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posted by martyb on Thursday January 24 2019, @05:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-looking-at-ME? dept.

U.S. ramping up probe against Julian Assange, WikiLeaks says

American federal prosecutors have been pressing witnesses in the U.S. and abroad to testify against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, WikiLeaks says, offering further evidence that the Justice Department is building a criminal case against the man who leaked Democratic emails hacked by the Russians in the 2016 election.

In a new submission to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, based in Washington, WikiLeaks is urging the Justice Department to unseal the charges that appear to have been secretly filed against Assange in the Eastern District of Virginia. A mistake in a Justice Department court filing in November inadvertently suggested the existence of those charges.

Previously: Inadvertent Court Filing Suggests that the U.S. DoJ is Preparing to Indict Julian Assange


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:33AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @06:33AM (#791091)

    Only it isn't the Russkis, it's the swine who are in power in the US.

    I'm a US citizen. My country is a mess that is overflowing with evil at the highest levels of its government, and it sickens me.

    Honestly, stuff like secret charges smacks of EXACTLY the sort of stuff we were told was done in countries like the USSR, back when we were all supposed to believe the Soviets were the evil ones.

    Increasingly it looks like the good old USA is the most evil country in the world. We send troops all over the world to protect US corporate interests ( don't try to
    feed me any bullshit about needing to fight against Islam, I know better ) and here at home in the US we are tracked and monitored exactly as we would be if we lived in a totalitarian state. Oddly enough ALL this stuff has gone on whether Obama was president or Trump was president. Why is that ? Because the president is just a figurehead and the real power is held by people whose names won't be seen in the news.

    It's hard to know who the real terrorists even are. The US kills innocent people with drone strikes. The "enemy" kills innocent people with suicide bombs. Frankly I think the only real difference between the two sides is that one side is better funded and has access to weapons which use much more advanced technology. But I lived through Viet Nam and I know that technology won't win a war when the other side is committed like the Vietnamese were or the Afghans are.

    Where is this all leading ? Supposedly the "good guys" won WWII. But having observed the behavior of the "good guys" over the past half century, I don't believe the good guys are good at all. The US has become the evil empire of the world. It's god damned depressing to be a citizen in a country which conducts itself in such a shameful manner.

    And now the US wants to go after Assange, long after any damage Assange MAY have done has had whatever effect it is going to have. Why are they going after Assange ? To make sure EVERYONE ELSE knows that if you try to expose the truth, you will pay dearly.

    America, home of the brave and land of the free ? Bullshit. The mere pretense that the US is free is enough to make me and anyone else who is paying attention puke.

    Any of you idiots who want to call me "un-American" can go fuck yourselves. I know how things really are and if you don't that doesn't mean you know better, it means you're just an ignorant stupid schmuck, like most Americans are. So shut the fuck up and go watch your TV or play your video games, you fucking sheep.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by exaeta on Thursday January 24 2019, @07:44AM (1 child)

    by exaeta (6957) on Thursday January 24 2019, @07:44AM (#791128) Homepage Journal

    Who are these heads of state whose names thou shalt not speak. He who must not be named? Waiting, you can post anonymous. And go ahead and use tor while you're at it.

    Is it Voldemort running the USA? Let me know.

    --
    The Government is a Bird
    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Freeman on Thursday January 24 2019, @05:58PM

      by Freeman (732) on Thursday January 24 2019, @05:58PM (#791328) Journal

      Obviously, you saw the wrong movie or read the wrong book. Mystique is the current president.

      --
      Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Thursday January 24 2019, @08:15AM (3 children)

    by looorg (578) on Thursday January 24 2019, @08:15AM (#791136)

    If this was soviet-style they would just disappear him during the night and then erase him from the books, as bad as one might imagine it to be it's not really quite there just yet.

    That said it does appear like somewhat of a slip up if you are building a secret case and then sort just happen to submit the paperwork wrong, either that or there is some clerk that just really fucked up (but are they not all supposed to be on unpaid leave at the moment due to the whole wall-budget-thingy?).

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @09:08AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @09:08AM (#791148)

      Why do they need a secret court and secret case? Because obviously what they are doing is not sun shine proof. Shady shit, population would revolt and other nations would crucify them.

      This is just as bad as the soviet mock trials. One could even argue this is worse.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @04:29PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @04:29PM (#791278)

      "If this was soviet-style they would just disappear him during the night"

      -

      WRONG.

      This is how the Soviets do it :

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko [wikipedia.org]

      • (Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday January 24 2019, @05:44PM

        by looorg (578) on Thursday January 24 2019, @05:44PM (#791319)

        Indeed. Wrong. That is how the new Russia does it. The soviet union collapsed in 1991, so about 15 years or so before the poisoning of Litvinenko. That said I was more referring to how people just disappeared in the night and then never heard of again and the very interesting system they had of just removing people from history, mostly from books and images (masterfully so done in a world pre-photoshop) after they had fallen from the parties grace.

        https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-photo-book-that-captured-how-the-soviet-regime-made-the-truth-disappear [newyorker.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @07:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @07:11PM (#791385)

    ( don't try to feed me any bullshit about needing to fight against Islam, I know better ) and here at home in the US we are tracked and monitored exactly as we would be if we lived in a totalitarian state.

    these things are directly related [wnd.com]