Posted on 04/11/2019 2:57:50 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
JULIAN Assange has been arrested by British police today after spending seven years hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy.
The WikiLeaks founder, 47, was taken into custody after failing to surrender to the court in 2012 - and has spent 2,487 days holed up in the West London embassy.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Interesting
Why would he not release Hillary’s emails before now, if he actually has them?
Accepting and encouraging the theft of classified US property will land you in jail even if you are a citizen of Mars! The only issue is can US authorities get to you to enforce that. Many a foreign spy (the recruiter not the recruited US citizen!) caught here has faced the possibility of being charged. 999/1000 the “gentlemen’s agreement” is evoked and they’re sent home. Example the hot read-head who ran the incompetent ring a few years back. All were sent home after possible charges were waved at them.
They thing I find interesting from the reporting is no mention of violation of the Espionage Act. Again from the reporting it looks like Assange tasked Manning, if true that’s huge! It makes it conspiracy to commit espionage. So I think Assange has cut a deal. Of course it also could all be sloppy reporting too and there’s no deal.
...and they’re carrying him!
First off, our own press does that on a regular basis. According to your assertion, Ali Watkins should be in jail, right? Why ain’t she?
Second, Assange is not American and did not operate in US jurisdiction. Our laws no more apply to him than than China’s laws apply to us here.
Combine the two and it’s all but impossible to convict him of anything. Find the statute that applies, if you disagree.
That is up to a court to decide. I do not have much sympathy for Assange. My name appeared a number of times in his release of millions of State Department cables.
Do you think Manning should have been prosecuted?
Would Trump have been elected?
They have charged him with regards to CHELSEA MANNING
If he is convicted Assange should be sentenced to same amount of jail time as the little tranny. Not a day more.
Assange was working with a US spy. Our laws apply to him no matter where he is or is from.
So have countless reporters here in the US, none of whom have been prosecuted for the same.
The selective prosecution argument alone acquits.
Suppose A & B break the law but I chose to prosecute A but not B. Doesn’t relive A of having broken the law! Prosecutorial discretion its called! It may not be fair but it exists.
How long was Noriega in jail? Remember him?
We’ve done similar things for international drug dealers, international bank fraudsters, etc. You break US laws it doesn’t matter where you are if we want to make the effort to get you & succeed that’s your problem! Even Mueller laughably tried but he had precedent for acting. If we can lure a foreign intel officer here who we know has broken our laws we’ll charge him. Its been done but usually they’re not that stupid! Also the espionage act doesn’t make exceptions for civilians.
relive=relief
The indictment alleges that in March 2010, Assange engaged in a conspiracy with Chelsea Manning, a former intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S. Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network (SIPRNet), a U.S. government network used for classified documents and communications. Manning, who had access to the computers in connection with her duties as an intelligence analyst, was using the computers to download classified records to transmit to WikiLeaks. Cracking the password would have allowed Manning to log on to the computers under a username that did not belong to her. Such a deceptive measure would have made it more difficult for investigators to determine the source of the illegal disclosures.
During the conspiracy, Manning and Assange engaged in real-time discussions regarding Manning’s transmission of classified records to Assange. The discussions also reflect Assange actively encouraging Manning to provide more information. During an exchange, Manning told Assange that “after this upload, that’s all I really have got left.” To which Assange replied, “curious eyes never run dry in my experience.”
Assange is charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion and is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Because they took Manning into custody too, which means Bolton and MI5/MI6 won the argument.
So the argument was two-fold -- take Assange in to give PM a must-have distraction to her Brexit failures; and if the WL safeholds are opened, all of their damning evidence concerns the prior US administration.
If A through Y commit a crime, and this is known to prosecutors, and are not prosecuted, Z cannot be successfully prosecuted for the same crime either.
It’s called selective prosecution and is a massive violation of due process and equality under the law.
There’s nothing that can stick to Assange while still adhering to the rule of law.
The arrest of Noriega was completely unlawful, and if that’s your example it shreds your case.
Prosecutors aren’t the unlimited despots you appear to believe them to be.
Insurance. If he released them, he has no leverage, and he is victim of a “robbery gone wrong” like ol’ Seth Rich. With them, he can put them in a vault with a dead man’s switch to keep her from whacking him, or offer them to her enemies in exchange for protection.
Good point. And... if no trove of valuable information is released, then Assange agreed to be arrested for some higher purpose. This is very interesting...
The timing is suspicious.
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