I reject "obcessed" it took me long enough to mention it when it's been apparent for years.
With his attacks on Hillary Clinton, obviously personal and, I'm convinced, based in his misogyny and the misogyny of his sponsors and colleagues, I'm giving him equal treatment based in what Hillary Clinton gets.
And he's told some rather transparent lies about it being some kind of result of a teenage mutation caused by some experiment with radiation gone wrong. When I look at different photos, from different years, of the adult Assange, that is transparent crap. He colors his hair like the preening, superficial dandy he is. He is not a credible person so I have no problem bringing up one of his more transparent deceptions in how he presents himself to the gullible press and a fawning public.
I have some sympathy for Chealsea Manning, in prison, I have no sympathy for Assange hiding out in a London Embassy, the man who hung Manning out to dry for his own fame and adulation. Though I have no problem with admitting that both of them broke the law and are rightly held accountable for what they did. Manning released so much information to WikiLeaks that he risked giving them stuff that could get people killed. That kind of thing is, rightly, a crime, especially for sworn members of the military or government who have to be entrusted with keeping secrets. even when they believe they are doing it for the most moral of reasons. Their putting themselves at risk to release well-chosen information is in a different class of crime from what was done. Though I believe Manning's crime was made worse by him releasing stuff he couldn't have reviewed or considered, hi motives seem to have been honest. I think he was way too unstable, way too naive and way too young to have been given that kind of trust, no matter what his computer abilities were. Assange is a scavenger, feeding off of what naive people entrust him with. He is hardly an honest person, certainly not someone who should be trusted in identifying his own motives or in presenting something as true.
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