Posted on 06/24/2021 9:43:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US whistleblower Edward Snowden said commenting on the death of US antivirus software developer McAfee, John McAfee, who reportedly committed suicide after his extradition to the US was approved by a Spanish court, that Julian Assange could be next.
"Europe should not extradite those accused of non-violent crimes to a court system so unfair - and prison system so cruel - that native-born defendants would rather die than become subject to it. Julian Assange could be next. Until the system is reformed, a moratorium should remain," Snowden said on Twitter.
https://t.co/tUociySmVy
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) June 23, 2021 Earlier, the El Pais newspaper reported that McAfee, 75, was found dead on Wednesday, in his prison cell in Spain's Barcelona where he committed suicide. Doctors tried to resuscitate him, but were unable to save him. McAfee's death came after the Spanish National Court approved his extradition to the United States, where he was accused of tax evasion.
McAfee was put on the international wanted list by the United States and was detained at a Barcelona airport while on his way to Istanbul in early October 2020. According to the charges brought against him in the US, McAfee made millions of dollars from promoting cryptocurrencies, consulting, public speaking, and after selling the rights to create a biographical documentary about him, but did not file taxes. In mid-June, McAfee testified in the Spanish National Court. During the hearings he denied all the charges brought against him in the US, claiming that they were of political nature.
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was arrested in London on 11 April 2019, and sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for jumping bail back in 2012, when he took refuge inside the Ecuadorean embassy in the UK capital to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he was facing sexual assault charges that were later dropped by the Swedish court.
Assange is wanted by the US Justice Department on espionage and computer fraud charges after WikiLeaks published thousands of secret files and classified information that shed light on war crimes committed by US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. He faces up to 175 years in solitary confinement inside a top security American prison if convicted in the United States.
In January, UK district judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled not to extradite Assange, citing health reasons and the risk of suicide in the US prison system, but decided that he must wait in prison for the outcome of an appeal filed by US prosecutors.
MacAffee is not Assange.
MacAffee had serious mental problems/drug addiction issues.
That was one of my first thoughts upon hearing of the “suicide”.
Snowden was smart to flee the country. Our Deep State is much more criminal and savage than anything Putin can put together.
Trump condemned him to death by not pardoning him.
Trump last 3 weeks is an unknown to me. Not convinced he was even in charge.
cyber polygon it?
If true, wouldn't that info be everywhere now? If McAfee was smart enough to figure all of this out, wouldn;t he be smart enough to disseminate the info as soon as the deadman switch was pulled?
A person who used to be in defense intelligence and had a very respectable position with a large company (I am being vague here to protect said person, but he was legitimate) spoke to some of his old colleagues in the Department of Defense. They told him Trump had just about every three letter agency working actively against him.
The fact that individuals in the Department of Defense did not disclose the true numbers of troops deployed in Syria to then commander-in-chief Trump and were never held accountable supports the claim that most everyone was working against Trump.
Was his own fault though. He hired Mattis and didn’t fire Wray. I heard the Secret Service told Melania that after the DS stole the election, if Trump didn’t concede the DS would kill them. I believe it!
We sure do live in interesting times
/Understatement
In defense of the country we are at the point where any action taken by the public is defensible. Morally, that’s a different discussion. That’s my take.
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