So the Judge says the free-press advocates have no proof Assange has been charged when they show that a federal prosecutor has accidentally revealed that Assange has been charged.
Ooooookay.
Trump: Deep state in my administration will not help me. Putin and KGB need to have full access to all of my government to successfully defend Assange.
Assange traffics in stolen property. That he would give over all of the data hacked during the 2016 campaign for free is too foolish to consider.
“Russia, if you’re listening…”
I’m astonished that Assange, having served his function, but now just a liability, is still polonium-free.
It’s the old “I cannot confirm or deny the existence of the unsealed indictments you are requesting to be unsealed” excuse.
just seems like there’s always an election coming up ……
maybe it’s just me ….
I get the impression, however, that Assange is effectively neutered at this point, with little ability to engage in any further ratfucking. The Ecuadorians have him on a fairly short leash. When was the last time Wikileaks broke an interesting story?
no expert here …….
but I think I heard somewhere that the Russians may be nothing if not ,
patient ----
If you’re going to submit something to wikileaks today you may as well call up mueller and offer to cooperate in advance of the crime.
The judge explains the ruling here: “Although the Government acknowledges that it made a mistake … the nature of that mistake is fundamentally unclear.”
In other words, the mistake may not have been revealing the fact that Assange has been charged. The mistake could also be that the government mistakenly said he had been charged when, in fact, he had not been.
As far as Assange is concerned, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea…
The FSB has a budget, you know.
Hmmm. Follow the money or cryptocurrency with which he was compensated…
I suspect that has already been accomplished.
If I recall correctly, the name ‘Assange’ showed up more than once in that filing? Not sure. But I don’t think prosecutors randomly put names into such documents. I do agree with the Judge’s language that the nature of the Feds’ error is ‘fundamentally unclear’. That said, it is reasonable to presume that Assange is being looked at by the Feds.
If Assange is in fact charged with anything relating to his role in helping the Russians execute their election interference campaign, the Trumpers are done.
Done? I look at it like the conservation of energy sort of, Trumpers can neither be created or destroyed, once the light is shined on them they just slither back to where they cam from and assume a different identity.
On the other hand, the Sealed Indictment could be from during the W or Obama Administration. I understand and applaud the US Media and Press for actually digging for a story, something they definitely did not do at all about Donald Trump’s past, his total unfitness to serve, let alone his Russia connections. However, like the argument that Roger Stone’s arrest/take down at the customary hour of 6AM was “excessive,” I truly do not see why our Free Press gets to give Julian Assange and his Russian Handlers any advance notice of existing charges before he has been arrested and brought before the Federal Court where the sealed Indictment is waiting.
There is a lot with which to go after Assange, the NSA hack/Snowden, CIA hack, and #trumprussia. Plus he’s a raper.
Yep. And most of it pre-dates Trump-Russia and Mueller’s investigation. Although I do hope he gets indicted for his role in the Trump Russia subversion of our presidential elections. And eventually brought to justice. Or dies without ever being able to leave the London Ecuadorean Embassy. I am told he is most hated there. Especially now that Correa is no longer the President of Ecuador.