{"id":45286,"date":"2019-04-12T06:28:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45286"},"modified":"2019-04-12T06:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:39:15","slug":"how-you-can-be-certain-that-the-us-charge-against-assange-is-fraudulent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45286","title":{"rendered":"How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is Fraudulent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/04\/12\/how-you-can-be-certain-that-the-us-charge-against-assange-is-fraudulent\/\">How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is\u00a0Fraudulent<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/medium-7.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Julian Assange sits in a jail cell today after being betrayed by the Ecuadorian government and his home country of Australia. A British judge named Michael Snow has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/world\/assange-arrested-at-embassy\/news-story\/0c142dd21b33cd44d4820dd4fb6172b1\">found the WikiLeaks founder guilty<\/a>&nbsp;of violating bail conditions, inserting himself into the annals of history by labeling Assange&nbsp;\u201ca narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interest.\u201d So that tells you how much of a fair and impartial legal proceeding we can expect to see from the British judicial process on this matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the real reason that Assange has been surrendered by the Ecuadorian government, imprisoned by the British government, and ignored by the Australian government is not directly related to any of those governments, but to that of the United States of America. An&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edva\/press-release\/file\/1153481\/download\">unsealed indictment<\/a>&nbsp;from the Trump administration\u2019s District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, accompanied by an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/assange-arrested-london-1.5093405\">extradition request<\/a>, charges Assange with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edva\/pr\/wikileaks-founder-charged-computer-hacking-conspiracy\">conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for agreeing to break a password to a classified U.S. government computer<\/a>\u201d during Chelsea Manning\u2019s 2010 leak of government documents exposing US war crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This charge is premised on a fraudulent and manipulative distortion of reality, and you may be one hundred percent certain of it. Let me explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can be absolutely certain that this charge is bogus because it isn\u2019t based on any new information. The facts of the case have not changed, the information hasn\u2019t changed, only the narrative has changed. In 2010 the United States\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2010\/CRIME\/12\/13\/wikileaks.investigation\/index.html?_s=PM:CRIME\">opened a secret grand jury<\/a>\u00a0in Virginia to investigate whether Assange and WikiLeaks could be prosecuted for the publication of the Manning leaks, and then-Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama administration was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/11\/29\/AR2010112905973.html?tid=a_inl_manual\">conducting<\/a>\u00a0\u201can active, ongoing criminal investigation\u201d into the matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How You Can Be Certain That The US Charge Against Assange Is\u00a0Fraudulent Julian Assange sits in a jail cell today after being betrayed by the Ecuadorian government and his home country of Australia. A British judge named Michael Snow has&nbsp;found the WikiLeaks founder guilty&nbsp;of violating bail conditions, inserting himself into the annals of history by [&hellip;]<\/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":[93,1368,2001,827],"class_list":["post-45286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-britain","tag-eduador","tag-julian-assange","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45286","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=45286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45287,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45286\/revisions\/45287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}