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A comment on Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing. Parent comment

Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext... by boomboomsubban on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @11:39AM (#22357281)
The witness statement is supposed to be verified by the witness at the end of the interrogation. Editing that statement without consulting the witness is tampering, no system would save statements like that.
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Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext... by bjourne on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:08PM (#22359810)
But the statement wasn't edited... It was copy-pasted into another record, just like the mail conversation shows.

Also, in this supposed grand conspiracy to frame Assange, two crime detectives were dumb enough to leave their marks in emails available to the public, due to Offentlighetsprincipen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_public_access_to_... It makes zero sense.

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Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext... by boomboomsubban on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @06:52PM (#22361683)
The original statement was overwritten, we only have some vague references about what it says. But moving it to another record without the witness present is still tampering.

>Also, in this supposed grand conspiracy to frame Assange, two crime detectives were dumb enough to leave their marks in emails available to the public

The conspiracy was to get Assange into US custody, not frame him of a crime, and that conspiracy has been proven to he true. The allegations didn't need to be flawlessly done.

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Re:Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's ext... by brianTheDog on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:09PM (#22359831)
The FBI does that.
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