Jill Stein: ‘No question’ Julian Assange is a hero

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein hailed Julian Assange as a hero Saturday, saying the WikiLeaks founder's disclosure of Democratic National Committee emails exposed the American electorate to important information. Stein's comments to CNN were made shortly before she was named the progressive party's official 2016 presidential nominee, with human rights activist Ajamu Baraka tapped as her running mate.

Julian Assange Says Wikileaks Is ‘Working On’ Hacking Trump’s Tax Returns

"Obviously we know these come from Russia, and we also know that you do not like Hillary Clinton at all, as does not Vladimir Putin ," said Maher. "So it look likes you are working with a bad actor, Russia, to put your thumb on the scale and basically fuck with the one person who stands in the way of us being ruled by Donald Trump," the comedian added.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to address Green Party convention

WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange will speak to the Green Party's national convention in Houston Saturday. Assange will address the event at 11:45 a.m. local time via live video feed from the Embassy of Ecuador in London where he has stayed the last four years in order to avoid possible extradition to the U.S. According to a Green Party press release, he will be interview by David Cobb, 2004 Green presidential nominee and co-founder of Move to Amend.

Juha Saarinen: Be ready when Cozy Bear comes knocking

Should political parties hire cybersecurity experts to protect themselves from local and international spy agency hackers seeking to distort elections and the democratic process? The answer to that has been "yes" for the past decade, yet the Democratic Party in the United States got their operational security wrong, got hacked, and their candidate Hillary Clinton might just lose the presidential election to Donald Trump because of it. Trump's camp is making the most of the hacked emails and documents published on Julian Assange's Wikileaks, trying to cause as much havoc as possible before the election - and they're succeeding.

Julian Assange: Any DNC Staffer Could Have Been The Leaker

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures during a news conference at the Ecuadorian embassy in central London, Britain, in this August 18, 2014 file photo. Swedish prosecutors said on Thursday they had dropped investigations into allegations of sexual assault made in 2010 against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because they had run out of time to bring charges.