WikiLeaks is a right wing website, PERIOD

[Jim Lane]

69. I already pointed out that some materials are lacking. That doesn't show inaccuracy.

I wrote in #31, "Assange and his helpers would like to have access to every secret document, but they don't, so there's room for some selection bias in what they get their hands on."

It's probable that the dictatorships you list are more effective at keeping secrets.

You try to insinuate bias based on a lack of material about "post-2008 Republicans." Is your interpretation that WikiLeaks was pro-Democratic through 2008, then abruptly shifted and started attacking the Democratic Party? I'll give you an alternative explanation: WikiLeaks concentrates on data about governments and big business. It's rare for them to leak anything about a U.S. political party, or about politicians in their non-governmental roles. In a quick skim of the Wikipedia article that I linked, I find the leak about Palin in 2008, a leak about the campaign of Norm Coleman (R-MN) in 2009, and the leak about the DNC in 2016. That's it. WikiLeaks just doesn't get all that much stuff about such subjects. (As Lee-Lee pointed out in #50, WikiLeaks doesn't do the targeting.)

You previously asserted that "they disseminate materials only if they harm western liberalism." Presented with counterexamples, you've dropped that charge.

Of course, none of this undercuts my fundamental point -- that nothing in this thread gives any reason to doubt the accuracy of a WikiLeaks disclosure. The OP's attitude is, "Fuck anyone who thinks {WikiLeaks} is good for anything." As I look over the record of WikiLeaks disclosures, I think the site is good for a great deal. One can believe Julian Assange to be personally guity of rape and yet also believe that WikiLeaks's publication of Iraq War documents was a good thing. (The Guardian covered the leak and wrote, "A grim picture of the US and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes." Did that disclosure make Putin happy? I don't care. I think war crimes should be exposed.)

Privacy concerns are legitimate, but bear in mind that most WikiLeaks disclosures are about governments or large corporations. I don't think the U.S. military has any legitimate privacy expectation with regard to documentation of its numerous lies.