Senate Declares War On Assange

[Swordsmyth]

An angry Julian Assange slammed efforts to officially classify his whistleblowing organization as a "non-state hostile intelligence service", decrying it as an attempt to put the "Pompeo Doctrine" into law. In its annual "intelligence authorization", the Senate Intelligence Committee proposed to effectively declare WikiLeaks a terrorist media organization.
“It is the sense of Congress that WikiLeaks and the senior leadership of WikiLeaks resemble a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors and should be treated as such a service by the United States,” the bill states. Published on Friday, the Senate committee passed the bill late last month on a 14-1 vote, with only Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon voting against the measure, citing “legal, constitutional and policy implications” that the WikiLeaks provision may entail.


.@RonWyden (https://twitter.com/RonWyden) announces he voted against Intel Authorization Act due to concerns that language targeting @WikiLeaks (https://twitter.com/wikileaks) could chill journalism pic.twitter.com/Ey3zBSTupt (https://t.co/Ey3zBSTupt)
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) August 22, 2017 (https://twitter.com/dnvolz/status/900095869185396736)
In response, Assange tweeted a statement slamming the “absurd” decision to brand a media organizations in such a way.
“It is equivalent to suggesting that the CIA is a media organization. Publishers publish what they obtain. Intelligence agencies do not.”

More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-24/senate-declares-war-assange


My statement responding to the U.S. Senate Intel Committee's attempt to place the "Pompeo doctrine" into law.
More: https://t.co/ZmZenqzh7k pic.twitter.com/Kra0T7jSID (https://t.co/Kra0T7jSID)
— Julian Assange ???? (@JulianAssange) August 23, 2017 (https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/900449135605817344)
Realizing the gravity of the situation of becoming a persona non grata to the US government (and CIA), Assange then siad that “it is an interesting thought experiment to consider where other media outlets lay on this spectrum. It is clear that if the 'Pompeo doctrine' applies to WikiLeaks then it applies equally if not more so to other serious outlets."

[Zippyjuan]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-julian-assange-wikileaks-response-a7696326.html


Donald Trump on US charging Julian Assange: 'It's OK with me'

Donald Trump, who once told supporters “I love WikiLeaks”, has said “it’s OK with me” if the Justice Department wants to charge Julian Assange.

US officials have prepared charged seeking the arrest of the Wikileaks founder. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has told reporters that securing the arrest of Mr Assange, who has been living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012, is a priority.




http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/politics/kfile-trump-wikileaks-china/index.html


In 2010, Trump said WikiLeaks members would be shot within 24 hours in China for their 'spying,' 'espionage'

Donald Trump strongly condemned WikiLeaks in a 2010 interview, calling its actions "spying" and "espionage" and saying its members would be shot within 24 hours if they were in a country like China.

Those comments are a sharp contrast to Trump's current position on WikiLeaks, which published leaked documents from prominemt Democratic officials during the election.
During a rally in October of last year, Trump exclaimed "I love WikiLeaks." Just this week, Trump cited the group's founder, Julian Assange, who claimed in an interview that Russia was not involved in hacking during the U.S. election. CNN's KFile reported on Wednesday that Trump called WikiLeaks "disgraceful" and said "there should be like death penalty or something" in another December 2010 interview.

During the interview with Fox Business Network's "Follow the Money," Trump, who was considering a run for president, brought up WikiLeaks on his own accord as an example of a decline of America's prestige. At the time, WikiLeaks was publishing classified material leaks to them by Pfc. Chelsea Manning, who was then known as Pfc. Bradley Manning.

"You look at WikiLeaks, I mean, in China, if this would've happened the people would get a bullet through their head within 24 hours and here in this country we're embarrassed, everybody's embarrassed," Trump said. "We're calling the leaders of other countries horrible names -- how do you go back and negotiate with people with that. That's just not the way life works. As far as I'm concerned it's spying, it's espionage."

"They should try that young -- they call him private first class -- I call him private last class. They should try that young private and they should frankly either put him in jail for the rest of his life or maybe get the death penalty," continued Trump. "You know, in the old days if you were a spy and that's what he is you'd get the death penalty."

During a rally in October of this year Trump exclaimed "I love WikiLeaks." The organization was at the time leaking emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and had previously released emails from the Democratic National Committee.

The president-elect has questioned the assessment from the U.S. intelligence community that the Russian government was behind the hacks, and cited Assange's denial of Russian involvement on Twitter.

Trump took to Twitter today to combat claims that he agreed with Assange, writing, "The dishonest media likes saying that I am in Agreement with Julian Assange - wrong. I simply state what he states, it is for the people...to make up their own minds as to the truth. The media lies to make it look like I am against "Intelligence" when in fact I am a big fan!"

[Swordsmyth]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-julian-assange-wikileaks-response-a7696326.html




http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/politics/kfile-trump-wikileaks-china/index.html

Your sense of relevance is getting as bad as CPUd's was right before he got banned.

[timosman]

Your sense of relevance is getting as bad as CPUd's was right before he got banned.

Zippy is nice. He will not get banned.

[anaconda]

Assange has a higher IQ than the entire combined Senate (when only counting the 98 besides Rand and Mike Lee).

[timosman]

Assange has a higher IQ than the entire combined Senate (when only counting the 98 besides Rand and Mike Lee).

He is probably discriminated against because of his IQ.