Sweden Withdraws Arrest Warrant for Julian Assange, but he Still Faces Serious Legal Jeopardyhttps://theintercept.com/2017/05/19/sweden-withdraws-arrest-warrant-for-julian-assange-but-he-still-faces-serious-legal-jeopardy/ …
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You say that like it's now questionable
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I think an argument can be made abt helping Snowden escape. Don't know what evidence DOJ has.
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I'm sure they want to charge under Espionage Act, but it's so fraught. Would love to see language used in secret indictment. Sloppy in past.
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Yup. And as I keep pointing out, Rosenstein oversaw really aggressive charging of Hal Martin.
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Ever find out who did the other breach about a year earlier at TAO?(Supposedly not as serious as Martin's, but swept way under the rug.)
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No. Don't know whether it was swept up. Maybe they've just Gitmoed the guy.
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And at every single step of its pursuit of Snowden the US has fucked things up...
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But I always lean towards assigning the majority of blame to the traitors & criminals they're pursuing.
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AGAIN, DOJ committed crimes in its pursuit of Wikileaks in 2010. Do you include them in that?
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Maybe..would need to understand the exact "crimes" a little better TBH & compare them with the irreparable harm done by WL, Snowden, Manning
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But having no understanding of that you're willing to run your mouth? Gotcha.
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Pretty much. Not looking for reasons to view those traitors & criminals in any light more favorable.
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Part of the larger problem of trying to criminalize press, journalists, whistleblowers by improvising "justice." Amateur hour.
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It's also panic. Wikileaks was so new (and US so insecure in its hegemony at this point) they had no idea how to respond.
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Crazy thing about new push for arrest is that it's entirely possible Assange locked himself up in an embassy for 6 years for no reason
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leaving the embassy w/ no arrest or extradition would have done more to discredit him and make him look like an idiot than they could plan
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Trying to do this without some clear evidence of some actual crime (not publishing) just vindicates so many of his nonsense claims
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Perhaps..though I've never trusted him. Certainly this last elecion cycle has shown him to be a man with questionable motives.
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