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>More than 5% of the Section 702 wiretaps conducted under the last President's administration were performed illegally by their own admission. Source?
Here is a starting point. https://www.newamerica.org/oti/blog/history-fisa-section-702... Here is another source that says 0.5% https://www.aclu.org/foia-document/semiannual-assessment-com...
So much for WikiLeaks thinking there was a lesser evil back in 2016
That choice was beyond obvious.
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Obesity and celebrity worship are far greater threats to US national security than "Russia"
And yet the United States still sends troops to the middle East again and again and again. The greatest threat to an American life is a drunk driver. If the United States actually had priorities aligned with statistical reality, the billions poured into the war on {{concept}} would have been redirected to drunk driving decades ago. Also, smoking would be illegal.
AIPAC to Deploy Hundreds of Lobbyists to Push for Syria Action
Pro-Israel lobby says 250 activists will meet with their senators and representatives in Washington in a bid to win support Congressional support for military action in Syria.
https://www.haaretz.com/aipac-pushing-hard-for-syria-action-... http://archive.is/UWcvh
US Jewish lobby challenged by 'pro-peace' rival The most powerful Jewish lobby in America is facing an unprecedented threat from a rival pro-peace pressure group that is vying for the ear of President Barack Obama.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel... http://archive.is/kDcM0
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy:
Expanding on their notorious 2006 article in the London Review of Books, the authors increase the megatonnage of their explosive claims about the malign influence of the pro-Israel lobby on the U.S. government. Mearsheimer and Walt, political scientists at the University of Chicago and Harvard, respectively, survey a wide coalition of pro-Israel groups and individuals, including American Jewish organizations and political donors, Christian fundamentalists, neo-con officials in the executive branch, media pundits who smear critics of Israel as anti-Semites and the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, which they characterize as having an almost unchallenged hold on Congress. This lobby, they contend, has pressured the U.S. government into Middle East policies that are strategically and morally unjustifiable: lavish financial subsidies for Israel despite its occupation of Palestinian territories; needless American confrontations with Israel's foes Syria and Iran; uncritical support of Israel's 2006 bombing of Lebanon, which violated the laws of war; and the Iraq war, which almost certainly would not have occurred had [the Israel lobby] been absent. The authors disavow conspiracy mongering, noting that the lobby's activities constitute legitimate, if misguided, interest-group politics, as American as apple pie. Considering the authors' academic credentials and the careful reasoning and meticulous documentation with which they support their claims, the book is bound to rekindle the controversy.
https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/03...
By doing this the US is coming to the aid of the many dictators and despots whose crimes Assange has helped reveal. Also, by ignoring the crimes revealed by the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, the US makes it very clear that war-making cronies rule both parties and would never hold each other accountable for anything. To be clear, the war logs revealed that the US classified information solely because it revealed that…
While some of the things that were exposed were certainly illegal and should be handled as such, it's hard to feel any empathy for a guy who is essentially a Russian asset. If you think of him as an extension of Russian military intelligence conducting propaganda wars against its adversaries then it becomes a lot easier to understand why prosecuting him is a genuinely good thing. Russia airing the dirty laundry of ot…
> ... extension of Russian military intelligence
> ... Russia airing the dirty laundry of others
> ... good for Russia
I see that the western obsession with Russia continues unabated.
This issue has absolutely nothing to do with Russia, and the suggestion that Assange is a Russian asset is unsubstantiated (just like all the other "Russia did it" claims). [1] [2].
Russians are nowadays even blamed for MP's speeding tickets [3]
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/the-v...
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/13/labour-mp-de...
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Again - going from there to drone strikes (against an embassy in an allied country with a sophisticated air defense system) is absurd.
Indeed it is. Let me quote Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, /again/. "Can't we just drone this guy". Context: Being confronted with Assange his existence by her staff.
Julian Assange was a key figure in the early days of PostgreSQL and he contributed to NetBSD http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/tcp_subr... https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALtFtELs3mMM2g__fZFyF...
"key figure" as in: A few small changes. https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git&a=search... https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit... Edit: Added the one contribution he didn't commit himself.
This is easy to explain actually.
First, these commits were all in 1996. Of the developers that were there in 1996, only Bruce Momjian is still active. Note that almost all of the other commits nearby are made by Marc Fournier, who is currently playing no role in the project, other than hosting some stuff. He certainly does not follow the pgsql-hackers mailing list; he might well not have seen the discussion mentioning Julian. I can easily understand that Bruce no longer remembers a very casual developer 14 years ago -- he must have been looking after his recently born kids by then.
Second, these commits are all in the psql code, which is a small piece of the whole core code -- only the interactive terminal application, not the backend server.
Third, one of the commits (the one you link to) mentions Jolly incorporating some code prior to it. This must refer to Jolly Chen, one of the founders of Postgres95, the project that spawned PostgreSQL from Berkeley's POSTGRES. So it seems likely that Jolly and Julian had communicated during the Postgres95 time, before PostgreSQL's time, and this might have given him commit privileges in the early CVS PostgreSQL repository, and helped him produce a patch without much discussion in the mailing lists. Note that he says Jolly had integrated "part" of his patch previously; he already had this code sitting in his computer.
Fourth, the reason this is not publicly recorded is because PostgreSQL mailing list archives start later than that -- the archives (http://archives.postgresql.... ) start in Jan 1997. The older discussion probably happened in pg95-dev@ki.net for which there doesn't seem to be any public record.
Above text was copied verbatim from http://herraiz.org/blog/2011/07/07/software-projects-alzheim...
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Contrived and controlled releases to influence a narrative in a particular desired direction. Being given a trove of documents categorized as misdeeds by both sides of government and largely sitting on those by one side, and releasing those that adversely impact the other. Partisan.
Or timely.
... but at the same time "not timely" to release material critical of the right leaning factions?
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Hans Reiser contributed to open source software as well. Maybe you could spell your point out a little more clearly?
I found it very interesting that Assange had made real contributions to postgres. I had thought he was a "hacker" in the sense of popular journalism (i.e. fuck knows that they mean but not a serious open source contributor). I don't know why you're criticizing the person who posted that interesting link.
What someone's motivation is (in relation to the still unsubstantiated allegation that Assange is a "Russian asset" trying advance Russian foreign policy objectives) should be completely irrelevant to the legality of an action. Is publishing leaked documents protected under the First Amendment? Is publishing "propaganda" protected under the First Amendment? I would say the answer to both of these questions is yes.
All these questions his attorneys can try to answer during the trial. That he was /is a Russian asset, I think we pretty much know. Maybe he needed a bear hug in light of everyone behind against him...or maybe Russia had dirt on the country he wanted to hurt?
And what does it matter if it's a Russian asset doing the leaking, instead of a selfless journalist? Is the leaking illegal or not? This "Russian asset" angle seems like ad hominem to make people acquiesce to violating freedom of speech.
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The ones where it was revealed the Clinton campaign was running the DNC and Sanders never stood a chance. Whether your support that or not I don't think anyone disputes that this was revealed by Wikileaks
Plenty of people dispute this narrative, myself included. The DNC never took any action against the Sanders campaign, despite some disgruntled emails by some DNC staffers venting about Sanders.
And Donna Brazile's just a liar I guess.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-b...