Posted on 12/08/2010 9:29:47 AM PST by WesternCulture
What are the charges in the US against Assange again?
My Guess:
While in a cell with a couple Russian mafia types,Assange commits ‘assisted’ suicide in prison.
What would our wussy-asses do to him? Probably apologise and pay him a big settlement.
I think we've seen how that works out already.
From the Washington Post, via Dallas Morning News:
"... The U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria, Va., and the FBI are conducting what Justice Department officials have described as an aggressive criminal investigation that could lead to charges under the Espionage Act of 1917. However, prosecutions under the Espionage Act are highly complex, and sources familiar with the investigation have said no criminal charges are imminent.
Meanwhile, another official familiar with the inquiry says the Justice Department has examined whether Assange could be charged with trafficking in stolen government property. But that approach may be difficult, too.
"This is less about stealing than it is about copying," said John Palfrey, a Harvard Law School professor."
No. The Eurotrash take pleasure in our discomfort. We are on our own here. As in so much else.
“What would our wussy-asses do to him? Probably apologise and pay him a big settlement”
- Yes, OR the US could implement the same noble method of practicing justice in the field of espionage crimes it did during the wake of the Cold War:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEBVpy7n2pw
Exactly my thought.
I'm amazed at how many people want Assange to be prosecuted, hung, shot, kidnapped, etc. without even specifying the US law that he is allegedly violating.
Another thing to consider: the Espionage Act has only been successfully used to prosecute an "original" act of espionage. The one attempt to prosecute someone for distributing the results of someone else's espionage, did not succeed.
I think that the prosecution of Assange for his “sex crime” is just part of a larger strategy. Possibly to keep him under wraps until the justice department can draw up charges and work on extradition. His “sex crime” was having a condom break during consensual sex. Not really a crime that one would normally seek extradition for.
According to Alex Jones on Coast to Coast last night, Assuage is the fall guy for Wiki leak’s exposure of political secrets. Apparently, the two women suing for rape, are both allegedly connected with the CIA. The tail is wagging the dog again?
For what crime? The Supreme Court has affirmed that government secrets can be published with no recourse against those who publish said documents.
“The Eurotrash take pleasure in our discomfort”
- No we “Eurotrash” take pleasure in setting traps for this villain and confronting him with the uncompromising machinery of the European justice.
Mr. Assange no longer constitutes a threat to America.
Thanks to true Intelligence.
Isn't making Hillary look bad enough?
Well, we’d have her hairdresser for a capital crime by now, one would think....
They don’t need to hand him over. Just make public the time and place of his release, and he’ll be taken care of.
OOPS, I forgot; wrong White House!
I remember seeing the Polis beat the skit out of a local drunk and disorderly Swedish yute in Liseberg Park in Gothenburg in 1973. If the cops in New York had done that to a black yute, there would have been riots.
Nothing that is legal. But that never stopped our communists leader from forcing something.
They did nothing.
There is currently no charges available for the publisher of sensitive facts.
Any time you see someone post this, ask them to clarify what charges warrant this.
Secondly, the applicable law (Lag (1957:668) om utlämning för brott) gives the power to extradite foreign nationals to the cabinet, makinging it a political decision. Having a center-right cabinet takes us from "no way!" to "possible", but the general feeling I get is that the public would be against such an extradition, making it harder for the cabinet to do it.
From the American side they'll probably have problems putting together an indictment that can't be read as everyone publishing the leaks are violating the law. I can't see that the justice department would willingly open up that Pandora's box since that would mean that every news outlet in the US would be just as guilty as Wikileaks. They would have to show that only the "leaker" (i.e. Manning) and the first to publish (Wikileaks) are breaking the law. I think I've read that there has never been a successful case against someone publishing classified information in the US.
Don't take legal advice from me though - I'm just a software designer and has never taken a legal course in my life! :)
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