‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US
‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US
Assange to plead guilty to one charge of espionage and return home to Australia after decades fighting US extradition.
Isn't it great that a man who exposed governmental corruption and war crimes faced a harsher persecution and punishment than the corrupt governments and war criminals themselves?
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174the fucker openly ran interference in the 2016 for Trump. he can rot
-60First, no he did not. He released information relating to government officials engaging in misconduct. Hillary Clinton had been a government official for a long time, Trump had not. Of course youre more likely to get that kind of information on her and not him.
But even if he had, having a political allegiance is not a crime punishable by prison as far as I know.
69Notice how you're angry at the people who released the info instead of the people who were corrupt and deplorable? PsyOps mission accomplished!
My understanding is that, while it's likely the source of those leaks was Russia, it's never been proven wikileaks withheld info about Republicans. I've seen the claims dozens of times, but never the evidence, so please share if you do... Otherwise, it's insane to hate a journalist for withholding information they don't have, just because it hurts your preferred political party.
EDIT T+2hrs: 35% downvotes and zero replies or supporting evidence. FYI I asked the same thing on Reddit about a dozen times over the last decade, and the result was always the same — If your position is "I can find no evidence for my claims, and don't know why I hate WikiLeaks or Assange. I just do." then you're probably a psychological warfare victim...
36Yuck. I wish I could help you
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Sounds like they got what they needed from him
30Instilled fear in potential future whistleblowers.
21What do you mean?
1They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too.
6He pleaded guilty and agreed to delete "secret documents", whatever the hell that would be, as part of the deal
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How many years would his prison sentence have been if he was extradided the year he fled to the embassy? I feel like he would have been out by now. Wasn't he leaking early Iraq war corruption stuff? That was 20 years ago.
13He didn't leak, he published.
That's what's so concerning about the case. The USA tried to persecute an Australian citizen working out of the EU for publishing information.
If precedent was set they could kidnap anyone from sovereign countries based on US law
68He might have been epsteined though
21IIRC he had some kind of insurance file against that, I think there used to be some encrypted file you could download from Wikileaks and if he died the password would be released.
No idea what it was (if anything, it could have just been a bluff of course) but it seems to have had the desired effect so far.
7As a terrorist they could torture and kill him without covering anything up.
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No, they would have crucified him
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I mean, I was so sure they wanted to incarcerate him until he commits suicide!
Wow
7It's not over yet.
6HANDS OFF
ASS
6Biden throwing a hail Mary to libs with a shred o conscience remaining for his trainwreck 2024. I mean it's about damn time but he should have been free years ago.
6Julian should have never been jailed.
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