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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2848185" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/19/sweden-withdraws-arrest-warrant-for-julian-assange-but-he-still-faces-serious-legal-jeopardy/" target="_blank">Sweden Withdraws Arrest Warrant for Julian Assange, but He Still Faces Serious Legal Jeopardy</a></p><p></p><p>"In February of last year, a UN human rights panel <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/04/julian-assange-wikileaks-arrest-friday-un-investigation" target="_blank">formally concluded</a> that the British government was violating Assange’s rights by “arbitrarily detaining” him, and it called for his release. But the U.K. government <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12141755/Julian-Assange-should-receive-compensation-UN-says.html" target="_blank">immediately rejected</a> the UN finding and vowed to ignore it.</p><p></p><p>...</p><p>But it seemed that, under Obama, prosecution was highly unlikely. Indeed, last month, in response to my denunciation of Pompeo’s threat as endangering press freedoms, former Obama DOJ spokesperson Matthew Miller <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/852636857741578242" target="_blank">tweeted this</a>:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald" target="_blank">@ggreenwald</a> it's also hollow. DOJ knows it can't win a case against someone just for publishing secrets.</p><p></p><p>— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/852636857741578242" target="_blank">April 13, 2017</a></p><p></p><p>But the Trump administration — at least if one believes its multiple statements and threats — appears unconstrained by those concerns. They appear determined to prosecute WikiLeaks, which has published numerous secret CIA hacking documents this year."</p><p></p><p>if trump goes after wikileaks, then they can go after other news orgs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2848185, member: 56035"] [URL="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/19/sweden-withdraws-arrest-warrant-for-julian-assange-but-he-still-faces-serious-legal-jeopardy/"]Sweden Withdraws Arrest Warrant for Julian Assange, but He Still Faces Serious Legal Jeopardy[/URL] "In February of last year, a UN human rights panel [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/04/julian-assange-wikileaks-arrest-friday-un-investigation']formally concluded[/URL] that the British government was violating Assange’s rights by “arbitrarily detaining” him, and it called for his release. But the U.K. government [URL='http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12141755/Julian-Assange-should-receive-compensation-UN-says.html']immediately rejected[/URL] the UN finding and vowed to ignore it. ... But it seemed that, under Obama, prosecution was highly unlikely. Indeed, last month, in response to my denunciation of Pompeo’s threat as endangering press freedoms, former Obama DOJ spokesperson Matthew Miller [URL='https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/852636857741578242']tweeted this[/URL]: [URL='https://twitter.com/ggreenwald']@ggreenwald[/URL] it's also hollow. DOJ knows it can't win a case against someone just for publishing secrets. — Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) [URL='https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/852636857741578242']April 13, 2017[/URL] But the Trump administration — at least if one believes its multiple statements and threats — appears unconstrained by those concerns. They appear determined to prosecute WikiLeaks, which has published numerous secret CIA hacking documents this year." if trump goes after wikileaks, then they can go after other news orgs. [/QUOTE]
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