A United States counterintelligence strategy document signed by President Donald Trump warned the “number of actors targeting the United States is growing.”

Lumped in with Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and terrorist groups were “ideologically motivated entities, such as hacktivists, leaktivists, and public disclosure organizations” that U.S. intelligence agents view as “significant threats.”

In the closing argument for the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Crown Prosecution Authority lawyers cast WikiLeaks as an ideologically motivated entity that was in the “business of encouraging individuals to hack into computers.”

https://shadowproof.com/2020/12/01/in-closing-argument-for-julian-assanges-extradition-prosecutors-cast-wikileaks-as-criminal-enterprise/