In 2010, the outlet promised to release a major dump of sensitive Russian documents that would embarrass Putin. The anti-U.S. slant in WikiLeaks’ published material could also be attributed to the fact that WikiLeaks is an English-language platform, and naturally may receive more leaks on the U.S. and its friends. Most — 33 of the 35 — categories of documents on WikiLeaks’ full contents page relate to alleged misdeeds by the U.S. or its allies. “I have never seen a pro-Russia bias in him or in WikiLeaks,” said Tangerine Bolen, founder of RevolutionTruth, an organization that defends WikiLeaks and whistleblowers. Instead of showing Russia, Iran or Syria in the wrong, WikiLeaks’ Syria Files primarily embarrassed the U.S. and Assad, by showing the ties between the two.

Source: Huffington Post August 04, 2016 01:41 UTC