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You are coming from the false pretense that he didn't withhold names of informants. The leaker of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, states otherwise. He told the court that Julian did “everything possible” to redact and withhold damaging information, working with media outlets in the redaction process. He said that Assange withheld 15,000 files from the Afghan War Diary to protect names, and also requested help from the State Department and Defense Department to redact names, but the U.S. government refused to help. In the court-martial of Chelsea Manning, Ellsberg noted, the Defense Department admitted that it could not identify a single death caused by WikiLeaks publications.
Again, it wasn't just about "starting" the war... Have you read, or looked into the Afghanistan Papers? It wasn't just some initial mistake that spiraled out of control, they KNEW throughout the entire process that the war was a big failure and admitted they did not know what the fuck they were doing, but kept going regardless.
Those are the people you should be concerned about, not someone that exposed War Crimes perpetrated by these same people. It's just shifting attention off of the people that SHOULD be the ones getting locked up and put on trial.
Yeah, you could have a reckless withdrawal tha gets 13 US troops killed and hands the country to the Taliban with a new $7 billion supply of military weapons.
How many are in prison for that?
Lefties were in favor of Assange and only hate him now because you're mad Hillary lost.
was it a lieI'm old enough to remember when it was discovered that WikiLeaks was being hosted on Russian servers.
There is footage of him personally being a big douche out there. You don't have to take anyone's word for it.Character assassination against Assange is to be expected. How much is true or false will be tough to know, but for sure character assassination is to be expected. People want to hold Assange's feet to the fire more than they want to see Bush and his inner circle punished for their illegal wars of aggression. At least their was a little blowback against that TV show host, her name escapes me, the lesbian bully one, when she cozied up to Dubya.
Fox news did the same thing with Trump.CNN giving the answers to Hillary
QFT - I guarantee if wiki leaks published something damning on Trump, none of them would be whining ITT.Lefties were in favor of Assange and only hate him now because you're mad Hillary lost.
Well, he won't even release the RNC emails, so...QFT - I guarantee if wikileak leaks published something damning on Trump, none of them would be whining ITT.
1. The informants were working with the U.S. Do you think they were bad, and their lives expendable, because they didn't show sufficient loyalty to ... the Taliban?Some serious neo-mccarthyist sperging going on ITT lmao
Assange sacrificed over a decade of his life to expose imperialism burning the world but actually he's the bad guy because the volunteer foot soldiers of said imperialism and some traitor informants might be endangered. Can't make this stuff up.
Some serious neo-mccarthyist sperging going on ITT lmao
Assange sacrificed over a decade of his life to expose imperialism burning the world but actually he's the bad guy because the volunteer foot soldiers of said imperialism and some traitor informants might be endangered. Can't make this stuff up.
I have a hard time believing he had something juicy on Trump/GOP and held on to it to protect them. And even if he was protecting certain people (highly unlikely) that doesn't mean he deserves to be treated the way he was.Well, he won't even release the RNC emails, so...
Breaking news: The more you act like an asshole, the more people will start to think you're an asshole. Why is this a gotcha in Covfefe Land?
Many people were saying complimentary things about Game of Thrones before Season 8 came out. Then they changed their tune. New episodes came out, and they reevaluated the show. That's not unfair.
It's not highly unlikely; instead, it's highly obvious he's protecting someone like Putin and has been paid by him. I mean...it's right out in the open.I have a hard time believing he had something juicy on Trump/GOP and held on to it to protect them. And even if he was protecting certain people (highly unlikely) that doesn't mean he deserves to be treated the way he was.