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There are a number of things connecting Assange to Russia.

https://www.salon.com/2017/01/07/donald-trump-julian-assange... this lists six such things.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/303172-pus... is particularly damaging because one of the arguments of the "Wikileaks is not a Russian org" is that it sympathetizes and works with Pussy Riot...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/wikileaks-inside-the-farage-as...

https://gizmodo.com/assange-turned-down-dirt-on-russia-stron...

> There are a number of things connecting Assange to Russia.

His own OkCupid listed that he loved everything Russian (except the food) long before the 2016 election:

https://mashable.com/2010/12/13/julian-assange-okcupid/

That being said, while he's a piece of shit we need to be careful we don't erode press freedoms we've had for a very long time just because we really don't like one jerk.

And what if a Russian agent disrupting USA elections masquerades as a journalist?

If you’re releasing factual information about the DNC that’s doing the US a service and what a journalist should do.

And what if a journalist who uncovers malfeasance by a candidate is maligned as an agent of a foreign power?

Part of living in a democracy is dealing with the consequences of free speech as an accepted cost of living in a free society.

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