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Very strong anti-Wikileaks vibe in this thread. But, why? Someone was murdered (irrespective of if they're a Wikileaks source or not) and Wikileaks is putting money on the table to help get it solved and bringing greater attention to it. In my book trying to help solve murders is a Good Thing™.

I have to say I am surprised, in 2016, how well the Red Scare still works in the US. You say Russia is behind something and the entire american public ignore the actual content of the leaks and talk about how evil Putin is.

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I was all for them (sans Assange) until I realized they've become somewhat delusional. You go from outing corporate and government corruption (good), to outing private information for normal people http://gizmodo.com/wikileaks-just-published-tons-of-personal... BAD.

It's because Assange is just offering this reward to create this news story in order to harm Hillary Clinton as much as possible as part of his personal vendetta against her. I respect Manning and Snowden immensely, but Assange now is clearly playing a personal game which happens to be extremely dangerous for the rest of us.

The guy has practically sacrificed his life and you think he is going to offer $20,000 just to hurt Hillary Clinton?

He is a smart guy and I'm sure if his intention was to get revenge on her he might be able to come up with something a little more creative no?

Yes, he's admitted in interviews that he has a vendetta against Clinton. Smart people act impulsively and irrationally, too, of course.

He has actually said that he has a personal problem with Clinton, because she wants him indicted over the Manning leaks, and because she supported intervention in Libya to stop the crackdown on Arab Spring protestors.

See summary here, which contains a link to the full video interview: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/us/politics/assange-timed-...

My guess is Assange thinks that Hillary Clinton wants to torture him. For him it is victory or death, he has nothing to lose.

Agreed. I'm surprised how quickly the conversation here is steering away from uncovering the truth to a politically charged one.

Hero to the progressive left -- until Assange starts targeting one of their own...

The most outspoken anti-Wikileaks people are (in my experience) typically those who hold a security clearance and work for the government or law enforcement in some way. I don't understand their mentality, but I think a lot of them have a sense of patriotism and nationalism working for the government. Therefore, they feel like they're on the opposing side of Wikileaks, and Wikileaks broke all of the rules they've been so dutifully trained to follow, and so naturally they feel threatened by Wikileaks.

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