17 Nov 2018: NPR: All Things Considered: How A ‘Court Records Nerd’ Discovered The Government May Be Charging Julian Assange
One minute, Seamus Hughes was reading the book Dragons Love Tacos to his son. A few minutes later, after putting him to bed, Hughes was back on his computer, stumbling on what could be one of the most closely guarded secrets within the U.S. government: The Justice Department may be preparing criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange...
By Friday morning, the Twitter post had hundreds of retweets and thousands of likes. “I look at my wife, I say, ‘I think something happened last night,’ and then we get The Washington Post that morning and the front page is all of this, and The New York Times and everybody else after that, and I thought to myself, ‘It’s going to be one of those Fridays I guess.’”...
Prosecutors in Virginia have called the filing an error. “That was not the intended name for this filing,” Joshua Stueve, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, told The New York Times.
Hughes said the “accidental revelation” he found in the court papers is most likely the result of human error – an accidental case of cut and paste.
“It looks like it’s the same prosecutor that’s looking at both those cases. You know, these prosecutors are overworked, they’ve got an immense workload and things get missed on these things, and I think this is just one of those honest mistakes.”
Hughes said he feels for the attorney who made the error, adding that in retrospect, he might have taken a different approach.
“Looking back, I probably would have called DOJ last night if I realized what I had and asked for a comment and gone from there, kind of through the quasi journalistic stuff, but I didn’t realize what it was when I was looking at it really,” he said.
He said the discovery has also prompted him to rethink his research approach
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/17/668750802/how-a-court-records-nerd-discovered-the-government-may-be-charging-julian-assang
NPR is one of the most biased sources there is. I cannot listen to them for 5 minutes without barfing.
All Things Considered: How A ‘Court Records Nerd’ Discovered The Government May Be Charging Julian Assange
One minute, Seamus Hughes was reading the book Dragons Love Tacos to his son. A few minutes later, after putting him to bed, Hughes was back on his computer, stumbling on what could be one of the most closely guarded secrets within the U.S. government: The Justice Department may be preparing criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange...
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Wow. What B.S.. Huges is a spook.