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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.
NYT and Washington Post are the only official leaking channels recognized and used by the FBI.
You will be punished for embarrassing powerful people. The crime will be discovered to fit the punishment.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Only government officials, and those they contract with, are bound to keep it secret, and that's akin to a company requiring you to keep trade secrets.
A news organization is free to publish classified material if they are given it, so long as they are not complicit in getting it, say, by paying for it to be taken, or helping to take it.
Ergo either they suspect he paid for it, or are harrassing him, knowing he cannot be found guilty of anything. This part makes no difference where he is or his citizenship. If he paid for it, he's acting as a spy or foreign agent, and can be gone after. If not, he's as protected as any American journalist.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
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.
He violated the "The Country With the Biggest Military Gets To Make the Laws For Everyone Else" Act of Forever.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... it's a good read..
Have you fscked your local propeller head today?