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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: 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]

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