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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.
It's fine that Russia wants to blog about America... and not surprising that they are doing it in deceptive and unethical ways. This isn't new.
What's new is that Donald Trump is a stone cold traitor, and an agent of Russia, even helping and colluding with Russia's attacks on our country.
Even that wouldn't be all that bad, but Moscow Donald's uneducated racist supporters voted him into office and now refuse to defend their country.
Lock him up, with his campaign manager and lawyer!
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.
And Roger Stone has proof that the Mueller probe dropped a hot tip about the raid to CNN before they did it. They know that someone in the DoJ or IC leaked a very sensitive SIGINT program targeting the Russian embassy to score political points against Gen. Flynn. And don't even get started on the royal shit show of perjury that the Steele dossier turned out to be.
At this point, Trump should formally pardon Assange and order the leaky insiders to face a scorched Earth retaliation from his AG.
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!
mod points and po5ts on Usenet are reasons why anyone is not prone to
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?