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A comment on Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecution.

Re:Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecu... by stevenjgarner on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @12:35PM (#37394237)
Not to take away from Julian's plight, dare I say what about Edward Snowden?
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Re:Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecu... by Georgelemental on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @12:51PM (#37394512)
Snowden is not Australian.
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Re:Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecu... by throw3747874747 on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @03:24PM (#37396518)
Snowden is fine, he got citizenship a few months ago. He is doing contract gigs, and has some money from investments.
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Re:Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecu... by vel0city on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @04:19PM (#37397169)
Yeah, now that Snowden is a Russian citizen, when is he going to leak loads of Russian state secrets?
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Re:Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecu... by jstarfish on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @06:34PM (#37398728)
The plight of the whistleblower is that nobody will ever let you near anything sensitive again.
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Re:Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecu... by drt5b7j on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @05:56AM (#37403133)
What a dishonest thing to say.

Even if you're willing to leak secrets, you have first to find yourself in the position to have access to the secrets. As a leaker, it's extremely unlikely that Snowden will ever find himself in that situation a second time. You know this, and yet you pretend that you're making a point.

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