International Julian Assange arrested in London

[LangfordBarrow]

Good. Send him to Gitmo and motorboat his ass, or was that waterboard his ass?

 

[LangfordBarrow]

There is "no tangible way" to prove this. But Hillary!!

Worst President for the common man in history.

Spends even more than the spendiest liberals, but doesn't have the spine to raises taxes to fund his spending. No, that would be unpopular. He's even gone out of his way to reduce taxes on the wealthiest while he raises his spending to catastrophic levels. He's going to bankrupt this nation.

The self described King of Debt. What else should we expect?

 

[LangfordBarrow]

See, you're not the only person asking for this.

What I want to ask you and them, is why you think this?
Is it because you were told to?

Do you know of any laws or domestic spies he broke or outed.

Do you know the details of his communications with Manning?

 

[LangfordBarrow]

Not sure what you mean.
It's freely available information on any non-liberal site.
You can download it and read it.

If he was involved in helping Manning obtain the data or transferring it then maybe he did commit a crime. Are you sure all the communications they had are publicly available?

 

[LangfordBarrow]

Manning went nuts and went from male to female. You think Assange had something to do with that via email?

Government had him/her for 7 years. I'm sure Assange getting an email from him/her was the reason that he/she flipped.

How do you change gender in a government prison? Magically?

Was just re-arrested because he/she won't testify against Assange.

Most of the stuff you wrote about has nothing to do with the possibility Assange was complicit in Manning's breach. If the DoJ has communications between them that shows Assange was involved then he will probably be convicted.

 

[The Merchant]

Just as Orwell predicted. Telling the truth will become a revolutionary act.

 

[The Merchant]

You don’t need to quote me a bunch of charts & links, tallying up dems vs. repubs, I don’t care about the team sports aspect of this. I respect a pro-Assange hard right wing person like PJW for example, continuing to stand up for Assange right now, instead of betraying him to defend Trump. I also respect a far lefty defending Assange too, although I must say I don’t see as many prominent ones doing so at the moment.

I also respect people with the anti-Assange opinion too, even if I disagree with it. As long as it’s genuine and based on principle, not secret agenda-driven team sports D vs. R stuff.

Partisans wreck everything, this isn't a team game , it's reality.

You see no prominent lefties? Are you speaking about American ones? The entire left-wing in my country is batting for Assange as much as they are able.

 

[The Merchant]

Pretty sure murder is illegal everywhere you should try another analogy.

Tell that to the Drone operators Obama set up to murder folk anywhere in the world without due process.

 

[The Merchant]

Just read this:

That's our cowards way out, give him to Sweden so they will give them to the US. Just what this government would love to do.

 

[The Merchant]

The story of Assange and the feces on the wall seems like a smear job to assauge his supporters.

ofc it is. They will find kiddie porn or he's a cross dresser as well. SOP.

 

[The Merchant]

Last thing what is the evidence that means it was a hack as opposed to a leak. regarding Hilary emails.

I mean proving evidence. Not stuff that indicates, stuff that proves.

 

[splendica]

Good thread.

 

[86'd]

Manning went nuts and went from male to female. You think Assange had something to do with that via email?

Government had him/her for 7 years. I'm sure Assange getting an email from him/her was the reason that he/she flipped.
Not

How do you change gender in a government prison? Magically?

Was just re-arrested because he/she won't testify against Assange.

Tax payer money.


On a side note, I always was skeptical about Manning becoming trans. I wonder if by doing what he did to the government if he wasn't tortured and given hormones and psychological abuse forcing him to convert.

When David Hicks was captured, they routinely administered drugs to him against his will. Anally raped him mulitiple times etc.

 

[Seano]

Just as Orwell predicted. Telling the truth will become a revolutionary act.

I used to laugh at people who talked about 1984 being the future but here we are.

 

[*Z*]

I don't believe a word that guy says about anything relating to Russia. Also strange that if he was told not to speak to Trump about this he would go to the press instead.

 

[glenwo2]

TLDR:
Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. actually met with Assange who SHOWED him definitive proof that Russia was NOT the source of the Democratic Party communications that WikiLeaks published.

Another man, Charles Johnson witnessed this.

WH Chief of Staff John Kelly blocked him from sharing this information with Trump.

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/dana-rohrabacher-trump-russia-wikileaks-julian-assange/

The world needs to stand behind this man and let the chips fall where they may.

I think THIS is the bigger question here.

WHY?

 

[ICHEERTHEBULL]

The biggest mistake Assange ever made was going against Clinton. Stating that he was releasing proof the media was colluding with the Clinton campaign sealed his fate.

I don’t know, I’d say taking off the condom mid fuck probably was but that’s just me

 

[Starman]

Nothing surprises me anymore. The cancer that is the global elite runs so deep that I fear an armed uprising will be the only way to extract it.

 

[Madmick]

CIA director 'stands by' belief Russia hacked DNC after meeting skeptic at Trump's urging

This story is over two years old, since I see Assange's unsubstantiated claims are being rehashed, and that's Mike Pompeo; the man Trump has elevated more favorably than any other prior to his initial cabinet appointments. So if the "deep state" is the one driving this shot narrative, then Trump is the deep state, and his closest advisers hand-picked by him, after years of being President, are the deepest end of that swamp.

Turns out the real CT was a....CT. The Seth Rich one. He just fanned those flames in service of the Russians. I pointed out that long ago Assange contradicted himself when he stated the source wasn't the Russians because Wikileaks own official policy is double blind so that sources are anonymous; ergo, unless he's lying about sources being anonymous, he wouldn't have any idea who gave him that information. The very fact he would actively discourage speculation that it was the Russians, in that context, suggests he did know his source, and didn't want it revealed. Otherwise, he wouldn't care, or would at least favor the truth-seekers.

Mueller Report: Assange Smeared Seth Rich to Cover for Russians

As laid out by Mueller, Assange’s involvement in Russia’s election interference began with a June 14, 2016 direct message to WikiLeaks’ Twitter account from “DC Leaks,” one of the false fronts created by the Russians to launder their hacked material.

“You announced your organization was preparing to publish more Hillary's emails,” the message read, according to Mueller’s report. “We are ready to support you. We have some sensitive information too, in particular, her financial documents. Let's do it together. What do you think about publishing our info at the same moment? Thank you.”

A week later, WikiLeaks reached out to a second GRU persona, Guccifer 2.0, and pitched WikiLeaks as the best outlet for the hacked material. On July 14, 2016, GRU officers used a Guccifer 2.0 email address to send WikiLeaks an encrypted one-gigabyte file named “wk dnc link I .txt.gpg.” Assange confirmed receipt, and on July 22 he published 20,000 DNC emails stolen during the GRU’s breach.

By then, it was no secret where the documents came from. The computer security firm CrowdStrike had already published its technical report on the DNC breach, which laid out a trail leading directly to Moscow and the GRU. Analysts at ThreatConnect independently presented evidence that Guccifer 2.0 and DC Leaks were fictional creations of that agency.

But rather than refuse to comment on his sources, as he’s done in other cases, Assange used his platform to deny that he got the material from Russians, and make statements at an alternative theory. On August 9, 2016, WikiLeaks’ Twitter feed announced a $20,000 reward for “information leading to conviction for the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich.”

For some, the cryptic tweet was their first introduction to a grim and fantastical conspiracy theory rooted in a real-life tragedy that occurred the early morning of July 10, 2016 on a Washington DC sidewalk.

Rich was a 27-year-old DNC staffer when he was gunned down in what police have described as a robbery gone wrong. The unsolved murder timed shortly before Assange’s DNC leaks spoke volumes to inhabitants of the far right wing fringe, where it’s long been an article of faith that Hillary Clinton has her enemies killed.

Assange fanned the flames even higher on August 25, 2016, when he was asked in a television interview, "Why are you so interested in Seth Rich's killer?"

"We're very interested in anything that might be a threat to alleged Wikileaks sources,” Assange answered. “If there's someone who's potentially connected to our publication, and that person has been murdered in suspicious circumstances, it doesn't necessarily mean that the two are connected. But it is a very serious matter .. that type of allegation is very serious, as it's taken very seriously by us."

Assange never came out and said it, but his “ statements about Rich implied falsely that he had been the source of the stolen DNC emails,” Mueller notes.

With Assange behind it, the Seth Rich hoax moved into the almost-mainstream, spawning a quickly-retracted report on Fox News, and a series of “investigations” by Assange ally Sean Hannity. It also wreaked havoc in the lives of Rich’s surviving family, particularly his anguished parents who later begged perpetrators of the charade “to give us peace, and to give law enforcement the time and space to do the investigation they need to solve our son's murder.”

Even as he was ruthlessly framing Rich to protect himself, the GRU, or both, Assange was privately communicating with his real sources to arrange the transfer of the second election leak, material the GRU stole from John Podesta’s Gmail account.

The Mueller report quotes from cryptic emails and messages exchanged between WikiLeaks and the GRU accounts in September 2016, and based on metadata, Mueller suspects the transfer occurred on September 19. But the actual transmittal of the massive Podesta haul evidently took place in a channel that Mueller couldn’t crack. The report notes the possibility that, this time, the files were simply carried into the Ecuadorian Embassy by one of Assange’s visitors.

“Both the GRU and WikiLeaks sought to hide their communications, which has limited the Office's ability to collect all of the communications between them,” the report notes. “The Office cannot rule out that stolen documents were transferred to WikiLeaks through intermediaries who visited during the summer of 2016.”

In the end, the most charitable interpretation of Assange’s “dissembling” as Mueller calls it, in the Seth Rich hoax is that he genuinely couldn’t rule out the possibility that Rich was his source. The Mueller report demolished that final moral refuge. Rich had been dead four days when Assange received the DNC files.

WikiLeaks reacted to the Mueller report Thursday with a Trump-like tweet claiming vindication. “WikiLeaks has always been confident that this investigation would vindicate our groundbreaking publishing of the 2016 materials which it has,” the group wrote. Adding a cavieth calling for “full transparency” from the Justice Department.

“We disapprove of the large redactions,” WikiLeaks wrote, “which permit conspiracy theories to abound.”

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/us/politics/assange-indictment.html