Tag: Wikileaks

14 JAN

WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning is running for the US Senate in Maryland

Steven Senne/AP Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private best known for leaking the largest batch of classified government documents in US history, filed papers this week to run for the US Senate in Maryland.  She will challenge Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin in his party’s primary later this year.  President Barack Obama commuted Manning’s sentence […]

13 JAN

WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning is running for the US Senate in Maryland

Steven Senne/AP Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private best known for leaking the largest batch of classified government documents in US history, filed papers this week to run for the US Senate in Maryland.  She will challenge Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin in his party’s primary later this year.  President Barack Obama commuted Manning’s sentence […]

08 JAN

WikiLeaks deleted a tweet linking to the full text of the explosive book about the Trump White House

Alex Wong/Getty Images The pro-transparency group WikiLeaks tweeted out, and later deleted, a link to the full text of “Fire & Fury: Inside the Trump White House.” The book has drawn intense criticism from President Donald Trump and his allies in recent days. It’s unclear why WikiLeaks tweeted the link out. Trump often praised WikiLeaks […]

16 NOV

A notorious far-right blogger may have provoked WikiLeaks’ outreach to Donald Trump Jr.

PA Images Far-right blogger Charles Johnson may have played a role in WikiLeaks’ eventual outreach to Donald Trump Jr. Trump Jr.’s exchanges with WikiLeaks over the course of 10 months have come under scrutiny this week after an explosive report published by The Atlantic. Johnson published a story about an anti-Trump website that WikiLeaks then sent to […]

14 NOV

5 times Trump praised WikiLeaks during his 2016 election campaign

Andrew Harnik/AP WikiLeaks and Donald Trump Jr. exchanged several messages during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump praised WikiLeaks, which published damaging leaks related to Hillary Clinton’s tenure as US Secretary of State, throughout the campaign. Following a report that listed several messages in which WikiLeaks and Donald Trump Jr. appeared to contact each other during […]

14 NOV

Trump Jr releases Wikileaks DMs, still no collusion evidence

Donald Trump Jr. has released his direct message exchanges with the Wikileaks Twitter account during the 2016 presidential election, showing that he had no idea about the Podesta email leak before it happened. The messages, which Trump Jr’s lawyers turned over to congressional investigators, were first published by the Atlantic Monday. “Here is the entire […]

13 NOV

For nearly a year, WikiLeaks was DMing with Donald Trump Jr.

Enlarge / Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, gestures from the balcony of Ecuador’s embassy in London. (credit: Jack Taylor/Getty Images) As part of its investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, Congress received a cache of Twitter direct messages between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks—at least some of those messages have […]