs. Some were arrested, some had their
> assets
> >>>> seized, and some were exiled. The result was that they fell in under
> >>>> Putin’s centralized patronage pyramid. The ownership of the TV
> stations
> >>>> also reined popular democracy under Putin’s pyramid. And now, in
> order to
> >>>> get anything of scale done in Russia, you have to have a sponsor in
> the
> >>>> pyramid somewhere.
> >>>>>> Assange carried this deep knowledge with him into Wandsworth prison,
> >>>> where Russian authors and popular culture inspired him:
> >>>>>> As for inspirational texts, well, there isn’t one in particular. But
> >>>> when I was in prison, I read Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
> and
> >>>> I’ve been a long-term appreciator of Solzhenitsyn and other Russian
> >>>> literature....Pasternak and Dostoyevsky, and yes, Tolstoy when I was
> >>>> younger, and Bulgakov, though he’s a Ukrainian who wrote in Russian.
> Cancer
> >>>> Ward is a wonderful book. Solzhenitsyn was in a cancer ward after
> being
> >>>> released from prison and exiled in Siberia, and he draws parallels
> between
> >>>> experiences in a Soviet labor camp and a hospital ward, but also uses
> these
> >>>> as a way to get at power relationships within a Sovietized state. But
> >>>> having cancer in a cancer ward is even worse than being locked in the
> >>>> basement of Wandsworth Prison in solitary confinement. So I found it
> oddly
> >>>> cheering.
> >>>>>> Asked what 'the most beautiful story you ever heard' was, Assange
> says:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I’m very fond of Russian children’s cartoons from the 1970s and 80s.
> >>>> These cartoons embody the highest representation of childhood and
> beauty
> >>>> and innocence and curiosity—all together. This is terribly
> underappreciated
> >>>> in Western society in this particular period. For something that I
> find
> >>>> beautiful, this is what comes to mind instantly.
> >>>>>> Russophilia is not, of course, a crime. But the facts on Assange's
> >>>> history indicate actual recruitment. Several biographers did go as
> far as
> >>>> to note his co-byline on the early history of a hacking group he was
> >>>> involved in, "Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession".
> This
> >>>> includes a limited amount on himself, "Mendax", as his nom-de-phreak
> had
> >>>> it. But Assange is an author of the book, and thus intimately
> involved with
> >>>> all the hackers in it. Take this early mention of Germany's "Chaos
> Computer
> >>>> Club":
> >>>>>> Pengo... a well-known hacker with links to the German hacking group
> >>>> called the Chaos Computer Club.... Pengo had been involved with
> people who
> >>>> sold US military secrets - taken from computers - to the KGB.
> >>>>>> Oh. Well, OK then.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> His real interest was in hacking, not spying. The Russian connection
> >>>> simply enabled him to get access to bigger and better computers.
> Beyond
> >>>> that, he felt no loyalty to the Russians.
> >>>>>> More on the 'Chaos Computer Club' and its KGB assets shortly. But
> >>>> Assange also writes a long chapter on 'Anthrax', who was involved in
> human
> >>>> trafficking and liked, in his off-time, to listen to Radio Moscow.
> >>>>>> In 1996 Assange was tried in Australia for a string of hacking
> >>>> offenses, including of United States military sites, the same targets
> his
> >>>> KGB-connected friends in the Chaos Computer Club had hit. He was
> convicted,
> >>>> and, essentially, let off with a warning. He was 25.
> >>>>>> Most Assange biographies gloss over the next few years. But that is
> a
> >>>> horrible dereliction of duty. As soon as the trial was over, Assange,
> >>>> formerly an indigent teenage hacker, met his biological father again
> and
> >>>> "came into money". This money was large enough to allow him to travel
> all
> >>>> over the world:
> >>>>>> Well, I’ve been traveling all over the world on my own since I was
> >>>> twenty-five, as soon as I had enough money to do it.
> >>>>>> Not only, even before skating on charges of attacking the US
> military,
> >>>> did Assange get enough cash to travel the world, an unnamed "Italian
> real
> >>>> estate investor" [sic] gave him and his anti-US-military
> co-conspirator
> >>>> "Trax" enough money to buy a mainframe computer at an Italian
> university.
> >>>>>> Note how this models what Assange wrote of 'Pengo' - the Russians
> gave
> >>>> Pengo access to 'bigger and better computers'
> >>>>>> In 1992 Mendax and Trax teamed up with a wealthy Italian real-estate
> >>>> investor, purchased La Trobe University's mainframe computer
> (ironically, a
> >>>> machine they had been accused of hacking) and started a computer
> security
> >>>> company. The company eventually dissolved when the investor
> disappeared
> >>>> following actions by his creditors.
> >>>>>> Uh-huh.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It is genuinely amazing that the Guardian would wrongly report in
> 2011,
> >>>> of the time when Assange himself said he had enough money to travel
> the
> >>>> world, that:
> >>>>>> Convicted but leniently treated, Assange was now an unemployed
> father
> >>>> in Melbourne surviving on a single parent pension.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Assange's Choice of Travel - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Irkutsk,
> Beijing
> >>>>>> In 1998 Assange was in the long period of traveling that he admitted
> >>>> started in 1996. According to the biography he refused to allow to be
> >>>> published, which has not come out in e-book, he announced some few of
> the
> >>>> destinations in a round-robin email for his "international" group of
> >>>> hackers: Frankfurt, Berlin, Poland, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Irtkutsk,
> and
> >>>> Beijing.
> >>>>>> If anyone feels like getting together for beer, vodka, Siberian bear
> >>>> steak.... just let me know
> >>>>>> It is apparent, then, that several of his round-robin emailees
> lived in
> >>>> Russia. It would be pretty hard to meet him for Siberian bear steak in
> >>>> Irkutsk if they did not.
> >>>>>> The Chaos Computer Club, the KGB, and... the 2016 Election?
> >>>>>> Starting in Frankfurt and Berlin was also significant. The Chaos
> >>>> Computer Club was the one Assange wrote about back in 1997 -
> admitting one
> >>>> of his friends there had sold US military secrets to the KGB.
> >>>>>> But what is this? A 2018 Washington Post profile of Andy
> Muller-Maguhn,
> >>>> going to visit Assange, says that in 2016, Muller-Maguhn:
> >>>>>> ...typically brings Assange books, clothes or movies. Once in 2016,
> he
> >>>> delivered a thumb drive that he says contained personal messages for
> the
> >>>> WikiLeaks founder, who for security reasons has stopped using email.
> >>>>>> These visits have caught the attention of U.S. and European spy
> chiefs,
> >>>> who have struggled to understand how Assange's organization operates
> and
> >>>> how exactly WikiLeaks came to possess a trove of hacked Democratic
> Party
> >>>> emails that the group released at key moments in the 2016 presidential
> >>>> campaign.
> >>>>>> No, ma'am, Ms. Nakashimae - US and European spy chiefs have no
> problems
> >>>> whatsoever understanding how Wikileaks operates - it's a lazy as hell
> >>>> mainstream media that overlooked how Wikileaks operates.
> >>>>>> The piece continues:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The roots of Müller-Maguhn's relationship with Assange trace back to
> >>>> his teenage years in the 1980s when his walk to school in Hamburg
> took him
> >>>> past the offices of the Chaos Computer Club.
> >>>>>> Oh.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> In a Herculean effort to whitewash Muller-Maguhn, the profile then
> goes
> >>>> on to admit that the German works for the Chinese state and has
> attended
> >>>> conferences in Moscow.
> >>>>>> One of his clients is in China, a state known for its suppression of
> >>>> the Internet and its surveillance of dissidents....In recent years,
> >>>> Müller-Maguhn's consulting and advocacy work has carried him all over
> the
> >>>> world, including Moscow, where in 2016 and 2017 he attended a security
> >>>> conference organized by the Russian Defense Ministry.
> >>>>>> Riigggghhhhhht. (Dr. Evil voice)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> In the superseding espionage indictment of Assange, the Chaos
> Computer
> >>>> Club is mentioned by name.
> >>>>>> In 2007, Assange admitted he had a "girlfriend" in Paris helping him
> >>>> build the Wikileaks website by translating Russian for him:
> >>>>>> I had a girlfriend who would come round. She just brought food and I
> >>>> stayed at the computer. She spoke Russian, and would sometimes lend a
> hand
> >>>> with that
> >>>>>> Why would Mr. Assange need Russian translated to build the Wikileaks
> >>>> website? Before he'd received a single, solitary leak?
> >>>>>> Because Russians were helping him build it and directing the build.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Timeline of Assange's Russian Connections
> >>>>>> Here is a partial timeline of Julian Assange's Russian connections,
> as
> >>>> demonstrated in this piece from open source research. Taken as a
> whole, it
> >>>> should be amply clear that Assange has been working, knowingly, with
> >>>> Russian intelligence since the days of the KGB; that he has been
> funded by
> >>>> outlets working for Russia; that the 'Chaos Computer Club' is an
> offshoot
> >>>> of the GRU, best considered as contractors to Russian and Chinese
> >>>> intelligence; and that Wikileaks was a Russian-intelligence approved
> effort
> >>>> to use naive Western hackers and activists to help Russian military
> >>>> intelligence access United States Military facilities.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> This blog has long exclusively reported that the Mueller Grand Jury
> >>>> case is 'United States vs Wikileaks, et al,' and that the
> Government's case
> >>>> is that Wikileaks has always been a witting partner of the GRU. Once
> this
> >>>> is proven, the Trump campaign's partnership with Wikileaks becomes a
> >>>> legally chargeable partnership with the GRU, and DOJ can and will
> charge
> >>>> them with collusion.
> >>>>>> Julian Assange's completely forgotten and overlooked trips to Moscow
> >>>> and other Russian cities, and the influx of money he received after
> hacking
> >>>> the US military, entirely support our reporting and analysis. In
> their book
> >>>> on Wikileaks, David Leigh and Luke Harding describe the meeting the
> paper's
> >>>> journalists had with a triumphant Assange just before the Guardian
> >>>> dutifully published the leaks the GRU and Assange had jointly taken
> from
> >>>> Chelsea Manning.
> >>>>>> The partners again headed for dinner in the Rotunda restaurant
> beneath
> >>>> the Guardian offices... Here, as the journalists sank pints of
> Pilsner...
> >>>> Assange confided he was thinkin
> >>>>>> g about going to Russia. Russia was an odd choice - especially in
> the
> >>>> light of soon-to-be-published cables describing it as a 'virtual mafia
> >>>> state'.....
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> But, of course, Russia was not at all an 'odd choice', and had the
> >>>> Guardian done any research whatsoever into the man they were
> assisting and
> >>>> his motives, they would have realized that.
> >>>>>> Later, Guardian journalists would hide behind their opposition to
> the
> >>>> Russian anti-semite and open Russian intelligence asset Israel
> Shamir, who
> >>>> scorned to hide his affiliation with, and payment by, Assange and
> >>>> Wikileaks. 'Oh look, as soon as we realized Assange was deep in with
> >>>> Russian racists, we pulled back.' But by then, the damage to Western
> >>>> security had been done, by Russia, with their willing assistance.
> >>>>>> The Guardian, the New York Times, and all the other Western
> >>>> institutions who unwittingly helped Russian intelligence attack their
> own
> >>>> nations by giving Assange such a platform, now had a built-in
> disincentive
> >>>> to ever really examine the origins of Wikileaks and the motivations
> of its
> >>>> deeply repellent founder. Because if they "committed journalism", as
> >>>> Assange apologists like to say, they would have to report that they,
> >>>> themselves, had been so-called 'useful idiots'. And a headline like
> that is
> >>>> unlikely to make the front page.
> >>>>>> Timeline of Assange's Early Russian Connections
> >>>>>> Here is a partial timeline of Julian Assange's Russian connections,
> as
> >>>> demonstrated in this piece from open source research. Taken as a
> whole, it
> >>>> should be amply clear that Assange has been working, knowingly, with
> >>>> Russian intelligence since the days of the KGB; that he has been
> funded by
> >>>> outlets working for Russia; that the 'Chaos Computer Club' is an
> offshoot
> >>>> of the GRU, best considered as contractors to Russian and Chinese
> >>>> intelligence; and that Wikileaks was a Russian-intelligence approved
> effort
> >>>> to use naive Western hackers and activists to help Russian military
> >>>> intelligence access United States Military facilities.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1971 - Julian Assange born.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Late 80s - Julian Assange becomes part of an international group of
> >>>> hackers including the Chaos Computer Club in Germany
> >>>>>> 1986 - 1988 - 'Pengo', of the CCC, has been hacking the US military
> and
> >>>> selling its secrets to the KGB for 'access to better computers'.
> Assange
> >>>> gleefully records this in his book. Pengo hands himself in to German
> >>>> authorities after his fellow hacker of the US, Habgard, who also sold
> >>>> secrets to the KGB is burned alive before a court case, presumably
> because
> >>>> the KGB thought he would talk.
> >>>>>> 1989 - Julian Assange hacks NASA with the WANK worm, dropping the
> name
> >>>> of Midnight Oil into his code.
> >>>>>> 1989-1991 Assange befriends another hacker, Anthrax, an antisemite
> who
> >>>> likes to listen to Radio Moscow
> >>>>>> 1991 - Assange hacks the US military Milnet and gets caught, but the
> >>>> trial date takes several years
> >>>>>> 1992 - Assange and a fellow hacker suddenly come into enough money
> to
> >>>> buy a huge mainframe computer at an Italian University
> >>>>>> 1992-1996 Assange starts reading extensively in Russian literature
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1996 - Assange is convicted but let off by an Australian judge,
> despite
> >>>> having done extensive damage to the US military
> >>>>>> 1996 - Assange comes into a large amount of money and begins
> >>>> extensively to travel the world alone. He sets up bulletin boards for
> >>>> international hackers, including hackers in Germany with the Chaos
> Computer
> >>>> Club, the KGB's partners, and Russia
> >>>>>> 1997 - Assange writes and publishes his self-laudatory book about
> >>>> hackers, from which many of the above facts are sourced
> >>>>>> 1990s in general - Assange spends enough time in Moscow to become
> >>>> intimately familiar with their TV shows and cartoons
> >>>>>> 1998 - Assange sends a 'round robin email' to his string of hacker
> >>>> friends asking to meet them in Berlin 'or Siberia' . He announces he
> will
> >>>> be visiting Germany, then Moscow, St. Petersburg and Irkutsk in
> Siberia,
> >>>> followed by Beijing, China
> >>>>>> 1999 - Assange registers Wikileaks
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1999- 2007 - These years are obscured by Assange, apart from a short
> >>>> stint dropping out of college in 2003, but, of course, despite having
> >>>> convictions and no gainful employment, he is able to travel all
> around the
> >>>> world on, it may fairly be assumed, Russian money. Assange has never
> >>>> explained the source of the wealth he came into at 25, once he was
> 'let
> >>>> off' for hacking the US military
> >>>>>> 2006 - Wikileaks 'soft launches' in Iceland
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2007 - Assange's Russian-speaking girlfriend in Paris is helping him
> >>>> code the Wikileaks website, and he uses her for Russian translations
> >>>>>> 2009 - the Chaos Computer Club and Assange solicit US military
> >>>> materials in Malaysia, as described in Assange's superseding
> indictment for
> >>>> espionage
> >>>>>> 2009 - Chelsea/Bradley Manning responds to the solicitation and
> Assange
> >>>> helps her crack US military passwords with the help of "Wikileaks
> >>>> Affiliates" who, I submit, are clearly agents of the GRU; the
> superseding
> >>>> indictment states:
> >>>>>> ASSANGE, WikiLeaks Affiliates,and Manning Shared the Common
> Objective
> >>>> to Subvert Lawful Restrictions on Classified Information and to
> Publicly
> >>>> Disseminate it.
> >>>>>> Readers will note the indictment does not speak of other members of
> >>>> Wikileaks, but "Wikileaks Affiliates".
> >>>>>> 2012 - Russia Today gives Assange his own television show, paying
> him
> >>>> handsomely, and sets up his flight to the Ecuadorean embassy by
> arranging
> >>>> for Correa to be his guest
> >>>>>> 2016 - the Chaos Computer Club's Andy Muller Maughn delivers
> Assange a
> >>>> thumb drive, while openly boasting he works for Russian intelligence
> and
> >>>> the Chinese government
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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