WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange was arrested on behalf of U.S. authorities, British police say
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What is even more appalling is Manning who actually, stole classified data was pardoned by Obama now deemed a hero while, Assange who as a journalist, exposed the shennanigans going on, is now the villain and bad guy? Something very wrong here! They need to give Julian Assange protection because his life is probably, in grave danger. Julian Assange should have made contingency plans to leak the most damaging information he has in the event of this capture. Only by exposing the truth, will he have a chance!
Oh, so is that your fascination with Canada and Trudeau, and the reason for your multiple Canadiana threads? Who knew. So sorry to disappoint, though.
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Trump bizarrely denies knowledge of WikiLeaks despite his infamous ‘I love WikiLeaks’ rant
President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that he has no knowledge of WikiLeaks following the arrest of its founder Julian Assange — in spite of his repeated praise for the organization in on the campaign trail in 2016.
“I know nothing about Wikileaks,” Trump said. “It’s not my thing.”
President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that he has no knowledge of WikiLeaks following the arrest of its founder Julian Assange — in spite of his repeated praise for the organization in on the campaign trail in 2016.
“I know nothing about Wikileaks,” Trump said. “It’s not my thing.”
I might be able to explain this in part.
If you go with the axiom that a man is as young as the women he feels, then he would be in his early 50's or so. I think that is about how old Pamela Anderson is.
And looking even older than early fifties on top of that is probably due to the fact he doesn't get out for much fresh air these days so that doesn't help. Not sure that situation is going to change anytime soon.
Pamela Anderson melts down on Twitter over Julian Assange's arrest
Maeve McDermott, USA TODAYPublished 9:09 a.m. ET April 11, 2019 | Updated 10:16 a.m. ET April 11, 2019
Julian Assange's lawyer says the arrest was for breach of bail and an extradition request from the U.S. USA TODAY
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Pamela Anderson lashed out Thursday following the arrest of her close friend, Julian Assange on what his lawyer said was an extradition request from the United States.
The Wikileaks founder was taken into custody inside the embassy of Ecuador in London, where he had lived for the past seven years.
In an explicit string of tweets, Anderson, 51, criticized the U.S. and U.K, as well as Ecuador and President Trump.
"I am in shock.." she tweeted. "He looks very bad. How could you Equador? (Because he exposed you). How could you UK? Of course - you are America’s (expletive) and you need a diversion from your idiotic Brexit (expletive)."
"And the USA ?" she continued. "This toxic coward of a President He needs to rally his base? - You are selfish and cruel. You have taken the entire world backwards. You are devils and liars and thieves. And you will ROTT And WE WILL RISE"
Assange arrested: WikiLeaks founder arrested on US extradition request, lawyer says
Adil Ramisince 2017, says she met Assange in 2014 and has previously hinted that she had a romantic relationship with him, telling Fox News in an interview last year that “there’s definitely a romantic kind of connection 'cause it’s a romantic struggle" and "we have this closeness … he’s not close to people like he is to me.”
However, in a 2018 interview with "Good Morning Britain," Anderson gave a conflicting report about the nature of her relationship with Assange, saying, “I wouldn’t call it romance, I already have romance in my life. Can one man do it all?”
Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno announced Thursday that his country had dropped Assange’s asylum status in a videotaped statement, saying that his government's patience for Assange's behavior "has reached its limit."
We're done:Ecuador accuses WikiLeaks of violating asylum deal in London embassy
In a list of grievances, Moreno said Assange had installed prohibited electronic equipment in the embassy, blocked security cameras and even "accessed the security files of our embassy without permission." He said Assange also had "confronted and mistreated the diplomatic guards."
Assange, an Australian national, took refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over rape allegations. Although the Swedish allegations have been dropped, he was still wanted by the British for jumping bail back then.
Before Thursday's arrest, he had rarely stepped foot outside the embassy compound out of fear that the United States would immediately seek his arrest and extradition over the leaking of classified documents to WikiLeaks by then-U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning.
Sean Rossman and Doug Stanglin contributed to this report.
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I am admittedly torn on this arrest. Manning, the actaul ciminal in the case should at a minimum doing life in prison. Assange, no friend to the U.S. leaked classified info, which he is allowed by law to do. He also assisted Manning in obtaining the intel, which as far as I can tell is also legal so long as he, Assange didn't make the actaul theft. Journalists, or what pass for journalists these days, are spun up because they want to be able to leak classified intel, deadly consequences be damned. Assange, similar to Comey floats back and forth from hero to bum depending on who suffers the political damage. All I really know is what I have known for years. The entire system, government, media, the whole lot of them are corrupt top to bottom and completely indifferent to whatever collateral damage results from their political hit jobs.
On one hand, Manning took a scattershot approach to leaking intel. On the other, it revealed criminal conduct by our defense department. He/she got his presidential commutation, and is back in prison for not playing ball. There is a whole lot of gray area in what he/she did. Assange lost all credibility when he decided to play politics instead of remaining "impartial".
Just an FYI:
Aiding and Abetting
Aiding and abetting is an additional provision in United States criminal law, for situations where it cannot be shown the party personally carried out the criminal offense, but where another person may have carried out the illegal act(s) as an agent of the charged, working together with or under the direction of the charged, who is an accessory to the crime. It is comparable to laws in some other countries governing the actions of accessories, including the similar provision in England and Wales under the Accessories and Abettors Act 1861.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiding_and_abetting#United_States
Its simple, NYT and WashPost take leaked reports then lie about their content and spin them to serve a political purpose(help democrats). Assange got leaked reports and released them in their entirety with no spin and allowed the reader to make up their own mind.
It depends on who is doing the leaking, and what the objective is. Leaking for the sake of government transparency is expressly forbidden and will not be tolerated.