Julian Assange: Home Secretary Signs US Extradition Request

Post by jacquesm » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 6:14 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #56

Mugwort wrote: post #45

It's worth keeping in mind that when they say Assange is guilty of violating the espionage act, did illegal hacking etc. what they really means is that he's guilt of publishing video showing US armed forces murdering unarmed journalists and civilians. If people are going to place emphasis on Assange's crimes and make them a high priority then it's hypocrisy of the worst possible kind to ignore the serious war crimes…

> he's guilt of publishing video showing US armed forces murdering unarmed journalists and civilians Another view is that he published evidence of alleged American war crimes. Then he published a bunch of other stuff of zero public interest, but damaging to innocent people ( e.g. medical records of gay Saudis, rape victims, et cetera [1]). The former should be clearly held as being First Amendment protected. The latt…

Post by decoyworker » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 6:16 PM UTC

staunch wrote: post #23

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How about Edward Snowden being housed, clothed and fed by the same Russian government that was interfering with US elections and providing information to Wikileaks?

AFAIK he's earned his own money by doing talks and receiving donations from supporters, etc not from the Russian government. And Snowden has never mislead anyone about why he's in Russia. He's said that he would love to come home. And if U.S. whistleblower protections was stronger he could. Snowden was openly revealing violations of the U.S. constitution. Assange was covertly acting as an agent of a hostile foreign g…

Post by koolba » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 6:19 PM UTC

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I would be absolutely stunned if that was the case. I bet he gets less than a year. He probably won’t even be convicted unless they come up with something better than their current indictment.

Why would the US go to all this trouble just to put him in jail for less than a year?

Post by cat199 » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 6:22 PM UTC

bduerst wrote: post #66

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> It's also worth remembering that he disseminated information on the behalf of the Russian state in an effort to get Trump elected. Not sure why you believe that any more than you would believe the claims that Saddam had WMDs.

Guccifer 2.0 was a Russian intelligence hacker group that hacked the Democratic National Committee emails and delivered to Assange and Wikileaks to publicly release. [1] Wikileaks then dropped the emails in parcels - behavior they had never done before - in order to manipulate news headlines leading up to the 2016 federal elections. [2] This is confirmed by numerous, independent security firms, such as CrowdStrike, F…

Post by gamblor956 » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 6:26 PM UTC

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He published evidence of political corruption. It's a good thing he did it too so that US voters could make a fully informed decision about the candidates.