Questions tagged [wikileaks]
Questions related to the organisation known for leaking sensitive material surrounding governments, it is designed to protect whistle-blowers, journalists and activists.
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What communications of Julian Assange made Ecuador cut off his Internet access?
It was reported today that
Ecuador’s government is cutting off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s communications outside the nation’s London embassy.
Officials announced Wednesday they were taking ...
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Why is the British government so determined to arrest Julian Assange?
The UK government has put the Ecuadorian embassy in London on surveillance for years now. AFAIK, Wikileaks has not released any documents damaging to the UK government. Nor has it released any ...
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Could Ecuador get Julian Assange out of the UK by giving him some mail to deliver?
As mentioned in an answer to this question, the UK refused to declare Julian Assange an Ecuadorean diplomat, presumably as it would allow him to leave the Ecuadorean embassy and the UK without being ...
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Is there any precedent for the UK arresting a diplomat on their own soil?
As Assange gets citizenship to Ecuador and becomes an official diplomat of the country, I'm wondering if there is any precedent for the UK to arrest him in that capacity for alleged transgressions ...
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Can Julian Assange leave the Ecuadorian embassy after Sweden dropped the investigation against him?
In May 2017 the Swedish authorities dropped the rape investigation against Julian Assange and rescinded the arrest warrant. However Julian Assange still remains at the Ecuadorian embassy, rather than ...
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Why did Obama commute Chelsea Manning's sentence?
I honestly don't understand, she leaked hundreds of thousands of US government documents to WikiLeaks when she was a Private in the U.S. military, and she's going to be released on 17 May 2017 after ...
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What info in the hacked DNC/Clinton emails was likely to sway the US general election?
Leaving aside the controversy of who/how, one thing that puzzles me about people discussing the hacked e-mails provided to Wikileaks is "why would that matter as far as general elections at all"?
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To what degree have Wikileaks influenced the 2016 US election?
It seems to have been largely ignored by the press but Wikileaks such as this where Hillary talked about droning Julian Assange genuinely shocked me.
Joking about pussy grabbing is not good but ...
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