The WikiLeaks-Russia Connection

by Nancy LeTourneau
January 25, 2019

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made no secret of his support for WikiLeaks, the organization founded by Julian Assange. As MSNBC documented, he mentioned it 141 times during the last month alone.

... Mueller’s indictment of Roger Stone demonstrates “that people at the highest levels of the <Trump> campaign were aware that Stone had contacts with Julian Assange.” Longman goes on to point out that the remaining question on this front is whether the president and his campaign team understood the connection between WikiLeaks and the Russians ...

While short-lived, Assange’s show fit in well with the overall goals of Russia Today ...

... in 2013, when Edward Snowden was holed up in Hong Kong after stealing thousands of classified documents, it was Julian Assange who arranged for him to travel to Russia. In addition, a WikiLeaks employee by the name of Sarah Harrison accompanied Snowden on his flight and provided him with legal counsel on his arrival in Moscow, something that would have at least needed high level acquiescence within the Kremlin ...

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/01/25/the-wikileaks-russia-connection/