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WIKILEAKS/ASSANGE NEWSLETTER #13,
US PERSECUTION OF ASSANGE AN ATTACK ON INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
2-20-2020
Compiled by Dick
Bennett for a Culture of Peace
(#9
July 21, 2011; #10, Jan. 30, 2012, #11, May 25, 2018; #12, April 14, 2019).
Special connection to the University
of Arkansas is its motto “Veritate Duce
Progredi.” To advance with truth as
our leader.
See separate OMNI Manning Newsletters,
OMNI Investigative Journalism Newsletters, OMNI Whistleblower Newsletters, and
more.
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WHY CAN’T THE TWO PARTIES JUST GET
ALONG? ALAS THEY DO—the WAR PARTY, WITH CALAMITOUS
CONSEQUENCES
DEFENDING ASSANGE: REVEALING THE TRUTH
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Miriam Schneir, 1917 Espionage Act vs. Truth
Bipartisan Attacks: Democratic Party
Conspiracy
Psychological Torture of Assange
Oscar Grenfell. Conference at European Parliament Defends Julian
Assange.
Google Searches 2019 and 2020
OMNI Wikileaks/Assange Newsletter #12
TEXTS
Exposing the truth, denouncing his
persecutors
1917 Espionage Act, Punishment for Free Speech
“first time in the
history of the United States”
Miriam
Schneir. “The Statute Aimed at Julian
Assange.” The Nation (July 1/8, 2019).
Since 1917, the US government has used the Espionage Act to restrict freedom of speech, to imprison
activists and whistle-blowers, and to dismantle progressive organizations.
MAY 30, 2019
Photo montage:, clockwise
from top left: Daniel Ellsberg, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg. (Clockwise from top left: AP; Wolfgang Kumm /
DPA via AP; Library of Congress; AP / Jacob Harris; CC BY-NC 2.0)
Support
Progressive Journalism
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reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the
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Last week the US Justice Department announced
the indictment of Julian Assange on 18 counts of violating the 1917 Espionage
Act. Although the government had previously charged Assange with helping
Chelsea Manning, then a private in the US Army, to hack military computers, the
new indictment greatly ups the ante, for Assange is now accused of publishing
the Manning documents on his WikiLeaks website. This is a far more serious
matter—the first time in the history of
the United States that the publication of truthful information has been defined
as a crime. The New York Times immediately
raised an alarm. The prosecution of Assange under the Espionage Act, warned
a May 23 editorial, “could have a chilling effect on
American journalism. It is aimed straight at the heart of the First Amendment.”
Few would dispute that
governments may need to keep certain data secret in the interest of national
security. At the same time, the decision not to divulge information must be
scrupulously weighed in a democracy against the public’s right to know.
The 1917 Espionage Act does not concern itself
with such quibbles, however; it comes down wholeheartedly on the side of
secrecy and national security. MORE
PUNISHING ASSANGE BIPARTISAN:
ACCUSATIONS BY DEMOCRATIC PARTY
US federal court exposes
Democratic Party conspiracy against Assange and WikiLeaks
By Eric
London
31 July 2019
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/assa-j31.html?fbclid=IwAR0rb1VL94zkPEId2B4UWuQ-yNToyg-MQaWk9WGLOdkEDGFeC2mKRKbhdLc
In a
ruling published late Tuesday, Judge John Koeltl of the US District Court for
the Southern District of New York delivered a devastating blow to the US-led
conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
In his
ruling, Judge Koeltl, a Bill Clinton nominee and former assistant special
prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, dismissed “with
prejudice” a civil lawsuit filed in April 2018 by the Democratic National
Committee (DNC) alleging WikiLeaks was civilly liable for conspiring with the
Russian government to steal DNC emails and data and leak them to the public.
Jennifer
Robinson, a leading lawyer for Assange, and other WikiLeaks attorneys welcomed
the ruling as “an important win for free speech.”
The
decision exposes the Democratic Party in a conspiracy of its own to attack free
speech and cover up the crimes of US imperialism and the corrupt activities of
the two parties of Wall Street. MORE
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/assa-j31.html?fbclid=IwAR0rb1VL94zkPEId2B4UWuQ-yNToyg-MQaWk9WGLOdkEDGFeC2mKRKbhdLc
TORTURE
UN rights expert asserts Assange has been psychologically tortured Reuters (5/31). UN Wire (5-31-19).
EUROPEANS
DEFEND ASSANGE
Speakers
warned that the persecution of Assange was creating a precedent for the
suppression of press freedom and for the application of repressive US laws all
over the world.
By our
reporter, 21 November 2019
Google Search Assange 2019, 2-20-20
Top stories
www.nytimes.com
› world › europe › julian-assange-sentence-uk May 1,
2019 - A London court sentenced Julian Assange, the
WikiLeaks founder, to prison for jumping bail in 2012, but his legal troubles
are ... May 1, 2019.
Julian Assange - AP News
Julian Assange - AP News
November 19, 2019. LONDON
(AP) — The investigation into an alleged rape by Julian
Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, was
dropped ...
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange at hearing struggles to recall name ...
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange at hearing struggles to recall name ...
Oct 21, 2019 - Demonstrators
protest outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London on October 21, 2019, where
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has ...
Julian Assange movies
Related search
Julian Assange books
Searches
related to julian assange 2019
ASSANGE 2020 GOOGLE SEARCH ,
SELECTION
Julian Assange claims he was offered pardon to deny ...
Julian Assange claims he was offered pardon to deny ...
WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange plans to call a witness at his extradition trial who will
allege that Assange was offered a presidential pardon if he denied ...
Feb 7, 2020 - Prominent
German figures are calling for WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange to be released from prison in the UK. Many more should
support ...
Feb 10, 2020 - Imprisoned
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has
been awarded Consortium News' 2020 Gary
Webb Freedom of the Press Award for ...
Jan. 23, 2020 at
7:00 a.m. PST. LONDON — The complex extradition case designed to determine
whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will
be sent to the ...
Jan 31, 2020 - Fifty
weeks in prison for violating his bail: Julian Assange in
January 2020 in a police van on the way to London's maximum security
Belmarsh ...
WIKILEAKS/ASSANGE NEWSLETTER #12, 4-14-19
CONTENTS
3 NADG Arrest Reports
Andy Greenberg.
US Hacking Case v. Assange
Tariq Ali.
US
OMNI
WIKILEAKS/ASSANGE NEWSLETTER #13,
US PERSECUTION OF ASSANGE AN ATTACK ON INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
2-20-2020
Compiled by Dick
Bennett for a Culture of Peace
(#9
July 21, 2011; #10, Jan. 30, 2012, #11, May 25, 2018; #12, April 14, 2019).
Special connection to the University
of Arkansas is its motto “Veritate Duce
Progredi.” To advance with truth as
our leader.
See separate OMNI Manning Newsletters,
OMNI Investigative Journalism Newsletters, OMNI Whistleblower Newsletters, and
more.
http://omnicenter.org/donate/
WHY CAN’T THE TWO PARTIES JUST GET
ALONG? ALAS THEY DO—the WAR PARTY, WITH CALAMITOUS
CONSEQUENCES
DEFENDING ASSANGE: REVEALING THE TRUTH
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Miriam Schneir, 1917 Espionage Act vs. Truth
Bipartisan Attacks: Democratic Party
Conspiracy
Psychological Torture of Assange
Oscar Grenfell. Conference at European Parliament Defends Julian
Assange.
Google Searches 2019 and 2020
OMNI Wikileaks/Assange Newsletter #12
TEXTS
Exposing the truth, denouncing his
persecutors
1917 Espionage Act, Punishment for Free Speech
“first time in the
history of the United States”
Miriam
Schneir. “The Statute Aimed at Julian
Assange.” The Nation (July 1/8, 2019).
Since 1917, the US government has used the Espionage Act to restrict freedom of speech, to imprison
activists and whistle-blowers, and to dismantle progressive organizations.
MAY 30, 2019
Photo montage:, clockwise
from top left: Daniel Ellsberg, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg. (Clockwise from top left: AP; Wolfgang Kumm /
DPA via AP; Library of Congress; AP / Jacob Harris; CC BY-NC 2.0)
Support
Progressive Journalism
The Nation is
reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the
issues that matter.
Last week the US Justice Department announced
the indictment of Julian Assange on 18 counts of violating the 1917 Espionage
Act. Although the government had previously charged Assange with helping
Chelsea Manning, then a private in the US Army, to hack military computers, the
new indictment greatly ups the ante, for Assange is now accused of publishing
the Manning documents on his WikiLeaks website. This is a far more serious
matter—the first time in the history of
the United States that the publication of truthful information has been defined
as a crime. The New York Times immediately
raised an alarm. The prosecution of Assange under the Espionage Act, warned
a May 23 editorial, “could have a chilling effect on
American journalism. It is aimed straight at the heart of the First Amendment.”
Few would dispute that
governments may need to keep certain data secret in the interest of national
security. At the same time, the decision not to divulge information must be
scrupulously weighed in a democracy against the public’s right to know.
The 1917 Espionage Act does not concern itself
with such quibbles, however; it comes down wholeheartedly on the side of
secrecy and national security. MORE
PUNISHING ASSANGE BIPARTISAN:
ACCUSATIONS BY DEMOCRATIC PARTY
US federal court exposes
Democratic Party conspiracy against Assange and WikiLeaks
By Eric
London
31 July 2019
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/assa-j31.html?fbclid=IwAR0rb1VL94zkPEId2B4UWuQ-yNToyg-MQaWk9WGLOdkEDGFeC2mKRKbhdLc
In a
ruling published late Tuesday, Judge John Koeltl of the US District Court for
the Southern District of New York delivered a devastating blow to the US-led
conspiracy against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
In his
ruling, Judge Koeltl, a Bill Clinton nominee and former assistant special
prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, dismissed “with
prejudice” a civil lawsuit filed in April 2018 by the Democratic National
Committee (DNC) alleging WikiLeaks was civilly liable for conspiring with the
Russian government to steal DNC emails and data and leak them to the public.
Jennifer
Robinson, a leading lawyer for Assange, and other WikiLeaks attorneys welcomed
the ruling as “an important win for free speech.”
The
decision exposes the Democratic Party in a conspiracy of its own to attack free
speech and cover up the crimes of US imperialism and the corrupt activities of
the two parties of Wall Street. MORE
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/assa-j31.html?fbclid=IwAR0rb1VL94zkPEId2B4UWuQ-yNToyg-MQaWk9WGLOdkEDGFeC2mKRKbhdLc
TORTURE
UN rights expert asserts Assange has been psychologically tortured Reuters (5/31). UN Wire (5-31-19).
EUROPEANS
DEFEND ASSANGE
Speakers
warned that the persecution of Assange was creating a precedent for the
suppression of press freedom and for the application of repressive US laws all
over the world.
By our
reporter, 21 November 2019
Google Search Assange 2019, 2-20-20
Top stories
www.nytimes.com
› world › europe › julian-assange-sentence-uk May 1,
2019 - A London court sentenced Julian Assange, the
WikiLeaks founder, to prison for jumping bail in 2012, but his legal troubles
are ... May 1, 2019.
Julian Assange - AP News
Julian Assange - AP News
November 19, 2019. LONDON
(AP) — The investigation into an alleged rape by Julian
Assange, the founder of anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, was
dropped ...
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange at hearing struggles to recall name ...
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange at hearing struggles to recall name ...
Oct 21, 2019 - Demonstrators
protest outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London on October 21, 2019, where
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has ...
Julian Assange movies
Related search
Julian Assange books
Searches
related to julian assange 2019
ASSANGE 2020 GOOGLE SEARCH ,
SELECTION
Julian Assange claims he was offered pardon to deny ...
Julian Assange claims he was offered pardon to deny ...
WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange plans to call a witness at his extradition trial who will
allege that Assange was offered a presidential pardon if he denied ...
Feb 7, 2020 - Prominent
German figures are calling for WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange to be released from prison in the UK. Many more should
support ...
Feb 10, 2020 - Imprisoned
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has
been awarded Consortium News' 2020 Gary
Webb Freedom of the Press Award for ...
Jan. 23, 2020 at
7:00 a.m. PST. LONDON — The complex extradition case designed to determine
whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will
be sent to the ...
Jan 31, 2020 - Fifty
weeks in prison for violating his bail: Julian Assange in
January 2020 in a police van on the way to London's maximum security
Belmarsh ...
WIKILEAKS/ASSANGE NEWSLETTER #12, 4-14-19
CONTENTS
3 NADG Arrest Reports
Andy Greenberg.
US Hacking Case v. Assange
Tariq Ali.
US Motives to Punish Assange
US vs. Investigative Journalism.
Greenwald and Lee.
Pilger.
Tulsi.
Political Action to Defend Assange
SEE Newsletter #11 for the 11 newsletters with
links. If you will study just one of
them I believe you will read more and eventually speak up for this persecuted
journalist—enemy of secrecy loved by dictators, lover of transparency for a
democracy. .
END WIKILEAKS/ASSANGE
NEWSLETTER #13
Motives to Punish Assange
US vs. Investigative Journalism.
Greenwald and Lee.
Pilger.
Tulsi.
Political Action to Defend Assange
SEE Newsletter #11 for the 11 newsletters with
links. If you will study just one of
them I believe you will read more and eventually speak up for this persecuted
journalist—enemy of secrecy loved by dictators, lover of transparency for a
democracy.
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