I don't know what the fuck to believe anymore about the Assange case.

[JDPriestly]

97. Do you know of evidence that Assange "talked" Manning into providing the documents?

Assange was a publisher who accepted anonymous information on the internet and published it widely.

Judith Miller was told supposed secrets of the US and published them in the NY Times -- like Valery Plame's name. Even if others knew it before Judith Miller, she was the first to publish the information.

Journalists and newspapers print what they can get a hold of.

Our laws about classification need to be revisited. Some information should be kept secret, but our country has become a place in which the rich and powerful have secrets and the rest of us are expected to live without privacy even when we walk down the street.

Never has the invasion of privacy of ordinary people on the one hand and on the other the protection of the secrets of the rich and powerful been so pervasive in any society.

Neither the Russians nor the Germans nor even the North Koreans have the network for collecting personal information about citizens that we have. They may have had the will to collect it, but they did not have the computers to do it with.

Every library book we borrow, every internet site we visit, every electronic purchase we make, everywhere we take our cell phones -- all of that information is pretty readily available to the government. They can even find out the color of pajamas we put in our suitcases when we go on an airplane.

But we are not supposed to know what our troops have already done IN THE PAST in Iraq or Afghanistan. The Iraqis and the Afghanis, the Pakistanis, all those there know what we have done. It's only we Americans who are to be kept ignorant about these things.

I know the accusations against Assange. I also believe that there is a lot of evidence that our government uses sexual humiliation as a psy-ops method. Abu Ghraib showed me that.

I do not know of any future military operations that Assange revealed publicly. I don't think he received any information on that.

Assange's "crime" is having embarrassed the US government. The rape charge is an allegation that the Swedish government already dismissed once. If the Swedish government really had the goods on Assange, they would probably leak it. That is what governments do, especially our government.