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Julian Assange Sees 'Incredible Double Standard' In Clinton Email Case
NPR ^ | 17 Aug 2016 | Meg Anderson

Posted on 08/17/2016 9:28:15 AM PDT by Theoria

Julian Assange says if the United States government sees him as a threat to national security, it should see Hillary Clinton as one, too.

In an interview with Morning Edition's David Greene, the founder of WikiLeaks called the Department of Justice's decision not to prosecute Clinton for handling classified information on her private email server an "incredible double standard."

Assange has been living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for four years to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on suspicion of rape.

In a statement last month, FBI director James Comey said the FBI "did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws," but that the use of a private email server was "extremely careless." Comey advised the Justice Department that "no charges are appropriate in this case," and career prosecutors agreed.

Assange noted that, had a case proceeded, Clinton could have been prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917, which bans the disclosure of classified information to an unauthorized person "with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States."

Assange said in the past courts have found that a lack of intent to harm the United States did not absolve the accused of guilt.

"There has been an interpretation saying that it doesn't matter that you didn't intend to harm the United States, but they seem to have changed the standard."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assange; clinton; email; hillary; wikileaks
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1 posted on 08/17/2016 9:28:15 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria

He could prove a valuable point

Release some horrrifying email of HilLIARy’s, but attribute it to Trump.

Once it gets 24/7 media coverage say “Oops- this is HilLIARy’s”


2 posted on 08/17/2016 9:30:16 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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I find it interesting that Ecuador is willing to house him and protect him for this long. What is the story there?


3 posted on 08/17/2016 9:31:20 AM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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To: Theoria
Julian Assange Sees 'Incredible Double Standard' In Clinton Email Case

So do the rest of us.

4 posted on 08/17/2016 9:33:11 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Theoria

Ya Think?


5 posted on 08/17/2016 9:34:05 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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To: DiogenesLamp
"Julian Assange Sees 'Incredible Double Standard' In Clinton Email Case"

Not to mention BJ Clinton's sexual predations.

6 posted on 08/17/2016 9:38:54 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: Crimson Elephant

“I find it interesting that Ecuador is willing to house him and protect him for this long. What is the story there?”

Not every country in the world goes along with the day-to-day tyranny that most Americans have come to accept as ‘normal’.


7 posted on 08/17/2016 9:42:03 AM PDT by MeganC (JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
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To: MeganC

Yes but we usually invade them or cripple them economically if they don’t go along with the globalist program.


8 posted on 08/17/2016 9:43:56 AM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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To: Mr. K

The media would give a 5 second correction and people would forever have it tied to Trump.


9 posted on 08/17/2016 9:45:04 AM PDT by the_boy_who_got_lost
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To: Theoria
Mr. Assange is finding out what many on our side have had to painfully admit - that this country is simply too corrupt and may be beyond salvaging. Welcome to the party, Julian.
10 posted on 08/17/2016 9:50:32 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: Crimson Elephant

One of these days the USA is going to go on one of these adventures like we did in Yugoslavia, Libya, and Syria where we launch a war on someone else’s country where we have no interest whatsoever...

...and they’re going to kick our butts and then level a few of our cities in response.

Maybe not in our lifetime but someday because our empire, like every empire before it, is not forever.

A lesson we ignore is that Rome considered itself ‘Eternal’ as late as just three years before it finally fell to its enemies. There is no reason...no reason at all...why we should take our place in the world for granted.

Which is why I will be voting for Donald Trump.


11 posted on 08/17/2016 9:51:26 AM PDT by MeganC (JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
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To: Theoria

I really hope this group has successfully purloined emails from ABCNBCBSCNNFOXNYTWAPOPBSETAL for all their so-called journalists. It would likely be illuminating to witness the vitriol toward any non-extremist leftist.


12 posted on 08/17/2016 9:52:54 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: Theoria

Sweden is still concerned about foreigner rapes?


13 posted on 08/17/2016 9:55:24 AM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Theoria

Poor Julian is like my dog. She intentionally runs in front of cars when she gets out of the house. She wouldn’t last any time at all if I let her out of the yard. Julian has crossed the Clintons; if he were allowed to leave the Ecuadorian facility he would no doubt be so despondent that he would immediately shoot himself in the back of the head twice.


14 posted on 08/17/2016 9:55:30 AM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: Theoria

It took Assange this long to realize that we have one set of rules for our political elites (basically defined by an absence of rules), and another set of rules that apply to everybody else? If you aren’t part of the ruling elite, you’re little people. Clinton’s in, Assange is out.


15 posted on 08/17/2016 9:57:08 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Paladin2

Only a very few....


16 posted on 08/17/2016 10:01:22 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Paladin2
Sweden is still concerned about foreigner rapes?

nicely done, nicely done

17 posted on 08/17/2016 10:06:42 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: Paladin2

Only if they’re done by a white guy who isn’t a muslim.................


18 posted on 08/17/2016 10:13:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Mr. K

That is a great idea.


19 posted on 08/17/2016 10:21:36 AM PDT by Defiant (After 8 years of Chump Change, it's time for Trump Change.)
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To: MeganC

It’s when people considered their primary place before God to be paramount that their place in the world was assured as a side effect. Going for a short cut, looking to God as a promoter for worldly place, power, and fame, never worked.


20 posted on 08/17/2016 10:27:36 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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