Talk of Assange pardon worries intelligence community

[dajoki]

Talk of Assange pardon worries intelligence community
TheHill.com
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/348773-could-trump-pardon-assange

A GOP lawmaker's suggestion that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be pardoned by President Trump is being eyed warily by people in the intelligence community.

While a pardon for Assange seems unlikely, Trump has offered praise for WikiLeaks and Assange's own efforts to question U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia sought to influence last year's presidential election.

As such, the idea is being taken seriously in intelligence quarters.

“It would send a terrible message to the intelligence community,” said Robert Deitz, a former senior counselor to the director of the CIA and general counsel at the National Security Agency.

Deitz is currently a professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government.

“What moral are people supposed to draw from that? Why on Earth would you believe Julian Assange before the intelligence community?”

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), who has come under scrutiny for his own ties to Russia, is behind the Assange pardon push.
The deal Rohrabacher is trying to cut: pardon Assange in exchange for information he claims proves Russia did not collude with the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential race....

[Primer]

1. He should be smoked

out of his little embassy bathroom already.

[mythology]

5. A pardon would make his already insipid conspiracy claim

Look even more like a fraud. Of course given that it's just his way of avoiding going on trial for being a rapist piece of shit (but I repeat myself), I doubt even that would get him out of the embassy until the statute of limitations runs out.

[imanamerican63]

2. Can he pardon a foreign citizen? He broke laws but has be even tried for his crimes?

He is not even in states!

[zipplewrath]

3. Yes

Only for US federal crimes however. And technically, in order to "accept" the pardon he has to "admit" guilt. (Really, just accepting is presumed to admit guilt).

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. TRump is a traitor, he works for Putin. If he could he would

sell us all to Putin, or sit back and let Putin harm or kill us, take our property for sure.

A coup occurred last November yet we still do nothing.

[Initech]

6. Nah, Putin will sit back and let North Korea do it's thing.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. You know what I figured out, trump has no guts for war.

I predicted forever he would start a war to avoid prosecution, but I think the opposite is the situation.

or not Who fucking knows with this LUNATIC

Someone here posted an awesome comparison of narcissist vs sociopath, I need to find that.