Two of us, Ellsberg and Noam Chomsky, testified for Assange at his extradition hearing last year. In Ellsberg’s words then, the WikiLeaks publications that Assange is being charged for are “amongst the most important truthful revelations of hidden criminal state behavior that have been made public in U.S. history.” The American public “needed urgently to know what was being done routinely in their name, and there was no other way for them to learn it than by unauthorized disclosure.”
Wait, the New York Times edits video and email evidence to make things look like crimes that aren’t?
Wow. News to me.
Do you have any credible sources for that or are you just regurgitating claims from your social media bubble?
It goes all the way back to the beginning with the Apache gunship video they released. They edited that, and the Army released the full video. They edited the DNC emails, and the DNC released the actual emails. They edited the cables and those weren’t released publicly but all that heat died within a week. Read between the lines.
This shit has been open knowledge for years. They were compromised by the GRU and either didn’t care or accepted it willingly. Here’s a Time article directly implicating WikiLeaks in helping Russia interfere with our elections. U.S. Intelligence Report Identifies Russians Who Gave DNC Emails to Wikileaks
That alone is enough to declare them enemies and go after them militarily but we’re still inside the justice system talking about charges and trials. While you guys whine about freedoms, the government is actually holding back.
If anyone is interested, I try to profile political events and figures. My Wikileaks profile can be found here. I plan to do a Julian Assange one in my next chapter, and I am currently finishing up one on The U.S. Green Party.
Basically, I’m trying to illustrate in plain language how Putin became the greatest threat to human existence.
Then indict the fuck on espionage and threatening national security.
There’s more than enough Russia collusion with Assange and Wikileaks to tie him up on one of Trump’s many RICO cases.
I would rather give him a medal for his journalism and leaks.
Freedom of the Press is important.
Censorship does not stop at just things you do not like.
Russiagate was false and overblown, to my understanding the Clintons had a hand in it.
I am way more critical and distrustful when news likes this breaks out know, while also the MSM follows suit in agreement.
Assange isn’t an American citizen, it’s disturbing to see so many psychopaths out for blood for the simple crime of telling the truth, especially when he’s not even a citizen of said country which sets a very disturbing precedent.
the US is falling into the trap Russia wants, and if we had intelligent leaders, they would drop the charges and move on from it. We know Afghanistan was a failure and we know why, it’s not a mystery anymore and the US doesn’t even deny any of the wikileaks accusations so this entire witch-hunt is just disturbing at this point and does nothing to give anyone any confidence in this country
Dude dropped a bunch of stuff from well before that. What’s more they caught him editing the stuff he dropped to make it look like war crimes were committed, interfere in our elections, and to damage US relations with other countries.
Then they managed to to track some of his material back to the GRU. This is not the Pentagon Papers
That’s called “telling the truth”
Just because you attempt to hide crimes doesn’t mean people have no right to expose them, it’s simply a matter of being upset someone found out
And like I said, the US doesn’t even deny any of the leaks, so the only reason they want to persecute an innocent person is an overtly authoritarian show of force. If we’re going to simply abandon our principles willy-nilly whenever we feel like it then we’re not a democratic country
