Statement by Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower:
“Obama having opened the legal campaign against the press by going after the roots of investigative reporting on national security — the sources — Trump is going to go after the gatherers/gardeners themselves (and their bosses, publishers). To switch the metaphor, an indictment of Assange is a ‘first use’ of ‘the nuclear option’ against the First Amendment protection of a free press. (By the way, the charges they’re reportedly considering against him — conspiracy, theft, and violation of the Espionage Act — are exactly the charges I faced in 1971.)
“If journalists and publishers fail to call this out, denounce and resist it — on the spurious grounds that Julian is ‘not a real journalist’ like themselves — they’re offering themselves up to Trump and Sessions for indictments and prosecutions, which will eventually silence all but the heroes and heroines among them.”
This statement by Daniel Ellsberg was read by Army veteran and retired diplomat Ann Wright at a news conference Friday morning outside the Department of Justice organized by ExposeFacts, a project of the Institute for Public Accuracy.
Video of the news conference, which also featured remarks by retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern, is now available at Facebook Live. Higher quality video and audio will be available later today on YouTube and via @xposefacts.
President Trump is not threatening WikiLeaks! AG Jeff Sessions is going after the leakers, as he should. WikiLeaks is a Publisher, and Julian Assange is a journalist.
on the orders of il Douche, the Drama Queen in Chief. Whose most fervent disciples demand we worship him as a god. And obey him. Not that there’s any constitutional rule stating we owe obedience to the president. The Tea Party spent a lot of time telling us that, then when their candidate was awarded the election without a majority of the actual votes, they get all pissy about people so much as questioning his orders. If Assange, just as a stand alone case, gets imprisoned in an AmeriKlan jail, how much would anybody want to take my bet that he’ll be found dead in his cell and the Coroner will declare it a suicide?
The cops are masters of that game. When singer Bobby Fuller was found dead in his car, covered in gasoline, the Coroner ruled it “natural causes”.
If Julian Assange is not a real journalist then who the fuck is? I have not seen any real journalism done outside of Wikileaks, Intercept and maybe Democracy Now. Seriously. How can anyone at CNN, NYT or WaPo even call themselves a journalist is beyond my understanding.
HRC quote regarding Assange – “Why can’t we just drone the guy?”
“Why can’t we just drone the guy?”
She was not joking. Anytime an individual’s actions become an inconvenience to the government, that person’s life is at risk.
THANK YOU…. THANK YOU…!!!!!!! THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT THE INCREDIBLE WIN OF NOT HAVING HILLARY DIRECTING THE SNUFF MACHINE OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN IMPERIUM…. Bad as Trump is, he is NO Hillary.. Don’t forget the failure of the TWO PARTY SYSTEM TO GIVE US ANY NORMAL PERSON CANDIDATES.
OR put another way, the system does not allow any normal people. We need MORE than TWO choices…