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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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”
I find it interesting that Ecuador is willing to house him and protect him for this long. What is the story there?
So do the rest of us.
Ya Think?
Not to mention BJ Clinton's sexual predations.
“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’.
Yes but we usually invade them or cripple them economically if they don’t go along with the globalist program.
The media would give a 5 second correction and people would forever have it tied to Trump.
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.
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.
Sweden is still concerned about foreigner rapes?
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.
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.
Only a very few....
nicely done, nicely done
Only if they’re done by a white guy who isn’t a muslim.................
That is a great idea.
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.
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