'''Julian Assange''' (born 1971) is an [[Australian]] hacker and activist, best known as the founder of the controversial website [[Wikileaks]], a repository of [[leak]]ed government documents.
'''Julian Assange''' (born 1971) is an [[Australian]] hacker and activist, best known as the founder of the controversial website [[Wikileaks]], a repository of [[leak]]ed government documents.
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Assange was a hero of the American left when published documents exposing the lies of the [[Bush administration]] but became a villain and a supposed [[Russia]]n stooge after the [[murder of Seth Rich]]. Assange published documents in the run-up to the [[Iraq war]] which aided the election of [[Barack Obama]], then later published the [[Democrat]]s misdeeds in the [[Benghazi massacre]] exposing the [[Hillary Clinton email scandal]].
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Assange was a hero of the American left when he published documents which discredited the [[Bush administration]] and aided the election of [[Barack Obama]], but became a villain after the [[murder of Seth Rich]]. Assange published documents about the [[Obama administration]]'s lies in the [[Benghazi massacre]] and exposed the [[Hillary Clinton email scandal]]. The American left then called him a tool of [[Russia]].