The US Is Preparing to Prosecute Julian Assange

Post by midniteslayr » Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 12:06 AM UTC

StanislavPetrov wrote: post #57

midniteslayr wrote: post #5

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I don't think Freedom of the Press is dead. WikiLeaks isn't a news organization, especially when they released campaign emails during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. They have been to be a known tool for the Russian government, even going as far as creating a show for Julian Assange on the state-backed RT TV Network.

>They have been to be a known tool for the Russian government Known by whom? Its been over 2 years and there has still been absolutely no evidence released at all proving this. Claims made by the CIA, the US government or anyone else are proof of nothing, despite what you may think. >even going as far as creating a show for Julian Assange on the state-backed RT TV Network. Larry King has a show on RT too, is he an ag…

Post by monocasa » Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 12:06 AM UTC

elliekelly wrote: post #65

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Even if that’s true — it’s not, no emails have been shown to be fake — it’s not illegal to publish false information.

I didn't say the emails were fake. I said they were altered. The metadata, specifically. According to the NY Times they were alter to make it look like they were downloaded directly from a computer in the U.S. and to change the date the documents were obtained. And publishing false information is not illegal. Knowingly aiding a foreign government in their efforts to undermine an election is treason.

Post by foldr » Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 12:07 AM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #14

If true, this suggests that previous articles about assange being 'practically free to go', and 'just staying in the embassy for attention' were misinformed.

Post by busterarm » Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 12:08 AM UTC

ixtli wrote: post #91

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Would you though? The State Dept under Clinton played fast and loose with it's own procedures and regulations and I have a friend who died in the Benghazi attack if you want to fight with me on this point. More than 5% of the Section 702 wiretaps conducted under the last President's administration were performed illegally by their own admission. False flag operations are part of our history and three-letter agencies…

> Would you though? Well, yes. The ever-increasing, horrible drone campaigns conducted from the Obama years onward as a tool of destabilization are one thing, but that doesn't make it reasonable to expect that they'd use them to assassinate high profile political agitators in first world countries or that they actually have the ability to do such a thing. The contexts are totally different, however the narrative IS i…

Post by foldr » Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 12:09 AM UTC

boomboomsubban wrote: post #60

midniteslayr wrote: post #34

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If they are a news organization, they do a terrible job of reporting the news. They are a black box repository for leaked data. They were once a great resource for info hackers and leakers to push their data, like back in 2008/2009. But that was before news organizations started using their own secure drop servers for sources. Once WikiLeaks sources started to not go to them, they started to look for other benefactor…

Again, nothing suggesting they are knowingly working with the Russians. Wikileaks quality has surely dropped. They are still the press, and any prosecution by the US will be over things like the Manning links, a direct attack on the freedom of the press.