Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for DNC emails

Re:Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for... by voxic11 on Friday September 18, 2020 @11:32AM (#24518062)

> So in this case, it wasn't so much that the institutions weren't trustworthy, it's that they fell in line with pressure that started from Bush.

How does falling into line with pressure that started from Bush make them trustworthy? That is exactly the kind of failure which makes them untrustworthy.

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Re:Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for... by js2 on Friday September 18, 2020 @12:54PM (#24519100)

It depends on which institutions and what you trust them to do. Talking about the intelligence institutions, the CIA and the UN weapons inspectors, those institutions provided correct information that Bush chose to ignore.

So were the intelligence institutions trustworthy to provide good information? Yes.

Bush did an end-run around them.

Were they able to stop the U.S. from going to war? No. But that was Congress’s (and maybe the US media’s) job and certainly _those_ institutions failed.

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