Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeaks Says

Post by mrobot » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 3:12 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #97

wurst_case wrote: post #58

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Clearly Manning is the most simpathetic of all mistreated 'leakers'. Truly, what does anyone gain by having her locked up?

She's not locked up for leaking, she's locked up for flagrant contempt in an active grand jury investigation, one which otherwise poses her no legal jeopardy, since she has both immunity and, for much of the subject matter, double jeopardy protection since she's been tried, convicted, and served her sentence for her involvement.

Post by whamlastxmas » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 3:17 PM UTC

vinceguidry wrote: post #169

dragonwriter wrote: post #97

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She's not locked up for leaking, she's locked up for flagrant contempt in an active grand jury investigation, one which otherwise poses her no legal jeopardy, since she has both immunity and, for much of the subject matter, double jeopardy protection since she's been tried, convicted, and served her sentence for her involvement.

I'm rather struck by the realization here that if a person has spent significant amounts of time in prison being locked up for following their principles, they may start looking at getting locked up for their principles as, well, just something they do. Is this a traumatic response to the initial experience or something more? After all, being willing to go to prison for your principles underlies much of 'real' activi…

Post by village-idiot » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 3:20 PM UTC

namdnay wrote: post #128

dragonwriter wrote: post #43

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> I'm still bitter that he became so thoroughly partisan, though. I don't think it's a matter of becoming partisan, I think it's more a matter of getting new opportunities for the orientation he's always had and pursued. > Especially since his organization has or had the motto: "to publish fact-based stories without fear or favour". If you had an organization designed from it's inception to selectively leak informati…

> designed from it's inception to selectively leak information with a clearly biased perspective What was "biased" about the early wikileaks? It was a general repository of leaked documents uploaded and commented by users

Post by ben_w » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 3:24 PM UTC

cotelletta wrote: post #193

SmellyGeekBoy wrote: post #179

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Or raped someone, for that matter.

*had consensual sex without a condom with, whose partner wanted to compel him to get an STD test, when a prosecutor with a chip on her shoulder and possibly a dollar bribe in her pocket turned it into what you now think it is. Or at least want us to believe.

Post by dTal » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 3:32 PM UTC

toyg wrote: post #146

clintonb wrote: post #5

> WikiLeaks cited the unidentified person as saying the planned expulsion is a response to the organization’s recent tweet linking to a website that alleged money laundering and corruption during Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno’s time as United Nations special envoy for the disabled in Geneva. Foreign Minister Jose Valencia said last month that the government was “very surprised” by that and other actions by Assang…

Assange has not been on the wikileaks staff for 6 months, reportedly. It’s not even clear whether he has internet access anymore. And obviously, if they had been silent on this matter people would now throw accusations of a convenient coverup.