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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by rootusrootus on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:36PM (#19996706)
Manning hasn't really been jailed forever. She had her sentence commuted, and the recent legal trouble she finds herself in is entirely of her own creation, no?

IMO both Manning and Snowden have the weakest legal arguments, and Assange the strongest. I would personally have advised him to avoid taking sides in US politics, but he wasn't asking my opinion :). Playing in the big pond as a small fish is a dangerous game.

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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by scotty79 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @07:53PM (#19997182)
> recent legal trouble she finds herself in is entirely of her own creation, no?

Only in a sense of "Stop hitting yourself!".

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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by rootusrootus on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:41AM (#19998540)
Admittedly I'm not keeping close tabs on the case, but isn't the issue contempt of court? Could she stop the legal trouble by agreeing to testify?
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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by scotty79 on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:12AM (#19999495)
"We don't say you commited any crime but either you speak or we'll hold you jailed indefinitely."

That doesn't sound like a first world democratic country. Yet it is.

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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by lmm on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:38AM (#20000806)
On the contrary, it's perfectly normal in much of the first world. You are required to testify and jailed in contempt if you don't. The 5th is a US peculiarity.
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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by scotty79 on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:58AM (#20002859)
Jailed indefinitely?

In my country it's 30 days tops. Not sure if you can be sentenced more than once for the same thing.

Also you can refuse to answer any question that might incriminate you, your family or your loved one without any punishment.

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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by lmm on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:07PM (#20002950)
Yes, that's how contempt of court tends to work: you are jailed until you do the thing the court demands.
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Re:Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amend... by alexis_read on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:48AM (#19999370)
I believe it's to testify against Assange, which she has decided not to do as Assange's case is a legal grey area to say the least.

I wouldn't say it's Manning's choice so much as a 'testify if you want to get out' Hobson's choice.

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