We Just Got More Proof That Wikileaks Is An Arm Of The Russian State
Why did Wikileaks turn down a bunch of documents about Russia?
The curious and often murky case of Wikileaks’s connection to the Russian government just got a little clearer.
In the middle of the 2016 election season, WikiLeaks refused a massive cache of documents related to the Russian government, according to a new report by Foreign Policy.
“WikiLeaks declined to publish a wide-ranging trove of documents — at least 68 gigabytes of data — that came from inside the Russian Interior Ministry,” Foreign Policy noted.
During the 2016 election Wikileaks served as the primary publisher of stolen documents hacked by Russia.
The Russian hack included both DNC servers and John Podesta’s email account.
Today’s revelation by Foreign Policy that Wikileaks had the opportunity to publish documents about the Russian government but refused raises the obvious question – why?
According to someone who spoke to Foreign Policy, “It would have exposed Russian activities and shown WikiLeaks was not controlled by Russian security services.”
“Many Wikileaks staff and volunteers or their families suffered at the hands of Russian corruption and cruelty, we were sure Wikileaks would release it. Assange gave excuse after excuse,” the report noted.
That leaves us again with one question, why?
Why did Julian Assange repeatedly refuse to publish documents that would be damaging to the Russian government at the same time that it was publishing documents that were critical to the Russian government’s most important espionage operation?
The documents allegedly totaled 68 gigabytes of data, more than half of which had never been previously released.
