Probably 99 percent of what the government classifies has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with avoiding embarrassing disclosures. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:
As Assange himself tweeted in 2017, “The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security, not national security.”
So they’re really doing it. The Biden administration is really ignoring Australia’s request to end the case against Julian Assange, and they’re proceeding with their campaign to extradite a journalist for telling the truth about US war crimes.
In order to move the extradition case forward, per a British high court ruling US prosecutors needed to provide “assurances” that the US would not seek the death penalty and would not deprive Assange of his human right to free speech because of his nationality. The US provided the assurance against the death penalty (which they’d previously opposed doing), and for the free speech assurance they said only that Assange will be able to “raise and seek to rely upon” US First Amendment rights, adding, “A decision as to the applicability of the First Amendment is exclusively within the purview of the U.S. Courts.”
Which is basically just saying “I mean, you’re welcome to TRY to have free speech protections?”
Love the Free Assange memes. (h/t-makers)
Why not send him home and let AUS deal with it?
Oh, he hacked a Pentagram computer and didn’t get the Snowden bolt out fast memo in time.
What happened with Bradley Manning?
Dayam 35 years it says for revealing 700,000 documents to Wikileaks.
Holy Rus will be a safe haven in the end of the line times as a lil’ Birdy told me.
It isn’t Under Satan’s Authority.