Like when the CIA infiltrated the 2012 French election? https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/julian-assange-wikileak...
So why didn't wikileaks mention that?
They can't publish what they don't receive.
Consider something. Let's use Trump as an example, since the discussion of 'why aren't they releasing stuff on [the other side]' is generally connected to him. Imagine somebody had a treasure trove of leaked and compromising information on Trump. And they then submitted this information to Wikileaks. As the weeks and months passed by, it became clear to them that Wikileaks was not going to publish this information. Do you think they would not submit this to other media outlets? US media outlets would do absolutely anything for this sort of information.
I'm curious to see where my logic may be failing me.
Other outlets are accepted [by general public] to have already been compromised wrt bias.
Up until the Trump campaign - Wikileaks was considered to be an unbiased leak of private and/or confidential information.
The name "Wiki" even intentionally evokes the name Wikipedia, the (slightly biased) generalist source of information that appears at the top of many of our search results.
In many cases, Wikileaks is actually worse. Seeing MSNBC or Fox News flash on the screen, we know the bias put forth by the company. We don't know Assange's bias. Correction, we do now.
To be honest, I'm curious to see how your logic even equated Wikileaks to other media outlets in the first place.
If I take your response as the answer then it would imply you believe that somebody would choose to simply not publish substantive leaks if they couldn't get them published by wikileaks. However, I'm sure you don't believe that, so that must be a straw man - leading me to believe that you probably are simply choosing to not answer the question.
Your entire Parent post is centered around a false equivalency between MSM outlets and Wikileaks.
Here's a similar assumption I'll throw your way: Parent personally slighted you and/or your belief system, and caused you to react this aggressively to my comment.
If I were to employ the same non-sequitur logic you used about myself further, I would reckon you are a shill.
I'm just asking why you think this and in particular why our hypothetical leaker would not simply contact another organization for publication if Wikileaks failed to do so? Many of the biggest leaks in recent times have not come from Wikileaks. The Panama Papers were published by Süddeutsche Zeitung. Snowden's NSA and global surveillance leaks were brought to the public attention through contact with Glenn Greenwald.
I'd actually even take this a step further. Wikileaks is under an implicit, but mandatory, obligation to publish such materials if they were given them. Imagine our leaker did simply take the materials to e.g. Glenn Greenwald and published our hypothetical groundbreaking leaks. A condition of said leaks could also be publication of the fact that they were provided to Wikileaks who chose to not publish them. That would, overnight, destroy Wikileaks as an organization.
The minute anyone can prove that WL withheld anything newsworthy to suit its own political goals, WL is done. This has not happened. Further, anyone who leaked something big about Trump to WL (such as his taxes) would clearly want to see them exposed, and would not sit by and wait for Trump to win while the damning materials went unpublished.
Assange stated that the data was requested by Cambridge Analytica knowing they were hired by the Trump campaign for normal opposition research. I consider withholding that information alone (the fact that the guys Trump's campaign hired attempted to break the law and were rebuffed) as quite impactful. Trump is quite tight with Brad Parscale, as he was the "Campaign Digital Director" in charge of these things.
They released a bunch of info claimed to be mails from the inner echelons of the AKP (ruling Islamist party) that turned out to be an archive of a public Yahoo group used by random Turks to bitch about things including politics.
If they'd have hired a basic Turkish speaker to look at the leak, they'd have avoided being burned. Instead, they decided to get into a spat with an actual journalist and researcher who's been working against Erdogan for years and tried to paint them as Erdogan shills.
They all do the same stuff.
That said, what has WikiLeaks published that has turned out untrue?
[fixed Pedestal/Podesta autocomplete]
http://www.newsweek.com/republicans-trump-russia-dossier-cli...
Allegedly also partially "funded by an unknown Republican during the GOP primary."
> That said, what has WikiLeaks published that has turned out untrue?
I don't think anybody is arguing that WikiLeaks is posting fake news or untrue information - the argument is that WikiLeaks is curating the information it releases in order to send a specific message.
No, not like that at all.
The claim there is: All major French political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIA's human ("HUMINT") and electronic ("SIGINT") spies in the seven months leading up to France's 2012 presidential election.
That's dramatically different to actively trying to (a) make US citizens lose faith in the US election system and, (b) influence the election outcome.
Reading the CIA leak, it seems like pretty sensible questions. The ethics of spying during an election could be argued, but I think it is entirely reasonable for every country to be trying to understand similar things listed in that document ("What policies do they promote to help boost France's economic growth prospects?", "What are their opinions on the German model of export-led growth?" etc).