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Breaking: Released Julian Assange Ready For Next Indictment – Espionage Charges In The US
Mediaite ^ | December 16th, 2010 | Matt Schneider

Posted on 12/16/2010 5:45:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

International man of intrigue Julian Assange barely had a moment to catch his breath from the last charges against him, but now is prepared for the US to have their crack at him. Assange tells Sky News “We have heard today from one of my US lawyers that there may be a US indictment for espionage for me coming from a secret grand jury investigation.” The fun never stops with Assange, stay tuned for more details.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: aucrypto; ericholder; espionage; hacker; julianassange; mendax; obama; uk; wikileaks
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To: Captain Kirk

Good post Captain!


21 posted on 12/16/2010 6:17:03 PM PST by taxtruth (Don't end the fed,jail the fed!)
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To: mnehring

Nonsense. If he was “spying” (these AREN’T top secret documents btw) for Soros, he would have not releaesed the damning informtion on the government cover-up in climategate. Our political masters, including Sarah Obama and Barak Palin, are sincere in their mutual hatred of Wikileaks for the unforgivable crime of ripping the facade off our corrupt system.


22 posted on 12/16/2010 6:20:40 PM PST by Captain Kirk (Q)
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To: ully2

Ok, but you will also have to hang every reporter who publishes or broadcasts any government leaks.

Very much like they do in Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Red China.


23 posted on 12/16/2010 6:24:38 PM PST by trumandogz
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To: Captain Kirk

He is an opportunist, he releases what he gets, but he is no journalist. He is a hacker. However, considering that some of the documents have been redacted after the fact shows that Assange also just isn’t about releasing information- he is selective in what he releases and what he protects.

I bet you would have cheered the Germans who encouraged Quisling to make sure that Norway had no secrets too wouldn’t you?

In the old days, we would have just put someone like Assange against a wall after the first time he cracked into the NSA.


24 posted on 12/16/2010 6:25:55 PM PST by mnehring
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To: mnehring
I have no doubt that he was just a conduit for Assange's hacking.

Manning's own words would probably make you doubt it. Pretty interesting reading actually.

‘I Can’t Believe What I’m Confessing to You’: The Wikileaks Chats

25 posted on 12/16/2010 6:31:18 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I will believe an espionage charge is coming the day I see the New Black Panthers hauled in by Eric Holder. Moreover, unless there was some collusion between Assange and Manning to steal the documents, as opposed to Assange merely receiving them and publishing them, then it's somewhat hard to distinguish between Assange and the New York Times, who published the Pentagon Papers (and everything else they can get their hands on) with impunity.
26 posted on 12/16/2010 6:34:38 PM PST by americanophile
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The worst he’s gonna get from the U.S. will be a $5 mill book contract. The best could go into the teens!


27 posted on 12/16/2010 6:38:13 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: mnehring

The best we can hope for is that he is made Persona non grata in the US and a hundred other nations.


28 posted on 12/16/2010 6:41:51 PM PST by trumandogz
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Shemp Smith

I'm sure there are good reasons to watch FOXNEWS, but Schlepper, BOR and Whoraldo ain't three of them.

29 posted on 12/16/2010 6:47:05 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only question to be asked is: which country is going to get him first? The Israelis are not above snatching people off the streets of London, they’ve done it to renegade nuclear scientists before. Vegas isn’t taking odds on whether Julian is going to live to see 2012.


30 posted on 12/16/2010 6:53:26 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Captain Kirk

It doesn’t matter, he’ll be just as dead. He’s pissed off enough countries that somebody is going to nail him.


31 posted on 12/16/2010 6:56:53 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: mnehring

More interesting reading. Thanks for the information.


32 posted on 12/16/2010 7:00:41 PM PST by ReverendJames (Only A Lawyer And A Painter Can Change Black Into White)
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To: mnehring

BTW. Two other things pop up. One is our secrets aren’t all that safe and two, how did he coerce the service guy to give up the info?


33 posted on 12/16/2010 7:02:04 PM PST by ReverendJames (Only A Lawyer And A Painter Can Change Black Into White)
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To: Revolting cat!
The worst he’s gonna get from the U.S. will be a $5 mill book contract.

He'll be on the talk show circuit within 2 months...

34 posted on 12/16/2010 7:04:23 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit.)
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To: ReverendJames

“If someone here was passed secrets from France would France then charge you?”

Yes. Especially if you made them public.

Why should the responsibility stop with the thief and not also the fence?

In most US spy cases the recipient has claimed diplo immunity or never was found.


35 posted on 12/16/2010 7:16:49 PM PST by DBrow
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well... this’ll make him a far easier target to get to. Hopefully somebody will.


36 posted on 12/16/2010 7:17:01 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Captain Kirk

Sorry... but I think people should not be able to freely conspire to divulge classified information— at any level of classification. Even these state dept. cables... while the subject matter has so far been fairly pedestrian, our diplomatic corps (like them or not) need to be able to conduct frank, honest and confidential communications with their various opposite numbers around the world. Now— they can’t do that. That’s a non-trivial problem.


37 posted on 12/16/2010 7:23:58 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Captain Kirk
Jesse Walker at Reason has an interesting analogy. Assange is uploading his favorite songs to the Internet and the US government is the recording industry trying to stop Napster.

He's notable now only because he's one of the first. Soon there will be many more like him and what he's doing will become a given.

38 posted on 12/16/2010 7:53:33 PM PST by OwenB
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To: Captain Kirk

I agree that he is doing a service. I was not aware that Saudi Arabia was funding al queda with impunity after they murdered 3000 Americans on 911. I was not aware that Russia was funding the terrorists in Venezuela. This guy is a hero.


39 posted on 12/16/2010 7:57:58 PM PST by Benchim
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cue the ACLU.


40 posted on 12/16/2010 8:01:52 PM PST by South40 (If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. ~Thomas Paine)
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