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Undated: WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes secret information, news leaks,[5] and classified media provided by anonymous sources.[6] Its website, initiated in 2006 in Iceland by the organisation Sunshine Press,[7] claims a database of 10 million documents in 10 years since its launch.[8] Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder and director.[9] Kristinn Hrafnsson is its editor-in-chief.[10]
The group has released a number of prominent document dumps. Early releases included documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war and a report informing a corruption investigation in Kenya.[11] In April 2010, WikiLeaks released the so-called Collateral Murder footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi journalists were among those killed. Other releases in 2010 included the Afghan War Diary and the "Iraq War Logs". The latter allowed the mapping of 109,032 deaths in "significant" attacks by insurgents in Iraq that had been reported to Multi-National Force – Iraq, including about 15,000 that had not been previously published.[12][13] In 2010, WikiLeaks also released the US State Department diplomatic "cables", classified cables that had been sent to the US State Department. In April 2011, WikiLeaks began publishing 779 secret files relating to prisoners detained in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.[14]
During the 2016 US presidential election campaign, WikiLeaks released emails and other documents from the Democratic National Committee and from Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta.[15] These releases caused significant harm to the Clinton campaign, and have been attributed as a potential contributing factor to her loss.[16] The U.S. intelligence community expressed "high confidence" that the leaked emails had been hacked by Russia and supplied to WikiLeaks, while WikiLeaks denied their source was Russia or any other state.[17] During the campaign, WikiLeaks promoted conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.[18][19][20] In private conversations from November 2015 that were later leaked, Julian Assange expressed a preference for a GOP victory in the 2016 election, explaining that "Dems+Media+liberals woudl [sic] then form a block to reign [sic] in their worst qualities. With Hillary in charge, GOP will be pushing for her worst qualities, dems+media+neoliberals will be mute."[21] In private correspondence with the Trump campaign on election day (8 November 2016), WikiLeaks encouraged the Trump campaign to contest the election results in case they lost.[22]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks
Undated: A wiki is a website on which users collaboratively modify content and structure directly from the web browser. In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor.[1]
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A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine. A wiki engine is a type of content management system, but it differs from most other such systems, including blog software, in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little inherent structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users.[2] There are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking systems. Some wiki engines are open source, whereas others are proprietary. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access); for example, editing rights may permit changing, adding, or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules may be imposed to organize content.
The online encyclopedia project Wikipedia is the most popular wiki-based website, and is one of the most widely viewed sites in the world, having been ranked in the top ten since 2007.[3] Wikipedia is not a single wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis, with each one pertaining to a specific language. In addition to Wikipedia, there are tens of thousands of other wikis in use, both public and private, including wikis functioning as knowledge management resources, notetaking tools, community websites, and intranets. The English-language Wikipedia has the largest collection of articles; as of September 2016, it had over five million articles. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".[4] "Wiki" (pronounced [ˈwiki][note 1]) is a Hawaiian word meaning "quick".[5][6][7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
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December 9: Everything You Need to Know About Wikileaks
Wikileaks is a self-described “not-for-profit media organization,” launched in 2006 for the purposes of disseminating original documents from anonymous sources and leakers. Its website says: “Wikileaks will accept restricted or censored material of political, ethical, diplomatic or historical significance. We do not accept rumor, opinion, other kinds of first hand accounts or material that is publicly available elsewhere.”
More-detailed information about the history of the organization can be found on Wikipedia (with all the caveats that apply to a rapidly changing Wiki topic). Wikipedia incidentally has nothing to do with Wikileaks—both share the word “Wiki” in the title, but they’re not affiliated.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/421949/everything-you-need-to-know-about-wikileaks/
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August 26: Julian Assange tells Megyn Kelly why WikiLeaks isn't releasing dirt on Donald Trump
https://theweek.com/speedreads/645239/julian-assange-tells-megyn-kelly-why-wikileaks-isnt-releasing-dirt-donald-trump
October 19: Why Is Assange Helping Trump?
After weeks of near-daily WikiLeaks releases of embarrassing emails plundered from the inbox of Hillary Clinton’s aides, her campaign team, and the wider Democratic Party, Julian Assange’s hosts at the Ecuadorian embassy in London have taken the ultimate step: like parents of a teenage child, driven so mad by their kid’s late night Snapchat habit that they finally turn off the wifi, the Ecuadorians have shut off the Internet to prevent their incorrigible long-term guest from doing any more leaking.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/10/19/wikileaks-why-is-assange-helping-trump/
November 8: WikiLeaks Doesn't Have Dirt on Donald Trump, Founder Says
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wikileaks-dirt-donald-trump-founder/story?id=43390617
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March 8: As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump declared, “I love WikiLeaks!” And he had good reason to display affection to this website run by accused rapist Julian Assange. By releasing reams of emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, WikiLeaks helped tilt the 2016 election in Trump’s favor.
As president, Trump hasn’t come out and said anything laudatory about WikiLeaks following its massive disclosure of CIA secrets on Tuesday — a treasure trove that some experts already believe may be more damaging than Edward Snowden’s revelations. But Trump hasn’t condemned WikiLeaks. The recent entries on his Twitter feed — a pure reflection of his unbridled id — contain vicious attacks on, among other things, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the New York Times, and Barack Obama but not a word about WikiLeaks. Did the president not notice that the intelligence community he commands has just suffered a devastating breach of security? Or did he simply not feel compelled to comment?
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/08/wikileaks-has-joined-the-trump-administration/
May 8: Argument -- WikiLeaks Has Joined the Trump Administration
The anti-American group has become the preferred intelligence service for a conspiracy-addled White House.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/08/wikileaks-has-joined-the-trump-administration/
June 1: Donald Trump’s white nationalist campaign attracted anti-immigrant, pro-Russia politicians from across Europe. In particular “Brexit” leader Nigel Farage, the proudly racist and sexist former head of the nationalist UK Independence Party, made an unprecedented trans-Atlantic push for Trump. Farage attended the Republican convention, did media appearances to support Trump, joined in raising the rabble at Trump rallies, and even defended Trump’s ugly Access Hollywood statements as just the bragging of an “alpha male.” Farage is also an admirer of Trump adviser Steve Bannon, with a Breitbart-friendly relationship that extends back at least three years. And now Trump and Farage have something else in common:
Nigel Farage is a “person of interest” in the US counter-intelligence investigation that is looking into possible collusion between the Kremlin and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Guardian has been told.
Farage says he’s never even been to Russia … though he refuses to say if he’s received payment from RT or other Russian state media. Farage has met with Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, with Assange-friendly whackadoodle Roger Stone, and seems to have just incidentally been involved with a lot of people whose names keep showing up on the FBI radar.
“He’s right in the middle of these relationships. He turns up over and over again. There’s a lot of attention being paid to him.”
Farage has some recent FBI experience. In July, the FBI nabbed Farage’s top aide, for laundering drug money through the dark net.
The aide, George Cottrell, previously ran the UKIP offices as well as Farage’s personal blog. He was arrested by the FBI when Farage and Cottrell came to the US for the Republican Convention. Cottrell was later found guilty of wire fraud for offering to help criminals launder funds.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/1/1667871/-Nigel-Farage-joins-other-Trump-associates-as-person-of-interest-in-FBI-investigation
November 13:
The WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a direct message to Trump Jr. in late September 2016 alerting him that an anti-Trump site run by a political action committee (PAC) was “about to launch.” The message offered the password to the site.
"The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump.’ See ‘About’ for who is behind it. Any comments?" WikiLeaks wrote, as first reported by The Atlantic.
“Off the record I don’t know who that is, but I’ll ask around,” Trump Jr. responded to the account the following day. It is unclear if he followed through with the offer.
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April 20: Democrats file suit alleging Russia, Trump campaign, WikiLeaks conspired to interfere in 2016 campaign
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/20/politics/democrats-lawsuit-russia/index.html
May 11: Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg summoned to meet with Senate panel
Nunberg told ABC News that he received a letter request from the committee on Friday to submit the documents by May 24. He was also asked to appear before the committee in a closed interview.
The letter, obtained by ABC News, asks for communications that mention "Russia or Russian persons, organizations, interests or WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, DCLeaks, Guccifer 2.0, or John Podesta," from June 16, 2015, to January 20, 2017.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-aide-sam-nunberg-summoned-meet-senate-panel/story?id=55104534
May 24: If Trump’s team was colluding with Russia, why did it keep asking WikiLeaks for things?
One of the outstanding questions surrounding Russian interference in the 2016 election is how information that American intelligence officials believe was stolen by Russia from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman got to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. There doesn’t seem to be much doubt that the data made that journey; The Washington Post reported on Russian hacks of the DNC even before material was released and that information demonstrably ended up in WikiLeaks’ hands. How that transfer was made isn’t clear, meaning that the relationship between WikiLeaks and Russian agents isn’t clear, either.
The result is that there’s a wall, however low, between the Trump campaign’s interactions with WikiLeaks and the Russians. When we learned last year that Donald Trump Jr. had communicated with WikiLeaks over Twitter, that was still one step removed from Trump Jr. communicating directly with Russia, even if the subject of conversation was Russia’s work product.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/24/if-trumps-team-was-colluding-with-russia-whyd-it-keep-asking-wikileaks-for-things/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.203048a40a5d
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October 10: The Trump campaign argued in a legal filing that WikiLeaks could not be held liable for publishing emails that were stolen by Russian hackers ahead of the 2016 US election because the website was simply serving as a passive publishing platform on behalf of a third party, in the same way as Google or Facebook.
Questions about WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of hacked emails, which it allegedly obtained following a plot by Russian military intelligence to steal the emails from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic party, are at the heart of Robert Mueller’s criminal investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
The campaign also said in a legal filing that any alleged agreement between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks to publish the emails could not have been a “conspiracy” because WikiLeaks’ decision to release the stolen emails was not an illegal act. The court filing was written in response to a civil lawsuit brought against the Trump campaign by two of Hillary Clinton’s donors and a former employee of the Democratic party.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/10/wikileaks-hacked-emails-trump-campaign-robert-mueller
November 21: Donald Trump’s professions of ignorance about Julian Assange are very hard to believe
He cited WikiLeaks about five times a day in the final month of the 2016 campaign.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/21/18106460/trump-julian-assange-wikileaks-go-free
November 29: Is WikiLeaks a Russian Front?
The idea that the putative transparency group served as a connection between Moscow and the president’s associates is starting to become clearer.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/wikileaks-trump-mueller-roger-stone-jerome-corsi/576940/
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January 25: Well, today, it’s Roger Stone’s time in the barrel.
The headline this morning is that Stone, the former adviser to President Donald Trump, was charged by special counsel Robert Mueller of obstruction, giving false statements and witness tampering — making him the latest Trump associate to get indicted or plead guilty.
But inside of Mueller’s indictment is an even bigger story: a list of the times when Stone was communicating with the Trump campaign and its associates about the WikiLeaks email releases that ended up rocking Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the final month of the 2016 presidential election.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/well-done-stone-indictment-details-his-contacts-trump-camp-about-n962636
January 25: Here are all the messages between Roger Stone and his intermediaries about WikiLeaks, according to Mueller's indictment
https://www.businessinsider.com/all-messages-between-roger-stone-and-wikileaks-intermediaries-randy-credico-jerome-corsi-2019-1
January 26: Roger Stone’s Arrest May Hurt Trump’s ‘Love’ of Wikileaks
I love WikiLeaks,’ candidate Trump proclaimed in October 2016
U.S. intelligence already had warned it was a Russian tool
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-26/wikileaks-that-trump-loved-holds-new-danger-after-stone-indicted
January 26: Trump, aides had more than 100 contacts with Russians, WikiLeaks
During the 2016 presidential campaign and transition, Donald Trump and at least 17 campaign officials and advisers had contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, a New York Times analysis has found. At least 10 other associates were told about interactions but did not have any themselves.
Knowledge of these interactions is based on New York Times reporting, documents submitted to Congress, and court records and accusations related to the special counsel investigating foreign interference in the election.
Among these contacts are more than 100 in-person meetings, phone calls, text messages, e-mails and private messages on Twitter. Trump and his campaign repeatedly denied having such contacts with Russians during the 2016 election.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2019/01/26/trump-and-associates-had-more-than-contacts-with-russians/991c6gIC3JUtL6K9ZorB3J/story.html
-- 2020 --
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