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WTF? Trump just basically threw the guy who almost singlehandedly got him elected under the bus.
President Trump: “I know nothing about WikiLeaks. It’s not my thing.”
He means this arrest warrant issued and these investigations regarding it. He didn’t order the arrest of Assange or anything like that… also he has to remain neutral for what is about to come.
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Yeah, so strange to see Trump throw someone under the bus like that…
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He does this to literally everyone eventually.
This whole thing is a convoluted mess. Bradley Manning is in prison right now for failing to rat on Assange.
I don’t have a problem with Manning going to prison; he committed a crime when he personally stole information and shouldn’t have been let off the hook by Obama.
Assange, on the other hand, didn’t commit a crime, he merely published information, like any journalist. His only offense was to make life difficult for the Obamas and the Clintons.
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Assange promised to dump everything he has on the US government if he was taken in, let’s see what Wikileaks has been holding on to all this time.
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Some embarrassing stuff on Debbie Wasserman Schultz? You aren’t a very good estimator of political cause and effect.
Hillary and Obama got him elected, people were sick to death of both of them.
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Assange arrest reveals British justice is just a ‘plaything’ of Washington
The arrest of Julian Assange in London after an extradition request from the US, and the way the WikiLeaks founder was treated by a British judge, made Thursday a “shameful day” for UK justice, commentators told RT.
“The UK’s legal system is but a plaything of the US legal system. Britain is a vassal of Washington as it’s been confirmed by today’s events,” political commentator John Wight said.
Earlier in the day, UK police forcibly removed Assange out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The 47-year-old was then delivered to the Westminster Magistrates Court where a judge labeled him a “narcissist, who can’t get beyond his own selfish interests” and found him guilty of failing to surrender to bail in 2012.
As for Assange’s extradition request by the US, the judge said the American side must produce its case by June 12. Assange is wanted in the US on charges of conspiring with US Army soldier Chelsea Manning, who leaked thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks back in 2010.
“Assange will disappear in to the void of the US prison system” if he’s extradited, Wight warned. He advised against trusting the Department of Justice, which insisted that the publisher will get the maximum term of five years if convicted in America.
We have to focus on the precedent, but not the words emanating from the US. And the precedent it that Chelsea Manning was imprisoned for over 35 years for her role in uncovering the crimes of the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Manning was pardoned after serving seven years, but was returned behind bars this March for refusing to testify against WikiLeaks.
“They’re saying that it’s only five years, but five years in a US prison is unlike five years in any other country’s prison, with few exceptions. It’s a notoriously cruel, barbarous and vindictive system,” Wight said.
The personal characterization of Julian Assange by Judge Michael Snow was “highly improper,” Mads Andenas, former UN special rapporteur on arbitrary detention, told RT.
“The world is following this case” and Snow’s words “made people doubt the fairness of the judicial process,” he said.
Prime Minister Theresa May announcing Assange’s arrest to the cheers of Parliament was also “not the right thing to do in a case where it’s very important for the UK to leave the impression that it’s a judicial process that’s deal with absolutely fairly,” the legal expert added.
Who is Lenin Moreno and why did he hand Assange over to British police?
US-backed Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno reneged on asylum agreements made with naturalized citizen Julian Assange, leading to his arrest on Thursday, but how exactly did relations with the whistleblower end up here?
Moreno won a narrow victory in 2017 to become president of Ecuador, having served as vice president under his predecessor Rafael Correa from 2007 to 2013 as part of the center-left PAIS Alliance. Much like Assange, Moreno was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012, for championing the rights of the disabled (he is the only world leader who uses a wheelchair).
When he rose to power Moreno quickly locked horns with Assange, eventually revoking his internet access in March 2018 while also reducing the security detail at the embassy as a result of their ongoing spat. Moreno alleged that Assange had installed electronic distortion equipment in addition to blocking security cameras at the embassy. Their deteriorating relationship culminated in Moreno’s withdrawal of asylum granted to the whistleblower on April 11, 2019.
READ MORE: Exposing ‘collateral murder’ and mass surveillance: Why the world should be grateful to Assange
“Today I announce that the discourteous and aggressive behavior of Mr Julian Assange; the hostile and threatening declarations of his allied organization against Ecuador, and especially the transgression of international treaties, have led the situation to a point where the asylum of Mr Assange is unsustainable and no longer viable,” Moreno said in a video statement shortly after Assange’s arrest.
The writing had been on the wall for a long time, however.
Following his 2017 election, Moreno quickly moved away from his election platform after taking office. He reversed several key pieces of legislation passed under his predecessor which targeted the wealthy and the banks. He also reversed a referendum decision on indefinite re-election while simultaneously blocking any potential for Correa to return.
He effectively purged many of Correa’s appointments to key positions in Ecuador’s judiciary and National Electoral Council via the CPCCS-T council which boasts supra-constitutional powers.
Moreno has also cozied up to the US, with whom Ecuador had a strained relationship under Correa. Following a visit from Vice President Mike Pence in June 2018, Ecuador bolstered its security cooperation with the US, including major arms deals, training exercises and intelligence sharing.
Following Assange’s arrest Correa, who granted Assange asylum in the first place, described Moreno as the “greatest traitor in Ecuadorian and Latin American history” saying he was guilty of a “crime that humanity will never forget.”
READ MORE: ‘Greatest traitor in Ecuadorian history’: Ex-President Correa slams Moreno over Assange’s arrest
Despite his overwhelming power and influence, however, Moreno and his family are the subject of a sweeping corruption probe in the country, as he faces down accusations of money laundering in offshore accounts and shell companies in Panama, including the INA Investment Corp, which is owned by Moreno’s brother.
Damning images, purportedly hacked from Moreno’s phone, have irreparably damaged both his attempts at establishing himself as an anti-corruption champion as well as his relationship with Assange, whom he accused of coordinating the hacking efforts.
Ironic no? Assange the hero of the Dems when he helped ‘bradass87’ hack into DOD servers and supply Wikileaks with hundreds of thousands of classified docs- because little buttboy wasn’t promoted fast enough. Such a hero was he that the gov’t under Obama paid for him to become a her, and Obama commuted it’s sentence.
Then Wikileaks put out emails from the DNC which showed how the Dems cheated in any way they could, and that they told the MSM what to say and when to say it. Assange became the devil incarnate to the Dems, and a quasi hero to the right.
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That’s right he was one of the elite deities of limousine liberals everywhere. That all seemed to change though when he applied the same level of transparency to the old guard of the Democrats. They always heaped praise on him but they never lifted a finger to help.
Great Wikileaks Drop - Assange Strikes Back
- Clinton e-mails
- CIA active operations
- Coca-cola getting cover after killing 10 kids
- Steve Jobs had AIDS
- Offshore accounts from politician all over the world(find your country)
- Races crimes against White being cover all around the EU
- White genocide not that much of a conspiracy theorie
- Merkel avoiding taxes
- FBI pedophile symbols
And much more!
Torrent
YES WE CAN
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He’s being extradited to testify that he received the DNC leaks from Seth Rich. He and his lawyers have reached a deal with the DOJ.
Screencap this.
I’m as worried as anyone about prosecuting journalists for publishing “government secrets” obtained by someone who acted against US law to arrange their release, in pursuit of a public interest.
But the thing I’m stuck on is this : why no hacked Russian material? Hacked Saudi emails about bonesaw shipments? Hacked Chinese databases of foreign agents. It’s all Western governments and their institutions being hacked.
Why would that be, unless he and his organization have been co-opted, if not originally inspired, by a desire to cause disruption of “Western democracies” ?
Also, what happens if all the evidence of Assange’s conspiracy with “hostile foreign intelligence agencies” is too sensitive to bring to a public trial ?
How do we judge this person/organization - by their own statements about being “journalists” striving to right wrongs in democratic nations ? Or the obvious effect of their activities to divide the citizens of those nations and agitate them against their own institutions ?
Not true ! The hatred for Hillary was wide spread and Trump had the message America wanted to hear .
Secondly the President has to be silent on the matter or he can get in big trouble . I’m of the opinion Assange was a true journalist and the dems could not handle the truth !!!
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Occams Razor, he likes living?
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LOL, we have people leaking information from Washington daily, where’s the outrage? Where’s the investigations? Where’s the jail term?
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You are right on who committed the crimes. While I’ve never liked the way the laws allow a journalist to broadcast classified information, I understand that it would be a constitutional problem if it were made a crime when the journalist has neither signed a nondisclosure agreement nor has a security clearance.
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