Re:Assange case: Key witness admits he lied
by naasking on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:56AM
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> Regardless of your feelings on Assange, and regardless of your feelings on what the US had been doing in those cables, had this been a russian/chinese/british/french spy, they would have been treated far more aggressively.
Because actual espionage is working to undermine one government at the behest of another. That's not what journalists do, so the espionage charges against Assange are bullshit.
Re:Assange case: Key witness admits he lied
by partomniscient on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:59AM
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It's also clear that UK standards aren't very high.
The US want their laws to apply beyond the US to non-US citizens. They can fuck off.
Its not the same.
Regardless of your feelings on Assange, and regardless of your feelings on what the US had been doing in those cables, had this been a russian/chinese/british/french spy, they would have been treated far more aggressively.
Again, this isn't a justification, or indeed an endorsement of either Assange, or the US & UK.
but, it's clear by UK standards, Assange has a case to answer.
The moral case is entirely different, on that I am not equipped to answer.