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The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006. [46] The website was established and published its first document in December 2006. [49] [50] It described its founders as a mixture of Asian dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa.
The WikiLeaks October 7 dump started less than an hour after The Washington Post released the Donald Trump and Billy Bush recording Access Hollywood tape, WikiLeaks announced on Twitter that it was in possession of 50,000 of Podesta's emails, and a few hours after the Obama Administration released a statement by the Department of Homeland ...
After WikiLeaks released the Manning material, United States authorities began investigating WikiLeaks and Assange to prosecute them under the Espionage Act of 1917. [201] In November 2010, US Attorney-General Eric Holder said there was "an active, ongoing criminal investigation" into WikiLeaks. [ 202 ]
The Ecuadorian government stated that it had temporarily severed Assange's internet connection because of WikiLeaks' release of documents "impacting on the U.S. election campaign", although it also stated this was not meant to prevent WikiLeaks from operating. [110] WikiLeaks continued releasing installments of the Podesta emails during this time.
A loose grouping of cyber activists supporting WikiLeaks launched a spate of online attacks on organisations seen as hostile to the site, and then after Assange's arrest in 2010, they started ...
The president, Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization were provided access to hacked WikiLeaks documents amid the 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump Jr. tweets about wlsearch.tk as requested by WikiLeaks on October 12. [243] [203] [16]: 60 [244] Pence denies that the Trump campaign is working with WikiLeaks, stating that "nothing could be further from the truth". [245] The FBI and DHS send a second "flash report" and a Joint Analysis Report warning about election systems being targeted.
Donald Trump's former deputy campaign manager Rick Gates testified that he overheard a phone conversation between the president and Roger Stone in which Stone told him of WikiLeaks' plan to ...