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In reply to the discussion: Wikileak's Sarah Harrison, Snowden asylum assistant now in exile [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)me. Kind of a waste of your time also since I am pretty much immune to such behavior having gone to the equivalent of Internet Boot Camp back in the Bush days while arguing with his, to be kind, 'supporters'.
But, back to the issue at hand. You have presented 'links' none of which have anything to do with the founding of Wikileaks, how the idea evolved, or why.
AND THAT is what I was referring to, the concept, the birth of the Org., NOT to the many spin-offs.
Assange, eg, was not one of the original founders. The project was started by people from all over the world, many of them Chinese Dissidents who provided some of the software, according to reports.
It was made up of thousands of people when it began and he was added to the staff, later.
Chinese Dissidents, in 2010 announced they would start their own site and 'keep in touch with Wikileaks'.
The idea of transparency in government, something Dems support as far as I know, has huge popularity around the world since the takeover of the Western Media by Corporations. So naturally there are many sites now imitating them.
The effort to protect the Bush criminals AND the corrupt Bankers has been intense, and puzzling on the Left since the Left for eight years, was calling for prosecutions of War Criminals and Wall St. Criminals. These attacks then on Wikileaks from the Left make little sense. Most of the leaks from Manning were about the Bush War Crimes.