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Would it be fair to say that Assange is currently on a mission to expose the American government's dirty laundry at all costs, even if it means cooperating with other bad governments?

Could we expect him to focus more heavily on the Russian and Chinese governments in the future?

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It doesn't work that way, he doesn't hack the US, Russian or Chinese government and he doesn't direct other hackers, he only gets to leak data that was given to him by whistleblowers.

So your calls for Assange to specifically expose Russia and China to somehow "be fair" is quite senseless. I have to wonder how you think this actually works?

I understand how Wikileaks works, but keep in mind he holds onto things for a while and waits for an opportune moment to release them. You can't doubt that the leaks of the past few months have been very politically motivated to inflict as much damage as possible (which is not necessarily a bad thing), and not just a mere passing-on of what others gave him.

Are we to assume he's never been contacted by any Russian or Chinese dissidents? Maybe not, but if he has, I'd definitely like to see a proper release.

Their twitter is complaining that if they had the Podesta emails earlier, this might've been Sanders vs. Trump.

It's sort of bizarre to describe Russian intelligence as a 'whistleblower'

If you don't try to distinguish between whistleblowers and government intelligence propaganda, then you end up discrediting the former and becoming a tool of the latter.

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