Posted on 04/22/2017 2:13:05 AM PDT by Pinkbell
Link only per guidelines:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-julian-assange-wikileaks-response-a7696326.html
Unless they can prove that the following linked paragraph is true and true in the sense that they didn't just communicate with Manning but ordered and helped Manning in stealing documents as opposed to just leaking them, I do not support this.
Last week in a speech at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, CIA Director Mike Pompeo said: “WikiLeaks directed Chelsea Manning to intercept specific secret information, and it overwhelmingly focuses on the United States.”
I can understand where Pompeo is coming from as the head of the CIA, and I understand we don't want our security secrets leaked, but some things, like the fact that they can spy through a smart TV or phone or hack a car are things that I would rather know.
As I said above, this creates a bad precedent if Assange is arrested because it opens the door for other media.
Working link:
This will be an interesting case for the Supreme Court.
Imo, there are plenty of domestic current & former “leakers” right here in our intelligence community that need to be charged
Shiny focus elsewhere and those on the inside will start to get careless and expose themselves. Maneuvering, just simple maneuvering to set the traps.
Assange only publishes leaked documents.
I’m all for taking him down as long as the staff of the Washington Post and NY Times share a cell with him.
Let’s charge the felons he revealed!!!
If Assange goes down, the NYT and WP will celebrate.
“AG Sessions declines to answer when asked if prosecution of WikiLeaks will extend to other publishers”
Looks like Assange is going to spend the rest of his days in the Ecuadorian Embassy with visits from Pamela Anderson.
Wiki is no different than the NYT and WaPo - all publish leaked documents.
I can’t see how an honest govt could isolate one of the above and give the other two a free pass in the name of “free press”.
I love Trump but I am far from trusting the government around him.
Assange has done more damage to the dem machine than anyone else besides Trump.
Let him walk.
How about we go and clean up our own back yard FIRST. We have plenty of felons that we have overwhelming evidence on that you can recommend your Justus Department to go after President Trump. Proceed with those first and once that is done (in 8 years) then the next President can take over.
I think the Trump team is going overboard here still trying to make it look like they weren’t colluding with Russia on the timing of the leaks.
I don’t like the uneven prosecution. It should be just the domestic leakers on the hook, but if Assange gets prosecuted, all the Deep State friends publishing leaks in the WP, NYT, etc., should be prosecuted as well.
I would guess the main point of “going after” Assange might be to use him to ferret out the leakers. Ready-made plea deal inherent if he “becomes available for questioning”, and it might open a serious can of worms for those in “Intelligence” who abuse their access.
Honest government would have no problem with light being shined on its actions. A dishonest government fears its own people because it knows its actions are evil. The reason a free press exists is to expose such evil in government before that evil spreads.
Sorry but Assange is no hero. He should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Agree.
Say what you want about Assange, but he did expose corruption.
Will the last Trump supporter turn out the lights?
I know he is better than Hillary, but that is an incredibly low bar. Assange is a hero like all whistleblowers, they need medals not jail cells.
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