The email that is referred to is from a right wing blog from 2007. By quoting it as an email from 2010 it made it sound like Assange was talking about the Obama administration when clearly it would have been aimed at the Bush administration. And the bush administration WAS violating the law at the time.
In addition to that egregious twisting of the facts the quote is still literally taken out of contest as well. Here is the quote from the purported email from 2007 (The News Real Blog is a right-wing blog operated by the David Horowitz Freedom Center FYI):
E-Mails Revealed: Show Intent To Bring Down The U.S. Government And Possible Connections to George Soros
by Joseph Klein
Posted on December 1 2010 10:44 am
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In the following example, after discussing the virtues of file-sharing over the Internet as a way to defeat copyright enforcement, the e-mail ends with its author’s belief that Wikileaks can assist with the ” total annihilation of the current US regime.
From:
WL can advance the political/governance aspects of these developments by several years which will have all sorts of positive cascades, not the least of which is total annihilation of the current US regime and any other regime that holds its authority through mendacity alone.
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:56:55 +1100
To:
[This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g.....
~Snip~
Then there are the tantalizing references to George Soros, whom Wikileaks apparently tried to hit up for a substantial donation to its cause.
Full post:
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/12/01/wikileaks-internal-e-mails-revealed-show-intent-to-bring-down-the-u-s-government-and-possible-connections-to-george-soros/2/
Just pointing that out....
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