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Originally posted by parabellum:
Arrested? He should be given a Goddamned medal.

Should we nominate him for the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

It recognizes people who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors".

His release of the Podesta/DNC email helped keep Mr. William Clinton's wife from becoming POTUS.

I'd score that as meriting something.

he's a hero to the citizens of the US

I'd like to see him testify before the House and Senate.

The things he knows...

Pardon and medal of freedom along with citizenship and a passport.

He has to have all kinds of great "insurance policies" hidden all over the world with sleeper agents just waiting to activate. I doubt he wants to give them all up for an immunity deal. And he's smart enough to have stuff set up totally outside of his knowledge or control, just so he can't be totally compromised by an immunity deal. I would think the US intel community has to know this and would be pushing behind the scenes for him to be let off very easily.

But then again, his judgement in pissing off his embassy hosts was so bad, I may have my doubts.

Apparently, he left a goodbye by present by decorating the walls of the embassy with his pooop.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...-London-embassy.html

He was in there how long? It sounds like he went insane.

That's a rather rude thing to do to one's hosts, wouldn't you say? Feces, smeared or otherwise...

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
How is this not beyond the statute of limitations, when the alleged crime happened in 2010 and the indictment wasn't handed down until eight years later?

I'm not a lawyer (just a former cop) and not all that familiar with federal law, but in states such as where I lived (CA), the Statute of Limitations is on hold as long as the accused is outside the jurisdiction of the court (state).

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Originally posted by Sig2340:

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... Manning, the former U.S. Army officer...

Manning was neither an officer nor a non-commissioned officer.

He was a Private First Class.

It was a PFC. - Corrected for accuracy. =)

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Originally posted by parabellum:
He was in there how long? It sounds like he went insane.

That's a rather rude thing to do to one's hosts, wouldn't you say? Feces, smeared or otherwise...

So apparently he shit the bed. Literally.

And he’s pissed off Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno and wonders why he got turned over. You screw the new guy and then you want him to protect your dirty ass.

Assange has some issues but I’m still grateful that WikiLeaks has pulled back the veil of secrecy
on politicians, global warming, etc.

Yeah. No surprise that HRC likes it.

“Hillary Clinton has said she approved of Julian Assange's arrest because 'he has to answer for what he's done'.

The former Democratic Presidential candidate said that the founder of WikiLeaks, who she blames for her losing the 2016 election, deserves whatever punishment is coming his way…”

https://mol.im/a/6914441

I have to start actually reading the news, rather than just looking at the pictures. I was trying to figure out why David Letterman had been arrested, while vacationing in Ecquador .

Tucker Carlson: Assange's real sin was preventing Hillary Clinton from becoming president

By Tucker Carlson | Fox News

If you watched a lot of the coverage of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's arrest on television Thursday, you likely came away with the understanding that he is some kind of Russian spy who is in trouble because he stole classified documents from the U.S. government. That is not true. It's factually incorrect, and saying so is not a defense of Assange. We're not here to promote him or excuse any number of things he said over the years that we disagree with quite a lot.

But just so it's clear, whatever his sins, Assange did not steal documents from the United States government. He did not hack the DNC servers. He didn't break into John Podesta's Gmail account. There is no proof that he is working for the Russian government or ever has worked for the Russian government. Assange has never been charged with any of that and wasn't on Thursday, no matter what they tell you.

If you're upset about the theft of classified documents from the U.S. government -- and there is reason to be -- we already know who did that. A 22- year-old Army private named Bradley Manning, now called Chelsea Manning. In 2013, Manning pleaded guilty to stealing secret material and got 35 years in prison for it. Shortly after that, President Obama commuted Manning's sentence. This allowed Manning to leave jail decades early, go back on television as a commentator, and then run for political office.

So if your real concern is America's national security, you have someone to be angry at -- Barack Obama. And yet strangely, nobody is.

Instead, they're furious at Julian Assange for posting the documents that other people stole. "Julian Assange has long been a wicked tool of Vladimir Putin and the Russian intelligence services," wrote professional moralizer Ben Sasse, who also serves in the U.S. Senate. "He deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison."

Wicked? The rest of his life in prison? Idi Amin ate people and never faced this kind of scorn. Not even close. Nor, for the record, was Amin ever extradited. He died at 78 years old in his own bed, leaving behind 43 loving children.

So what's going on here? A couple of things. First, Julian Assange embarrassed virtually everyone in power in Washington. He published documents that undermined the official story on the Iraq War and Afghanistan. He got Debbie Wasserman-Schultz fired from the DNC. He humiliated Hillary Clinton by showing that the Democratic primaries were, in fact, rigged. Pretty much everyone in Washington has reason to hate Julian Assange.

Rather than just admit that straightforwardly - that he made us look like buffoons, so now we're sending him to prison -- instead, they're denouncing him as, you guessed it, a Russian agent. "Justice should come to Julian Assange for his role in Russian meddling in our election and the sooner the better," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.

Okay, so once again, just to be totally clear, no one has ever shown that Julian Assange is a Russian agent. The indictment against him does not say that; t doesn't mention Russia at all. But that has not stopped virtually every politician in Washington from repeating Senator Blumenthal's line, including many Republicans. Robert Mueller nearly killed the Russia collusion hoax. Julian Assange is allowing them to keep it alive.

You'd think journalists would say something about this. Assange is, after all, one of them. What do you call a man who publishes news for a living? Assange is no sleazier than many journalists in Washington; he's definitely not more anti-American. He's broken stories the New York Times would have won Pulitzers for. And yet many of his colleagues have disowned him.

So why all the hostility to Julian Assange? Assange's real sin was preventing Hillary Clinton from becoming president.

"Oh, please," wrote Alexia Campbell of Vox. "Assange is no journalist. We know who he works for. " (Meaning Russia.) "Julian Assange is not a journalist," explained Jelani Cobb of the New Yorker, without actually explaining. Ken Dilanian of NBC, who doesn't so much cover the national security state as he writes memos on its behalf, noted that, "Many believe that if Assange ever was a journalist, those days ended a long time ago."

At NBC when they tell you "many believe" something, it means they believe it.

So why all the hostility to Julian Assange? Assange's real sin was preventing Hillary Clinton from becoming president. Former Democratic staffer and current CNN anchor Jim Sciutto explained it this way: "He is central to several cases. He is central to Russian interference in the election. The U.S. intelligence views him as a middleman, a cutout that he was in effect part of this interference. He's central to questions about what the Trump administration or Trump campaign, I should say, knew prior to the release of those materials, right? What were the communications between Roger Stone, et cetera? It's possible that this has something President Trump himself is not particularly excited about."

It's remarkable to watch this. It's bewildering, actually. There was a time, not so long ago, really, when reporters didn't applaud the arrest of other journalists for publishing information.

In 1971, the Washington Post and the New York Times published a trove of stolen classified documents about the Vietnam War. It was called the Pentagon Papers. Remember that? Liberals loved it. Books were written celebrating their bravery.
Tucker Carlson Tonight – Thursday, April 11Video

As recently as 2011, the Washington Post saw the connection: "A conviction of Julian Assange would also cause collateral damage to American media freedoms." A Post op-ed said that year, "It is difficult to distinguish Assange or Wikileaks from the Washington Post." And that's true. But that was before the Trump election and the total war that followed, a war in which the media have definitively chosen a side.

Press freedom? Sure, as long as we agree with your politics. The First Amendment? Well, that all depends. Who did you vote for?

The guardians of speech or now the enemies of speech. The people charged with policing power are now colluding with power. There's a reason you see John Brennan on NBC all the time. They're all on the same team now.

We're not saying any of this to defend Julian Assange. We just want to be absolutely clear about who hurts this country more -- and it's not him.

Adapted from Tucker Carlson's monologue from "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on April 11, 2019.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
“Hillary Clinton has said she approved of Julian Assange's arrest because 'he has to answer for what he's done'.

Answer for what he's done??? You arrogant, tone-deaf bitch! YOU need to answer for ALL THE CRIMINAL THINGS THAT YOU HAVE DONE.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
He was in there how long? It sounds like he went insane.

Entirely possible. He was there for 7 years, fairly isolated. Might have been enough to drive Assange, who had been described in the past as "narcissistic" and "eccentric", with at least one close confidant stating he likely falls somewhere on the autism spectrum, into full-blown madness.

Also possible that he's positioning himself for an insanity defense.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
Yeah. No surprise that HRC likes it.

“Hillary Clinton has said she approved of Julian Assange's arrest because 'he has to answer for what he's done'.

The former Democratic Presidential candidate said that the founder of WikiLeaks, who she blames for her losing the 2016 election, deserves whatever punishment is coming his way…”

https://mol.im/a/6914441

What if this backfires on her and the rest of the fascists in her camp? What if Assange is holding some real juicy evidence that implicates hitlery, Obama, et al?



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What if this backfires on her and the rest of the fascists in her camp? What if Assange is holding some real juicy evidence that implicates hitlery, Obama, et al?

Don't threaten me with a good time!

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
What if this backfires on her and the rest of the fascists in her camp? What if Assange is holding some real juicy evidence that implicates hitlery, Obama, et al?

More stuff will certainly be juicy but enough evidence is already there. The FBI and DOJ never acted upon it. And if they did CNN, NBC, and the rest will ignore it.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
“Hillary Clinton has said she approved of Julian Assange's arrest because 'he has to answer for what he's done'.

Answer for what he's done??? You arrogant, tone-deaf bitch! YOU need to answer for ALL THE CRIMINAL THINGS THAT YOU HAVE DONE.

This was my thought yesterday when I read the original story.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Also possible that he's positioning himself for an insanity defense.

Well, smearing your shit on walls is as good a starting point for that as any.