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U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors may bring charges against WikiLeaks and Julian Assange soon:
Two media reports say U.S. prosecutors are preparing or closely considering charges against the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, including its founder Julian Assange, for revealing sensitive government secrets. CNN (http://cnn.it/2pINsBT) reported Thursday that authorities are preparing to seek Assange's arrest. The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/2pJgy4k) reported prosecutors are weighing charges against the organization's members after the Obama-era Justice Department declined to do so.
Possible charges include conspiracy, theft of government property and violating the Espionage Act, the newspaper said, though any charges would need approval from high-ranking officials in the Justice Department. The move comes after WikiLeaks last month released nearly 8,000 documents that it says reveal secrets about the CIA's cyberespionage tools for breaking into computers, cellphones and even smart TVs. It previously published 250,000 State Department cables and embarrassed the U.S. military with hundreds of thousands of logs from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @12:20PM (6 children)
King Orange Ferret Pelt will denounce anything wikileaks says about him, and his followers & the US Congress will not care. "Fake News" is now the official sign to staple to your ass when you are ostriching* to avoid reality.
* yes, I verbed ostrich
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 22 2017, @01:03PM (5 children)
You two sound like a couple of salty nignogs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @02:30PM
And you routinely sound like a racist piece of crap, point?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:37PM (1 child)
People acting like that literally got Trump elected by associating with the opposition. I warned them all it was happening a year ago but they just continued on spewing their drivel... so dumb. I joke sometimes that they are a false flag operation being paid by Trump somehow.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @06:04PM
They are Russians, it is in their own interest! Gotta secure their spot in the global economy once oil collapses...
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @07:20PM
Looks like they managed to trigger the white nigger. Then again, it doesn't take much to trigger a lying degenerate lowlife such as yourself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @01:03AM
Nignog? Interesting. My brother and I used to use that phrase way back as a silly term to refer to each other when trying to be annoying. I suppose it rhymes and is generic enough but still... And yes, we meant it as a reference to niggers.