Julian Assange Plea deal reached. Feds will accept the 5 years spent fighting extradition in lieu of detention in the United States.
(www.cnbc.com)
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I am not buying this as it is reported. Taking a plea deal is going to be a HUGE blow to independent journalism. Infact, independent journalism will end with this as precedent.
That said, if there is indeed a plan for him to be free - that means we are very close to the precipice.
If Assange pleads guilty in the US, will you accept it then?
I don't think journalism will be affected. He wasn't charged because he published info.
Journalism survived this case.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/british-newspaper-editor-sentenced-for-phone-hacking-scandal
That case has nothing to do with real journalism. We are not talking about illegally hacking into people's data, but allowing carefully whetted whistleblowers who have exhausted official channels, to leak the bare minimum information necessary to wake the public up.
That's not what happened in this case.
And doesn't wikileaks by its own standards do zero vetting of whistleblowers? They say that the material is completely uploaded anonymously. So how could they vet who the who the people are??
They might try to verify the material and see if it looks like it's legit documents but, supposedly they have no idea who the people uploading the documents are.
Assange was charged with hacking. The doj said in the Manning case that Assange was not just a publisher who received the material and published it. They are saying that Assange actively helped Manning get the material. That's why this was a criminal case
He was charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion (i.e. hacking into a government computer),
He later was charged with conspiring with Manning to obtain national defense information.
A later Indictment said he participated in the lulzsec and Anonymous hacking cases.
A hacker who steals information is violating the law even if they are doing it as a form or protest or civil disobedience.
A journalist who receives that info can publish it and is protected is the US system.
However if the reporter helps in the hacking that is not journalism and they can be prosecuted.
Assange will have agreed to a "criminal information" statement that lists the facts of the case.
Let's see what that says.
You have completely gobbled up mainstream propaganda.
This ties up to Seth Rich, who was the person who uploaded the DNC emails to wikileaks and got murdered by MS-13 assets.
One of the reasons they desperately shut Assange down was to ensure he wont confirm the identity of the uploader.
Many people including Bill Binney who is ex-NSA and a whistleblower himself, confirmed from the timestampts that the files were not transmitted over the Internet but rather copied directly via a hard drive.
There is a lot you can dig here, and multiple Q posts as well.
Here is one to get started. You can search keywords yourself to dig further.
u/#q1009