{"id":40722,"date":"2018-11-20T07:18:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T12:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40722"},"modified":"2018-11-20T07:18:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T12:18:01","slug":"charges-under-seal-us-prosecutors-get-busy-with-julian-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40722","title":{"rendered":"Charges Under Seal: US Prosecutors Get Busy With Julian Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charges Under Seal: US Prosecutors Get Busy With Julian Assange<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo Source Michael Mayer | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Those with a stake in the hustling racket of empire have little time for the contrariness that comes with exposing classified information.\u00a0 Those who do are submitted to a strict liability regime of assessment and punishment: you had the information (lawfully obtained or otherwise) but you released it for public deliberation.\u00a0 Ignorance remains a desensitising shield, keeping the citizenry in permanent darkness.<\/p>\n

Critics indifferent to the plight of Julian Assange have seen his concerns for prosecution at the hands of US authorities as the disturbed meditations of a sexualised fantasist.\u00a0 He should have surrendered to the British authorities and, in turn, to the Swedish authorities.\u00a0 It was either insignificant or irrelevant that a Grand Jury had been convened to sniff around the activities of WikiLeaks to identify what, exactly, could be used against the organisation and its founder.<\/p>\n

Cruelty and truth are often matters of excruciating banality, and now it is clearer than ever that the United States will, given the invaluable chance, net the Australian publisher and WikiLeaks founder to make an example of him.\u00a0 This man, who dirtied the linen of state and exposed the ceremonial of diplomatic hypocrisy, was always an object of interest, notably in the United States.\u00a0 \u201cHe was,\u201d confirmed<\/a> Andrea Kendall-Taylor, former deputy national intelligence officer for Russia under the director of national intelligence, \u201ca loathed figure inside the government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether it was the Central Intelligence Agency, the US Department of Justice, or the specific army of investigators assembled by special counsel Robert Mueller III to weasel out material on the Trump-Russia connection, Assange remains a substantial figure who needs to be captured, sealed and disappeared.<\/p>\n

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Charges Under Seal: US Prosecutors Get Busy With Julian Assange Photo Source Michael Mayer | CC BY 2.0 Those with a stake in the hustling racket of empire have little time for the contrariness that comes with exposing classified information.\u00a0 Those who do are submitted to a strict liability regime of assessment and punishment: you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15948,4102,135,5493,259,2001,827,6261,14381,880],"class_list":["post-40722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-binoy-kampmark","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-cia","tag-counterpunch","tag-empire","tag-julian-assange","tag-united-states","tag-us-department-of-justice","tag-us-doj","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40723,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40722\/revisions\/40723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}