Posted on 04/11/2019 10:20:56 AM PDT by OddLane
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, publisher of whistleblowers, and Vladimir Putin’s lackey, was arrested in London on behalf of the U.S. government for “computer related offences” after Ecuador withdrew its asylum protection. Assange, who had skipped on bail in the summer of 2012 when under investigation for sexual assault and rape in Sweden, took up residency in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for the next seven years.
Assange’s transparent cooperation with Russian intelligence in its efforts to undermine American interests and embarrass the United States is hardly in question. The notion Assange is a non-ideological warrior fighting to expose the “unvarnished truth” about abusive governments—as The New York Times once claimed—is a myth...
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Its not either-or. If Aldrich Ames had posted his stuff to the New York Times, he would have been a “whistleblower”, if he got caught, and a hero, and his handlers in Moscow could have read the very same information with their tea... and he would not have died in jail.
This is the way espionage is done in the modern era. You don’t have to leave it under the rock a hundred paces north of the bridge. You just leak it to the press anonymously. Or post it to Wikileaks anonymously. Your handlers get it just the same.
Utter nonsense from the National Security POV.
Assange is a hero to the American people, and most of the world.
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” - George Orwell
NYT is a spy.
Isn’t espionage and treason, future murder?
It all comes down to deep state on one side and patriots on the other. This will clarify any questions.
Agree. It wouldn’t take much to cross the line, just as a newspaper publisher in the old days to aggressively pursued a scoop by, say, doing a little surreptitious recording to secure the facts of a story.
The two big stories currently:
Julian Assange, that evil man, published unredacted sensitive material and that’s a crime — he should be destroyed!!!
AG William Barr, that evil man, is reluctant to publish the Mueller report in an unredacted state. He obstructing justice by claiming that this would be some sort of “crime” — he should be destroyed!!!
Or maybe both?
They are not mutually exclusive.
I personally don’t think he was a spy.
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My suspicion on this whole thing is that Assange told the U. S. Justice department, “When you guys seriously get ready to go after Hillary Clinton, come and get me and I’ll work out a deal with you to bury her.”
That time has come.
As the MSM demonstrates being a news publisher and being an enemy agent are not incommensurate activities.
Has he ever done or released a single thing damaging to Trump? Not a single release that I have seen.
He exposed the giant NSA CIA Clapper lies. Hillary’s lies, Podesta’s perversions, Hillary’s cheating Bernie and cheating the debates, Arming Sinaloa, supplying and arming ISIS and Al Qeida in Syria. He exposed the CIA having techniques to blame hacking on anyone they choose (right as they tell us Russia hacked Hillary and that Trump was a spy) He told us about Uranium one.
Every wikileak had the effect of helping Trump.
The deep state criminals and neocons want him in solitary fro several decades.
Treason? Tell me how he was a traitor to America? He is a foreigner and always has been.
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New York Times Co. v. United States
On June 30, 1971, the Supreme Court decided, 6–3, that the government failed to meet the heavy burden of proof required for prior restraint injunction. The nine justices wrote nine opinions disagreeing on significant, substantive matters.
Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
— Justice Black
Thomas Tedford and Dale Herbeck summarized the reaction of editors and journalists at the time:
As the press rooms of the Times and the Post began to hum to the lifting of the censorship order, the journalists of America pondered with grave concern the fact that for fifteen days the 'free press' of the nation had been prevented from publishing an important document and for their troubles had been given an inconclusive and uninspiring 'burden-of-proof' decision by a sharply divided Supreme Court. There was relief, but no great rejoicing, in the editorial offices of America's publishers and broadcasters.
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A spy? A publisher? Dunno. But maybe he IS the guy who can connect Seth Rich to Hillary.
I gather so-called journalists can fall into two categories.
One is where they publish information illegally obtained by another, in which they had no involvement in stealing.
The other situation is aiding or abetting the person to steal information and then publishing the info.
I believe they are going after Assange for the later situation. - Tom
Yes, if Assange simply published, he would be no different than the NYT has done dozens of times.
So the Government helpfully tells us he assisted Manning. They need that one nugget to make it “legit” to go after him.
They “tell” us he did so. They also told us Saddam was about to nuke us, that Russia stole Hillary’s emails, that Trump was Russian controlled, that they were not smuggling rifles to the Sinaloa cartel or negotiating agreements with them. They told us Spain sunk the USS Maine and that the Vietnamese attacked us in the Gulf of Tonkin, They told us TEA was not singled out by the IRS, and that Hillary never took bribes. They “told” us that the Syrian civil war and ISIS was a spontaneous uprising and that we did not supply them.
They “tell” us a lot of things. Now, they “tell” us the one thing that makes it possible to prosecute him but leave the NYT, CNN, and MSNBC alone.
Probably just a coincidence.
Nobody seems to address the fact that publishing state secrets is seriously illegal in every country. Assange may have done good by publishing them, but shouldn’t be surprised that he’s treated like a criminal/traitor/enemy for doing so.
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