Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 11

Re:Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 11 by mhh__ on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:57AM (#24504663)

The CIA storing brown people in black sites is heinous but there is a certain logic to the operation, as opposed to bumping off defectors which is purely "political". Drone strikes are an ugly solution to an awful situation (this administration is pushing the boundary's of "solution" but still - Trump bombs more than Obama & Bush combined IIRC + Soulemani )

The Russians have always been much better at espionage than the west, that's why they're bolder with these public hits.

It is indeed fuzzy

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Re:Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 11 by somesortofsystm on Monday September 21, 2020 @08:33AM (#24542533)

The destruction of Jewish businesses on Kristallnacht 'made a lot of sense' to many Germans at the time. Are you so sure you want to use this particular point to pivot your argument?

There is NO logic to violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, nor any of the myriad laws against extrajudicial killing, rendition and torture. It defies logic, unless the real intent is to foment the conditions ripe for yet more, endless war.

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Re:Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 11 by jacobush on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:46AM (#24505255)

I think drone strikes were a stupid solution the first time they killed a bunch of people who just happened to stand next to the intended target. Then they went downhill from there. (Edit: for instance going after someone based on very questionable intel.)

Also I think espionage is (and I think I agree, the Soviets were better at infiltration probably) orthogonal to bold public hits. The public hits are an intimidation tactic.

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