Posted on 06/26/2024 4:30:39 AM PDT by C19fan
The former head of US intelligence slammed the celebrations surrounding the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange this week and called the Australian 'no hero.'
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today show, James Clapper, who served as head of the intelligence community under former President Barack Obama, called Assange's actions wrong and illegal.
Clapper went on to say that US assets in Afghanistan were likely killed due to Wikileaks revealing their identities in government documents.
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Wikileaks cannot and will not be destroyed. Julian no longer controls the information.
The DOJ had no business prosecuting Assange. He’s not a U.S. citizen and didn’t commit any alleged crimes in the U.S.
Clapper belongs in the crapper..
Is this the same former head of U.S. intelligence who signed a letter claiming Hunter’s laptop was Russian misinformation?
So if Assange publishing these leaks was so damaging Jim, why did your boss Obama Pardon Chelsey Manning for leaking them? Dude decides to identity as a gal and then all is forgiven?
Didn’t assets in Afghanistan die because of Biden’s actions?
“Wikileaks cannot and will not be destroyed. Julian no longer controls the information.”
That’s what I was thinking. If the information does come out, and Assange disowns any complicity, will he be able to walk away without blame? Somehow I doubt, but I have to admit it does work for the Neocons when they blow up beaches and blame Ukraine for it.
Yep, the more he squeals, the better I’m convinced Assange a hero.
Exactly. If there is anyone deserving of a putrid dungeon and 24x7 leg irons, it is that scumbag, lying Clapper.
Julian needs to get himself and his family out of Australia. They are in danger there.
“Julian needs to get himself and his family out of Australia. They are in danger there.”
Agree, I smell something. Best for him to get to a safe country for Americans, like Russia. He can have his family move there too, if they can get Exit Permits from the US Government.
Assange was prosecuted for revealing the truth about government shenanigans. As a journalist, he refused to give up his sources.
He exposed how pervasive and intrusive the Deep State is.
Who would believe the DM?
Clapper is no doubt correct to a degree. My questions for him are: Why are you and the responsible government agencies and individuals so careless with such critical secrets? Shouldn’t Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden have been prosecuted for gross violations of national security? Doesn’t letting them skate while prosecuting President Trump in bad faith discredit enforcement of government secret keeping as being too often abused as a weapon against political enemies? And, since we have the chance to ask, is the dirty, festering secret of the Kennedy assassination that the CIA did it with LBJ’s approval?
That’s rich, James Clapper, the CIA director that didn’t know about the London bombing and one of the 51 signatories of the Hunter Biden laptop letter, defining who are the good guys and bad guys.
He should have been making that proclamation from a high security prison, preferably GITMO, while serving life without parole sentence . . .
It would be difficult to think of a less credible person that Crapper. The guy exudes falsehoods.
NO! WHAT YOU GUYS WERE DOING WAS WRONG AND ILLEGAL- HE JUST EXPOSED IT.
Assange and Rich were in direct contact..................
Ya clapper expended every ounce of his credibility. He no longer has any business contributing in the public square.
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