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originally posted by: tiredoflooking
a reply to: CoramDeo
Assange didn't steal it, he only published it.
If they charge him they need to charge the NYT, The Guardian, Der Spiegel and every other newspaper that published Wikileaks stuff.
As well as any news outlets that ever published a leaked government document.
Hillary didn't steal the classified data found on her homebrew toilet servers.
originally posted by: CoramDeo
originally posted by: tiredoflooking
a reply to: CoramDeo
Assange didn't steal it, he only published it.
If they charge him they need to charge the NYT, The Guardian, Der Spiegel and every other newspaper that published Wikileaks stuff.
As well as any news outlets that ever published a leaked government document.
The crime is in the mishandling.
He knew what he had, and how it would damage US interests.
It doesn't matter that he didn't steal it.
Hillary didn't steal the classified data found on her homebrew toilet servers.
She mishandled classified infromation, and she needs to stand trial as well.
I know this point of view probably pisses a bunch of people off on this thread, but I'm a law and order kind of dude.
A big part of the Q movement, a core tenet in fact, is to finally see justice done to those who have, for too long, remained untouchable due to status, power, money, influence, etc.
If the US has a case against him, and I think they do, he should stand trial.
Equality under the law.
originally posted by: butcherguy
Regarding Post 11, what kind of knowledgeable person, especially a military person, would refer to the President of the United States as 'Commander and Chief'?
Comes off like an Internet goofball that didn't finish high school living in mom's basement.
Assange is an Australian citizen, subject to Australian law.
Why can't the Saudis charge US citizens for not wearing appropriate clothing or for blasphemy?
If a foreign citizen is actually in the US, then they can be charged.
As for your example, El Chappo is in the US and can be charged, unless of course you guys kidnapped him, in which case, the kidnapping is illegal.
Clean your own house first.
In the spring of 2017, one of Julian Assange's lawyers Adam Waldman negotiated with the Justice Department on a possible deal to get the WikiLeaks founder limited immunity and safe passage out of a London embassy to talk with U.S. officials.
In return, Assange would provide technical information to the U.S. ruling out certain suspects in the release of hacked DNC emails key to the Russia case, identify vulnerabilities in the CIA's computer systems and talk about measures to protect certain sensitive information in future releases by Wikileaks.
The outlines of the deal were memorialized in a March 28, 2017 email between Waldman and Justice Department counterintelligence section chief David Laufman.
But an unexpected intervention by Comey — relayed through Warner — soured the negotiations, multiple sources tell me. Assange eventually unleashed a series of leaks that U.S. officials say damaged their cyber warfare capabilities for a long time to come.
Waldman contacted Ohr, a Justice official he’d met during the Russia election case. They talked by phone and encrypted text messages in early January, then met Feb. 3, 2017, in Washington, records show. In between, Waldman met three times with Assange in London.