Re:Julian Assange Got What He Deserved
by colejohnson66 on Friday April 12, 2019 @06:59PM
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> Well, let's see, one of them went to Russia, the other didn't.
Ah, the old “Snowden fled to Russia” trope. That’s false. He was in Russia when the US canceled his passport. As a consequence of that, he was unable to leave Russia.
Re:Julian Assange Got What He Deserved
by votepaunchy on Friday April 12, 2019 @07:20PM
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Assange was granted Ecuadorian citizenship. Since Snowden was destined for Ecuador he likely could have requested the same.
And might well have been granted it. But he couldn't teleport there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
I've heard this too, looking for reputable source....
It was a very, very, very well covered story at the time: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/24/edward-... (if you don't like USA Today, which was just the top news source listed in my search results, just poke around for 'snowden airport' around the same time period in your preferred news outlet's archives)
Thanks, I was younger and not as interested in world news at the time.
> one of them went to Russia, the other didn't
i really don't understand how this can possibly be seen as some kind of knock-down argument by some. what gives? are people being intellectually dishonest?
Well, let's see, one of them went to Russia, the other didn't. Who is closer to being "blameless"? And I thought that collusion with Russia is something that people are somewhat concerned about, lately.
Also, why are you saying that Assange never made any attempt to crack that password? Why then would he ever want to actively mislead Manning by suggesting otherwise? That's a really fanciful scenario.