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Thanks for the reminder - Manning is currently not free https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/08/chelsea-mann...
Clearly Manning is the most simpathetic of all mistreated 'leakers'. Truly, what does anyone gain by having her locked up?
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I think the intent is to make life hard for whistleblowers to discourage others from doing the same.
And germany is thinking about creating laws to make the life of whistlelowers easier... Just let that sink in..
There is EU wide whistleblower protection on its way. The motivation is to save money.
More details:
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2019...
The quote in the article mentions Cambridge Analytica so political whistleblowing could be part of the deal:
"Recent scandals such Cambridge analytica or Lux Leaks have demonstrated the importance of whistleblowers. That is why we need to provide them with a high level of protection across the Union. We should not expect anyone to risk their reputation or job for exposing illegal behaviour."
- Ambassador Luminița Odobescu, Permanent representative of Romania to the EU
Might as well put John Kiriakou, Thomas Drake, and William Binney back in a cell while we're at it.
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Clearly propaganda, and there was only the single source that as we can clearly see now was adversarial.
Consistent with many descriptions of what it was like to have Assange on one's sofa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le3jrp6LzjI
Could Russia save him ?
When was Assange last actually seen or hear from? Some people think he isn't actually alive anymore and/or he's been taken away from the embassy for some time. What evidence do we have that he's actually still at the embassy?
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The guy considered himself some kind of anarchist once. I remember some big speech he had about his independence etc. Now after becoming a cheap tool for the FSB he turned into just another right-wing conspiracy troll on twitter and it's not just "US Democrats" who don't bother about him and his platform anymore. He's just not trustworthy. His platform is not trustworthy. His independence is broken. So why should Dem…
Clinton was predicted to be the next president by everyone. If you had to choose the target of your limited efforts the person who was projected at winning with 70% by the most conservative estimates, and had already turned the middle east into a charnel house, she would have been the one you should spend all your efforts on by any sane calculus. There should be a name for the mental disorder where you see one group…
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>If you had an organization designed from it's inception to selectively leak information with a clearly biased perspective, it would defeat the purpose if you labeled it that way. For some reason, The Intercept comes to mind, and people here just love em…
I've always gotten the impression that people here mostly either disliked the Intercept for its perceived agenda or disliked it for it's perceived incompetence, such as that which burned Reality Winner as the source of the leak for which she was then imprisoned.
Yikes. Just read up on this. Pretty damning.