News Summary-Intelligence Report Tuesday 4/4/2023 Trump Charges, Aide To Former Maryland Governor Dead After FBI Opens Fire, Reporters Group Denied Access To Imprisoned Julian Assange, Pentagon Announces $2.6 Billion More For Ukraine

In the contest for Wisconsin Supreme Court Liberal candidate Janet Protasiewicz the winner...

In Jerusalem late tonight Israeli police using force to remove Muslim worshipers from the Al Aqsa Mosque...

In New York today the charges against President Trump from Manhattan District Attorney Democrat Alvin Bragg...The judge in the case telling Mr. Trump to "tone down" social media posts claiming they may spark "civil unrest". The Democrat prosecutor wants the trial next year during the Presidential Campaign...

A former aide to a longtime critic of President Trump is dead after the FBI opened fire on him near Knoxville, Tennessee Monday night...

Representatives of the Reporters Without Borders group denied access to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at the Belmarsh Prison in London...

The latest move in the coordinated actions of the United States and aligned nations against the Chinese owned social media company TikTok. TikTok now banned from government devices in Australia...

The approach of 20 Chinese aircraft and three Chinese ships to Taiwan in a 24-hour period...

The United States says that it killed an ISIS "attack planner" in a strike in the Idlib region of Syria...

One dead and 19 others taken to hospital in the Netherlands following the head on collision of a freight train and a construction crane...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the United States is trying to convince African nations...

In North Dakota the State House failing to override Republican Governor Doug Burgum's veto of legislation that requires schools...

Julian Assange and Eric Snowdon are for the most part, forgotten men. Two men without a country.

No, that's incorrect. Both have citizenship. Despite them sharing the dubious distinction of both being fugatives from American law enforcement for violating the Espionage Act by releasing classified documents, their situations are completely different.

Edward Snowdon is an American citizen by birth who fled certain arrest when he released classified documents to the press that showed that the NSA spies on all Americans. He proved that James Clapper, at the time the head of the NSA, had boldly lied to Congress. An act for which Clapper! was never punished.

Assange wisely met the reporters who broke the story in Hong Kong originally. This placed him outside the bounds of American power, as the FBI can't go arresting people in Hong Kong.

He fled Hong Kong one step ahead of international pursuit by American law enforcement and eventually made it to Russia. He was given temporary asylem there. This all took place in 2013.

He has remained in Russia ever since, and in Sept. 2022 he was granted full citizenship in Russia.

He is not a man without a country. He is now a Russian citizen, and technically he is probably still an American citizen, as well as a fugative from American law. It would be hard for him to travel to many other countries, as many would cooperate with America and arrest him or allow American LEOs to arrest him on their soil.

Julian Assange was born in Australia and has Australian citizenship. He too ran afoul of the U.S. regime's secret police. In attempting to avoid arrest in London, where he was living, he sought and was granted asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, where he lived for seven years from 2012 to 2019. A change in the governing party in Ecuador resulted in his asylum being revoked, and he was turned over to the British police, by whom he was wanted on an outstanding change of violating bail. The USA sought to have him shipped to the USA to face trial for espionage, for publishing classified material. He has fought his extradition to the USA and is still held in jail in the U.K. pending final appeals in his case.

He is a quite tragic figure, and has not been free to live a normal life for more than 12 years. By most accounts his mental health has deteriorated over the period of his long ordeal.

He is a hero to many, and has many high profile supporters who feel the USA is violating the notion of a free press by prosecuting him. His situation is tragic but he is not "without a nation", rather he is an Australian citizen imprisoned by the U.K. and fighting extradition to the USA.

Both have sired at least two children each since choosing to remain in exile.

What a strange way to phrase things, like they are race horses or something. What's your point?

Edward Snowdon married his girlfriend in Russia in 2017 and they have two children. They live a fairly normal life there, by most accounts. He is employed, travels around Russia and occassionally gives speeches.

Lindsay Mills, wife of Edward Snowdon.

Julian Assange married his longtime girlfriend, Stella Morris (now Assange} in 2022, They have two children together, from his time living in the Ecuadorian embassy, They were born in 2017 and 2019. She is a lawyer and has championed his cause.

Stella Assange, wife of Julian Assange

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