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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I predict he’s cooperating.
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.
Like Springsteen says in the closing of NYC Serenade:
“He’s singin’...”
SPJNK.
SPJNK.
is he a fugitive from the usa
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.
My wild guess is, this is being done so the contempt charges against Freakshow Manning can be dropped.
Politico - according to a U.S. official and two other people familiar with the case.
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Politico + unnamed sources = stirring up sh**.
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.
Maybe he is offering proof he got the goods from Seth Rich?
He is still in the UK. I wouldn’t doubt the deep state will poison him.
I think that is Clapper.
Yup!
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That information and a lot more is probably why Asange won’t be charged. there was surely an “understanding” before Ecuador turned him out.
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.
The last thing a criminal defendant ever wants is a speedy trial. They all sign speedy trial waivers.
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