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US Investigators Probing Years of WikiLeaks Activities, Report Says (reuters.com)
WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange are the subject of a long-running criminal investigation in the U.S., Reuters reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Investigators have dug into the website's activities going back years, people who have been in contact with witnesses in the case say. From the report: American investigators are gathering information and pursuing witnesses involved in both recent WikiLeaks disclosures and the website's large-scale postings of U.S. military and diplomatic messages over several years from 2010. Officially, U.S. authorities have issued no public comments about the status of Wikileaks-related investigations. But a document which U.S. authorities said was mistakenly filed in open court in an unrelated case last November alluded to a sealed U.S. criminal complaint against Assange, though the document does not provide specifics regarding which laws U.S. prosecutors believe Assange violated.
Isn't it the job of the US Government to protect information it deems classified?
What crime did Julian Assange commit by publishing this information that cleared persons passed onto his organization?
Does Julian Assange, an Australian Citizen, have some obligation to protect US classified information?
I don't think he does, but I'd welcome an explanation or rebuttal.
You should keep your head down and not publicly embarrass public officials.
It may take longer than you'd like for them to forget....
I think there is something much deeper than the stick they have been beating him with.
Whatever that is, the govt really does not want it to come to light.
So they keep coming at him from other angles.
Until they wear him out or finally make something stick.
Trying to figure out if you are a Russian advocating for your country (fair enough...) or an American advocating for the most infamous traitor in recent US military history.
Military academies will spend the next 50 years training cadets how not to betray their country like Mike Flynn.
It's all about a vague sexual assault charge or jumping bail, or some shit. The UK and Sweden would NEVER engage in legal system theater just as cover for extraditing him to the U.S. Nope, this is all about some charge in Sweden that got dropped and Britian's endless noble quest for justice. No extradition worries for that bloke.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
In general, the media has protections for this as can be seen from the Pentagon Papers case.
That said, if they want to be dicks they can be. Sadly, not much stops them from making a federal case out of almost nothing.
Meanwhile, where are all the people who said that Assange was paranoid?
You guys have words to eat, get munching. Now.
Haven't you heard? US law is applicable to everyone else in the entire world, regardless of where they were born. However, the US reserves the right to ignore any laws it finds inconvenient.
Move along, citizen!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... it's a good read..
Have you fscked your local propeller head today?
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He then attended a “defensive” or “protective” briefing before he ever sat alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Russia Today (RT) dinner, or before he talked with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
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The briefing educated and sensitized Flynn to possible efforts by his Russian host to compromise the former high-ranking defense official and prepared him for conversations in which he could potentially extract intelligence for U.S. agencies such as the DIA. When Flynn returned from Moscow, he spent time briefing intelligence officials on what he learned during the Moscow contacts.
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Between two and nine intelligence officials attended the various meetings with Flynn about the RT event, and the information was moderately useful, about what one would expect from a public event, according to my sources.
The problem with that is the democrat party was actively using the release of hacked republican to as a political football as well.
The only difference between democrats and republicans is the type of lies they tell. The volume and lengths they go to defend them are the same for both sides. How many women's rights backers were rapists or defenders of misogynists who were "on their side"? How many conservative family values proponents were closetted?
It is absolutely disgusting that anyone in either party actually thinks people won't find out they are power hungry scumbags who's sole purposes in life are gaining more power and attacking the same problems they have in their opponent's political party.
I thought John Kerry was the actual traitor.
Kerry went to Iran to tell them not to worry about Trump because he would make sure whatever Trump did would be undone.
That is giving aid and comfort to an enemy, pretty much the definition of traitor.
Indeed. They are liers. Sometimes I'll give some people on either side a bit of credit but neither has been good stewards. I don't care if you lean one way or the other (and I am far from a fickle centerist myself) but too many people take political players and pundits at face value, both the ones they like and the ones they hate.
The US is being run by people that demonstrate a staggering level of incompetence from both the Democrats and Republicans. The only thing worse than the far Left is the far Right and the Progressives are worse than both the left and right combined. Of course a portion of the blame for this clusterfuck are the gullible proles who are easily manipulated thanks to the Internet. People today seem to be defining themselves by what they hate. The only thing people are "for" is anything that harms those they hate. And politicians are leveraging this hate to win elections. Our politicians are spending more time running investigations of their components than they are doing the job they were elected to. Sticking it to Trump has become more important than spending time passing timely budget legislation. After the last 35 day government shutdown the headlines were all a flutter claiming victory for the Democrats. What exactly did they win? Running a country is not a sporting event pitting one side against another until someone is beating. The Democrats and Republicans both decided to stand their ground no matter how much harm they were doing to the country and it's citizens. If there needs to be another government shutdown then send all the Senators and Representatives home until their term is up or they decide to fulfill the duties of their jobs.
You need to get your news from somewhere other than /pol/ or infowars or Qtard videos.
Mostly for your own sake.
And still haven't. Someone else has, but why didn't WikiLeaks? Doing so would have made it appear WL didn't have a specific agenda.
>"The only thing people are "for" is anything that harms those they hate. And politicians are leveraging this hate to win elections. "
So true. Only thing I'd add to it is hate, motivated by fear. The fear of what they will do to you. Even the most legitimate grievances are blow out of portion and surrounded with embellishments.
The sad thing about the progressive is they are puttiing progress on interests ahead of the old spirit of civil liberties that they used to argue for (not excusing there blind eye they turned to there certain flaws in labor and certain far left activism in the mid 20 century) but it was that spirit things like even this very website I suppose. The open internet was protected by the progressive against hostil forces both within the government and the market. They now have turned into a ton of various fragmentory factions all running on various pocket grievances (some legitimate some overblown and some not even real) and have suffered a full dive into a blind mob maintality.
As for the far left, I'm not entirely sure who you are referring to. If it is the standard Democrats party establishment types (you consider Chuck and Nacy far left), than I would see them as more of a center left standard slogan over action type of people (like much of the establishment GOP) if you are referring to the far left forces that haven't fully been subverted and sometimes clash with the progressive Democratic partisans (old-school Social Democratic and far left organizations that are starting to mingle with the current Democratic party) than I fully understand the distinction and classification.
As for the far right. It would be much harder for me to say. Pure Trump loyalist have a lot of the same flaws as the progressives but it's less articulated and more of just bending over backwards to whatever Trump says at the moment. The tea party whom they share some overlap is a mix bag of libertarian, small government conservative, and crackhead conservative types that are varing levels of genuine intentions, new hate politics, and old scummy politics. I honestly still call neo Nazis worse... Yet you have a point if one takes a look at the direction some on the left are taking and the passive influence they are gaining compared to the tiny inroads Nazis have made under various brand names at the expense of much of their ability to organize and the fact they are still quite tiny and are even a worse state of organization than before. Paleoconservative and monarchism also bring interesting things to the mix of what we could call far right as well.
"You are stupid because your politics aren't Libtarded like mine!"
--Standard Libtard 101
Cannot help but to wonder if they are also going to look at ISP records of what devices IP and MAC addresses accessed Wikileaks... some here have asserted Americans not in government, (or without appropriate clearance, ID, and need to know,) are not in any way obliged to guard or protect or prohibited from deliberately accessing sensitive or classified information. HOWEVER, the Espionage Act might have something different to say about that... despite the name, it covers a helluva lot more than just espionage. If you have ever looked at the Wikileaks website, you could be liable under that act, for example. Also, ISPs keep records of EEEEVVVEEEERRRRYYYTHING. FOREVER.
Its all been nothing more than a series of bluffs to cause constraint and spying on him. The indications of bluffing is all over the place, never a yeah or nay on anything. The UK police had him in custody and did not extradite him. Julian offered to turn himself over for Mannings release but Obam nullified that offer right before granting Manning release. Sweden never had charges against Assange but refused to talk to him remotely or directly in the UK. Australia stays neutral. Even the incident of the UK Police going into the Embassy was not to take Julian out but only to verify he was still in there. How I know is on the only chat channel with video of the event that night I posted "Julian left the building two weeks ago" and this was followed by someone asking for verification. I stayed silent, they went in. all this in less than ten minutes. And who really think the UK Police are ignorant of Embassy law? Not I! I've also personally dealt with a different long-running elaborate bluff so I do understand Julian's concern given he has seen how nasty and manipulative some in the position of influence and power can and have been. But it all is a bluff against him as that is the only way those in power can constrain him while also sending a message to the people gov is supposed to be working FOR, that they don't but the people should fear them.
CALL THE BLUFF!
Too bad for you:
"This is MAGA country!" - two upstanding Nigerian extras from Empire.
...but you are stupid...
Assange needs to leave the embassy and face this farce directly.
If you are reading this Julian, know that we have your back! If they try to imprison you, we will fight them and WIN!
NO COLLUSION! Pardons for everyone. Done and done.
https://law.justia.com/cases/c... Isn't there a Roger Brian Abbott, CEO of BIZX?
When something is probed..like an ass for example, it Will likely leak... Usually it Will leak semen