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• • Re: (Score:2)

    by Luckyo ( 1726890 ) writes:

    How do you explain the fact that it’s the exact same thing in PRC but to a much greater degree?
• This is odd as they did (Score:2)

  by 3seas ( 184403 ) writes:

  bust the guy who leaked them…. go figure. Truth be known they are probably respecting the journalist side of Wikileaks in this.
• • Re: (Score:2)

    by DamnOregonian ( 963763 ) writes:

    Well, that’s a legitimate question of course.
    The answer to it is: If a U.S. woman were to violate a law in Saudi Arabia, or a place where its rules had jurisdiction, then she would be culpable (in their eyes) to the consequences. Most countries work this way.

    Back to Assange- what has he done to violate U.S. law in a place where the U.S. has jurisdiction? I too was curious about this, so of course I tried to figure it out.
    Initially, they were hitting him with Conspiracy to Commit Computer Intrusion, unde
  • We don’t really have the rule of law. (Score:1)

    by Grog6 ( 85859 ) writes:

    We have a political system that allows any abuse to the individual, as long as they’re not republican.

    It’s pretty obvious by now that the Russians were involved in the Republican party back when Gingerich was in charge; look at what they did.

    They prosecuted Clinton for a blowjob; Cheeto says “Grab ’em by the Pussy”, and gets elected by the religious right.

    Trump has Broken at least 3 commandments, but gay people are evil because of one line speaking about Sodom.

    It all makes sense when you look at Mitch Mconn
• No charges for torture… (Score:5, Interesting)

  by acroyear ( 5882 ) writes: <jws-slashdot@javaclientcookbook.net> on Sunday June 02, 2019 @07:29PM (#58697274) Homepage Journal

  …and this why. This is the very situation that caused Obama to not choose to charge any Bush officials over the approval and actions of torture signed off by Woo and carried out by the CIA and the military. To do so would have had to connect all the dots between the senior Bush officials and the perpetrators of the waterboarding etc. EVERY dot.

  That would have exposed multiple CIA agents and multiple CIA ‘cover’ companies throughout the world, and basically put a halt to the CIA’s operations for years, possibly forever.

  Now you can, of course, decide for yourself if that would be a good thing, but clearly to the US Government under Obama, it was considered a risk not worth taking.

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  • Re: (Score:2)

    by davecb ( 6526 ) writes:

    In the TV show “The West Wing”, the very democratic president Josiah Bartlet said that “we are the war criminals”… Probably in https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0… [imdb.com]
• Lol (Score:2)

  by ArchieBunker ( 132337 ) writes:

  95% of the comments here are nazi spam.
• There was an ulterior motive (Score:2)

  by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) writes:

  Trump just wanted to meet the guy, shake his hand and say “thank you”.
• • • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward writes:

      The US has no jurisdiction over acts that take place on foreign soil. US Law does not apply outside of her borders.
• Imbeciles in charge. (Score:5, Interesting)

  by Gravis Zero ( 934156 ) writes: on Sunday June 02, 2019 @08:12PM (#58697464)

  Honestly, this has been the most foolish endeavor. First, they oust Assange from his own self-imprisonment to extradite him and now that they can… they won’t. Regardless of how your feel about Assange, I believe we can agree that the US government inadvertently went through a lot of effort to free Assange from his own indefinite detention. He’ll do a brief stint in prison in the UK and the case in Sweden is likely to unravel. However, they just confirmed he has nothing to fear from the US government. What a fuck up.

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• Motive (Score:2)

  by Livius ( 318358 ) writes:

  I think this means that when Assange is assassinated, the US will just say, “Of course we didn’t do it! We weren’t even going to charge him with anything all that serious, so we clearly didn’t care that much!”
• To protect secrets (Score:1)

  by Iamthecheese ( 1264298 ) writes:

  This has absolutely nothing to do with manning’s refusal to testify [washingtonpost.com]. Nothing at all. And of course this means the US is dropping the dozens of other charges. Right?
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