Kenya: We Changed the 2007 Election Results, Boasts Wikileaks Founder

4 December 2010

New York — WikiLeaks' founder and defenders are pointing to the whistleblowing website's actions concerning Kenya as proof of its positive role in the world.

Australian Julian Assange, the orchestrator of the slow release of thousands of confidential US diplomatic messages, said in an interview on Friday with London's Guardian newspaper that WikiLeaks has been having a global impact since 2007 "when it changed the result of the Kenyan General Election."

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