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Julian Assange Launches Legal Challenge Against Trump Administration (theguardian.com)
SonicSpike shares a report from The Guardian: Julian Assange, the fugitive WikiLeaks founder whose diplomatic sanctuary in the Ecuadorian embassy appears increasingly precarious, is launching a legal challenge against the Trump administration. Lawyers for the Australian activist have filed an urgent application to the Washington-based Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) aimed at forcing the hand of U.S. prosecutors, requiring them to "unseal" any secret charges against him. The legal move is an attempt to prevent Assange's extradition to the U.S. at a time that a new Ecuadorian government has been making his stay in the central London apartment increasingly inhospitable.
The 1,172-page submission by Assange's lawyers calls on the U.S. to unseal any secret charges against him and urges Ecuador to cease its "espionage activities" against him. Baltasar Garzon, the prominent Spanish judge who has pursued dictators, terrorists and drug barons, is the international coordinator of Assange's legal team. He has said the case involves "the right to access and impart information freely" that has been put in "jeopardy." The Trump administration is refusing to reveal details of charges against Assange despite the fact that sources in the U.S. Department of Justice have confirmed to the media that they exist under seal. The application alleges that U.S. prosecutors have begun approaching people in the U.S., Germany and Iceland and pressed them to testify against Assange in return for immunity from prosecution. Those approached, it is said, include people associated with WikiLeaks' joint publications with other media about U.S. diplomacy, Guantanamo Bay and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 1,172-page submission by Assange's lawyers calls on the U.S. to unseal any secret charges against him and urges Ecuador to cease its "espionage activities" against him. Baltasar Garzon, the prominent Spanish judge who has pursued dictators, terrorists and drug barons, is the international coordinator of Assange's legal team. He has said the case involves "the right to access and impart information freely" that has been put in "jeopardy." The Trump administration is refusing to reveal details of charges against Assange despite the fact that sources in the U.S. Department of Justice have confirmed to the media that they exist under seal. The application alleges that U.S. prosecutors have begun approaching people in the U.S., Germany and Iceland and pressed them to testify against Assange in return for immunity from prosecution. Those approached, it is said, include people associated with WikiLeaks' joint publications with other media about U.S. diplomacy, Guantanamo Bay and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Everyone on Slashdot has assured me repeatedly over the years that neither the UK nor Sweden has any intention of ever extraditing him to the U.S.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
As a confirmed Russian agent himself, Assange would know that Trump is also a member of the Union for Soviet Moles International. That makes the whole Trump regime an illegal one since he was foresworn on his oath of office.
However, Trump himself has a solution. He wants NASA to send a man to Mars by 2020 with unlimited money since as we all know, he is super rich, he just needs to liquidate his assets as he promised, then travel on a rocket.
Problem solved.
He probably thought that by helping Donald Trump win with well timed leaks, he'd be able to avoid US prosecution. Julian didn't realize Trump doesn't repay favors (or debts.)
That was before interfering with US election process was on the table.
And before that, Hillary asked her staff for ways to kill him - and was taken serious enough that a couple of aides took it at face value and researched ways to do it.
So your statement could be expanded as:
That was before tanking Hillary's election because she threatened to kill him.
But of course he did that, and now America wants revenge.
And all of this, originally, over making public the "collateral murder" videos (and a bunch of other stuff). America talks big about whistleblowers, but when it comes right down to it, our government is just as petty and vindictive as any dictatorship.
File it in California...
Nuff said...
Don't worry, the secret charges will be for breaking secret laws and will be tried in a secret court so that you will be full protected and have all of the recourse the Government chooses to allow you. Sounds just like Stalin, Hitler, Xi Jinping, and every other dictator out there.
How dare him wish to actually find out about the charges and evidence against him? Kind of like exercising his right of discovery is something he lost because the Government is afraid of the truth.
He wants to find out who is ratting him out.
'Ecuador to cease its "espionage activities" against him'
Bitch, you're in their their embassy, as a guest. Yes they're going to know what you're doing in their F-ing embassy.
It will be funny after he's extradited and the US unseals the charges they have him nailed on - jaywalking. Put his butt in jail six years so far by holding their cards close to their chest.
When he was leaking things that made Bush look bad you loved Julian Assange so hard that Benedict Cumberbatch played him in the movie.
""First Facebook and now Wikileaks as the Guardian reports that studio executives have picked up the screen rights to the forthcoming Julian Assange biography 'The Most Dangerous Man in the World' by award-winning Australian writer Andrew Fowler. The book details Assange's life from his childhood on Magnetic Island in Queensland, Australia, all the way through to his founding of the whistleblower website in 2006 to publish classified material. Producers Barry Josephson and Michelle Krumm, who have optioned The Most Dangerous Man in the World, say they are planning a 'suspenseful drama' in the vein of All the President's Men and with the thrill of a Tom Clancy novel. 'As soon as I met Andrew and read a few chapters of his profound book, I knew that â" with his incredibly extensive depth of knowledge â" it would enable us to bring a thought-provoking thriller to the screen,' says Krumm."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/21/wikileaks-movie-biography-julian-assange
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
These your bros yo.
“If we publish them it will dramatically improve the perception of our impartiality. That means that the vast amount of stuff that we are publishing on Clinton will have much higher impact, because it won’t be perceived as coming from a ‘pro-Trump’ ‘pro-Russia’ source.”
Julian Assange, telling Trump Jr to leak his dads tax returns through WikiLeaks to improve their image and fool people into thinking they are impartial. This lawsuit is the same strategy.
At the start, Assange had this idea of Wikileaks being a truly neutral repository of information. That idea had real merit, and still does. It went to crap from there. Badly. The US hasn't exactly been honorable in how they've dealt with him, but it's obvious that Assange decided to start playing with the big boys - geopolitics, espionage, that sort of thing.
.... it's been pretty well documented. At this point, he's basically a self-declared enemy of the state.
I lost the last shred of any sympathy for him when it became obvious that he actively colluded with Russia to screw with US election integrity. Sorry MAGA-types that are gonna bristle at that
You step into the ring with the heavyweights, you better be ready to get knocked around. Asange's chances of avoiding extradition are growing vanishingly small. He'll be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life.
fuck if I was Ecuador I would throw his ungrateful arse out the door and lock the gate behind him.
IMHO, he's a Trump proxy. People would like to prosecute Trump, but him controlling the Dept of Justice, and being protected by Mitch McConnell makes that hard. So they want to prosecute Assange as a proxy.
He's a bit part player, if the Russians hadn't laundered the data through him, they'd have laundered it a different way.
The real person to blame here is Mitch McConnell.
Trump is an Elop figure clearly, he's supposed to dismember the US, hand it over to Putin friendly control, and receive $130 million for licensing the name "Trump" for the Trump Tower Moscow project. And Trump was clearly lying about that project during the election, and now claims he was open about it. That the deal wasn't signed, and then that the fact it was signed doesn't matter. That it was funded by some obscure Russian bank, and then that it was VTB Bank, a sanction Russian bank after running a spy ring from its NY office. Etc. etc. etc.
Trump is very very obviously an Elop figure.
*But*, the Senate is the protection against Elop figures, it's Mitch McConnell that's blocking that protection. He's only there to schedule votes, not block Republicans from voting. He's ramped it up a notch now, before he only block the majority votes of the Senate if the Republicans didn't also have a majority. Now he's full on blocking all voting, even from his own party.
McConnell is to blame here.
All the evidence coming out, they already knew, McConnell would have known he was dealing with a Russian asset, he's the one cooperating with the dismemberment of the US.
Elop wouldn't have been able to destroy Nokia and sell its assets cheap to Microsoft for a $20 million bonus, if the board at Nokia had done its job. McConnell is the one not doing his job here.
If ZeroHedge says the sky is blue, it is almost certainly some other colour.
In this day and age, I'd double check all sources, especially the Bulgarian ones like Zerohedge.
Assange acting as coordinator with Jerome Corsi, is likely why he should be targetted. He wasn't a passive discloser of information coming his way, rather he was an active conduit between hackers and Trump campaign in the Hacker to Assange to Corsi to Roger Stone chain.
Corsi is busy pretending his emails detailing the upcoming releases, were not because of his links to Assange, but rather he dreamed it up on a flight to Europe. He's trying a lawsuit as means of avoiding jail time. Using Fox New's "party before country" mentality as a means to avoid prosecution.
If they go after Assange it is likely to test the other end of the Corsi link.
IMHO, Assange should deal. He has no dog in this fight. He was at best a bit part player.
and you would trust them?
even putin doesn't trust trump, and he's the one controlling the strings of trump and mcconnell.
How can USA interfere in a mock Russian election?
Lots of blah blah blah there, but there's no election in Russia.
The covert passing of non-public information about misdeeds (whether legal or illegal, unethical, or just plain embarrassing) to a publishing party for widespread dissemination is exactly what WikiLeaks was founded for, the support of whistle-blowing. It plays a very important part in preserving freedom and democracy, as without it unethical governments descend into tyranny behind closed doors.
The fact that you don't like this just shows the intolerance that you have for freedom and ethics in government. Snowden demonstrated the importance of whistle-blowing, to immense world-wide acclaim. He legitimized it in the public eye, so trying to paint the role of WikiLeaks as something different to whistle-blowing is attempting to sweep back the tide. It's too late for that, the horse has found freedom and the barn door is wide open.
When you assist in the grand plans of murderous KGB sh!t gets real.
Secret sealed charges are an abortion and obscenity at law and an insult to jurisprudence.
If I were UK I would say no extradition until scope of charges disclosed and that's that. A bit like saying we can't extradite if you intend to invoke the death penalty. Can't extradite if a fair trial is not going to occur. The money spent means that is the case. Let Assange go. The US just likes pulling wings off live insects.
KGB has been defunct since 1991. Try to keep up with the news, senator McCarthy.
In name only. In case you didn't know, their current president was an KGB agent. Those people are still there and they have even more power than they did before.
Nature is a bitch. *normal* people are either of two sex : female or male. There is none other. And you cannot change. You can try to surgically "make it look" like you are the other , but this is a make believe, and from what I can see reported, not quite there technologically for a perfect, or even good make believe. That is the unfortunate plain truth for those seeking to switch sex. The other unfortunate truth is that most people do not view intersex as valid dating partner. e.g. if you are male, switch to female, you will msotly not be viewed as female as plain as truth. Most people will be willing to view you as woman , for social purpose, but most would feel attacked in their intimacy if they found out they were cheated on what they expect as sex of their partner (both male and female - male are just more likely to resort to violence). ALl the condition people pretend to bring up as non binary sex are screw up no normal condition. I don't count losing a leg and being one legged as being unipedial new species or unipedial new "Genre" of locomotion. Do you ? Zwitter and other condition are not a third sex, they are malformation. CAIS is OTOH much different. When the Y is deactivated or cells do not respond to testosterone due to receptor being too mutated, the embryo only "sees" the X and thus take the default route of growing a female body. But as meiosis does not work that well for ovaries for a X and Y the ovaries are not only inactive but also in risk of cancer (thus we remove them). But the bottom line is that the thus created female are non differentiable from other female they are basically of the female sex and there is no "photo finish" on that : they are not intersex.
Gender OTOH is much more fluid and not-so-binary, and gender dysphoria is quite well recognized. It is just that for most people they want to date a female woman or a male man.
TLR;DR : CAIS are female because the embryo does not see the Y , they are as female as a Xx (broken x), there is only 2 sex in homo sapiens specie but a variety of malformation, gender is fluid but the majority people want to date people with the same sex as their gender.
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
visit randi.org
It used to be that the dems hated him for giving out all that "truth" about Hillary. Now he's against your glorious (tm) leader (R), suddenly the Dems want to protect him.
Nope, the economy was doing better under Obama and the improvements were all under Obama as well who had increased jobs more than trump had and increased the stock market more too.
Yet you scream BLACK MAN BAD!!!!
Well he wasn't but that orange shitgobbon you worship as god's second coming is a bad man. And every time it's pointed out you scream holy fuck about it because you are TRIGGERED.
and how you LOVED him then and how you KNEW that democrats were trying to get himsilenced for it. They hated him them. Now you see them loving him because he's now against YOUR "guy" (for lack of a better word).
So very able to see hypocrisy in others, ignorant of your own.
Aside from their over use of advertisements (need an adblocker just to read the site) and a high level of pessimism about everything, ZeroHedge is actually an excellent source of news compared to the lame stream media establishments. The fact that it is run by Bulgarians is actually a good thing -- they have a refreshingly different angle on the world than you'd ordinarily get.
It's a book about phreaking & hacking. Rather unremarkable except for the fact that a certain Julian Assange was the lead, and only, researcher.
I suppose the other remarkable thing about it is that it ended up packed so full of shit that they literally had to give it away.
I've never seen it mentioned anywhere in connection with his name, so I'm starting to wonder if maybe nobody else noticed?
That's a fake news site.
But you don't remember what you don't like to know. trump asked the russians for help. In public. In an address that is still on record.
Sad.
Get in line, Julian.
Just tell Trump that getting Assange was Obama's idea.
Hillary Clinton was US Secretary of State, a civilian office and not part of any military chain of command. She couldn't order missile strikes on anybody.
Trump is also for legalizing marijuana. It's his drug czar that's against it. It's not like Trump has the authority to replace officials that disagree with his policies or the power to strongly encourage current officials to follow his policies. Okay, maybe the sarcasm was a bit heavy-handed there. I doubt many sitting presidents have dealt with as much resistance to his policies from other departments as he has. Then again, he makes some pretty outrageous requests.
The poor guy, six years holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, is probably losing it. In the last couple of years he's been creating enemies for himself needlessly, and this is certainly not going to endear him to Uncle Sam.
Seriously, a boi that lives on collecting and publishing secret data and is the embodiment of espionage, suing for both of these things is simply delicious.
Sorry, boi, you lived by espionage - you of all people should cherish Equador's activity. I'm looking forward to your uncovered activities to be published - something you should approve of, amirite?
Meanwhile enjoy life in the embassy building.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
when Assange said he would turn himself if Chelsea Manning was granted clemency?
Anyone remember when he didn't after Pres. Obama granted Manning clemency?
He shouldn't have did those rapes.
Thank you for a beautiful summation, I am sorry I cannot offer you a mod point.
Hmmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Why do these whistle-blowers all tend to run to the same place where traitors and agents of foreign powers go? Assange was blowing the whistle on stuff right up until he was to be held accountable for his method of receiving and vetting the material. He was all for openness of everyones information until it was his own information being threatened. Snowden blew the lid off of US covert signals surveillance techniques and methods, and ran to Russia, supposedly without a copy of the data he provided to a couple of journalists. Cost of living in Russia must be real low since I'm almost certain that all of his finances have been frozen, being a fugitive from the law and all.
So I guess the question remains. Patriots who blow the whistle on their nations misdeeds all seem to run to national adversaries. Why?
Yes because they're the evil ones that got upset over all that jazz..er...humm....
Title should have read "Legal Challenge Against US Administration".
You lefties never stop taking cheap shots.
People born with *malformation* do not form a *third* sex. They have either neither, both, or a malformation of both or one. e.g. P.A.I.S. can have part teste. But those do not form a new *sex* by definition. It is very binary. They are malformation. Just like having a condition of having surnumerary leg do not make you a different quadrupedal form of human, it makes you a malformed human. THAT is the difference that people which keep bringing up birth malformation don't get. As for red head being a mutation and a mutation of normal hair color, in a way they are. Just like blue eye is a mutation which make the pigment inactive. There is a difference though everybody won't care they are mutation. (well except some : too many urban legend about red head being evil , for some reason I don't get some people hate/fear red head go figure).
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
visit randi.org
(most) People on the other hand DO care about getting a gender identical to the sex for dating. Are you trying to tell they are wrong and their taste in sex and dating is wrong ? Funnily that's what conservative says about homosexual - that their sexual preference are disgusting and counter nature. Personally I say as long as it is legal and consenting adult nobody has a right to tell other their belief on who they want to date is wrong. Apparently you think differently ? What do you want to do ? Conversion therapy for all those who see trans-sexual or trans-gender as not their taste ? Because ultimately this is what it boils to. No matter the railing and mockery that some do about not wanting to date a trans person, it all boil down to imposing a sexual preference on others.
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
visit randi.org
Simple questions from simple folks. Your phrasing sounds rhetorical to me, so I'm pretty sure you know why and just don't like the answer or don't care. Anyway, those opposition countries are less likely to extradite you. You could very well end up as a pawn or bargaining chip but the risk is worth it unlike fleeing to Canada where they'll just haul you right back across the border.
Was that a simple enough answer so you can understand?
Blah blah blah. Your "opinion" amounts to no more than hypocrisy. Have you even read the partisan bullshit you post? This whole narrative of "we all need to work together" that conservatives like yourself (whether you're an R or an L) have been preaching for weeks now, is your new plan to deflect because YOU ARE LOSING.
I have ZERO fucks to give. CRY MOAR.
These smart guys already did the math: Odds Hillary Won Without Widespread Fraud: 1 in 77 Billion Say Berkeley, Stanford Studies (If you don't like this link, there are several other copies of this article floating around on the web.)
The available voting data from the 2016 democratic primary shows significant statistical abnormalities, in the last half of the data, that favor Hillary at the expense of Bernie. It appears that a voting machine exploit was in place in several districts, that only triggered in real time when someone or something detected that Hillary was about to lose to Bernie.
That's just the election itself. Stepping back in time to the pre-election Hillary vs. Bernie campaign trail, there's also the obvious issues of stealing campaign money from Bernie's campaign, and installing Imran Awan, a Pakistani spy as the IT manager of the DNC's computer network, subverting the DNC 'VAN' computer network that Bernie, a democratic candidate, was forced to use for official campaign business. Meaning that Hillary was secretly in control of the Bernie campaign's network, and even revoked access at one point during his campaign. (We discovered Hillary's DNC network subversion through a Wikileaks publication.) Then we have a secret joint fundraising agreement that DNC bosses signed with Hillary Clinton, giving her nearly full control of the DNC, BEFORE she was nominated. (alternate link.)
If that's too technical for you, then let me remind you that, defending against the DNC fraud lawsuit, a DNC lawyer Bruce Spiva said in court: "We could have voluntarily decided that, 'Look, we're gonna go into the back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way." This is in reference to the whole Hillary-biased democrat super-delegate debacle that was all over the news at the time. Hillary bribed those super-delegates with laundered money through one of her crooked 'charities' to secure her nomination over Bernie.
This is just the easily cited stuff Hillary's done to screw Bernie. I'm not saying that Hillary's crimes only include screwing Bernie, or that Bernie's a perfect candidate. And I sure as hell didn't vote for Trump.