U.S. issues new indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

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Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sought to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia to provide his anti-secrecy website with classified information, including military secrets, according to a new Justice Department indictment announced Wednesday.

The superseding indictment does not contain additional charges beyond the 18 counts the Justice Department unsealed last year. But prosecutors say it underscores Assange’s efforts to procure and release classified information, allegations that form the basis of criminal charges he already faces.

Assange was arrested last year after being evicted from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and is at the center of an ongoing extradition tussle over whether he should be sent to the United States.

The Justice Department last year charged him with conspiring with former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in one of the largest compromises of classified information in U.S. history. It says the WikiLeaks founder damaged national security by publishing hundreds of thousands of classified documents, including diplomatic cables and military files on the wars in Iraq and Afgahnistan, that harmed the U.S. and its allies and aided its adversaries. [snip]

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-issues-new-indictment-against-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-2020-06-24

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Adding more logs to the fire...

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1. Is Assange the bad guy or are his imprisoners?

I lean toward the latter.

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4. Let's not forget history. Assange did work with Putin to help trump get elected.

He contributed to all out mess the country is in.

[rwsanders]

9. truthdig.com still has some good articles about Assange by Chris Hedges. In depth, insightful...

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You won't hear a lot of good about him here because he also exposed some of the things the DLC was into.
This one is a pretty good summary:
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/what-is-happening-to-assange-will-happen-to-the-rest-of-us/

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2. Now's a good time to release the key to that insurance file

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3. Journalists don't enlist people to hack into the CIA and NSA.

Lock him up and throw away the key!

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5. far-leftists take note

MAGA rats spring Flynn and will want to spring Stone, but Chelsea Manning whistleblower Assange still in the klink. Far leftists quit bootlicking your enemies and stop attacking Biden and Obama from the left.

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6. I agree. nt

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7. It sounds like TrumPutin and the GOP need Assange again.

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8. I don't think he is going to be extradited, especially now.

Trump has destroyed whatever international reputation we had as a land of "justice for all."