1. I believe #Assange knew he was dealing with Russians and that it was #Russia who was behind the hacking. He helped them and then lied about it.
#RussianAsset
2. "Despite being confined to the embassy.., Assange met with Russians and world-class hackers at critical moments, frequently for hours at a time. He also acquired powerful new computing and network hardware to facilitate data transfers just weeks..."
cnn.com/2019/07/15/pol…
3. before WikiLeaks received hacked materials from Russian operatives....[T]here was "no doubt that there is evidence" that Assange had ties to Russian intelligence agencies."
4. WikiLeaks founder Assange lied to protect Russia, charges on hacked emails suggest
dispatch.com/news/20180715/…
5. The WikiLeaks-Russia connection started way before the 2016 election
vox.com/world/2017/1/6…
8. Trump offered the pardon in exchange for Assange denying that Russian intelligence was the source. Assange obeyed, thus making him an accomplice in the Trump/Putin cover-up of Russian interference in the elections. Trump and Assange are enemies of America.
9. Assange had good reason to know it was Russians behind it, and he lied and tried to frame Seth Rich, an innocent, dead, man. Beyond despicable.
smh.com.au/world/north-am…
10. He's a liar.
washingtonpost.com/news/fact-chec…
11. Using an "analysis of the metadata collected from the WikiLeaks site" and "information about Assange's computer and its possible operating system", the Special Counsel investigation found evidence that the Russians, using the pseudonym Guccifer 2.0, transferred ...
12. stolen emails to WikiLeaks, which then leaked the stolen documents. Assange and WikiLeaks have denied any connection to or co-operation with Russia in relation to the leaks. The Mueller Report stated that those denials about the source of the stolen materials ...
13. were "dissembling", and that the "file-transfer evidence described above and other information uncovered during the investigation discredit WikiLeaks's claims about the source of material that it posted."
14. The source for some of the above: "An analysis of the metadata collected from the WikiLeaks site revealed that the stolen Podesta emails show a creation date of September 19, 2016.171 Based on information about Assange's computer and its possible operating system, ...
15. this date may be when the GRU staged the stolen Podesta emails for transfer to WikiLeaks (as the GRU had previously done in July 2016 for the DNC emails)." Mueller Report, page 47
16. "[F]ormer CIA Director Mike Pompeo referred to WikiLeaks as "a non-state hostile intelligence service" and described founder Julian Assange as a narcissist, fraud, and coward."
cia.gov/news-informati…
17. "It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is, a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,” Pompeo said."
reuters.com/article/us-cia…
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