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Assange won’t face charges over role in devastating CIA leak
Politico ^ | 6/02/19 | NATASHA BERTRAND

Posted on 06/02/2019 5:15:18 PM PDT by Libloather

The Justice Department has decided not to charge Julian Assange for his role in exposing some of the CIA’s most secret spying tools, according to a U.S. official and two other people familiar with the case.

It’s a move that has surprised national security experts and some former officials, given prosecutors’ recent decision to aggressively go after the WikiLeaks founder on more controversial Espionage Act charges that some legal experts said would not hold up in court. The decision also means that Assange will not face punishment for publishing one of the CIA’s most potent arsenals of digital code used to hack devices, dubbed Vault 7. The leak — one of the most devastating in CIA history — not only essentially rendered those tools useless for the CIA, it gave foreign spies and rogue hackers access to them.

Prosecutors were stymied by several factors.

First, the government is facing a ticking clock in its efforts to extradite Assange to the United States from the United Kingdom, where he is being held. Extradition laws require the U.S. to bring any additional charges against Assange within 60 days of the first indictment, which prosecutors filed in March, accusing Assange of helping former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning hack into military computers.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 201903; assange; bradleymanning; chelseamanning; cia; ciahackingtools; hackingtools; hillary; joshuaschulte; julianassange; lgbtq; schulte; vault7; wikileaks
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To: Libloather

I predict he’s cooperating.


21 posted on 06/02/2019 5:51:54 PM PDT by jimjohn (2nd American Civil War: ongoing since January 20, 2017.)
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To: Libloather

The Vault 7 leaks were very informative. They explain how the CIA has a collection of tools, and techniques to blame a computer intrusion on anyone they want. That becomes rather interesting when the same agency is busily telling us the Russians hacked into DNC computers. Assange exposed Vault 7 about six weeks before the 2016 election. That’s why they flipped out so bad.


22 posted on 06/02/2019 5:54:49 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: jimjohn

Like Springsteen says in the closing of NYC Serenade:

“He’s singin’...”


23 posted on 06/02/2019 6:01:56 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: gaijin

SPJNK.


24 posted on 06/02/2019 6:15:38 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: gaijin

SPJNK.


25 posted on 06/02/2019 6:16:06 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

is he a fugitive from the usa


26 posted on 06/02/2019 6:49:17 PM PDT by rolling_stone (Hang em slowly don't boil the rope make it a little short...)
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To: Libloather

Seems like no one faces charges for anything.

Mullett walks after his hoax.

The Awans walk.

Deep Stroke walked.

DiGenova now suggesting no one is gonna go to jail.

The only ones jailed were 3 leakers . . . cuz they endanger the Deep State.


27 posted on 06/02/2019 6:55:02 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Libloather; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
My wild guess is, this is being done so the contempt charges against Freakshow Manning can be dropped.

28 posted on 06/02/2019 7:06:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Politico - according to a U.S. official and two other people familiar with the case.

*********
Politico + unnamed sources = stirring up sh**.


29 posted on 06/02/2019 7:15:51 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Libloather

They don’t want to charge him on that because that would mean he gets discovery and the chance to show that it all was not a Russian hack but an inside job.

No way they want to go that rout.


30 posted on 06/02/2019 7:33:40 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Libloather

Maybe he is offering proof he got the goods from Seth Rich?


31 posted on 06/02/2019 8:53:45 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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To: Libloather

He is still in the UK. I wouldn’t doubt the deep state will poison him.


32 posted on 06/02/2019 8:59:28 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Eddie01

I think that is Clapper.


33 posted on 06/02/2019 9:17:05 PM PDT by jackibutterfly (A vote for ANY Democrat, whether it be in a local, st or fed election, is a vote against America.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Yup!


34 posted on 06/02/2019 9:36:46 PM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: yesthatjallen
I hope he does become a witness to help Barr nail the ones who really have harmed our country with their traitoristic activities. We have been waiting too long to see real justice done!!! And we have witnessed too many lives ruined by these evil people. 🙏👵🏻
35 posted on 06/02/2019 9:54:20 PM PDT by CAGOPgramma (In God we still trust!!)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

p


36 posted on 06/02/2019 10:08:12 PM PDT by bitt (I donate all my chips to erecting electric bleachers in Gitmo!)
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To: Libloather

That information and a lot more is probably why Asange won’t be charged. there was surely an “understanding” before Ecuador turned him out.


37 posted on 06/03/2019 1:40:25 AM PDT by arthurus (xvfghag)
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To: gaijin
Brennan just crapped his pants again?

38 posted on 06/03/2019 2:53:47 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: LS

The more events play out the more convinced I am that Rick Wiles from TruNews (a bit of a wackadoodle in some of his other positions) was being fed a real scoop back in February when he outline a Bush/Trump truce after Poppy’s funeral, with Barr being brought in as the Bushes’ enforcer to make sure that the terms were followed through on.

He said then that the big dogs were being called off Trump and his family, though there’d still be some small skirmishes from the Dems in Congress.

From his February 19th show, starting at 42:42: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsNCpx2xNaw

And Joe D. has been such a fervent booster of Barr since his name was introduced a few days after the funeral that it has seemed to be as if he may well have been a primary broker of the deal.

Nothing I have seen since has done anything but reinforce in my mind the credibility of what Wiles described as having been told to him back in February.


39 posted on 06/03/2019 4:00:02 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Gay State Conservative

The last thing a criminal defendant ever wants is a speedy trial. They all sign speedy trial waivers.


40 posted on 06/03/2019 4:06:31 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable DeplorablE)
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