Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents.

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    7 months ago

    As you well know, the release was timed to maximise the damage to Clinton’s campaign. Assange’s hatred of Clinton was well established long before.

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      maximise the damage to Clinton’s campaign

      No. Timed to maximise the exposure for wikileaks, to encourage more leaking.

      Assange’s hatred of Clinton was well established long before.

      More because she hates him. She was pushing to indict him after publishing the 2010 diplomatic cables showing complicit spying during her tenure as secretary of state. The same ones he’s now being held in prison for.