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That being said while slightly exaggerated the claim of torture in Belarus isn't far fetched.

Would you agree that funneling intelligence to the government of Belarus is a grave accusation?

The only sources you have refuting reports that ran in the mainstream media about Wikileaks funneling information to Belarus is Wikileaks itself?

Deferring to the torture risk in Belarus is such as an obvious bullshit.

If Assange really did knowingly introduce a holocaust-denying agent of Belarus to Wikileaks?

I don't like the NSA, but, impolitic as it may be to admit it here: I like Belarus a lot less.

You are misinformed, Belarus is not occupied by Russia.

I was under the impression that Belarus is firmly under Moscow's influence?

Greenpeace countered with a claim of up to ~300k deaths total[3] (based on a combination of an estimated 93k deaths in Belarus and 60k deaths in Russia due to cancers, and an additional estimate of potentially another 140k premature deaths in the following/coming years).

I was born and raised in Belarus and all these books: Evgeny Zamyatin, We Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog Andrei Platonov, Foundation Pit Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Valentin Rasputin, Farewell to Matyora were in high school program for Russian Literature in 10-11th grades.

How on Earth is Belarus "constituting an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States"?

And no, Belarus wouldn't torture him, he isn't a dissident, though some in the KGB/police there would probably try to press him to pay the "tax" from his profits - such possibility isn't a valid cause of asylum in the most Western countries.

In fact, the second one appears to stipulate that Shamir got access to cables relevant to Belarus from Wikileaks, subject to an "NDA" with WL (rebutting that site's earlier suggestion that Shamir got the cables through a third-party that WL had provided them to); it then proceeds for pages and pages to discuss the question of how close Shamir was to Wikileaks and Assange in particular.

I searched for the name of the reporter who broke the story and any variation of "discredited", along with "Lukashenko" "Assange" "Wikileaks" "Belarus".

You should read more about Russia-Belarus relations, like tensions regarding Eurasian Economic Union or Belarus's refusal to recognize independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia or Crimea reunification.

Prior to that they partnered with Ruthenian (Ukraine and Belarus) were the majority of the feudal rural workers were free.

Not central to the point but I think it's only speculation that Shamir gave any cables to Belarus.