{"id":45532,"date":"2019-04-21T07:43:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T12:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45532"},"modified":"2019-04-21T07:43:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T12:43:57","slug":"the-deep-state-vs-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45532","title":{"rendered":"The Deep State vs. WikiLeaks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2019\/04\/19\/or-42550.jpg?112668\" alt=\"The Deep State vs. WikiLeaks\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/The Deep State vs. WikiLeaks PEPE ESCOBAR | 19.04.2019 | WORLD \/ AMERICAS\t| FEATURED STORY The Deep State vs. WikiLeaks The Made by FBI indictment of Julian Assange does look like a dead man walking. No evidence. No documents. No surefire testimony. Just a crossfire of conditionals.  But never underestimate the legalese contortionism of US government (USG) functionaries. As much as Assange may not be characterized as a journalist and publisher, the thrust of the affidavit is to accuse him of conspiring to commit espionage.  In fact the charge is not even that Assange hacked a USG computer and obtained classified information; it\u2019s that he may have discussed it with Chelsea Manning and may have had the intention to go for a hack. Orwellian-style thought crime charges don\u2019t get any better than that. Now the only thing missing is an AI software to detect them.  Assange legal adviser Geoffrey Robertson \u2013 who also happens to represent another stellar political prisoner, Brazil\u2019s Lula \u2013 cut straight to the chase (at 19:22 minutes); \u201cThe justice he is facing is justice, or injustice, in America\u2026 I would hope the British judges would have enough belief in freedom of information to throw out the extradition request.\u201d  That\u2019s far from a done deal. Thus the inevitable consequence; Assange\u2019s legal team is getting ready to prove, no holds barred, in a British court, that this USG indictment for conspiracy to commit computer hacking is just an hors d\u2019oeuvre for subsequent espionage charges, in case Assange is extradited to US soil.  All about Vault 7  John Pilger, among few others, has already stressed how a plan to destroy WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was laid out as far back as 2008 \u2013 at the tail end of the Cheney regime \u2013 concocted by the Pentagon\u2019s shady Cyber Counter-Intelligence Assessments Branch.  It was all about criminalizing WikiLeaks and personally smearing Assange, using \u201cshock troops\u2026enlisted in the media \u2014 those who are meant to keep the record straight and tell us the truth.\u201d  This plan remains more than active \u2013 considering how Assange\u2019s arrest has been covered by the bulk of US\/UK mainstream media.  By 2012, already in the Obama era, WikiLeaks detailed the astonishing \u201cscale of the US Grand Jury Investigation\u201d of itself. The USG always denied such a grand jury existed.\">The Deep State vs. WikiLeaks<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Made by FBI&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/406384145\/Assange-Affidavit#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indictment<\/a>&nbsp;of Julian Assange does look like a dead man walking. No evidence. No documents. No surefire testimony. Just a crossfire of conditionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But never underestimate the legalese contortionism of US government (USG) functionaries. As much as Assange may not be characterized as a journalist and publisher, the thrust of the affidavit is to accuse him of conspiring to commit espionage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact the charge is not even that Assange hacked a USG computer and obtained classified information; it\u2019s that he may have discussed it with Chelsea Manning and may have had the intention to go for a hack. Orwellian-style thought crime charges don\u2019t get any better than that. Now the only thing missing is an AI software to detect them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assange legal adviser Geoffrey Robertson \u2013 who also happens to represent another stellar political prisoner, Brazil\u2019s Lula \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/shows\/going-underground\/456414-assange-wkileaks-asylum-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cut straight to the chase<\/a>&nbsp;(at 19:22 minutes); \u201cThe justice he is facing is justice, or injustice, in America\u2026 I would hope the British judges would have enough belief&nbsp;in freedom of information to throw out the extradition request.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s far from a done deal. Thus the inevitable consequence; Assange\u2019s legal team is getting ready to prove, no holds barred, in a British court, that this USG indictment for conspiracy to commit&nbsp;computer hacking is just an hors d\u2019oeuvre for subsequent espionage charges, in case Assange is extradited to US soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All about Vault 7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Pilger, among few others, has already&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/06\/18\/bring-julian-assange-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stressed<\/a>&nbsp;how a plan to destroy WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was laid out as far back as 2008 \u2013 at the tail end of the Cheney regime \u2013 concocted by the Pentagon\u2019s shady Cyber Counter-Intelligence Assessments Branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was all about criminalizing WikiLeaks and personally smearing Assange, using \u201cshock troops\u2026enlisted in the media \u2014 those who are meant to keep the record straight and tell us the truth.\u201d<\/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>The Deep State vs. WikiLeaks The Made by FBI&nbsp;indictment&nbsp;of Julian Assange does look like a dead man walking. No evidence. No documents. No surefire testimony. Just a crossfire of conditionals. But never underestimate the legalese contortionism of US government (USG) functionaries. As much as Assange may not be characterized as a journalist and publisher, the [&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":[199,5110,4076,8203,827,7414,25676,25677,843],"class_list":["post-45532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-deep-state","tag-espionage","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-us-deep-state","tag-us-fbi","tag-us-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45532","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=45532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45533,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45532\/revisions\/45533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}