if any of this is true its utterly fucked.
Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker
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#12There is an allegory in eastern religions about our inner world. When you anger the high priest of selfish ambition, your ambition, he locks you up in a dungeon, isolated from all human contact; the dungeon is located right next to the priest's room and right in front of the shrine of madness. That is the nature of this priest's cruelty. CIA was apparently inspired by this story.
Nah, this is probably just normal torture scenarios based on what the human body/mind can handle that psychologists/doctors already know.
Example you can get psychosis if you don't sleep for a lot of time, etc.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's say all the charges on that page are true, and on the other side, take even half the allegations in his letter seriously...still, why are we treating a prisoner like this? Is it helping something?
> why are we treating a prisoner like this? Is it helping something? Yes. It is deterring whistleblowers. The government has an interest in spying and torturing people who expose how they do that deters whistleblowing. > In the annals of national security, the Obama administration will long be remembered for its unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers. Since 2009, it has employed the World War I–era Espionage Act a…
Not sure if I would classify Schulte as a "whistleblower" - the CIA is an espionage agency, and the stuff he leaked contains details on how the CIA performs electronic espionage, i.e. how it does its job. So AFAIK it's not as if he exposed some illegal activity on the CIA's side?
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#14For what it's worth, there doesn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about the conditions he describes, it's just another day (month, year, decade, life sentence) for any prisoner at a supermax prison like ADX Florence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence Of course, the facts that this is considered normal in the US and that anybody is in there for non-violent offenses are outrageous, but here as ever t…
Are "speakers blasting 24/7" normal?
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#15Previously, the government gave him a laptop to help prepare his own defense after he decided to represent himself, but then he copied child porn onto it, so they took it away and he had to use a typewriter.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23126482/220923-halt-...
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#16Maybe this helps Assange from not getting extradited since this is clearly against international law and many places will not extradite you to a place that commits theses kind of crimes against it's prisoners.
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#17Seems like it's supposedly written by this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Schulte
Let's say all the charges on that page are true, and on the other side, take even half the allegations in his letter seriously...still, why are we treating a prisoner like this? Is it helping something?
This is what decades of two parties trying to outdo each other on being "tough on crime" looks like. These punishments do act as a deterrent to whistleblowing but that's not really why they were instituted in the first place. Prisoners are a really easy demographic to throw under the bus for political gain(not like they can vote) so you get these sorts of barbaric conditions for an ever increasing subsection of the prison population.
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#18Haking camra
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#19Previously, the government gave him a laptop to help prepare his own defense after he decided to represent himself, but then he copied child porn onto it, so they took it away and he had to use a typewriter. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23126482/220923-halt-...
Sure he did
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#20Previously, the government gave him a laptop to help prepare his own defense after he decided to represent himself, but then he copied child porn onto it, so they took it away and he had to use a typewriter. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23126482/220923-halt-...
Do you really believe that?
Or maybe you don't really care about the truth of it, but find it convenient for your career and peace of mind to just go along with whatever his torturers say?