Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
by rhino369 on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:45PM
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To play devil's advocate, there is at least some value in US diplomatic cables being secret. It allows our diplomats to pass around honest impression and sensitive information back to our government.
If all diplomatic channels were transparent, diplomats would treat it like a twitter account. If the US's Saudi Ambassador thought the Saudi leadership was unstable, they'd never write that in a cable if it was going to be released publicly.
And nobody would tell our diplomats uncomfortable truths.
Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
by jollybean on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:42PM
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"Your reply suggests that you may have been part of the institution that committed and covered up the war crimes "
Oh no, you outed me! I'm a CIA plant!
How were you able to slyly prove my complicity in war crimes from a mere comment about travelling abroad?
A testament to brilliant and rational deductive thinking and logical inference, that must prove 'America is Evil' as well of course ...
I'm sensing that you believe that this is something you think that should have been concealed from them for their own good.
>It's shocking that someone could read about Arab governments doing 'very bad things', the US government trying to stop them, and then come away with the notion that the US is the bad actor.
Collateral murder is mostly what people are condemning. Also what this extradition was all about.
It's weird that you seem to believe that the war crimes are not relevant to the discussion about whether the US is "the bad actor".
Well, perhaps not that weird. Your reply suggests that you may have been part of the institution that committed and covered up the war crimes (unless you were in tunisia for a different reason).
>Assange will have to face trial given the fact that he may have explicitly helped Manning break into systems of National Security, which is definitely illegal.
Oh yes. Exposing US war crimes IS definitely illegal - more illegal than committing them, apparently.
Just like Rosa Parks sitting at the back of a bus - that was illegal too.