Bonus: Julian Assange arrested today.
Just read it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47891737
Mmhh... The USA has a hard on for him and well... this could end badly for him...
I read he could get 5 years but unsure if the USA wants to go Full Metal Jacket on him...
xROTx
PS. My personal view... is that I haven't read thrugh the Zillions of Documents he released... I appreciate that it wasn't great for 'murikah and I'm unsure if it put American lives at risk...
Many people want to play down the role of Assange in collaborating with cowardly criminals (Snowden, Manning, Putin/Gucifer) who removed classified information from US databases with the sole intent of destabilizing democracy in the west. It’s no surprise that following the leaks we have seen a sharp rise in populism, which cuts both ways left and right. Whether we are talking M5S, Trump, LePen, Orbán, Bolsonaro, Putin, or Netanyahu - all of them benefitted more from Assange than any of the average Joe readers gawking at emails and files like a CSPAN version of the fappening.
I don’t appreciate “not great for ‘murikah” because American leadership and stability is important for those shitty criminals and oligarchs who did this too - they want their money safe, they want their children safe, and putting both in America has been their play for decades. Unless you’re Putin and your daughters live in London. But you get the point. We don’t want to destabilize free countries.
Essentially... what it's about is that Assange played a part (along with others) to promote a distrust towards America and Democracy...
There has to be something more here to it than meets the eye.
That timing!
Now is when Q will strike and Obama and Hillary are going away to prision.."
I'm surprised wasabi called Manning and Snowden criminals and now I don't know what to think.
I'm surprised wasabi called Manning and Snowden criminals and now I don't know what to think.
By...releasing documents that have never been suggested to be fabricated or altered. The fact that they are pursuing prosecution in fact would confirm their legitimacy.
I'm not buying that you can sow distrust in American democracy by releasing documents from the very people in charge of said democracy.
Was Wikileaks used unknowingly or knowingly in a Russian campaign? Sure maybe, even probably.
In the end is it the fault of Assange, Russia, or US officials that US officials ended up looking bad?
Again, this plays down the leaks completely, and assumes that the effect of the leaks extends purely to your own experience as a civilian. It does not. The leaks damaged US diplomatic efforts with allies and gave the rest of a world a bargaining chip against the US. In the wake of this, other players like China and Russia gained momentum to step in. Many of the career diplomats, who the government has invested a lot of training in, have targets on their backs now, as foreign governments and groups were able to use those documents to understand how the US gathered the information. The other part is that not all the documents have been published, as the custodians were tasked by Snowden to cherry pick and retain anything that could be damaging to innocent people. The cost of developing assets in foreign nations is high enough as is, and the risks involved are beyond the standard OSHA requirements. Now, imagine that all that work gets destroyed by a 28 year old IT kid trying to impress his suspicious ballerina model GF, who was all too ready to move to Moscow with him.
Yeah, he's a criminal. And if he puts targets on US citizens, he can get fucked.
You're talking about intelligence gathering, counter intel, espionage, and an effort by the US to continue to be world policeman. Are these the sorts of things that the American citizenry even wants?
Yeah I doubt Trump read anymore than a paragraph of that. I'm he asked several several people their opinions of it. Hell even I can't it out, is he taking a swipe at him? Maybe there's some sort of code in it where if you use every eighth word.
Yeah I doubt Trump read anymore than a paragraph of that. I'm he asked several several people their opinions of it. Hell even I can't it out, is he taking a swipe at him? Maybe there's some sort of code in it where if you use every eighth word.
Yeah I doubt Trump read anymore than a paragraph of that. I'm he asked several several people their opinions of it. Hell even I can't it out, is he taking a swipe at him? Maybe there's some sort of code in it where if you use every eighth word.
I'm he asked
even I can't it out
eighth
Haha, Trump is so dumb!
Haha, Trump is so dumb!
hanberders
You guys laugh but I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with "eighth."
I thought it was hamberders? He got the ham part right!