Julian Assange: The CIA director is waging war on truth-tellers like WikiLeaks
By Julian Assange April 25 at 7:39 PM
Julian Assange is editor of WikiLeaks.
Mike Pompeo, in his first speech as director of the CIA, chose to declare war on free speech rather than on the United States actual adversaries. He went after WikiLeaks, where I serve as editor, as a non-state hostile intelligence service. In Pompeos worldview, telling the truth about the administration can be a crime as Attorney General Jeff Sessions quickly underscored when he described my arrest as a priority. News organizations reported that federal prosecutors are weighing whether to bring charges against members of WikiLeaks, possibly including conspiracy, theft of government property and violating the Espionage Act.
All this speech to stifle speech comes in reaction to the first publication in the start of WikiLeaks Vault 7 series. Vault 7 has begun publishing evidence of remarkable CIA incompetence and other shortcomings. This includes the agencys creation, at a cost of billions of taxpayer dollars, of an entire arsenal of cyber viruses and hacking programs over which it promptly lost control and then tried to cover up the loss. These publications also revealed the CIAs efforts to infect the publics ubiquitous consumer products and automobiles with computer viruses.
When the director of the CIA, an unelected public servant, publicly demonizes a publisher such as WikiLeaks as a fraud, coward and enemy, it puts all journalists on notice, or should. Pompeos next talking point, unsupported by fact, that WikiLeaks is a non-state hostile intelligence service, is a dagger aimed at Americans constitutional right to receive honest information about their government. This accusation mirrors attempts throughout history by bureaucrats seeking, and failing, to criminalize speech that reveals their own failings.
President Theodore Roosevelt understood the danger of giving in to those foolish or traitorous persons who endeavor to make it a crime to tell the truth about the Administration when the Administration is guilty of incompetence or other shortcomings. Such endeavor is itself a crime against the nation, Roosevelt wrote. President Trump and his officials should heed that advice.
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(1,934 posts)"@pizzagate" garbage several times a day on twitter up until the election day.
They knew exactly what they were doing. They were partisan political players, not journalists.
Go fuck yourself Assange.