Assange’s wife says ‘the world is watching’ extradition appeal hearing
(thehill.com)
from CollisionResistance@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 22 Feb 2024 11:48
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from CollisionResistance@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 22 Feb 2024 11:48
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
They have to know they can’t get away with this,” Stella Assange said at a protest outside of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
Julian Assange has been attempting to avoid extradition to the U.S. for more than a decade, where he has been indicted on 17 charges including espionage and computer misuse.
He assisted U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in stealing diplomatic cables and military files, which would later be published on WikiLeaks, American prosecutors allege.
“He is being prosecuted for engaging in ordinary journalistic practice of obtaining and publishing classified information, information that is both true and of obvious and important public interest,” Edward Fitzgerald, Assange’s lawyer, said in court, per The Associated Press.
“Assange and WikiLeaks were responsible for the exposure of criminality on the part of the U.S. government on an unprecedented scale,” Fitzgerald said in written submissions, according to the AP.
The WikiLeaks founder’s lawyers have also said that, if convicted, he risks facing up to 175 years in prison, but American authorities have disagreed and said his sentence will probably be shorter.
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Hang the Russian spy
How is he a Russian spy?
Wiki leaks are published for all to view, not just Russia.
I don’t agree with the root comment, but Wikileaks has repeatedly ignored leaks of Russian classified info and many of their sources appear to be Russian Intelligence.
I wouldn’t characterize him as a Russian spy, more of an asset. Wikileaks selectively released information rather than being the safe harbor for all intelligence leaks that they purported to be.
>Wikileaks selectively released information rather than being the safe harbor for all intelligence leaks that they purported to be.
what makes you think that it was any more than only releasing important leaks? no one cares about the timeclock at mcdonald's on 5th and main.
Curious how all the leaks about Russia were deemed unimportant
wasn't he taking asylum in russia? do you really think he should have made enemies there when the US et al were already trying to jail him?
oh no! the situation is complex and it's possible that even the best actors had to make some tough decisions.
Are you the actor making the tough decision to knowingly make disingenuous arguments?
You’re thinking of Snowden. Assange was at an Ecuadorian embassy in London. Two very different cases.
oh. then is there any reason at all to think he got leaks about russia that were worth publishing?
Someone who worked inside Wikileaks certainly felt they were newsworthy
You can read more here
Foreign Policy endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election. This was the first time in its 50-year history the magazine endorsed a candidate.
you will forgive me if i don't find your source to be credible in this regard.
I mean, did you see the other guy?
I actually read the piece after checking for bias, and all the most damning stuff is innuendo. it's a nothing burger.
It’s a fact that WL refused to publish the document cache with the justification being that the data was already out in the open but that wasn’t true as only half of it had already been reported on. How is that innuendo?
>but that wasn’t true as only half of it had already been reported on
it seems to me that it was totally out (or later became totally available), regardless of the reporting that was done. it's innuendo to imply that they refused to publish it for any reason outside of their normal editorial standards.
I agree there is no smoking gun per se, but I find the justification that it would “distract” from the 2016 election leaks to be incredibly flimsy. The rest of the info got out on the internet through sources other than WL.
The refusal to publish also contradicts Assange’s claims in 2010 to publish documents on any institution that resisted oversight. The Kremlin couldn’t fit more squarely into that bucket.
he can still "publish documents on any institution that resisted oversight" without publishing every document about such an institution. any particular document or set of documents may be unable to be verified or not of particular interest or already available through other sources. he didn't promise to publish every byte that mentioned the kremlin regardless of his editorial standards.
curious how you’re obsessed with repeating that lie over and over again…
If you say so
keep on obsessively repeating that lie without actually checking it out, then
It’s not a lie, he refused to publish the Kremlin leaks for reasons I found paper thin. Sorry we don’t agree, I’ll refrain from calling you names because what’s the fucking point?
yeah well can you provide a real source for that? maybe other than “one secret person told this paper, and by golly we believe them!”
lying shill
Me or Julian?
you
S A L T Y
shill
GRU basically runs WikiLeaks.
Source: dude, trust me
Lmao. I wasn’t born yesterday. There’s been years of news on this. That’s an extremely poor attempt at gaslighting.
There’s been years of propaganda on this.
A guy embarrasses the richest and most powerful people in the world by telling you the dirty secrets they were hiding from you. And when they tell you that it’s the messenger who’s the enemy, you believe them SMH.
If you’re against wikileaks, you’re against the rights of journalists and you’re opposed to the freedom of information.
Nope. If NYT wants to publish stuff about warrantless wiretapping that’s fine. More power to them.
WikiLeaks edited video and text content from day 1. The US Army caught them out several times by just releasing the full video. They didn’t even try with the DNC emails, they put sensational headers on them had nothing to do with what was written in the email. Then there’s the revelations of the GOP and RUS hacks which somehow have yet to see the light of day.
So yeah after that fumbling attempt at creating propaganda it wasn’t exactly a surprise to find out the Russian GRU were essentially running the site by the mid 2010’s. Assange went beyond journalism and into foreign agent territory when he edited his stuff out of truthfulness and selectively released documents to influence American politics.
So no you don’t get to tie him to investigative journalism like the Panama Papers.
How much does the US pay for working as one of their propagandists?
plenty of dupes do that work for free
Yeah like these idiots on Lemmy. They need to go back to Reddit
Says the dude with a Reddit reference for a username, lol
Sorry people not echoing your sentiments puts your panties in a twist.
sToOpId bRaYn dEd
Then there wold be a bunch of American politicians hanging.
I see no issue
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
he's an australian journalist, actually.
Don’t matter what country or occupation, he is still a Russian spy lol
do you have any proof for your accusation?
Stupid brain-dead
Yep, watching to see if fame can still get you out of consequences for your crimes.
Removed, keep it civil.
Keep worshipping Big Brother. You’re nothing but fodder for the state machine, and the saddest part is how comfortable you are being fodder.
This is a different woman than the one he raped, right?
he was never actually accused of raping anyone…
he’s not a crook… however, i question your morality
I’d argue the crooks are the ones who’ve committed war crimes and are very upset they got leaked.
The fact that you’re being downvoted tells you a lot of people only got information of this Russian agent from wikileaks and other russian leaning sources.
Downvote me fanboys. He’s a political activist sitting on info to use when it’s most politically damaging, not acting quickly as possible to stop suffering. If he really gave a damn about anything but being an information broker he would have exposed all of Russias crap they did in Ukraine and Georgia since 2014, instead he was hyper focused on making the west look bad.
Edit: Oh look, the downvoted didn’t start till almost 7AM Moscow Time, surely that’s just a coincidence!
He’ll lose unfortunately, as he’s been designated an enemy of big daddy US and the UK will bend over backwards to make sure that happens. The whole thing is ridiculous, he’s been held for years now
Yup watching to see a Russian Agent get extradited finally.