Now that Julian Assange has been apprehended and charged, we finally get to the see the sealed secret charges that were brought against. A federal judge unsealed the charges and affidavit on Monday, showing us the criminal complaint which was used as the basis for his extradition request to the US. The the document here, filed on December 2, 2017.
Among the information are chat logs between Assange and Chelsea Manning (then Bradley Manning). This is the root of the claims for a "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion".
The US charges Assange with encouraging Manning to access the Defense Department network by cracking a password. The chat logs they have support his communication with Manning, attempting to offer help to crack the password. But even they admit they don't know if a password was actually cracked:
"...it remains unknown whether Manning and Assange were successful in cracking the password."
"Investigators have not recovered a response by Manning to Assange's question, and there is no other evidence as to what Assange did, if anything, with respect to the password"
According to the inept FBI who brought the multi-million dollar Russia-gate joke, Assange is not acting as a journalist to get leaked documents for exposure, like WSJ or NYT would do. No, instead, they paint a picture of a spy who conspired to commit espionage. But alas, this was the whole claim during Russia-gate to tie Assange to Russia and Trump. But it's all bullshit.
Manning apparently didn't know it was Assange she was communicating with, according to the logs" "it took me four months to confirm that the person i was communicating was in fact assange."
But as a result of the leaks information, WikiLeaks became famous in 2010, while Manning would also be famous as the leaker. But Manning was sentenced to 35 years for copying and sharing the files until a pardon from Obama in 2017. The most known is the Collateral Murder video where civilians were bombarded and murdered by US military forces from an aerial attack.
The reason for the extradition having validity is a "probable cause" that Assange and Manning reached an illegal agreement, thought he logs didn't show any direct proof of such. I guess they want to go fishing for evidence by interrogating Assange and getting him to confess to something he probably didn't do.
In greater efforts to make Assange responsible for causing "injury to the United States" by releasing the info, is the insinuation that Assange and WikiLeaks were working with terrorists, specifically the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Why else would someone dare to expose wrongdoings by the US military? They have to be terrorists! Great logic... How dare anyone know or share the truth with the public...
Apparently, the Taliban had the leaks from Assange, and told the NYT: "We are studying the report… If they are US spies, then we will know how to punish them."
The Washington Examiner explains:
The affidavit also alleged the Taliban exploited the WikiLeaks disclosures to put U.S. allies in danger, citing a New York Times article headlined, “Taliban Study WikiLeaks to Hunt Informants.” It also said the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, showed that the terrorist was actively seeking information contained in the WikiLeaks disclosures and that al Qaeda was providing him with information from the leaked Afghanistan war reports. The Afghanistan war reports also contained specifics on improvised explosive device techniques and countermeasures espoused by the U.S. that “the enemy could use these reports to plan future lED attacks,” the affidavit said.
Well, case closed. Obviously Assange is guilty of aiding the enemy now, right? If the terrorists end up with your published material exposing US military activity, then you're aiding terrorists. Of course.
References:
- Unsealed Affidavit Tries To Put WikiLeaks In Cahoots With The Taliban, Bin Laden
- Julian Assange affidavit unsealed
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