Pardon Julian Assange?

Silverfiddle Rant!

In an age of interminable titty-twisters, here's one more: Clown car conservatives are joining the Pardon Julian Assange circus.

Should President Trump pardon Julian Assage?  Here are some facts.

DoJ initially charged Assange with conspiring with Private Chelsea Manning to steal classified government documents and publish them to the world. In 2019, the US government issued an 18-count superseding indictment.

People and organizations big and small worldwide have been protesting US prosecution of Assange since the initial indictment, usually citing freedom of the press.  The US counter-argues that Assange is not a reporter and that he was in on the conspiracy to steal government secrets.

Assange is not a US citizen and does not have a security clearance, and anyway, what makes his actions any different from that of the Washington Post, NY Times, or any other news outlet that gleefully publishes purloined government secrets to advance the outlet's and the leaker's political agenda?

The crime lies with Private Chelsea Manning, a cleared US citizen who violated federal law and betrayed her nation by turning over classified information to people not authorized to receive it. Instead of doing the right thing and executing Chelsea Manning on the battlefield in Iraq, the government treated her leniently, giving her 35 years, but President Barack Obama commuted her sentence on his way out the door. 

The initial and most unambiguous charge against Assange is that he received a password hash value stolen by Manning (I laughed when the DoJ indictment called the Linux operating system used by Manning "special software.")  Assange used publicly available tools in an unsuccessful attempt to derive the password from the hash, which would have allowed Manning to continue her theft under the cloak of a different user account. 

Manning did all the work and paid for it with a grand total of four years in federal prison before Obama let her go.  

How many years should Assange get for conspiracy and attempt to crack a password?

MORE INFO:

DoJ Initial Indictment

DoJ Press release: 18-Count Superceding Indictment

Glenn Greenwald - The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom and Tyranny

Kyle Smith - The Real Reason Assange should not be Pardoned

Hacking Vs. Truth-Telling Leaks

[Note: I had another post queued up for today, but pulled it back in order to post on the matter below]

Apparently, WikiLeaks reveaeld some inconvenient truths about Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.

According to the narrative of the past few days, however, those leaks, said to have originated with Vladimir Putin — with the intent of electing Donald Trump to the Oval Office, interfered with the United States 2016 National Election.

Yesterday, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks issued this related statement (partial transcript HERE at Infidel Bloggers Alliance):


Also see Obama Didn’t Do More About Russian Hacking Because Thought Hillary Would Win, Didn’t Want Cyber War at Weasel Zippers, citing NBC News.

There is also THIS (dated December 15, 2016):

So now we find out that the CIA will not OFFICIALLY brief, and testify before the Congressional intelligence oversight committees over their intelligence on who, what and how, and if the election process was hacked in the USA.

Yesterday we have the Director of National Intelligence Clapper saying we have virtually no insight or evidence about the chain of events in which Wikileaks GOT the information they released, IN OPEN TESTIMONY....

Read the rest HERE.

The Top 100 WikiLeaks

Link to explore and an excellent resource....

Click on the green button labeled "Top 100 List" at The Top 100 Most Damaging WikiLeaks.

Vote accordingly.

Final 2016 Presidential Debate

The third and last 2016 Presidential Debate will be broadcast live tonight from the University of Nevada in Las Vegas @ 9:00 P.M., EDT.

Does this final debate really matter?

It might if there are actually undecided voters at this point — and if the mainstream media disseminated the following information 24/7 (hat tip to Virtual Mirage for the video below):


LL of Virtual Mirage reminds us of the following:

When WikiLeaks first went on-line and published information that damaged the Bush Administration, liberals cheered loudly. Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, was a hero. They're not cheering now...

Read the rest HERE.

Pastorius of Infidel Bloggers Alliance informs us:

The Washington Post has not mentioned that Hillary and her people conspired to delete emails and have them scrubbed from her servers AFTER a Federal Subpoena. They have only reported on Wikileaks that were not so damaging to Hillary.

The Washington Post and the rest of the MSM are trying to bury the incredibly damaging Wikileaks by ignoring them and colluding in an anti-Trump "Pussy" campaign.

Read the rest HERE.

💥 Wow, ZERO mention of WikiLeaks by 3 big MSM‼️Total collusion to protect Hillary‼️@realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/qZPbZdqLVM

— Trump 4 America (@america_trump) October 17, 2016

And there's this, which includes the RSVP guest list: Podesta Held Dinners For Reporters Who Would Be Covering Clinton.

Will you be watching the final Presidential debate, in part or in whole?

I haven't decided whether or not I want to spend time and energy watching any more of this election's political theater.