Posted on 11/16/2016 12:42:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Not from Swedish prosecution.
If they did and Assange showed up to accept it then they could arrest him on that rape charge.
He only can be charged with espionage if he “tasked”, “the Manning Thing” to steal the information. I guess maybe he could be charged with receiving “”stolen” government (and private - Rat DNC emails) property.
Give them citizenship and social benefits, apparently.
Releasing Pvt Manning’s ill-gotten classified info on the Internet...
He's not under indictment for that. Or anything else.
How does Soros, who’s been convicted in France, and (I think) wanted elsewhere, manage to stay in the USA?
IF Obama pardons Clinton, Trump definitely should pardon the general recently convicted of releasing a minor classified document, and that enlisted man doing time for photographing his bunk in a submarine.
I’m sorry, but Wikileaks still disseminated the Bradley Manning information which harmed the national interests of the USA. Not feeling the affection for Assange at all.
you don’t believe he should be?
Pardoned or indicted? I think a better case can be made for the latter than the former.
LOL!!! They just won’t quit trying to find some sort of complicity by Trump to malign Hillary and the DNC. An American President has no jurisdiction to pardon non-citizens, only whether or not they want to file charges,internationally against someone who has broken international law or broke our laws while on our soil.
indictment would seem to me to be the necessary preliminary to a pardon.
I doubt it, but who knows?
It's big enough to hold the entire Freeper family for Thanksgiving dinner...
Nixon had not been indicted when Ford pardoned him.
So?
Did Ford's pardon of Nixon stand?
He’s not an American citizen, he’s a Swede.
He was given the Information by Manning as long as he didn’t tell Manning to steal it, it will be hard to make a case for espionage. I think its already been established (In Manning’ court marshal!) that Manning did it on his own without any outside direction.
Sorry that’s martial! Not Marshall!
Bad Surface ! “ SLAP!”. Bad!
Too many people don't even stop and think when they see a statement like this. It's the first thing I also thought. Presidential pardons are for those who have been convicted of a crime in the US. Ford's pardon of Nixon was unusual in that Nixon was never tried or convicted. But no one challenged it.
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