The onetime apparent champion of free speech WikiLeaks has sent out a list of 140 statements reporters are not to write about founder Julian Assange, including that he bleaches his hair, Reuters reports. The email also criticized a story in the Guardian, which recently reported on alleged links between Assange and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. In 2010 WikiLeaks published thousands of pages of classified information from the Pentagon and State Department leaked by Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning. It did not release a single email linked to the Republican Party or Donald Trump. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating any Trump campaign links to Assange or WikiLeaks as part of his investigation into possible campaign collusion with Russia into election interference.

Source: Huffington Post January 07, 2019 08:37 UTC