{"id":44272,"date":"2019-03-07T09:33:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T14:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44272"},"modified":"2019-03-07T09:35:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T14:35:51","slug":"russiagate-grand-wizard-deceives-audience-about-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44272","title":{"rendered":"Russiagate Grand Wizard Deceives Audience About Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Russiagate Grand Wizard Deceives Audience About Assange<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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When it was first revealed in November<\/a> that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is under secret charges<\/a> by the Trump administration, I spent the next few days being told by Russiagaters that this was proof that I have been wrong about their demented cold war cult all along, because #MuellerTime is fast approaching. At long last, they vehemently assured me, Assange was going to prison for working with Russia to deprive Queen Hillary of her rightful throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of those people have come back to apologize or admit that they were wrong when subsequent evidence disproved their claims. None of them ever do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it turns out, whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in a secret case investigating Assange for his 2010 role in the WikiLeaks publication of military war logs and diplomatic cables. Manning served seven years in prison for leaking those documents to the transparency advocacy outlet before her sentence was commuted by President Obama, meaning, obviously, that this sealed case has nothing to do with the 2016 leaks Russiagaters have been fiendishly obsessing over. Indeed, the Washington Post<\/em> reported yesterday<\/a> that \u201cU.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy, say the case is based on [Assange\u2019s] pre-2016 conduct, not the election hacks that drew the attention of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n