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2020-08-21 Home Front: Politix

Should Snowden and Assange Pardon the U.S. Government?

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Posted by Clem 2020-08-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Maybe I missed something, but 1) the premise of the article's incredibly stupid and 2) Assange is Australian - I'm pretty sure Trump can't pardon a non-US citizen.

Posted by Raj 2020-08-21 10:07|| 2020-08-21 10:07|| Front Page Top

#2 All the stuff Snowden and Wikileaks leaked could have been leaked anonymously thru a string of cutouts. They both wanted the publicity.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-21 12:10|| 2020-08-21 12:10|| Front Page Top

#3 How come Australian Assange publishing Secrets about an illegal system run by the US state while not in the US, is a crime?

The only crime was to embarrass the state.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-08-21 13:37|| 2020-08-21 13:37|| Front Page Top

#4 #3: Embarrassing the state is the worst crime ever. You can't do anything worse than embarrass the state, never mind how illegal their actions. So just shaddup, you little nothing person, and follow the orders of your betters and don't embarrass them. /Sarc

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2020-08-21 21:18|| 2020-08-21 21:18|| Front Page Top

#5 @ #3 & #4 - Absolutely.

Posted by Clem 2020-08-21 21:45|| 2020-08-21 21:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Y’all have forgotten all the local employees and confidential informants in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere whose names and information were leaked along with the embarrassing stuff. And how many of them were murdered as a result, and how afterward others would not come forward because we had been proved untrustworthy.

It would have been easy for Mr. Assange’s team to strip that information out of what was released, but they did not care that what they saw as mere puckish misbehaviour — or speaking truth to power — would have permanent, EVIL impacts on very good people.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-21 23:56|| 2020-08-21 23:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Poor security?

Posted by Clem 2020-08-21 23:59|| 2020-08-21 23:59|| Front Page Top

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