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by at-fates-hands 3570 days ago
I would agree with that.

Although I'm not sure if that is because the majority of the documents he gets are from the US, or if the US has been, and always will be, a place where secrets are so tightly guarded anybody that has an avenue to expose some of them are going to do so.

Does Wikileaks get documents from other countries? Has he gotten the amount of publicity in other countries from those leaks that he has on his US documents?

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I believe it's self-selection by and large. E.g. Wikileaks was decidedly negative on Panama Papers, as much of it implicates the enemies of America. And being an enemy of the USA by default makes you a friend of Assange. Consider this nugget:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/717458064324964352