The former CIA Director David Petraeus was appointed to key military posts under Obama and played an active role in Trump’s transition to the Presidency, despite leaked memos revealing that he was involved in human rights abuses in Iraq back in 2010. David Petraeus’ career since the abuses took place has spanned national intelligence, military command, senior fellowships and honorary professorial roles at Universities, and investment banking.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be asked to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London within a month if the country’s main opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso wins the presidential elections next week. In an interview with the Guardian, Lasso, who belongs to the right-wing Creo-Suma alliance, said after over four years, it was time for Assange to move on because his asylum was expensive and no longer justified.

Julian Assange has told the Russian newspaper Izvestia that Wikileaks has "interesting information" on French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, the chief opponent of Marine Le Pen in this spring's election. But wait: The "interesting information" was apparently already released in a Wikileaks tweet that attempts to paint Macron as attempting to hide his prior background in finance. That information can be found on his Wikipedia page.

Julian Assange has claimed that Barack Obama only granted clemency to Chelsea Manning to "make life hard for him". One of Mr Obama's last acts as president was to commute Ms Manning's sentence, allowing her to be released in a matter of months rather than decades. The act was widely seen as a gesture of goodwill on the basis that Ms Manning was jailed for being a whistleblower.

During the run-up to the election and up until the inauguration, Donald Trump made repeated promises to release his tax returns. However, like all presidents before him, after he was sworn in, he quickly began breaking promises and releasing his tax return was at the top of the list. This broken promise has spurred an epic response by WikiLeaks who is now promising to release them. Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wikileaks-trump-tax-return-president/#50dzXPU7AxJYZX88.99

The attorney for Julian Assange said President Obama's commutation of Chelsea Manning’s sentence does not meet the conditions of the WikiLeaks head's offer to be extradited to the United States if Manning were pardoned. Obama on Tuesday commuted Manning’s sentence for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, leading many to wonder whether that meant Assange was ready to surrender to the Department of Justice.

Julian Assange will not hand himself in despite a promise to do so if Chelsea Manning was granted clemency, according to one of his lawyers. WikiLeaks had pledged in a tweet that its founder would agree to be extradited to the US if Barack Obama granted clemency to Ms Manning, which he did in the final hours of his presidency. Mr Assange's lawyers initially seemed to suggest that promise would be carried through – telling reporters that he stood by his earlier comments – but it appears now that Mr Assange will stay inside the embassy.

“The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.” Champion for truth and transparency? Or dangerous terrorist? Martyr to political conspiracy? Or traitor? Courageous exile? Or “fugitive from justice”? Hero, or villain? Whatever he is, Julian Assange is certainly a divisive subject. From the Embassy of Ecuador in London, Assange will be speaking with audiences in Melbourne and Sydney, and shared feeds into Auckland and Brisbane, in a rare opportunity for a real time interview and Q&A.

WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN Assange will agree to be extradited to the United States if President Barack Obama grants clemency to the former US soldier Chelsea Manning, jailed for leaking documents, the company has said. “If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ (US Department of Justice) case,” WikiLeaks wrote on Twitter.

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange insisted overnight that the leaked Democratic Party material they published before the US presidential election did not come from the Russian government. A report from the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence released last Friday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering the operation in which computer hackers stole Democratic Party files and fed them to WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks condemned the Obama administration and the CIA on Friday for leaking information to NBC News, despite the fact that WikiLeaks prides itself on disclosing secret government documents. The digital activist organization’s rather ironic denunciation came in a tweet after NBC aired an “exclusive...

Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, will perhaps be remembered as the day Wikileaks stopped even pretending to be an organization dedicated to governmental transparency.

Those who want to combat Fake News should stop aggressively spreading it when it suits their agenda. Julian Assange is a deeply polarizing figure. Many admire him and many despise him (into which category one falls in any given year typically depends on one’s feelings about the subject of his most recent publication of leaked documents). But one’s views of Assange are completely irrelevant to this article, which is not about Assange. This article, instead, is about a report published this week by The Guardian that recklessly attributed to Assange comments that he did not make.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange confirmed Friday that his internet access at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has been restored. Speaking with Repubblica.it, Assange revealed new details on his current situation as well as the state of WikiLeaks. “The internet has been returned,” Assange said. Assange’s internet was “intentionally severed” on October 17 by the Ecuadorian government amid the publication of thousands of emails from Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta.

The Icelandic former minister Ögmundur Jonasson confessed that the U.S. sent numerous FBI agents to frame WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange in a mission in Iceland five years ago. Apparently, the details of this operation were known in 2013. But today´s member of the Icelandic parliament refused to give any information about what happened.

I have watched incredulous as the CIA’s blatant lie has grown and grown as a media story – blatant because the CIA has made no attempt whatsoever to substantiate it. There is no Russian involvement in the leaks of emails showing Clinton’s corruption. Yes this rubbish has been the lead today in the Washington Post …

Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it. By Glenn Greenwald.

Owners of the Sequim Bee Farm are looking for answers after they say vandals poisoned 20 of their hives, killing upward of 300,000 honey bees, The Peninsula Daily News reported Wednesday. “We knew a bear wouldn’t just stop pushing over with all the honey in the hive,” Sequim Bee Farm co-owner Buddy Depew told the newspaper. “I got to looking, and the rest of the hives, the bees, were all gone.”

We keep the powerful accountable — and that will be even more important in the coming years. By Sarah Harrison.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s cat was spotted wearing a shirt collar and a candy-striped tie at the Ecuadorian embassy. Clad in the bizarre collar, the pet cat was photographed peering from a window at the embassy shortly after Swedish authorities arrived to quiz Mr Assange. The cat first appeared at the window of the Knightsbridge building wearing a plain collar as the world’s media arrived to report on the interview. After keeping watch on the crowd outside, the animal left the window and later returned apparently dressed up for the reporters.