Parry wrote about Obama administration's attempt to indict Assange for doing what all investigative journalists do encourage their sources to turn over information even if they have to break the law to do so. ... Whatever the unusual aspects of the case, Obama administration's..…
Biden spoke specifically in 2010 when he was part of President Barack Obama’s administration. ... I would drop the Espionage Act counts against Assange.” . The Obama administration transformed the Espionage Act into a de facto Official Secrets Act by using it to prosecute more..…
U.S. leaders have focused their efforts on apprehending and prosecuting Assange, considered a more “fringe” player. ... But newer revelations targeted possible Obama administration misdeeds, and Assange began to lose favor with progressives. . ..…
The Obama administration decided not to prosecute WikiLeaks & Assange on the grounds that the website's work was too similar to journalistic activities protected by U.S. ..…
The Julian Assange Beard Movement A Suggestion. By Backing al-Qaeda, Trump Continues Obama's Horrible Syria Policy... ..…
Notably, the Obama Administration declined to indict Assange because of what was then described as the “New York Times problem”—that if Assange were charged, the Times, the Post and the Guardian, among others, would also have to be prosecuted for publishing files leaked by Manning. . ..…
The Obama administration rejected the option of criminal charge against Assange under Espionage Act, in recognition of the danger to press freedom. ..…
Washington Post reported Friday that Obama administration considered bringing charges against Assange years ago and was concerned that the charges would prosecute conduct too similar to that of reporters at established news organizations.. ..…
Ocasio-Cortez has been silent about Democrats anti-Russia and the persecution of Julian Assange, about the violence carried out by Obama administration nearly every other crime of US imperialism. ..…
But now Trump Justice Department does want to prosecute Assange under Espionage Act, saying that Assange is not journalist. The Obama administration flirted with erasing that line In court documents, it described a Fox News Washington, James Rosen, as aider, abettor and or..…
The charges are based on the same exact evidence which was available to Obama administration. One of the versions of New York Times report on Assange indictment, that officials would not engage with questions about how the actions they said were felonies by Mr. ..…
Assange under the Espionage Act — a step also debated within the Obama administration but ultimately not taken. ... The Obama administration had also weighed charging Mr. Assange, but rejected that step out of fears that it would chill investigative journalism and could..…
Matthew Miller, spokesperson for Justice Department under Obama administration, told Politico that Obama administration declined to pursue indictment of Assange out of concern for the precedent and doubts about whether charges would hold up in court... ..…
The charges against Assange represent a sharp departure, since this is the first time a publisher has been indicted under the law. (The Obama administration considered taking this step against Assange, but ultimately decided against it.) . ..…
The FBI and federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Virginia, first began investigating Assange in 2010 and amassed a wealth of internal WikiLeaks chats and documents from informants and subpoenas. But the Obama administration was reluctant to indict Assange. . A former senior Justice..…
The Obama administration, wanted to charge Assange too and worried it would have chilling effect on press freedoms.. ..…
The Obama administration decided not to prosecute WikiLeaks & Assange on the grounds that the website's work was too similar to journalistic activities protected by U.S. ..…
She served seven years in prison before her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama. . . In March, Manning was called before a federal grand jury in Alexandria investigating Assange and jailed for declining to answer questions. . . ..…
Remember that all of the information contained in U.S charge sheet against Assange the supposed grounds for his extradition were known to Obama as far back as 2010. But President Barack Obama never dared approve the current charges against Assange like those at The..…
The Obama administration decided not to prosecute WikiLeaks & Assange on the grounds that the website’s work was too similar to journalistic activities protected by the U.S. ..…
'But in 2013, Obama DOJ concluded that it could not prosecute Assange with the publication of those documents The Guardian, and media outlets around the world do, work with sources to publish classified documents... ..…
She is currently in jail because of her refusal to testify, without her lawyer, in front of the grand jury assembled for the Assange case. President Barack Obama granted Manning, who was given a 35-year sentence, clemency after she served seven years in a military prison. . ..…
All should remember that Chelsea Manning spent more than seven years prison under Obama administration for revealing video about George W. Bush's crimes Iraq that Assange had to escape Obama administration's clutches by seeking asylum in Ecuadorian embassy and that now that..…
Sweden dropped its investigation of Assange in 2017. . The Trump Administration Indicts Assange . ... The Obama administration refrained from indicting Assange for fear of establishing “a precedent that could chill investigative reporting about national security matters..…
But Barack Obama never dared approve the current charges against Assange like those at New York Times, Washington Post and Guardian.. ..…
Kiriakou was the first person to be sentenced in the US for leaking classified material to journalist as part of President Barack Obama's crackdown on whistleblowers. The same court is handling the case against Julian Assange, to have conspired with WikiLeaks Chelsea Manning as part of..…
And the fact that Obama administration and now Trump administration, is going Assange is to send message. ..…
The Obama administration decided not to prosecute WikiLeaks and Assange on the grounds that the website's work was too similar to journalistic activities protected by U.S. ..…
All of this supposed evidence was available to President Barack Obama’s Justice Department. It begs the question: why didn’t the Obama Justice Department indict Assange? ..…
January 17: Barack Obama's decision to free whistleblower Chelsea Manning prompts speculation Mr Assange will end his self-imposed exile. WikiLeaks tweeted prior to the decision: 'If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear..…
In 2012, Obama regime turned truth on its head, falsely declaring Assange enemy of the state, forcing him to take refuge Ecuador's London embassy to avoid unjust arrest, extradition to America, prosecution, and imprisonment to silence him for doing the right thing, for the crime of vital..…
It's understood that Obama recognized that it was not possible to chargeWikiLeakseditor-in-chief Julian Assange, via Manning, without exposing journalists at theNew York Timesor theWashington Postto prosecution for sharing the information — not to mention collecting prizes for it.. ..…
Prosecutors inadvertently disclosed last summer that they had a sealed indictment against Assange. Since 2010, when WikiLeaks published the documents Manning leaked, the U.S. government has been gunning for Assange. ..…
Prosecutors inadvertently disclosed last summer that they had a sealed indictment against Assange. Since 2010, when WikiLeaks published the documents Manning leaked, the U.S. government has been gunning for Assange. . ..…
As a consequence of exposing unaccounted power, the organization has met political retaliation under the Obama administration. Assange has become a political prisoner, been gagged and isolated by the President of Ecuador, Lenín Moreno who bowed down to demands of Washington in exchange for..…
Information included in those documents were reported by outlets including New York Times and The Guardian Obama administration had always been reluctant to indict Assange due to what it called New York Times problem.. ..…
The Obama administration began the investigation of Assange and WikiLeaks over Manning leaks, and the issue of how to distinguish between WikiLeaks and the rest of the media is thought to have given them pause.. ..…
In 2012, Obama administration declared WikiLeaks Julian Assange enemy of the state, forcing Assange to seek asylum Ecuador's London embassy to avoid arrest and the extradition to U.S. ..…
Prosecutors have previously flirted with conspiracy, theft of government authority and purported violations of the Espionage Act, but the Obama administration, for all its enthusiasm in nabbing Assange kept coming up against that irritating bulwark of liberty, some would say impediment,..…
In 2013, Ellsberg became one of the most outspoken critics of the Barack Obama administration’s prosecution of leakers. The administration had prosecuted Manning in 2010 for leaking a large cache of classified documents to Assange and WikiLeaks. . ..…
In coda, Goodale portrays Manning and WikiLeaks and insists that freedom of the press has as much to fear from Obama as it did from Nixon. Assange, remains isolated and confined in embassy, unable to walk the streets of London .. ..…
As the Washington Post put it in 2013 when it explained the Obama DOJ’s decision not to prosecute Assange: . ... Last year, the Trump DOJ under Jeff Sessions, and the CIA under Mike Pompeo, began aggressively vowing to do what the Obama DOJ refused to do – namely, prosecute..…
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