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| Who's Worse‐Julian Assange or the New York Times and Washington Post? |
| 2019-04-12 |
| [PJMedia] The arrest of Julian Assange by British authorities was met with nearly unanimous hosannas by U.S. politicians who gave their requisite soundbites cum gravitas on Capitol Hill Thursday. The self-styled journalist, they almost all said, should be extradited to the U.S. as quickly as possible to face the proverbial music for having exposed state secrets of our country ‐ or at least the Democratic Party. Well, not exactly that ‐ more accurately for having conspired with former U.S. intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to download classified databases, a legal distinction. Ironically, not a peep has been heard from the same people (or almost anybody for that matter) thus far about another recent egregious misuse of journalism that resulted not in arrests but in the awarding of its most famous prize, the Pulitzer. As Beth Baumann noted for Townhall: Let's not forget that The Washington Post and The New York Times won the 2018 Pultizer Prize for their national reporting of President Donald Trump's alleged collusion with Russia. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 Considering Assange did NOTHING wrong... going with the Post and Times. They're slanderous hounds, if nothing else. Assange is a foreigner who has no duty to protect any US secrets, first of all. And secondly, he tattled on people far and wide who, most of the time, were actually on the other side (the globalists of the EU and US foreign policy who defy Putin just so they can continue to involve the US in a bunch of pointless, minor wars). I'll repeat... "Conspiring with Chelsea Manning" was not a crime for Assange because he isn't an American. Why the hell would you expect him to hold our secrets as sacred? Would you, an American citizen, hold secrets sacred for the EU (don't lie, people of the Burg, you know you wouldn't). |
| Posted by: Vernal Hatrack2366 2019-04-12 20:39 |
| #4 Who's Worse‐Julian Assange or the New York Times and Washington Post? The government keeps way too many secrets from the citizenry, but I don't want freelancers, media types or actual spies and traitors deciding what gets outed. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-04-12 18:32 |
| #3 Don't forget the times blew up the Bush 44 intelligence operation that monitored cellphone calls and how they blew up waterboarding and other intelligence gathering protocols that were yielding significant material in our war on terrorism. I propose that without those blow ups of our intelligence, we might have had a handle on ISIS years earlier. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-04-12 14:43 |
| #2 Must be a Zen thing like the sound of one hand clapping or the sound of shrugging. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-04-12 11:30 |
| #1 Who's Worse‐Julian Assange or the New York Times and Washington Post? Is this a trick question? |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-04-12 10:24 |