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Charging Assange reflects dramatic shift in US approach
AP ^ | 4/13/2019 | ERIC TUCKER and BEN FO

Posted on 04/13/2019 11:55:39 AM PDT by detective

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To: volunbeer

Regardless of what the charges etc. end up etc. Assaunge has a huge fear of being put in any general population prison. So I think he’ll deal on that note if found guilty of anything. His personal comfort will dictate much in this entire ordeal.


41 posted on 04/13/2019 1:38:06 PM PDT by caww
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To: volunbeer

..”Having our nations secrets stolen by an insider, collected and stored by a “publisher”, and printed (or bartered) is not an ideal situation. We all laughed and cheered when it made HRC look bad, but much of this material would damage our national security and likely the safety of our soldiers and personnel.”.....

I will agree to that.


42 posted on 04/13/2019 1:39:39 PM PDT by caww
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To: EEGator

Manning is a castrati.


43 posted on 04/13/2019 1:44:20 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: Wildbill22

Nixon was a choir boy PERIOD!


44 posted on 04/13/2019 1:46:06 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: detective

So, it’s not currently about the Hillary emails and Russia. Assange is the route to Manning, the treasonous soldier that needs to be tried on separate charges, convicted and executed.

Manning is to be the executed example of what happens to miltary traitors who divulge secrets and especially wholesale secrets.


45 posted on 04/13/2019 1:47:10 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: caww

Our national security was not damaged as badly as it would have been if the information had not been stolen and published, and had Hillary been elected.

I think the point here is that if the Trump administration demonstrates conclusively and quickly how the information was actually stolen (via Seth Rich?) and the Russians had nothing to do with it, Mueller and his team are going to look very very bad, and a lot of Democrat heads are going to roll. I think this may actually be what this is about, getting the truth, and then gutting the deep state.


46 posted on 04/13/2019 1:52:31 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: DIRTYSECRET

<>I think Trump will use him to spill the beans on Obama.<>

Agree.

This is without doubt connected to AG Barr testimony that the government spied on DJT and he will investigate the “predicate” for the whole d@mn thing.


47 posted on 04/13/2019 2:02:07 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: detective
Not indicting Assange for the DNC or Podesta leaks is telling.

Now lets see if the British government lets him be extradited.

48 posted on 04/13/2019 2:49:52 PM PDT by mac_truck (Aide toi et Dieu t'aidera)
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To: volunbeer

“They can only press the issue if the court allows it. The court only has to allow what is relevant for the elements of the crime he is charged with.”

You’re quite correct that this how the courts (illegally) operate. For a thousand years, English common law allowed justification as a defense in court. Thanks to that meddling bonehead fascist Ed Meese, the justification defense was stripped from our judicial system.


49 posted on 04/13/2019 3:18:04 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: detective

An ephemeral change of convenience: When it is otherwise convenient, the policy will revert.


50 posted on 04/13/2019 3:22:36 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: detective

Because Assange had all kinds of poo on the FBI, Justice and intel, Obama and Clinton, and others. He was blackmailing them just like he was the Ecuadorians. When Barr announced that there was a new sheriff in town, he knew he couldn’t blackmail the rats any longer, so Trump pulled the lever on him.. My theory.


51 posted on 04/13/2019 3:43:42 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: detective

Obama pardoned Bradley Manning. Obama did not pursue Assange.


52 posted on 04/13/2019 3:59:44 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: gibsonguy

Well, now he’s not “hung” at all, is he?


53 posted on 04/13/2019 4:32:13 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: detective

I hope that Julian has secreted his entire story in several different places so that we are able to find out the truth after he is “Suicided.”

There are a lot of Inside the Evil Beltway folks who CANNOT allow his story to be told.


54 posted on 04/13/2019 4:49:17 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: detective
Barack Obama’s Justice Department had extensive internal debates about whether to charge Assange amid concerns the case might not hold up in court

No, they were afraid a trial would lead back to them.

55 posted on 04/13/2019 6:57:06 PM PDT by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: detective

No offense meant to you. Know you were quoting article. Just my snarky comment on how the media tries to change reality


56 posted on 04/13/2019 10:12:03 PM PDT by patriotspride
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To: detective

I think that they may be giving Assange a pass through other means. They can’t come out and say that they aren’t charging him but since Pompeo did say he thought Assange should be eligible for execution is convicted then the UK isn’t going to extradite him since they have already said they wouldn’t do it if capital punishment was on the table. I don’t think Assange will face any U.S. court.


57 posted on 04/14/2019 6:51:42 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: petitfour
Obama pardoned Bradley Manning.

Obama granted Manning clemency and commuted his sentence. He didn't pardon him.

58 posted on 04/14/2019 6:53:15 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Yes. Thanks for correcting me!


59 posted on 04/14/2019 9:13:59 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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