Posted on 05/23/2019 1:22:54 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
WASHINGTON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks leader, has been indicted on 17 new counts of violating the Espionage Act for his role in publishing classified military and diplomatic documents in 2010, the Justice Department announced on Thursday — a novel case that raises profound First Amendment issues.
The new charges were part of a superseding indictment obtained by the Trump administration that significantly expanded the legal case against Mr. Assange, who is already fighting extradition proceedings in London based on an earlier hacking-related count brought by federal prosecutors in Northern Virginia.
The secret documents that Mr. Assange published were provided by the former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who was convicted at a court-martial trial in 2013 of leaking the records.
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Though he is not a conventional journalist, much of what Mr. Assange does at WikiLeaks is difficult to distinguish in a legally meaningful way from what traditional news organizations like The New York Times do: seek and publish information that officials want to be secret, including classified national security matters, and take steps to protect the confidentiality of sources.
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Today, Assange is a beacon of freedom and holy warrior for the press!
Hey, don't give yourself whiplash, New York Slimes!
Remember this?
The New York Times Just Outed The CIA’s Top Iran Spy
https://thefederalist.com/2017/06/02/new-york-times-just-outed-cia-chief-iran/
If only he stored these top secret documents on a private server in his bathroom...he would have been ok.
If his name was Hillary Clinton he would be home free. If he had been a Democrat, he would not have anything to worry about. He is neither so he is in deep shit. He can call home and tell them that they can go ahead and sell the house.
The secret documents that Mr. Assange published were provided by the former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning,
I’m trying to figure out how a Swedish citizen who publishes classified U.S. government information without ever setting foot in the U.S. is even subject to U.S. laws in the first place.
Assange is subject to US laws while never living in the US or committing such crimes in the US? Like Cartel bosses who don’t live in the US?
Yeah, what about our assets in China who were killed after Hillary let the info on them be shared?
Wikileaks devastated Hillary. They exposed all kinds of wrongdoing and Uranium one. They exposed Pizzagate. They exposed the Podesta emails. They exposed Hillary “one provate and one public” positions to the bankers. They exposed Vault 7 that the CIA collects tools and techniques so they can blame intrusions on any nation they choose (Russia hacked DNC computers anyone).
It’s a disgrace that Trump lets this proceed. Assange is a hero.
Assange may not be a sympathetic figure but he is a hero.
He alerted us to the fact the ‘deep state’ was spying upon everyone, and the bastard judges condoned that practice.
All that ‘we are the good guys’ crap they taught us in elementary school may no longer apply.
Remember: obama promised to ‘fundamentally change America’...
I, myself, will not be entirely satisfied until I see gallows on the mall.
He’s no more guilty than the NY Times.
The importance of a shrill NYT in defense of their sworn enemy (Assange) is so pleasing in that they must realize that they have committed every one of the acts with which he is charged. His conviction would be a gateway, of their own creation, to ending the first amendment. What a beautiful catch 22.
As I heard it he actually assisted in cracking the passwords, not just releasing the information.
“Today, Assange is a beacon of freedom and holy warrior for the press!”
They are afraid that if they don’t defend Assange, they might be next.
Yes, it is from 2010 and is much more serious **** than, "John Brennan called me.".
This is the indictment: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1153486/download
Assange did not publish Hillary’s e-mails, did he? I remember that he published information leaked by the Democrat National Committee, which is not a governmental entity, but was a political entity, controlled by Hillary Clinton & Debbie Schulz, whose IT head fled to Pakistan....and which refused to allow the FBI to look at is computers...so there can be no evidence of Russian hacking or source behind the leak & Assange insisted it was a DNC leaker, not hackers. So is the Barr DOJ taking Fusion GPS’s word for it that Wikleaks about DNC came from Russia through Assange? or that Guccifer 2.0 was a Russian military asset. I think our government has no case here & is going to embarrass and expose itself, criminally like Anthony Wiener did.
After uploading the “Apache video” of the US killing 2 Reuters journalists, and a group of Iraqi Civilians to a WikiLeaks dropsite, Manning was contacted by someone at Wikileaks who went by the name of “Nathaniel” and that was who Manning suspected was Assange. They began an almost daily correspondence over the Jabber networking site.
The person who Manning spoke to never identified himself as Assange.
During Manning’s Trial a US military representative testified that nothing Manning released endangered operational security.
“So is the Barr DOJ taking Fusion GPS’s word for it that Wikileaks about DNC came from Russia through Assange? Or that Guccifer 2.0 was a Russian military asset.”
Yes, the entire DOJ and the Mueller investigation is taking the word of Fusion, the FBI, and CIA. And remember, in vault 7 Assange revealed that the CIA collects tools and techniques to be able to assign blame for a “hacking” on any nation they please. And they point to a few Cyrillic letters in the hacking codes. Childishly amateur.
Same charges against similar espionage act crimes face Hillary .
Hillary might no longer be able to do ‘Hard Labor’ in prison, but she can still scrub the toilets of those who do.
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