US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave threat to a free media

Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by levelist_com on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:30AM (#20175203)

So... let me get this straight. Youre alright with a foreign national stealing or encouraging the theft of classified US intel and publishing as long as it didnt happen on US soil? Further, youre alright with Americans being exposed and/or killed b/c of it? Because, you know, though it was a crime against the US, it was perpetrated by a foreign national of foreign soil?

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Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by Miner49er on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:39AM (#20175305)

That's beside the point. I don't think the person in that example should face charges in the U.S., no. (But maybe they should in their own country, and obviously any murderers should be brought to trial in their own country)

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Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by levelist_com on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:03AM (#20175546)

I, like the government, would disagree with you on that. Obviously youre entitled to that opinion.

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Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by crdoconnor on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:02AM (#20175540)

>Further, youre alright with Americans being exposed and/or killed b/c of it?

There's no evidence of this. Since the leaks were about embarrassing unprosecuted US military murders of civilians arguably it saved lives by driving them to be more careful.

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Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by levelist_com on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:20AM (#20175709)

There is no evidence of this that you are aware of.

>There's no evidence of this. Since the leaks were about embarrassing unprosecuted US military murders of civilians arguably it saved lives by driving them to be more careful.

this is absolute nonsense

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Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by icebraining on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:39PM (#20177041)

> There is no evidence of this that you are aware of.

Then if the prosecutors are unable to present said evidence, should he be free to go?

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Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by darkpuma on Thursday June 13, 2019 @12:12PM (#20176239)

Is there evidence that you are aware of?

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Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by levelist_com on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:40PM (#20177050)

Does there need to be? No. An E-3 isn't in the position to know whether it will or won't and its pretty fucking arrogant to assume that risk. Do you know that it saved lives? No you don't. You couldnt, and whether it did or did not, it wasn't Manning's call to make.

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Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by darkpuma on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:17PM (#20177796)

That's what I figured. Not all of us are American sycophants, so yes, more than the word and reputation of the American military is needed.

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