Comments on: More ‘bombshells’ from Assange lawyers. Extradition case exposed as seriously flawed.

By: Forthestate

Forthestate — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:19:43 +0000

Here’s how Craig Murray reports it from the gallery: “Summers described at great length the efforts of Wikileaks with media partners over more than a year to set up a massive redaction campaign on the cables. He explained that the unredacted cables only became available after Luke Harding and David Leigh of the Guardian published the password to the cache as the heading to Chapter XI of their book Wikileaks, published in February 2011.” https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-gallery-assange-hearing-day-2/

Can you point out which part of that allegation is untrue? I’ve read the Guardian statement, and it’s very confusing. It seems to rest on the claim that you were told the password was temporary. Clearly it wasn’t. You published the password. It was active, hence it is reasonable to assume that the entire cache of unredacted cables could be accessed as a result.

Here’s what Glenn Greenwald has to say about you: “But the key point is this: even if Leigh believed that that particular password would no longer be valid, what possible point is there in publishing to the world the specific password used by WikiLeaks or divulging the types of passwords it uses to safeguard its data? It is reckless for an investigative reporter to gratuitously publish that type of information, and he absolutely deserves a large chunk of the blame for what happened here”. https://www.salon.com/2011/09/02/wikileaks_28/

Many people cannot understand why Julian Assange is being charged, but, given that he is, many wonder why he’s on his own, David.

By: loon

loon — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 03:35:10 +0000

I liked being able to read the Password. Especially about inserting the word Diplomatic before History.
The Secretary of State of America used to have a sense of what diplomacy is about in the 30’s ,but now one may just call it The Secretary of War.
I doubt the lawyers will win their case to stop Assange from being Extradited.
British Civil Law simply no longer has a relevant value in the new miltary alliance with Washington DC with Boris Johnston as Prime Minister. It must be remembered the Tory Party’s intial confinement of Assange in which Javid had a role.
One must note the torture being inflicted on Assange while incarcerated upon English soil, and the complete disrespect for UK’s Parliamentary Principals shown by the Tories during the Brexit Episode.
They will want to torture Assange with Manning until the end of time.
Much like Erdogans attitude with the Kurds.
It goes with the military mind set.
One must remember that Manning was pardoned by President Obama so why is he still behing bars on a new charge?
I hope the British Courts refuse the extradition but its just a hope as the evidence doesn’t support doing so.

By: loon

loon — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 01:30:29 +0000

I’ve read the article published here where the password is revealed, but who he is who gave it isn’t mentioned.
I didn’t read about the alleged effect of the password in what was presented here.
So what is the invention about you that you speak of?
Confused.
What ever you did sounds like it revealed facts in researching your article. Well done.

By: davidleigh

davidleigh — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:04:20 +0000

Unfortunately, the allegations you (quite accurately) report the defence making about me are a complete invention. The Guardian put out a statement at the time explaining this. The hoax about the alleged effect of the “password” does not help Assange’s cause. Other media have run my or the Guardian’s statement. In fairness, maybe you should do the same?

By: loon

loon — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:43:55 +0000

I think the UK has lost its it sovereignity to the military mind shared with the US already. The fake anitsemitic campaign speaks to this political move. The military’s sole concern is the exclusion of everything else but military domination which supports the State in the final analysis of what sovereignity really is.
No free will is allowed .
The fact the ongoing torture, and unlawful confinement of Assange is proof the military deep state has no regard for civil law, and is conspiring to punish Juian Assange for stepping out of line from their adgenda.
Will the courts be of any use is the question, to defend us from these military moral monsters running amuck through our democracies.

By: nobodylicksme

nobodylicksme — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:11:18 +0000

I wonder if the reason the British Tory government has been so authoritarian with Julian Assange is because of threats made against them by the US regime to comply or face the consequences. I don’t doubt for an instant America would threaten to put armed US troops on British streets, “to secure US interests”; or even threaten that if Julian left the Ecuadorian embassy they would drone-strike him on British soil (which could also apply if Julian is freed from UK custody).

Any American threats of this type will show we have lost our sovereignty to America. They do it to other of their allies like Pakistan, Sudan, Yemen etc, and I’m sure they yearn to strike a European country just to show who’s boss and they mean business. The Assange case gives them a possible excuse to strike us.

By: Microbe

Microbe — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:07:45 +0000

Wikileaks, as far as so many of us are concerned, is all about a platform that shared truths we might otherwise never have been truthfully told were it not for Wikileaks which told us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Amen