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Re:Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment by ralph84 on Saturday June 26, 2021 @02:23PM (#27644454)
Lol no. The reason there is not as much damaging information leaked from dictatorships, is because any leakers are guaranteed to be executed. Reality Winner and Chelsea Manning would have been executed after a 30 minute show trial in a dictatorship.
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Re:Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment by dragonwriter on Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:30PM (#27645019)
> Reality Winner and Chelsea Manning would have been executed after a 30 minute show trial in a dictatorship.

And Snowden, having escaped overseas but not being particularly hidden, would have had an encounter with some kind of nerve agent delivered by someone totally unconnected to the government he had leaked info from.

None of which endorses the US treatment of any of them.

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Re:Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment by johnchristopher on Saturday June 26, 2021 @02:28PM (#27644518)
That's not in contradiction of what I wrote. By their very nature transparent and healthy democracies have a larger surface attacks for leaks than dictatorships.
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