{"id":40914,"date":"2018-11-25T18:39:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T23:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40914"},"modified":"2018-11-25T18:39:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T23:39:21","slug":"why-you-should-care-about-the-julian-assange-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40914","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Care About the Julian Assange Case"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Why You Should Care About the Julian Assange Case<\/a><\/h3>\n

Forget Jim Acosta. If you\u2019re worried about Trump\u2019s assault on the press, news of a Wikileaks indictment is the real scare story<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

\n
\n
\"Wiki<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n

Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange speaks from the Ecuador Embassy after Sweden’s director of public prosecutions.<\/p>\n

Vianney Le Caer\/REX Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

\n
\n

Wikileaks<\/a> founder Julian Assange<\/a>, who has been inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London since the summer of 2012, is back in the news. Last week, word of a sealed federal indictment<\/a> involving him leaked out.<\/p>\n

The news came out in a strange way, via an unrelated case<\/a> in Virginia. In arguing to seal a federal child endangerment charge (against someone with no connection to Wikileaks), the government, ironically, mentioned Assange as an example of why sealing is the only surefire way to keep an indictment under wraps.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to the sophistication of the defendant and the publicity surrounding the case,\u201d prosecutors wrote, \u201cno other procedure is likely to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assange\u2019s lawyer Barry Pollack told Rolling Stone<\/em> he had \u201cnot\u00a0been informed that Mr. Assange has been charged, or the nature of any charges.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pollock and other sources could not be sure, but within the Wikileaks camp it\u2019s believed that this charge, if it exists, is not connected to the last election.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would think it is not related to the 2016 election since that would seem to fall within the purview of the Office of Special Counsel,\u201d Pollack said.<\/p>\n

If you hate Assange because of his role in the 2016 race, please take a deep breath and consider what a criminal charge that does not involve the 2016 election might mean. An Assange prosecution could give the Trump presidency broad new powers to put Trump\u2019s media \u201cenemies\u201d in jail, instead of just yanking a credential or two. The Jim Acosta business<\/a> is a minor flap in comparison.<\/p>\n

\n
\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why You Should Care About the Julian Assange Case Forget Jim Acosta. If you\u2019re worried about Trump\u2019s assault on the press, news of a Wikileaks indictment is the real scare story Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange speaks from the Ecuador Embassy after Sweden’s director of public prosecutions. Vianney Le Caer\/REX Shutterstock Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, […]<\/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":[23202,22890,2001,3733,21272,827,880],"class_list":["post-40914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-barry-pollack","tag-jim-acosta","tag-julian-assange","tag-matt-taibbi","tag-rolling-stone-magazine","tag-united-states","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40914","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=40914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40915,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40914\/revisions\/40915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}