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WikiLeaks Turned Down Leaks on Russian Government During US Pres. Campaign (foreignpolicy.com)
5 points by putsteadywere 3230 days ago
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"in 2010, Assange vowed to publish documents on any institution that resisted oversight... “We don’t have targets,” Assange said at the time."

But by 2016, WikiLeaks had switched course, focusing almost exclusively on Clinton and her campaign.

Approached later that year by the same source about data from an American security company, WikiLeaks again turned down the leak. “Is there an election angle? We’re not doing anything until after the election unless its [sic] fast or election related,” WikiLeaks wrote. “We don’t have the resources.”

Anything not connected to the election would be “diversionary,” WikiLeaks wrote.