Trump should have pardoned Assange to just make the FBI cry.
They would have just come up with another ‘crime’ to justify their perfidy.............
In criminal cases where a key witness, essential to the prosecution, admits that they lied the case is poisoned and usually dismissed.
That will not happen with Assange.
He embarrassed a lot of very powerful people including one named Clinton.
I don’t view him as a hero nor do I view him as a villain. Julian was a real champion of many on the left when his targets were in Republican hands. They did not understand Julian because he targeted them when they were in power and that was his real mistake. To be “of the left” you can only damage one side.
What he did legally was no different (publish secrets) than the NYT or Compost did when the “target” was Trump (classified information leaked). That was okay with those who are in charge of such things when it served their interests (get Trump). Assange made the wrong enemies even if what he did was legally equivalent. For better or worse, it is hard now to find a better example of our real life double standard.
*** Trump should have pardoned Assange to just make the FBI cry. ***
Why did Trump’s big ass donor, Sheldon Adelson have representatives at all the Assange hearings that have been held in London since Julian was arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
Trump chose to do the wrong thing for whatever reason, and since Adelson croaked I guess I won’t ever know. I do know Adelson had a link to the Spanish guy employed by the CIA to spy on Assange, steal his baby’s diaper for DNA testing. That was a Pompeo thing, IIRC.