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Re:CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach ... by emilsedgh on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:38PM (#30692869)
You don't need hypothetical Tucker Carlson situations in a world where Julian Assange and Ed Snowden are alive.

I live in the US now but I come from a third world country (Iran) where such atrocities are commonplace. And let me tell you. What is happening to Assange shows that when it matters, the intelligence community is above the law and not that different from those bizarre authoritarian regimes. It's just that their propaganda machine is just more successful at "spinning the stories" and making people believe Ed Snowden and Julian Assange are anything but heroes.

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Re:CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach ... by cryptonector on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @07:35PM (#30693367)
Snowden was a government employee, so he's not as good an example as Assange, but otherwise, yes, I agree. The point about Carlson is that things are getting dicier now -- not that it's surprising, mind you. I don't mean that I care more about Carlson than Assange -- I mean that what is being threatened regarding Carlson is much beyond what was done to Assange.
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