{"id":58549,"date":"2021-07-10T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T13:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58549"},"modified":"2021-07-10T08:45:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T13:45:18","slug":"the-assange-case-isnt-about-national-security-its-about-narrative-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58549","title":{"rendered":"The Assange Case Isn\u2019t About National Security, It\u2019s About Narrative Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/07\/08\/the-assange-case-isnt-about-national-security-its-about-narrative-control\/\">The Assange Case Isn\u2019t About National Security, It\u2019s About Narrative Control<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10154\" class=\"post-10154 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-assange tag-government tag-journalism tag-secrecy tag-wikileaks\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-6.png?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-6.png 1080w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-6-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-6-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-6-1024x564.png 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"595\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/the-assange-case-isnt-about-national-security-its-about-narrative-control\"><em>Listen to a reading of this article:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1083821431&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxwidth=1060&amp;maxheight=1000\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Julian Assange\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefendAssange\/status\/893597432965062656?s=20\">once said<\/a>, \u201cThe overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security, not national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As someone whose life\u2019s work before his imprisonment was combing through documents of an often classified nature, he\u2019d have been in a prime position to know. He\u2019d have seen time and time again how a nation\u2019s citizenry are not under the slightest threat from the secret information in the documents that had been leaked to him from around the world, but that it could damage the reputation of a politician or a government or its military.<\/p>\n<p>As the persecution of the WikiLeaks founder continues to trudge on with the UK government\u2019s granting the Biden administration permission to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2021\/07\/07\/desperate-to-get-assange-us-promises-no-sams-prison-time-in-australia\/\">appeal a declined extradition request<\/a>, claiming that it can safely imprison Assange without subjecting him to the draconian aspects of America\u2019s prison system which caused the initial dismissal, it\u2019s good to keep in mind that this is being done entirely for the purpose of controlling public access to information that is inconvenient for the powerful.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1412974063979401216&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F07%2F08%2Fthe-assange-case-isnt-about-national-security-its-about-narrative-control%2F&amp;sessionId=292fb1968740e928d248b72ba598a71400de1158&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1412974063979401216\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The prosecution of Julian Assange <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2021\/07\/06\/the-espionage-act-julian-assange-1-a-history-of-prosecuting-speech\/\">under the Espionage Act<\/a>\u00a0is being touted by the US government as a matter of national security; you can\u2019t simply allow journalists to publish classified information about the things its military forces are doing in the nations they occupy, because that could endanger American lives.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving aside the fact that the Pentagon already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/jul\/31\/bradley-manning-sentencing-hearing-pentagon\">admitted years ago<\/a>\u00a0that it could not find a single instance of lives being lost due to the publications for which Assange is currently being prosecuted, this case is not and has never been about national security. This case has always been about narrative control.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assange Case Isn\u2019t About National Security, It\u2019s About Narrative Control Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 Julian Assange\u00a0once said, \u201cThe overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security, not national security.\u201d As someone whose life\u2019s work before his imprisonment was combing through documents of an often classified nature, he\u2019d have [&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":[17039,379,2001,2864,14545,1455,31423,655,2643],"class_list":["post-58549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-government","tag-julian-assange","tag-lies","tag-narrative-control","tag-national-security","tag-political-security","tag-propaganda","tag-secrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58549","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=58549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58550,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58549\/revisions\/58550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}