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    From https://cuencahighlife.com/moreno-cl...rreas-blessing

    Moreno claims that Assange ran ‘espionage agency’ from embassy with Correa’s blessing
    18 April, 2019

    President Lenin Moreno claims that Julian Assange was operating an “international espionage and computer terrorism center” in Ecuador’s British embassy. In a Wednesday interview with the BBC, Moreno also insists that former president Rafael Correa had full knowledge of Assange’s covert activities and allowed them to continue.


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    President Lenin Moreno “During most of the previous administration, Julian Assange was able to conduct the work of WikiLeaks from the embassy with no interference and with full knowledge of officials,” Moreno said. “This was in clear violation of his agreement to observe behavior compatible with the will of the Ecuadorian government.”

    In another interview Wednesday, Moreno claimed that the press was emphasizing Assange’s disruptive behavior and poor hygiene as the reason for his expulsion from the embassy last week. “We made clear that this was only one of the reasons for our decision to end his asylum,” Moreno said. “The more important reasons were his interference in the affairs of other countries. From the beginning, he was warned against this and he ignored the warnings.”

    According to Moreno, Correa personally advised Assange to end his “illegal” work. “This happened in the case of his [Assange’s] support of the Catalonian rebellion as well as with interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”

    Moreno disputed WikiLeaks’ claim that Assange was not in control of the group’s activity during his asylum. “This is not true and we have clear evidence that he continued to operate the organization and the previous government was complicit in allowing this to happen.”

    The president added that Ecuadorian government agencies have suffered 50 to 60 million internet hacking attempts since Assange left the embassy. “Obviously, WikiLeaks and its criminal supporters are hard at work to punish Ecuador for its decision. Fortunately, most of their attempts have not been successful.

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    Moreno bears the appearance of a man who is trapped in his choices. Just my impression of the photograph of him (prior post).
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    THE DESTRUCTION OF JULIAN ASSANGE. Richard Dolan: The Big Picture.
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    "Julian Assange is one of the most important journalists in history. The information that has been revealed via Wikileaks has become part of humanity's shared heritage of freedom of information. His organization's track record of accuracy has been impeccable, far more accurate than the dishonest legacy/corporate/mainstream/establishment media has ever been. For this reason, Assange has been in the crosshairs of the American national security state for a long time. Now it appears they have him. This is one more battle in the long war to roll back the freedom of information people have won since the creation of the Internet. "

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    You guys should check out what the Mueller report says about Assange and Wikileaks.

    Page 58, which is almost entirely redacted, says the following:

    Quote On October 7, 2016, four days after the Assange press conferece [REDACTED], the Washington Post published an Access Hollywood video that captured comments by candidate Trump some years earlier and that was expected to adversely affect the Campaign. Less than an hour after the video's publication, WikiLeaks released the first set of emails stolen by the GRU from the account of Clinton Campaign chairman John Podesta.
    Almost the entire rest of the page is redacted with "Harm to Ongoing Matter" cited as the reason for redaction. That means legal action is still being pursued in regards to Wikileaks' role in the 2016 election. And Mueller's report is alleging that Russia was the source of Podesta's emails.

    That means that, regardless of Trump, Mueller's investigation is targeting Wikileaks-related interference in the 2016 election as if it is equivalent to Russian interference, and accusing Wikileaks of releasing emails "stolen" by the Russian GRU.

    If and when Assange is extradited to the US, he may very well have additional charges filed against him from Mueller's investigation, and be forced to testify in a court of law in regards to this issue. The redactions and their explanation ("harm to ongoing matter") support this idea.


    Edit: I confused the DNC emails with Podesta's emails. Assange basically already told us that the DNC emails came from Seth Rich, but I'm not sure if a specific source for Podesta's emails was ever given.
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    Roger Waters from Pink Floyd says the world must focus on Julian Assange arrest.

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    Quote Posted by Philippe (here)
    Whereas the analysis of the Hillary Clinton doubles was very impressive, I think it is better to conclude that it is Assange that was taken out of the Ecuadorian embassy. And like investigative journalist Jim Stone admit to "eating crow" ( I regulary learn new english expressions :-) ) for heralding since years that Assange is dead.
    Jim Stone is at it again saying Assange may have been abducted, drugged and brainwashed October 16/17 2016. And put back in the embassy. Where it is known that such evil techniques exist and can work depending on the mind of the victim , this theory seems farfetched again. If is apparently not true because Assange kept on reporting and voicing support for the Catalan independence fight. He should have abstained from interfering with that later cause knowing that diplomatic problems would erupt between Ecuador and Madrid if he did that from their embassy. A pity that Jim Stone goes directly to sensationalist conclusions lessening his credibility where he has such an impressive ability for technical analysis of events.

    To be complete here is a website that denies Assange called for the independence of Catalonia.
    https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/03...and-wikileaks/

    FALSE STATEMENTS AND DEFAMATIONS CONCERNING JULIAN ASSANGE AND WIKILEAKS
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    Julian Assange put through 'hell' at embassy, says former diplomat
    Fidel Narvaez says Assange was "100% respectful" but claims he suffered from a government plot to force him out.

    By Lisa Holland, senior correspondent
    https://news.sky.com/story/julian-as...lomat-11698113

    Julian Assange was always respectful but went through "hell" in the Ecuadorian embassy as officials tried to "break him down", according to a former senior diplomat.

    Fidel Narvaez worked at the London embassy for six of the seven years the WikiLeaks figurehead lived there and says they became friends.

    Assange was evicted a few weeks ago after a change of government in Ecuador.

    Its new president, Lenin Moreno, publicly criticised the whistleblower and gave the impression the government ended his stay after growing tired of his alleged bad behaviour.

    Speaking to Sky News, Fidel Narvaez disputed claims that Assange had assaulted guards, didn't clean up after himself, didn't take care of his pet cat and even smeared human excrement on the walls of the embassy.

    He said: "Julian had a respectful relationship with staff, diplomats and administrative staff. I don't recall a single incident when he disrespected someone until I left in July 2018.

    "He was 100% respectful. Clean and tidy? What is clean and tidy? Did he put the dishes in the dishwasher? Probably not at weekends. Is that a crime?"

    Mr Narvaez worked at the embassy in Knightsbridge in central London between 2010 and 2018 as consul and first secretary.

    Assange went into the embassy in June 2012 and did not leave until he was carted away by British police a few weeks ago with the agreement of the authorities in Ecuador.

    Mr Narvaez said: "The last year was hell for Julian in that embassy.

    "I was there the first months of the last year and I witnessed when Julian was told that he would no longer be allowed to have internet or access to the phone and wouldn't be able to have visitors.

    "The strategy was very clear - break him down. The government didn't know how to end the asylum and face the catastrophic historical shame for doing that."

    Mr Narvaez shared some of the photographs he had taken inside the embassy when he worked there, including the small kitchen area that Assange shared.

    The embassy is comprised of a small set of rooms and Assange had his own bedroom and also access to a shared office and working space.

    Mr Narvaez said Assange did not go to Sweden to face a rape inquiry because he feared being arrested and extradited to the United States by Britain or Sweden for exposing US government secrets via his WikiLeaks organisation.

    He has denied the allegations made in Sweden.

    Mr Narvaez said: "I consider him my friend. He's provided a big service to all of us.

    "It doesn't matter if we like him or not. It doesn't matter if he puts the dishes in the dishwasher or looks after the cat well. I stand by Julian. I believe him."

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    Quote Posted by Kryztian (here)
    Tweet from WikiLeaks (April 24) -

    Quote We confirm Julian Assange has access to his lawyers, is now speaking with them regularly and will have an in person visit in the coming days.
    Tweet.

    Stefania Maurizi from La Repubblica has interviewed the UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy, Professor Joe Cannataci, who met with Assange in prison: UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy meets Assange in prison: "I will act on the videos of Assange’s meetings in the embassy" (April 25).
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    Yanis Varoufakis on Julian Assange, Militarization, European Politics & Social Movements
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    "In this exclusive interview with bestselling author, former finance minister of Greece and the co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, Yanis Varoufakis, we talk about the case of Julian Assange. Furthermore we examine why there isn’t significant grassroots mobilization against militarization as compared to other movements around Europe and despite the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists citing it as a “extraordinary threat” to humanity . Lastly we talk about whether consumers or producers should be held account when it comes to climate change and also why people should participate in the upcoming European election."

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    WikiLeaks' Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks' jail over bail breach


    Julian Assange gestures from the window of a prison van as he is driven out of Southwark Crown Court in London on May 1, 2019.

    Quote:
    "Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks' jail for absconding while on bail, when he fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012...

    During sentencing remarks, Judge Deborah Taylor said she had taken into consideration "the seriousness of the failure to surrender, the level of culpability and the harm caused".

    She called the harm "exceptional in seriousness", saying it put the offence outside the range of "even the highest category".

    "By entering the embassy, you deliberately put yourself out of reach, whilst remaining in the UK," she said.

    "You remained there for nearly seven years, exploiting your privileged position to flout the law and advertise internationally your disdain for the law of this country."

    She said it had cost taxpayers 16 million pounds ($25.5 million) to ensure that Assange was arrested when he left the embassy.

    In a press conference, one of Assange's lawyers said "only two weeks short of a maximum sentence is an outrage".

    Assange faces extradition hearing

    On Thursday, Assange will again appear in court by video link as the US attempts to extradite him.

    Assange is charged with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to classified databases.

    In 2010, WikiLeaks released hundreds of thousands of US military reports about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and US diplomatic communications.

    The US Justice Department described it as "one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States".

    Assange faces up to five years in US prison if convicted. Assange's lawyers said they would fight the extradition attempt.

    "What is at stake there will be a question of life and death for Assange … and for major journalistic principles," one of his lawyers said in a press conference, adding that the "focus of [their] energy" would now move to fight the extradition request..."


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    So his extradition hearing will be tomorrow, at least what I have seen reported.

    So, if the US does this and trump doesnt pardon we now know absolutely for sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt that Trump is not fighting the good fight.

    Ill bet Assange will end up in Guantanamo Bay, which Trumps expansion and sending more people already told me beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is not fighting the good fight. ( If you support Guantanamo Bay staying open you belong in it)

    So trump people have a hard moment to face coming up here. This whole pathetic trump is fighting the deep state is about to be shown as the hollow nonsense it is.

    Assange is actually and has a great track record of fighting for transparency and accountability in government. Without him we would be in the dark about many atrocities of Bush and Other presidents.

    Trump has done literally nothing, in fact has helped, the Large scale agenda that whoever is running things is doing. We are still doing the plan that General laid out about the 7 countries in five years.

    Trump is moving against the very targets PNAC laid out. Currently, Right now we are doing this regime change **** in Venezuela and you are all letting trump take a pass on it like the Dems did with Libya.

    If you cared about Benghazi and were up in arms about that then and you are not up in arms about Venezuela then take a long hard look into the mirror. . .

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    The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity give their measured estimation of the case of Julian Assange and the future of whistle blowers and true journalism. The do mention a presidential pardon, after tortuous months in jail and court. I hope that pardon (ironically for doing real 1st Amendment protected journalism) is the case rather than wishful thinking.

    At this time, all things considered, it does not look so good for Assange, whistle blowers and journalism. With the removal of the Smith-Mundt Act and legalization of propaganda, true journalism may have a doubtful future.

    I DO hope I'm wrong, and that Q is trustworthy and the Q decoders are correct that Trump will step up and do the right thing.

    VIPS: Extradition of Julian Assange Threatens Us All
    April 30, 2019

    Retaliation against Julian Assange over the past decade plus replicates a pattern of ruthless political retaliation against whistleblowers, in particular those who reveal truths hidden by illegal secrecy, VIPS says.

    DATE: April 30, 2019

    MEMORANDUM FOR: The governments and people of the United Kingdom and the United States

    FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)

    SUBJECT: Extradition of Julian Assange Threatens Us All

    On April 11, London police forcibly removed WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange from the embassy of Ecuador after that country’s president, Lenin Moreno, abruptly revoked his predecessor’s grant of asylum. The United States government immediately requested Assange’s extradition for prosecution under a charge of “conspiracy to commit computer intrusion” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

    Former U.S. Government officials promptly appeared in popular media offering soothing assurances that Assange’s arrest threatens neither constitutional rights nor the practice of journalism, and major newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post fell into line.

    Not So Fast

    Others found reason for concern in the details of the indictment. Carie DeCel, a staff attorney for the Knight First Amendment Institute, noted that the indictment goes beyond simply stating the computer intrusion charge and “includes many more allegations that reach more broadly into typical journalistic practices, including communication with a source, encouraging a source to share information, and protecting a source.”

    In an analysis of the indictment’s implications, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) observed that it includes an allegation that “Assange and Manning took measures to conceal Manning as the source of the disclosure…including by removing usernames from the disclosed information and deleting chat logs between Assange and Manning,” and that they “used a special folder on a cloud drop box of WikiLeaks to transmit classified records.”

    “These are not only legitimate but professionally advised journalistic practices for source protection,” notes POGO. It is worth noting that Manning had Top Secret clearance and did not need Assange’s assistance to gain access to databases, but only to hide her identity.

    The indictment’s implied threat thus reaches beyond Assange and even beyond journalists. The threat to journalists and others does not vanish if they subsequently avoid practices identified in the government’s indictment. The NSA’s big bag of past communications offers abundant material from which to spin an indictment years later, and even circumstantial evidence can produce a conviction. Moreover, the secret landscape—a recent and arbitrary development—continually expands, making ever more of government off limits to public view.

    When politician and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo labeled WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service,” he was describing the oft-stated duty of newspapers, “to comfort the afflicted, and to afflict the comfortable.”

    The Devil in the Big Picture

    One can look so closely at the indictment details that one misses the big picture and with it vital truths. Standing back for a broader view, a long-running campaign of harassment by U.S. authorities and former officials focused on WikiLeaks’ publication of embarrassing secrets becomes visible. The Project on Government Oversight observes:

    “Even if the motives for Assange’s indictment are entirely legitimate, the litany of high-ranking government officials who called for Assange to be prosecuted for publishing classified documents have likely already irreparably harmed the freedom of the press. It will be virtually impossible to fully disentangle the government’s desire to prosecute Assange for his publishing activities from the government’s current prosecution of him, and as a result there will to some degree be an unavoidable chilling effect stemming from his prosecution.”

    Standing back still further, a crowd of similar cases comes into view: other truth tellers subjected to similar persecution. These are not journalists but another specie of truth teller — national security whistleblowerswho have warned for years that this day would come.

    A Pattern of Reprisal

    Opinions of Julian Assange’s character and methods vary wildly but what is relevant to First Amendment freedoms is how the U.S. government perceives him. The big picture reveals that Assange, a publisher of whistleblower disclosures, is viewed the same way as whistleblowers: unwelcome lights shining on official wrongdoing who must be dimmed, deflected and shut off. What government bodies are doing to Assange they routinely have done to whistleblowers— Thomas Drake, Jeffrey Sterling, John Kiriakou, Thomas Tamm, William Binney, Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea Manning and others—who disclosed for public benefit information the government finds politically troublesome.

    Once the government develops animus toward a truth teller, it fishes indefinitely until it finds some means to retaliate—some pretext to punish that individual. A pattern of retaliation against high-profile national security whistleblowers includes the following tactics:

    relentless campaigns of character assassination and misinformation about facts of the case;

    hostile, lengthy government investigations, often for minor, never proven or circumstantial offenses;

    terrorization of the whistleblower and associates with threats (see here and here), solitary confinement and armed home invasions for non-violent, alleged offenses;

    pre-trial declarations of guilt from influential officials, such as Barack Obama’s declaration (as the military’s Commander-in-Chief) that Army Private Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning “broke the law” — potentially influencing the Army court that heard her case.

    a Balkanized judicial process that restricts most such cases to onejudicial venue cherry-picked by prosecutors for speedy deference to government, a venue sealed off from public scrutiny and, some say, justice;

    prosecution under the Espionage Act, a “vague” and “draconian” law, similar in those respects to the CFAA;

    continuing persecution—isolation, marginalization, blacklisting, and more—after time has been served (see here and here) or after charges are dropped.
    Reportedly, British and U.S. intelligence are interrogating Assange, possibly employing torture tactics, without access to legal counsel at a prison reserved for terrorists. U.S. officials apparently charged Assange as “a terrorist” in order to dodge the problem of the statute of limitations for conspiracy or computer intrusion by extending (via the Patriot Act and/or other terrorism laws) the normal statute of limitations from 5 to 8 years.

    Not for Insiders

    Even if charges against a whistleblower are later dropped, governments still win because the tactics used damage the truth teller professionally, financially, socially and psychologically, and foreseeably chill other whistleblowers.

    Importantly, virtually all of the retaliatory actions described above are carried out or instigated by the elite political establishment—current and former political appointees and elected officials. Equally important is the fact that tactics used against whistleblowers are rarely if ever applied to political insiders who fail to protect classified information. Even actual spies who give or sell secrets directly to foreign governments have fared better than some well-meaning whistleblowers. In contrast to whistleblowers, political insiders who mistreat government secrets are publicly praised by the establishment, face lesser charges (if any), are treated with dignity by investigators, receive presidential pardons and move on to prestigious and lucrative positions.

    The Takeaway

    Retaliation against Julian Assange over the past decade plus replicates a pattern of ruthless political retaliationagainst whistleblowers, in particular those who reveal truths hidden by illegal secrecy. U.S. law prohibits classifying information “in order to conceal inefficiency, violations of law, or administrative error; to prevent embarrassmentto a person, organization, or agency.”

    Whether U.S. authorities successfully prosecute Assange, accept a desperate plea deal or keep him tied up with endless litigation, they will succeed in sending the same chilling message to all journalists that they send to potential whistleblowers: Do not embarrass us or we’ll punish you—somehow, someday, however long it takes. In that respect, one could say damage to journalism already has been done but the battle is not over.

    This extension of a whistleblower reprisal regime onto a publisher of disclosures poses an existential threat to all journalists and to the right of all people to speak and hear important truths. The U.S. indictment of Julian Assange tests our ability to perceive a direct threat to free speech, and tests our will to oppose that threat.Without freedom of press and the right and willingness to publish, whistleblowers even disclosing issues of grave, life and death public safety, will be like a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear.

    The great American writer Henry David Thoreau wrote, “It takes two to speak the truth–one to speak and one to hear.” Today, it takes three to speak the truth–one to speak, one to hear, and one to defend the first two in court. If the U.S. Government has its way, there will be no defense, no truth.

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    William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.)

    Richard H. Black, Senator of Virginia, 13th District; Colonel US Army (ret.); Former Chief, Criminal Law Division, Office of the Judge Advocate General, the Pentagon (associate VIPS)

    Marshall Carter-Tripp, Foreign Service Officer & former Division Director in the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (ret.)

    Thomas Drake, former Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service and NSA whistleblower

    Bogdan Dzakovic, former Team Leader of Federal Air Marshals and Red Team, FAA Security (ret.) (associate VIPS)

    Philip Giraldi, CIA, Operations Officer (ret.)

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    Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq; former Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan (associate VIPS)

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    Michael S. Kearns, Captain, USAF (ret.); ex-Master SERE Instructor for Strategic Reconnaissance Operations (NSA/DIA) and Special Mission Units (JSOC)

    John Kiriakou, former CIA Counterterrorism Officer and former Senior Investigator, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

    Karen Kwiatkowski, former Lt. Col., US Air Force (ret.), at Office of Secretary of Defense watching the manufacture of lies on Iraq, 2001-2003

    Clement J. Laniewski, LTC, U.S. Army (ret.) (associate VIPS)

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    Edward Loomis, NSA Cryptologic Computer Scientist (ret.)

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    Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA presidential briefer (ret.)

    Craig Murray, former British diplomat and Ambassador to Uzbekistan, human rights activist and historian (affiliate VIPS)

    Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East & CIA political analyst (ret.)

    Todd E. Pierce, MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.)

    Coleen Rowley, FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel (ret.)

    Peter Van Buren, U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Officer (ret.) (associate VIPS)

    J. Kirk Wiebe, former Senior Analyst, SIGINT Automation Research Center, NSA (ret.)

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    Sarah Wilton, Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve (ret.) and Defense Intelligence Agency (ret.)

    Robert Wing, former U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Officer (Associate VIPS)

    Ann Wright, U.S. Army Reserve Colonel (ret) and former U.S. Diplomat who resigned in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq War

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    The name of the US soldier who retrieved the horribly wounded children from the van, which had arrived only to retrieve the dead bodies, is Ethan McCord. This is his eye witness testimony (duration 17:21) -



    This is Julian Assange.

    He created the most significant innovation to how journalism is done of our lifetime.

    He's in a high security jail cell in the UK facing U.S. extradition because he exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq.

    Everything else is propaganda.


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    I am going to stick out my neck and give a different point of view.

    For Julian we know that being locked in the Ecuadorian Embassy for the last 7 years or so has taken a toll on him mentally and physically.

    Maybe Ecuadorian government were paid to release him via the IMF loan.

    And maybe the issue was forced by the USA.

    But maybe also this was all done for his own sake to save him from his deteriorating situation, and put him in the care of the USA.

    Remember that POTUS Trump has said in the past he likes or even loves Wikileaks.

    And now POTUS Trump is distancing himself from Julian because of the legal preceding to ensure impartiality. Which is understandable.

    Furthermore Assange is charged with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to classified databases, now I really do not how strong the government case is in relation to this charge but remember POTUS Trump has the ability to pardon Julian if he is convicted.

    I am going to wait and see how Julian's situation develops considering we have a total new sheriff in town with POTUS Trump.

    I gladly say I am wrong if that's case, but I think there is going to be a positive outcome to this situation for Julian and he maybe found guilt but pardoned and venerated as a hero by the USA.
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    Default Re: Julian Assange arrested after Ecuador tears up asylum deal

    Key points:
    - Anderson said Assange did not deserve to be in a prison for violent offenders
    - The US actor has supported Assange for several years, visiting him in the Ecuadorian embassy
    - Assange is due again in court on May 30 over US extradition proceedings

    Pamela Anderson visits Julian Assange in London prison

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    "Former Baywatch star Anderson visited Assange at Belmarsh Prison in southeast London on Tuesday morning, saying the 47-year-old had been unable to get out of his cell and that it was "very difficult" to see him.

    "He does not deserve to be in a supermax prison, he has never committed a violent act," she told media outside the prison.

    "He is an innocent person."

    Anderson, 51, said Assange had no access to information and had been "cut off from everybody", including his own children."

    Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-...rison/11089550

    Late note. The question has to be if lawyers and family cannot gain access to Julian how did Pamela Anderson?
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    Default Re: Julian Assange arrested after Ecuador tears up asylum deal

    Bradley/Chelsea Manning has been released, For now....

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    Default Re: Julian Assange arrested after Ecuador tears up asylum deal

    This proves everyone has a price....

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