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Can you point to any instance where WikiLeaks has released information that was not authentic and correct?

Can you point to any instance during the election when a leak was not precisely timed/filtered to damage the Clinton campaign and/or advantage the Trump campaign?

Wikileaks' political alignment doesn't have anything to do with the authenticity of the material they provide.

Also it can be explained by the simpler hypothesis of Assange not liking Clinton without bringing Russia into things.

see http://www.mediaite.com/online/julian-assange-hillary-clinto...

and similar

No, but it does have to do with what authentic material they provide. There's a reason courts require "the whole truth"

What would "the whole truth" mean in this context? An explanation of how we got here, starting with the Big Bang?

More than zero disclosures focusing on the Trump campaign, rather than the Clinton campaign.

These were not just random samplings. They were cherry-picked from a huge collection and delivered with perfect timing. This is agency work, not Assange.

But it has a lot to do with the information they omit, amirite? Isn't that why they accused the panama papers of being a CIA operation without any evidence, because they wanted to give cover for the Russian establishment they cut television deals with?

If anything Wikileaks presented a pretty ripe opportunity to replace Clinton with a candidate that could beat Trump in the general election. Nobody seized it and the Dem's lost. But yeah, blame Russia.

Except that they absolutely did nothing of the sort, they waited to leak their information until the primary was already over...

So no, you can't.

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Julius_Baer_to_Angela_Merkel Though they're specifying "This document appears to be a forgery." ...

There's at least one case where they've deliberately excluded documents from a leak without a good explanation, which I think qualifies as a lie by omission: https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/wikileaks-syria-files-syria-...

Also, while I doubt they've ever released fake documents as part of a leak, they do often push incorrect and/or unverified theories and ideas on Twitter.

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