updating Julian Assange news mainly by Wikileaks storify
I’d been checking into the related accounts, and given this most recent Tweet, I’d decided it was worth bringing more.
FULL DOC: Never seen before Assange court testimony sheds fresh light on US-backed Ecuadorian expulsion plans https://t.co/YgkWkJqXnQ
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 7, 2019
the Scribd 2018 transcript document has an interesting ‘Uploaded by’, yes? Please provide excerpts at will! I’m strapped for time again, and had been working all morning on something wholly different in my (yes, longish) breaks from RL obligations.
UN expert on torture @NilsMelzer expresses alarm at reports #WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be expelled imminently from #EcuadorianEmbassy in London, saying he intends to personally investigate case.
Learn more: https://t.co/Itn4RoCPVg pic.twitter.com/ogPig1sU8G
— UN Special Procedures (@UN_SPExperts) April 5, 2019
It’s good to hear from Jen Robinson again:
Julian Assange lawyer responds to expulsion attempts
Background: https://t.co/jFzuiRCzzOpic.twitter.com/rXNEv13Kr7
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 7, 2019
I can’t even get into the Slimes via Private window, so I have no idea how it reads, but:
While earlier WikiLeaks and New York Times reporting indicates that the US government influenced Ecuador over Assange using loans, the Times also reported the US successfully bullied Ecuador's current government over breast feeding using trade, military. https://t.co/xPQTgvDUBV pic.twitter.com/df30OQxiFW
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 7, 2019
Whooosh-worthily helpful:
UN releases damning timeline showing that it started investigation into Ecuador for violating Assange's rights, asked Ecuador to see him, wasn't able to.
Ecuador then denounced @WikiLeaks for reporting on its President's #INAPapers corruption scandal https://t.co/FkjHuVEW6G pic.twitter.com/xh8ONu6JPo
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 6, 2019
.@UN's @NilsMelzer Against Extraditing Julian Assange the @wikileaks Founder To U.S.: "He Could Be Tourtured There" | via @UNHumanRights https://t.co/Hs1GPjKYfd
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) April 6, 2019
WikiLeaks has obtained agreed Assange press strategy
1. UK lead
2. Ecuador will say Assange has broken many of its invented "asylum terms"
3. UK will say won't let US kill Assange, due process. Ecuador will pretend that this is a concession and that asylum was for death penalty.— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 5, 2019
UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy announces plans to visit Assange on April 25 (if he's there) to investigate spying on Assange & releases time line showing that Rapporteur moved to investigate violations against Assange THEN Ecuador submitted complaint about WikiLeaks. https://t.co/wzmp1fhg43
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 5, 2019
And speaking of “if he’s still there”, a fellow from class conscious had stopped by the Café and asked for my e-address, then had emailed me some links, and if I have it right, we’re able to click into this page: https://freepressday2019.wordpress.com/
to sign onto the letter of support to the MEAA, or sign up for may 3 actions in support of Assange and Manning
at the bottom it says:
Contact: worldpressfreedomday@protonmail.com to endorse either the letter or the call out for actions on May 3
and this weird news from Hanna Jonason on Wed. April 3: “(The meeting was supposed to take place today but Ecuador failed to authorise it).”
The application itself is odd, as it has not been presented by the president in a personal capacity, but by the state, and it is not against another state, so Ecuador is effectively filing a complaint against itself. https://t.co/bnlkoFpKVm (@BellaMagnani reply has autotranslate)
— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) April 3, 2019
Ecuador's Foreign Minister initially deleted this tweet, but reposted it after CNN asked him why. It claims that Ecuador can terminate Assange's asylum unilaterally. It cannot without violating international obligations. It shows we are not in the realm of law, but of politics. https://t.co/EhvDB19Dn7
— Hanna Jonasson (@AssangeLegal) April 7, 2019

Comments
Ray McGovern and John Kiriakou
These are about an hour each, but interesting if you can listen while cleaning or busying around.
Ray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnwgQhBSEqI
John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_C92BT8Fzk
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
thanks,
i was spending my time trying to find what's on the scribd transcript. i've found some of it in the funniest way; see below.
It's simple sista
sorry,
amigo; i couldn't make out the lyrics once i got it to play.
curious as to who or what
‘Anonymous Cf4jDCM’ might be, i'd stuck it into a bing engine, and lo and behold got one hit: ‘EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Assange Court Transcript Sheds Light on US-Backed Ecuadorian Expulsion Plans’, thegatewaypundit.com, Cassandra Fairbanks, April 6, 2019
“Journalists and media were banned from recording the proceedings, but a court record was later obtained through legal process and provided to The Gateway Pundit. It has never before been revealed.
by my lights, he has it right about his publishing the CIA vaults 7 and 8; i'd kinda thought that may have been when the Intercept 'fearless journalists' had turned on julian as well.
i'll go read some more of the transcript, and good on cassandra.
ack; i'm havin' a hella time
bringing more, as when i copy past it into my word doc, the text goes all gobbledy-gook with weird symbols like this:
Q believers
It's really eye opening to read the comments below the Gateway Pundit article. There are quite a few Trump true-believers there, nearly all of whom support Assange. They are begging Trump to intervene on behalf of Assange, not realizing somehow that it's the Trump administration who is now responsible for the tremendous danger Assange faces. I got the impression that many of them are believers in the Q tales, also.
dunno Q,
my friend, but i'll tune into cassandra's comments in the morn, okay? thanks for reading and caring. we'll see what tomorrow may bring.
Raúl Ilargi Meijer who runs the blog “Automatic Earth”
— a serious commentator and news aggregator, not right-wing or crackpottish by any means — also makes the case that intervening on the side of Julian Assange (and Ed Snowden and Chelsea Manning) would actually be one of the strongest moves Trump as POTUS could make in his own interest.
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2019/04/warning-mr-trump/
thank you for bringing
ilargi's letter, amiga. i agree with the commenters noting how great that particular picasso painting was representational.
a commenter at the café borrowed some bits from this very lengthy and estimable narrative: 'The Psychology Of Getting Julian Assange, Part 1: What’s Torture Got To Do With It? ‘, Dr Lissa Johnson on February 19, 2019, newmatilda.com
he'd used portions from her 'Trust, vulnerability and the Cyber Counter-intelligence Assessment Branch of the US Defense Department' section. holy crow, she has four more parts as well. oy.
comments were all over
the place, but the peep who'd advised assange to name seth rich as the source of the insider downloaded emails was...er...crazy! ; )
What were the democrats afraid of learning from Assange?
Did anyone run this idea by Trump or were there others that refused to consider the deal? Our, Comey and Warner I can understand not wanting it to happen, but I bet that Bolton and Pompeo didn't either. Bolton's very possessive of any records of his or ours war crimes.
If Assange does get extradited then I hope Wikileaks shows its insurance policy and that it's a doozy.
I feel like I’m riding in the backseat of a '66 Thunderbird with Thelma at the wheel and Louise riding shotgun
i'd utterly forgotten about
warner's announcing the 'stand-down' order. there's no way julian would become a hacktivist for the US gummnit, imo, if that's what the anchor'd been suggesting.
thanks for bringing that.
oh, and i dug out the long
version from ray mcgovern at mintpress news, and he got his info via john solomon at...the hill. how very complicated it all is when anonymous sources are quoted.
‘Did James Comey and Senator Mark Warner ‘Collude’ on #Russiagate “; The U.S. was in talks for a deal with Julian Assange but then FBI Director James Comey ordered an end to negotiations after Assange offered to prove Russia was not involved in the DNC leak, as Ray McGovern explains.’, by Ray McGovern, mint press news
i gave up on the scribd document
after trying 3 different browsers, and went and baked my cakes.
i did go back to wikileaks from yesterday and fond this: 'THE “ASSANGE PRECEDENT”: THE THREAT TO THE MEDIA POSED BY THE TRUMPADMINISTRATION’S PROSECUTION OF JULIAN ASSANGE, March 2019 (misleading title, imo), but the pdf is also dated March 2019
now the Trump adminitration could include pence, bolton, pompeo as well...
Trump acquiesces to his henchmen
Best I can tell, when it comes to foreign policy or intelligence matters, Bolton and Pompeo ARE the administration.
Who knows what Trump actually thinks, as I believe Bolton and Pompeo do his FP thinking for him. Trump is lazy ... which I suppose is giving him credit for not being stupid although he may be that, too.
you may be correct,
buster keaton. as i understand it, even his military acts independently of his Tweeted FP.
closing time already for me,
i need a PBS film break. let this peter tosh cover be a lullaby for chelsea and julian, both of whom must be scared witless at this point. hope they can hear it thru the noosphere...somehow, like the power of butterfly winds beating...in concert. g' night.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyX82K7CgoE]
although wikileaks had shown a video last
night: 'VIDEO from just now: four plainclothes men in car outside Ecuadorian embassy with motor running and wheel spot', this from this a.m.
i kept getting bogged down over the
NYT 'truth' Kenneth P. Vogel and Nicholas Casey, Dec. 3, 2018" that paul manafort had offered to trade assange to moreno for debt relief for ecuador. i'd brought the telesur english version on my last assange diary, but when i'd stuck the terms into a binb engine this a.m. i did manage to get in via private window, and here are some of the weasel word passages inside:
the diplomatic post in russia link leading to the guardian, by luke harding & friends. all of it sounds like bullshit to me. their incentive? get trump via mueller but pretend not to? your guesses are likely better than mine.
comrade x at the café
pointed me to trnn for agreement from:
FIDEL NARVAEZ: This story about Manafort meeting with Lenin Moreno is true. It is not a secret. It was reported normally and immediately. Mr. Moreno met with many people before he took presidency. When they met, Moreno was not president yet; he was president-elect, apparently. And this is true, and the sources that the Guardian is using for the fabrications immediately starting [inaudible]brating connections between Manafort and WikiLeaks or Assange on nonsenses. The reports that we have is that it was Moreno who put Assange on the table in that meeting with Manafort. According to the reports that we have, Manafort just basically listened. Moreno doesn’t want to have Assange at the embassy. He never wanted. Not even when he was vice president of Correa.
so...maybe so.
yeah, bolton, pompeo had said they'd do worse, but:
an addition to a dead thread.