Psssst, you didn't hear this from me, but it was Rick Astly who helped Trump get reelected.....
Assange dragged out of Embassy and arrested in London
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Psssst, you didn't hear this from me, but it was Rick Astly who helped Trump get reelected.....
What political advantage would that be
you should look at what the previous Ecuador leader said about this guy Moreno- Calls this guy a fascist.
Ecuador doesn't give a shit about a free press;s ability to publish- but Americans do.
^so who knows?
But you can be sure Moreno doesn't give a rat's ass about any press principles - just getting in good with Pence
yes, the "reports" come directly from Moreno's mouth
That's the party line - but Moreno's word is not trustworthy.
seems to me 9 years of contact but no one else by Assange except in the embassy would gin up a few conflicts that can be hyped to a pretext of removal of Assange. Moreno has no use for him - allow the Brits in
why didn't Mueller approach him with an offer to ask him directly?
I'm sure he could have offered use immunity if nothing else.
But the Russiaphobes are all ginned up with "Wiki is an arm of Russian intelligence" cudgel to attack Putin
Darth Omar
Russian asset
It’s just one of the things that never made any sense about it.
Assange was a pivotal character in any collusion case since the email release was done through Wiki. And nobody wants to talk to him? They go after Stone hard, but they don’t even talk to Assange?
The only explanation I could come up with was they *didn't want to* talk to him.
in other words Assange didn't fit into Mueller's narrative
I wonder if JPP liberals will "forget" their unbridled glee over Assange's arrest yesterday if they find out what Sean Langer reported.
I wonder if JPP liberals will "forget" their unbridled glee over Assange's arrest yesterday if they find out what Sean Langan reported.
who?I wonder if JPP liberals will "forget" their unbridled glee over Assange's arrest yesterday if they find out what Sean Langan reported.
I saw that. No double jeopardy protection.
Looks like some people want him silenced quickly now that the Mueller report is about to be released.
Documentary filmmaker and former Taliban hostage Sean Langan, who has spent more than 50 hours with Assange in the past year.
According to Langan, Assange said Trump's associates are intellectually incapable of masterminding a complex collusion scheme with the Russians.
http://tinyurl.com/Assange-thinks-Trump-is-simple
no one has EVER come up with a scenarios for collusion.. It's farcical.
What would Putin do? ( and thus begats the "WIKI is a Russian asset" crap)
Can you even imagine how this was supposedly conspired? the Russiaphobes never detail how this plot was set up
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
Assange is "on record" stating firmly ... that the Russians were not his source.
I think that if Assange could be "bought off" ... he would have "sold out" a long time ago.
Now, "they" can use a stick instead of a carrot.
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/julian-assange-wikileaks-free-press-first-amendment/
...the language of the indictment against Assange suggests that the Justice Department may be throwing too wide a lasso, trying to rope in and criminalize a legitimate practice of journalism.
As the Supreme Court ruled in 2001 in the case of Bartnicki v. Vopper, the First Amendment protects publishers against legal liability for publishing political information that is lawfully obtained, even if the publisher’s source obtained the information by illegal means.
Why have the courts taken such a staunch stand in defense of the First Amendment? Because our nation’s founders made clear their belief in a free press as a check against a tyrannical government. And history has validated that belief.
The publication of the dryly pessimistic Pentagon Papers, for one, was pivotal in turning public opinion against the Vietnam War.
Is Assange some kind of journalist? Or has he been working as an agent of a foreign power, Russia?
And are President Trump and his Justice Department even on the same page on this?
...the language of the indictment against Assange suggests that the Justice Department may be throwing too wide a lasso, trying to rope in and criminalize a legitimate practice of journalism.
To which we would ask: So what? The New York Times, in receiving the Pentagon Papers from an anonymous source and publishing them, did exactly the same thing.
As the Supreme Court ruled in 2001 in the case of Bartnicki v. Vopper, the First Amendment protects publishers against legal liability for publishing political information that is lawfully obtained, even if the publisher’s source obtained the information by illegal means.
Why have the courts taken such a staunch stand in defense of the First Amendment? Because our nation’s founders made clear their belief in a free press as a check against a tyrannical government. And history has validated that belief.
The publication of the dryly pessimistic Pentagon Papers, for one, was pivotal in turning public opinion against the Vietnam War.
Is Assange some kind of journalist? Or has he been working as an agent of a foreign power, Russia?
And are President Trump and his Justice Department even on the same page on this?
The conspiracy theory is crap. All Putin had to do was to prey upon the naivety of vast numbers of potential voters.
so you're in for Russian meddling? Is that like what we did for Yeltsin? the Euromaidan?
Russia didn't accomplish anything -it's meager efforts were swamped by a $billion election
Who's your President? Have we got Brexit? It's been brilliant!