WikiLeaks Releases Hacked Voicemails From DNC Officials (thenextweb.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Late Wednesday afternoon as the Democratic National Convention was in full swing, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks decided to follow through with an earlier statement by publishing hacked voicemails of top democratic officials. There are 29 leaked recordings, which are identified by phone number and total about 14 minutes combined. Many of the voicemails are messages of callers leaving their numbers in hopes of being called back. Others are from voters upset that the DNC was giving too much support to Sanders. The Hill reports that "One caller with an Arizona area code called to blast the DNC for putting Sanders surrogate Cornel West on the platform drafting committee. 'I'm furious for what you are doing for Bernie Sanders,' another caller says in a message. 'He's getting way too much influence. What I see is the Democratic Party bending over backwards for Bernie,' adds the caller, who threatens to leave the party if the DNC doesn't stop 'coddling' the Vermont senator."

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Assange is doing this mostly because he has a personal beef with Hillary since he perceives her as one of the driving forces behind his effective incarceration (which is likely true), and partly because he doesn't like her war-hawkishness. He's stated all this before, you just have to put the pieces together.

However the fact that he's risking putting Trump in the White House over this personal feud shows that he's just as immature and reckless as Trump himself, who has pledged not to protect certain NATO allies, has too much of a man-crush on Putin to tell him not to invade any more former Soviet satellite states, and has expressed interest in carpet-bombing ISIS territory and committing war crimes against the populations therein - a candidate who would stumble into many more wars than Hillary would even willingly enter.