@enhydra lutris

There won’t be any legal precedent set because it’s
a plea deal and not a conviction. But still it will set some kind of precedent in journalist's minds just because of all the persecution and heinous treatment Julian endured .

Craig Murray doesn’t think julian is out of danger because he will still have a target on his back for his actions. Pompeo wanted to kidnap and assassinate Julian and when asked about it he said that everyone who talked about it should be prosecuted.

I just read this article

VIDEO: State Dept. Won’t Give Specifics on How Assange Hurt “National Security”. Or How “Russiagate” — Used to Demonize WikiLeaks — May Have Actually Been Israelgate. Sam Husseini. Husseini is not comfortable with some of the implications of the plea deal and linked bak to this post to show why.

Sam asks how Wikileaks showing that American troops killed innocent civilians including 2 Reuters reporters harmed national security. The spok spox was offended he was asking and he wouldn’t answer. Spoks should have to be hooked to lie detector and if they lie then should get a jolt of electricity going up with each new lie.

Also included, Sam says that Israel was spying on the Clintons campaign and giving the information to Trump.

I have long called out Israel’s interference in our elections, but hey it’s Israel. They can do whatever the hell they want.

#6.2
precedent, for the doctrine that reporting US war crimes or other wrongdoing, or any other damn thing that we decide to classify, such as maybe VAERS date??, is espionage. That is very much a part of what this is about, if he dies in prison, no precedent, or if jury refuses to convict, so time to settle for a plea,

be well and have a good one

@TheOtherMaven

But I see no reason he would risk returning to America. Hillbilly might try to finish the job…

Clinton's State Department was getting pressure from President Obama (the constitutional lawyer) and his White House inner circle, as well as heads of state internationally, to try and cutoff Assange's delivery of the cables and if that effort failed, then to forge a strategy to minimize the administration's public embarrassment over the contents of the cables. Hence, Clinton's early morning November meeting of State's top brass who floated various proposals to stop, slow or spin the Wikileaks contamination. That is when a frustrated Clinton, sources said, at some point blurted out a controversial query. "Can't we just drone this guy?' Clinton openly inquired, offering a simple remedy to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned military drone strike, according to State Department sources. The statement drew laughter from the room which quickly died off when the Secretary kept talking in a terse manner, sources said. Clinton said Assange, after all, was a relatively soft target, "walking around" freely and thumbing his nose without any fear of reprisals from the United States.

Chris Hedges details the persecution of Julian Assange

The dark machinery of empire, whose mendacity and savagery Julian Assange exposed to the world, spent 14 years trying to destroy him. They cut him off from his funding, canceling his bank accounts and credit cards. They invented bogus charges of sexual assault to get him extradited to Sweden, where he would then be shipped to the U.S.

They trapped him in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for seven years after he was given political asylum and Ecuadorian citizenship by refusing him safe passage to Heathrow Airport. They orchestrated a change of government in Ecuador that saw him stripped of his asylum, harassed and humiliated by a pliant embassy staff. They contracted the Spanish security firm UC global in the embassy to record all his conversations, including those with his attorneys.

The CIA discussed kidnapping or assassinating him. They arranged for London’s Metropolitan Police to raid the embassy – sovereign territory of Ecuador – and seize him. They held him for five years in the high security HM Prison Belmarsh, often in solitary confinement.

And all the while they carried out a judicial farce in the British courts where due process was ignored so an Australian citizen, whose publication was not based in the U.S. and who, like all journalists, received documents from whistleblowers, could be charged under the Espionage Act.

They tried over and over and over to destroy him. They failed. But Julian was not released because the courts defended the rule of law and exonerated a man who had not committed a crime. He was not released because the Biden White House and the intelligence community have a conscience. He was not released because the news organizations that published his revelations and then threw him under the bus, carrying out a vicious smear campaign, pressured the U.S. government.

He was released — granted a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department, according to court documents — in spite of these institutions. He was released because day after day, week after week, year after year, hundreds of thousands of people around the globe mobilized to decry the imprisonment of the most important journalist of our generation. Without this mobilization, Julian would not be free.

The world owes Julian a debt that it can never be repaid. I’m just glad that he will soon be home with his wife and children who only know him from behind bars.

FJB and Trump and especially Obama. And everyone in Britain that helped torture this beautiful soul.

#10.1

expected to land a few hours from now.

The US added one final insult to injury: he will not be allowed to return to US territory - any US territory, anywhere - without asking permission. (For the life of me, I can't see why he would want to!)