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Julian Assange’s Indictment Has Nothing to Do With Journalism but a Lot to Do With a Cover Up

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Last week, in a scene that looked a lot like British cops taking into custody the Lucky Charms leprechaun, Julian Assange, the public face of Wikileaks, was evicted from the Ecuadoran embassy in London as an indictment was unsealed against him in the United States.

There were a lot of rather predictable howls from the usual people over what this means for journalists (Narrator: But Julian Assange is not and never has been a journalist). For instance, this is Glenn Greenwald in The Intercept: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S INDICTMENT OF JULIAN ASSANGE POSES GRAVE THREATS TO PRESS FREEDOM.

This is partially correct though the extrapolation is bullsh** on stilts. Being a journalist does not give you a get out of jail free card for engaging in a criminal conspiracy. The indictment has nothing to say about Wikileaks obtaining stolen classified information from Bradley Manning and publishing it and possibly causing the death of HUMINT sources. Assange was indicted for encouraging Manning to violate federal law and steal information classified as SECRET. In fact, the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press did a legal analysis and were left scratching their heads:

My first thought on seeing the indictment was that it was some thin sauce. For years, the FBI and intelligence community have portrayed Assange as Satan incarnate. Now he’s indicted for essentially jaywalking. As Wikileaks was involved in some of the email leaks that were widely used in the media and by CNN as evidence of “collusion” between Russia and the Trump campaign, why wasn’t Assange indicted by Mueller rather than Russian intelligence officers who may or may not exist and at least one Russian company that did not exist? Mueller’s charter was certainly expansive enough to nail Paul Manafort for tax fraud, why didn’t he hammer Assange and Wikileaks. Indeed, the things that are missing from Mueller’s indictments, when those indictments are laid side by side with the frantic panting we saw in the media over the last two years, are rather staggering. That meeting at Trump Tower? Not even the godless Russians were indicted. Those meetings with the Russian ambassador? Not a whisper? And despite the brainless bleating about Trump encouraging Russia to hack Clinton’s emails (SPOILER ALERT: they have those emails along with the rest of the contents of her hillbilly server), there was never an indictment for that.

National Review’s Andy McCarthy has some thoughts on the events. Pay attention.

We know that Assange wanted Russia to provide materials to Wikileaks to help Bernie Sanders:

This was much stronger evidence of potential collusion than anything ever revealed about Trump, and given Sanders’s background as an actual communist, why wasn’t this investigated?

The charges are minor and seem to be beyond the statute of limitations:

Figure that one out. We have a criminal mastermind in our clutches and all we charge him with is something that doesn’t carry jail time and may not be prosecutable.

McCarthy concludes that this indictment is basically playing to the cheap seats at The Bulwark. Assange gets indicted and maybe extradited but the real objective is protecting the Mueller investigation.

In short, Mueller would have exactly the same problem that his overreach has created with the indictment of Concord Management where his legal eagles are getting the ass handed to them by a defendant who actually showed up, via counsel, to contest the charges.

That is certainly one interpretation. But what if a trial on the hacking of Hillary’s emails could reveal something that the architects of the collusion hoax know about but would rather the rest of us didn’t?

Over and over, this story has looked a lot like a John LeCarre novel acted out by the Keystone Cops. It is difficult to believe that after the time and energy Comey and Brennan spent on demonizing Assange that the decision to let him go was made innocently or even with the intention of helping the Muller indictments look more than the politically driven crap that they are.

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    • Canderson

      I despise all them goons that apprehended Mr. Assange; you are in need of the a totalitarian system you push for; to get your gratitude; a bullet between your eyes.

    • Canderson

      About Assange, why was he not allowed to shave; but allowed to dye bleach his hair?

      • Canderson

        He is not born blonde; and he is not old enough to have a totally white beard either; them secret societies again.

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