Wikileaks: Julian Assange - Journalism, Leaks, Collateral Murder, Censorship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVoUPnXqvNE The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange Julian Assange MUST BE FREED. "If wars can be started by lies, then they can be stopped by truth. -- Julian Assange"
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-the-public-galle... https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/support-this-website/ https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Vanessa_Baraitser Blackwood said the Governor had found the video "embarrassing" and was concerned about "reputational damage" to the prison. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylCDaBM3gHo Assange in prison 1.25 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4qCvxghNMo Greenwald via Tucker The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange for life. Why is the paper so silent? https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2020-09-22/guardian-silent-assange-trial/ https://www.heise.de/tp/features/USA-spaehten-fuer-Assange-Anklage-Veranstal... https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=craigmurray.org.uk " The prosecution claimed that Assange had not been caught with a razor. The reason for denying this is that hiding a razor suggests Assange might be thinking of suicide. The defense pointed out that an official report from the prison confirmed that Assange had hidden a razor in his cell. The prosecution is surely aware of this report. In plain English, the prosecution lied to the court. The judge refuses to consider the prison report, however, because it is new evidence. " Why closed courts with no public, press, video, cameras, audio... makes easy for corrupt State to maintain illegitimate power by fucking people over and murdering them... Death decreed over Zoom https://restofworld.org/2020/death-decreed-over-zoom/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24565439 Coming soon to your own kangaroo court. #FreeAssange
What's The Difference Between 'Villain' Assange & 'Intrepid' Woodward? Lee Camp via Counterpunch.org https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/25/whats-the-difference-between-villain... https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whats-difference-between-villain-assange... The completely fair super awesome trial of Julian Assange continues in the U.K. as I write this. It’s a beautiful blend of the works of Kafka, Stalin and Joseph Heller. Seeing as Julian is kept in a glass container in the courtroom, like a captured cockroach, maybe Kafka wins the day. The court clearly must keep Julian in that giant Tic-Tac container because he’s undoubtedly as dangerous as Hannibal Lecter. If he weren’t in there, no one would know when he might lurch forward and PUBLISH SOMETHING THAT’S TOTALLY TRUE! ...
On Friday, September 25, 2020, 10:59:30 PM PDT, Zenaan Harkness
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On Friday, September 25th, 2020 at 11:26 PM, jim bell
On Friday, September 25, 2020, 10:59:30 PM PDT, Zenaan Harkness
wrote: What's The Difference Between 'Villain' Assange & 'Intrepid' Woodward? Lee Camp via Counterpunch.org https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/25/whats-the-difference-between-villain... https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whats-difference-between-villain-assange...
The completely fair super awesome trial of Julian Assange continues in the U.K. as I write this. It’s a beautiful blend of the works of Kafka, Stalin and Joseph Heller.
Most people here will be way too old to remember this, but there was the "Pentagon Papers" case in 1971, that pre-dated Watergate by a year or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers The New York Times received some military documents that had been ILLEGALLY copied by Daniel Ellsberg.
The Federal government wanted to enjoin (prohibit) the NYT from publishing that material. Eventually, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Feds COULD NOT prohibit this publication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States
Also, I think nobody was ever prosecuted for this. They were so embarrassed...
Jim Bell
On Friday, September 25, 2020, 04:17:00 PM PDT, grarpamp
The prosecution claimed that Assange had not been caught with a razor. The reason for denying this is that hiding a razor suggests Assange might be thinking of suicide.
The defense pointed out that an official report from the prison confirmed that Assange had hidden a razor in his cell. The prosecution is surely aware of this report. In plain English, the prosecution lied to the court. The judge refuses to consider the prison report, however, because it is new evidence."
BTW, when I was in Federal prison, it was quite common for a prisoner to have a razor (broken to expose the blade) in his cell. It was used to cut vegetables, because we were not allowed to have knives. Jim Bell
Now if the majority of the main/lame stream media will get behind Julian Assange
Such Media will hardly get behind Assange because independent leak and news organizations like WikiLeaks are a threat to the establishment Media's GovCorp propaganda ad outlet business model. Trying to outscoop the Media is one thing, trying to fuck all two or three of them at once ftw will get you killed. Better have a good escape plan and trump card when trying that. End of story. See also Appelbaum CIJ Symposium posted many times on this.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/30/us-intelligence-sources-discus... " US intelligence sources discussed poisoning Julian Assange, court told Extradition hearing told spying operation at Ecuador embassy included plot to take baby’s nappy Plans to poison or kidnap Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy were discussed between sources in US intelligence and a private security firm that spied extensively on the WikiLeaks co-founder, a court has been told. Details of the alleged spying operation against Assange and anyone who visited him at the embassy were laid out on Wednesday at his extradition case, in evidence by a former employee of a Spanish security company, UC Global. Microphones were concealed to monitor Assange’s meetings with lawyers, his fingerprint was obtained from a glass and there was even a plot to obtain a nappy from a baby who had been brought on regular visits to the embassy, according to the witness, whose evidence took the form of a written statement. The founder and director of UC Global, David Morales, had said that “the Americans” had wanted to establish paternity but the plan was foiled when the then employee alerted the child’s mother. Anonymity was granted on Tuesday to the former employee and another person who had been involved with UC Global, after the hearing was told they feared that Morales, or others connected to him in the US, could seek to harm them. Details of their written evidence were read out at the Old Bailey in London on Wednesday by Mark Summers QC, one of the lawyers for Assange, who is fighting extradition to the US on charges relating to leaks of classified documents allegedly exposing US war crimes and abuse. James Lewis QC, acting for the US government, told the court on Tuesday that the US case was likely to be that the evidence of the former UC Global employees was “wholly irrelevant”. In the evidence, one of the witnesses said that UC Global started off with meagre contracts and in reality the only one at the beginning had been signed in October 2015 with the government of Ecuador in order to provide security for the daughters of the country’s president and its embassy in London. Guardian Today: the headlines, the analysis, the debate - sent direct to you Read more However, they said this changed when Morales attended a security sector trade fair in Las Vegas, where he obtained a contract with Las Vegas Sands, a company owned by the US billionaire Sheldon Adelson. The American was a friend and supporter of Donald Trump, who was a presidential candidate at the time. Morales was said to have returned to the company’s offices in Jerez in the south of Spain and announced: “We will be playing in the big league.” The witness added that Morales said the company had switched over to what the latter described as “the dark side”. This allegedly involved cooperating with the US authorities, who Morales said would ensure that they obtained contracts all over the world. An increasingly sophisticated operation to monitor Assange was launched and would accelerate after Trump assumed office in 2017, the witness said, adding that Morales would make frequent trips to the US with recorded data. “He [Morales] showed at times a real obsession in relation to monitoring the lawyers because our American friends were requesting it,” added the witness, who held a stake in UC Global for a period of time. The other witness, an IT expert who had joined UC Global in 2015, also referred to the trips to the US by Morales, who they said spoke about it in terms of “going to the dark side”. The witness was tasked in December 2017 with installing new cameras at the embassy that would, unlike the previous cameras, also record audio. They said Morales later instructed that the cameras should have a livestreaming capability “so that our friends in the US” would be able to access the embassy in real time. This “alarmed” the then employee who said it was not technically achievable. The response of Morales, he alleged, was to send him a document with detailed instructions on how to do it. “Obviously the document must have been supplied by a third party, which the witness expects was US intelligence,” said Summers, as he read out parts of the submission. The witness was said to have refused, saying it was manifestly illegal. The witness also claimed that the company’s US contacts had become nervous when it appeared Assange might be on the verge of securing a diplomatic passport from Ecuador in order to travel to a third state. On one occasion in 2017, they also recalled Morales saying that his American contacts had suggested that “more extreme measures” should be deployed against visitors to Assange. “There was a suggestion that the door of the embassy would be left open allowing people to enter from the outside and kidnap or poison Assange,” the court was told. The witness alleged Morales said these suggestions were under consideration with his contacts in the US. The witness also told of being asked to place stickers on the window of embassy rooms used by Assange. They said Morales had claimed this would assist “American friends” pointing laser microphones at the windows but who had been thwarted because Assange was deploying “white noise” countermeasures. Assange was removed by police in April 2019 from the embassy, where he had taken refuge seven years previously to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case that was subsequently dropped. The hearing continues. "
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 06:57:29PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVoUPnXqvNE The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange
Julian Assange MUST BE FREED.
"If wars can be started by lies, then they can be stopped by truth. -- Julian Assange"
The Surreal US Case Against Assange Alexander Mercouris via ConsortiumNews.com https://consortiumnews.com/2020/09/28/letter-from-london-the-surreal-us-case... https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/surreal-us-case-against-assange Zerohedge byline: The fox is guarding the henhouse and Washington is prosecuting a publisher for exposing its own war crimes... here is the best dissection of the incoherent US case against Julian Assange that we’ve seen... Following the Julian Assange case as it has progressed through its various stages, from the original Swedish allegations right up to and including the extradition hearing which is currently underway in the Central Criminal Court in London, has been a troubling and very strange experience. https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/04/more-good-news-for-assange-swedish-cou... The U.S. government has failed to present a coherent case. Conscious that the British authorities should in theory refuse to extradite Assange if the case against him were shown to be politically motivated and/or related to Assange’s legitimate work as a journalist, the U.S. government has struggled to present a case against Assange which is not too obviously politically motivated or related to Assange’s legitimate work as a journalist. This explains the strange succession of one original and two superseding indictments. The U.S. government’s first indictment was based on what was a supposedly simple allegation of computer interference, supposedly coordinated in some sort of conspiracy between Assange and Chelsea Manning. This was obviously done in an attempt to dispel the idea that the request for Assange’s extradition was politically motivated or was related to Assange’s legitimate work as a journalist. However lawyers in the United States had no difficulty pointing out the “inchoate facts” of the alleged conspiracy between Assange and Manning, whilst both lawyers and journalists in the United States and elsewhere pointed out that the facts in the indictment in fact bore all the hallmarks of action by a journalist to protect a source. https://pressfrom.info/us/news/opinion/-265266-alan-dershowitz-is-julian-ass... The result was that the U.S. government replaced its indictment with a first superseding indictment, which this time was founded largely on the 1917 Espionage Act, and was therefore closer to the real reasons why the case against Assange was being brought. However, that made the case look altogether too obviously politically motivated, so it has in turn been replaced by a second superseding indictment, presented to the court and the defence team virtually on the eve of the trial, which has sought to veer back towards strictly criminal allegations, this time of involvement in computer hacking. More Problems for Another Indictment ...
Noam Chomsky, bless his Soul, testified in the Julian Assange extradition case, and shockingly to ZERO cross examination - one imagines the lawyers acting for the USA to extradite Assange from the UK had That Feeling When you just know that any cross examination of a particular witness will only make your case worse. Also the below reports on various of the crimes and planned crimes done by the US side against legal process, against Assange, against Assange's lawyers and against the Ecuadorian embassy (and remember, Ecuador got a bit fat financial shot in the arse from the IMF for standing down on principles to give up Assange to the UK/USA authorities. ) Noam Chomsky Testifies In Assange Hearing; Extradition Decision Not Expected Till Next Year Craig Murray https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2020/10/01/chomsky-cockburn-and-worthington-for... https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/noam-chomsky-testifies-assange-hearin... I really do not know how to report Wednesday’s events. Stunning evidence, of extreme quality and interest, was banged out in precis by the lawyers as unnoticed as bags of frozen chips coming off a production line. The court that had listened to Clair Dobbin spend four hours cross-examining Carey Shenkman on individual phrases of first instance court decisions in tangentially relevant cases, spent four minutes as Noam Chomsky’s brilliant exegesis of the political import of this extradition case was rapidly fired into the court record, without examination, question or placing into the context of the legal arguments about political extradition. [pic of Chomsky with Assange on Ecuadorian UK embassy balcony] Twenty minutes sufficed for the reading of the “gist” of the astonishing testimony of two witnesses, their identity protected as their lives may be in danger, who stated that the CIA, operating through Sheldon Adelson, planned to kidnap or poison Assange, bugged not only him but his lawyers, and burgled the offices of his Spanish lawyers Baltazar Garzon. This evidence went unchallenged and untested. The rich and detailed evidence of Patrick Cockburn on Iraq and of Andy Worthington on Afghanistan was, in each case, well worthy of a full day of exposition. I should love at least to have seen both of them in the witness box explaining what to them were the salient points, and adding their personal insights. Instead we got perhaps a sixth of their words read rapidly into the court record. There was much more. I have noted before, and I hope you have marked my disapproval, that some of the evidence is being edited to remove elements which the US government wish to challenge, and then entered into the court record as uncontested, with just a “gist” read out in court. The witness then does not appear in person. This reduces the process from one of evidence testing in public view to something very different. Wednesday confirmed the acceptance that this “Hearing” is now devolved to an entirely paper exercise. It is in fact no longer a “hearing” at all. You cannot hear a judge reading. Perhaps in future it should be termed not a hearing but an “occasional rustling”, or a “keyboard tapping”. It is an acknowledged, indeed embraced, legal trend in the UK that courts are increasingly paper exercises, as noted by the Supreme Court. In the past, the general practice was that all the argument and evidence was placed before the court orally, and documents were read out, Lady Hale said. She added: “The modern practice is quite different. Much more of the argument and evidence is reduced into writing before the hearing takes place. Often, documents are not read out. “It is difficult, if not impossible, in many cases, especially complicated civil cases, to know what is going on unless you have access to the written material.” https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/open-justice-principle-applies-to-all-courts-.... ... ["the eloquent and brief statement by Noam Chomsky on the political nature of Julian Assange’s actions" is included, but as scanned images, not text, so no transcription of that atm.] ...
"If wars can be started by lies, then they can be stopped by truth. -- Julian Assange"
https://www.dw.com/en/un-rapporteur-on-assange-the-us-is-trying-to-criminali... https://news.antiwar.com/2020/12/31/uk-judge-to-give-decision-on-assange-ext... On Monday, January 4th, the British judge presiding over the extradition trial of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will decide whether or not Assange will be extradited to the US and tried under the Espionage Act for exposing US war crimes. If extradited, Assange could face up to 175 years in prison. Assange has been confined and violated by the US, UK, EC Moreno, etc for 10 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfZQcV-frnY Project Veritas - Assange US State Dept Tape https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeAssange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrYN3e4sq8I Tucker investigates why DOJ is pursuing Julian Assange aggressively https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U68BClYNwco Tucker Carlson interview with Julian Assange's fiancee Stella Moris
UK judge refuses extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange By JILL LAWLESS January 4, 2021 12:21 GMT LONDON (AP) — A British judge on Monday rejected the United States’ request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges, saying he was likely to kill himself if held under harsh U.S. prison conditions. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser rejected allegations that Assange is being prosecuted for political reasons or would not receive a fair trial in the United States. But she said his precarious mental health would likely deteriorate further under the conditions of “near total isolation” he would face in U.S. prison. “I find that the mental condition of Mr. Assange is such that it would be oppressive to extradite him to the United States of America,” the judge said. She said Assange was “a depressed and sometimes despairing man” who had the “intellect and determination” to circumvent any suicide prevention measures taken by American prison authorities. The U.S. government said it would appeal the decision. Assange’s lawyers said they would ask for his release from a London prison where he has been held for more than a year-and-a-half at a bail hearing on Wednesday. Assange, who sat in the dock at London’s Central Criminal Court for the ruling, wiped his brow as the decision was announced. His partner Stella Moris, with whom he has two young sons, wept. Assange’s American lawyer, Barry Pollack, said the legal team was “enormously gratified by the U.K. court’s decision denying extradition.” “The effort by the United States to prosecute Julian Assange and seek his extradition was ill-advised from the start,” he said. “We hope that after consideration of the U.K. court’s ruling, the United States will decide not to pursue the case further.” The ruling marks a dramatic moment in Assange’s years-long legal battles in Britain — though likely not its final chapter. U.S. prosecutors have indicted Assange on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication of leaked military and diplomatic documents a decade ago. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison. Lawyers for the 49-year-old Australian argue that he was acting as a journalist and is entitled to First Amendment protections of freedom of speech for publishing leaked documents that exposed U.S. military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. The judge, however, said Assange’s actions, if proven, would “amount to offenses in this jurisdiction that would not be protected by his right to freedom of speech.” The defense also argued during a three-week hearing in the fall that extradition threatens Assange’s human rights because he risks “a grossly disproportionate sentence” and detention in “draconian and inhumane conditions” that would exacerbate his severe depression and other mental health problems. The judge agreed that U.S. prison conditions would be oppressive. She accepted evidence from expert witnesses that Assange had a depressive disorder and an autism spectrum disorder. “I accept that oppression as a bar to extradition requires a high threshold. ... However, I am satisfied that, in these harsh conditions, Mr. Assange’s mental health would deteriorate causing him to commit suicide with the ‘single minded determination’ of his autism spectrum disorder,” the judge said in her ruling. Lawyers for the U.S. government deny that Assange is being prosecuted merely for publishing the leaked documents, saying the case “is in large part based upon his unlawful involvement” in the theft of the diplomatic cables and military files by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. The prosecution of Assange has been condemned by journalists and human rights groups, who say it undermines free speech around the world. They welcomed the judge’s decision, even though it was not made on free-speech grounds. “This is a huge relief to anyone who cares about the rights of journalists,” The Freedom of the Press Foundation tweeted: “The extradition request was not decided on press freedom grounds; rather, the judge essentially ruled the U.S. prison system was too repressive to extradite. However, the result will protect journalists everywhere.” Assange’s legal troubles began in 2010, when he was arrested in London at the request of Sweden, which wanted to question him about allegations of rape and sexual assault made by two women. In 2012, to avoid being sent to Sweden, Assange sought refuge inside the Ecuadorian Embassy, where he was beyond the reach of U.K. and Swedish authorities — but also effectively a prisoner, unable to leave the tiny diplomatic mission in London’s tony Knightsbridge area. The relationship between Assange and his hosts eventually soured, and he was evicted from the embassy in April 2019. British police immediately arrested him for jumping bail in 2012. Sweden dropped the sex crimes investigations in November 2019 because so much time had elapsed, but Assange remains in London’s high-security Belmarsh Prison, brought to court in a prison van throughout his extradition hearing.
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/USA-v-Assange-judgment-0... https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/USA-v-Assange-annex-0401... Her decision appears soley based on suicide, which while it worked for now for Julian (the US is appealing), could easily be seen as a safety copout for the UK, indeed appears she rejected all sorts of defense legal and arguments, endorsed the State's positions, and was seen as openly hostile during hearings. While Julian may or may not be released today, free speech, journalism, and freedom were left on ice in the gulag. J. ORDERS 410. I order the discharge of Julian Paul Assange, pursuant to section 91(3) of the EA 2003. No news yet on whether Julian has actually been set free. https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/1697207/julian-assange.jpg
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/fbi-releases-documents-on-inv... https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20690299-fbi-documents-on-seth-rich The FBI has produced 68 pages relating to a Democrat National Committee (DNC) worker who was shot dead in 2016 in Washington, including an investigative summary that appears to suggest someone could have paid for his death. Seth Rich, the worker, was shot dead in the early morning hours on July 16, 2016, near his home in the nation’s capital. The murder, which is unsolved to this day, fueled widespread media coverage, especially after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange suggested that Rich was the person who provided internal DNC emails to WikiLeaks. https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-has-tens-of-thousands-of-pages-mentioning-...
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/fbi-releases-documents-on-inv... https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20690299-fbi-documents-on-seth-rich
The FBI has produced 68 pages relating to a Democrat National Committee (DNC) worker who was shot dead in 2016 in Washington, including an investigative summary that appears to suggest someone could have paid for his death.
Seth Rich, the worker, was shot dead in the early morning hours on July 16, 2016, near his home in the nation’s capital.
The murder, which is unsolved to this day, fueled widespread media coverage, especially after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange suggested that Rich was the person who provided internal DNC emails to WikiLeaks.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-has-tens-of-thousands-of-pages-mentioning-...
https://twitter.com/ty_clevenger FOIA ORDER: FBI must produce Seth Rich info within 14 days. https://archive.ph/RxXMb https://newspunch.com/fbi-fabricating-seth-rich/ https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-c... Seth Rich's laptop could bring down the CIA and the FBI because it has clear evidence on it that Seth Rich was in contact with WikiLeaks and he was the source for the DNC emails, not Russia. Would mean CIA/FBI made up Russia DNC hack story and likely killed Seth Rich.
FBI Asks Court For 66 Years To Release Seth Rich Laptop Information LOL https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-asks-court-for-66-years-to-release-informa... https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23218831-doj-reconsideration-motion https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23218685-seidel-declaration FBI Asks Court for 66 Years to Release Information From Seth Rich’s Computer By Zachary Stieber October 28, 2022 Updated: October 29, 2022 biggersmaller Print The FBI is asking a U.S. court to reverse its order that it produce information from Seth Rich’s laptop computer. If the court does not, the bureau wants 66 years to produce the information. Rich was a Democratic National Committee staffer when he was killed on a street in Washington in mid-2016. No person has ever been arrested in connection to the murder. U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant, an Obama appointee, ruled in September that the bureau must hand over information from the computer to Brian Huddleston, a Texas man who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the info. The FBI’s assertion that the privacy interest Rich’s family members hold outweighed the public interest was rejected by Mazzant, who noted the bureau cited no relevant case law supporting the argument. But the ruling was erroneous, U.S. lawyers said in a new filing. The bureau shouldn’t have to produce the information because of FOIA exemptions for information that are compiled for law enforcement purposes and “could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source,” the lawyers said in a motion for reconsideration. Another exemption, which enables agencies to withhold information that would disclose law enforcement techniques also applies, they said. “Given the Court’s findings that except for the information related to Seth Rich’s laptop withheld pursuant to Exemptions 6 and 7(C) based on privacy interests, the FBI properly withheld or redacted all other information responsive to Huddleston’s requests, the production order seems inconsistent with the rest of the order,” the motion stated. The FBI, after claiming it never possessed Rich’s laptop or any information from it, acknowledged in 2020 that it had thousands of files from the computer. The bureau “is currently working on getting the files from Seth Rich’s personal laptop into a format to be reviewed,” the government said at the time. Epoch Times Photo Seth Rich, the voter expansion data director for the Democratic National Committee, in a file photograph. (LinkedIn) Information and material extracted from the computer were provided by a source to an FBI agent during a meeting on March 15, 2018, FBI records officer Michael Seidel said in a declaration. He said the files included photographs and documents, among other material. In the new filing, government lawyers said the FBI never extracted the data, which it revealed as originating with a law enforcement agency. They said the information is on a compact disc containing images of the laptop. “The FBI did not open an investigation into the murder of Seth Rich, nor did it provide investigative or technical assistance to any investigation into the murder of Seth Rich. As a result, the FBI has never extracted the data from the compact disc and never processed the information contained on the disc,” they said. To produce the information, the FBI would have to convert information on the disc into pages and then review the pages to redact information per FOIA, according to the government. If Mazzant upholds his order, the FBI wants a lengthy period of time to perform the work—66 years, or 500 pages a month. “If the court overrules the FBI’s motion, the FBI wants to produce records at a rate of 500 pages per month. At that rate, it will take almost 67 years just to produce the documents, never mind the images and other files,” Ty Clevenger, a lawyer representing Huddleston, told The Epoch Times in an email. “After dealing with the FBI for five years, I now assume that the FBI is lying to me unless and until it proves otherwise. The FBI is desperately trying to hide records about Seth Rich, and that begs the question of why.” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has suggested Rich leaked Democratic National Committee (DNC) files to WikiLeaks, but special counsel Robert Mueller said the real source was Russian hackers. Still, Mueller’s finding conflicts with statements from CrowdStrike, the firm hired to investigate how the DNC files were released.
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People worldwide should not have to wait for rare Deathbed Confessionals to discover that their best option as humanity is to permanently disband their governments, all of which are corrupt by definition. Leak, Deeply, Widely, Disruptively, and At Will, let the cards fall. Reagan Ally Worked To Prolong Iran Hostage Crisis: Aging 'Witness' https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise... https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/research/hostages_and_casualties https://www.britannica.com/event/Operation-Eagle-Claw https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/15/opinion/the-election-story-of-the-decade.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election https://www.amazon.com/October-Surprise-Gary-Sick/dp/0812920872 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-october-surprise-180960741/ As former President Jimmy Carter nears death, an aging Texas politician has come forward to get something big off his chest -- claiming that, in 1980, he accompanied former Texas governor John Connally on a whirlwind Middle East tour aimed at keeping Americans hostage of Iran until after the presidential election that elevated Ronald Reagan to power. “History needs to know that this happened,” 85-year-old Ben Barnes tells the New York Times. “I think it’s so significant and I guess knowing that the end is near for President Carter put it on my mind more and more and more. I just feel like we’ve got to get it down some way.” Barnes is a former Democratic speaker of the Texas House and lieutenant governor. Barnes (left) and Connally with Egypt's President Anwar el-Sadat (Ben Barnes via New York Times) The claims that Reagan cronies worked to prolong the Iran hostage crisis and torpedo President Carter's reelection bid aren't new, but Barnes is by far the most prominent figure to step forward and claim to have been a witness to such a conspiracy. In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, college students sympathetic with the revolution overran the US embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage. The long crisis that ensured dominated the presidency of Carter, who ordered an April 1980 military rescue mission that itself turned into a disaster, killing eight service-members and an Iranian civilian. The US hostage-rescue mission was aborted after a helicopter crashed into a C-130 at the "Desert One" staging area in the Iranian desert Reagan routed Carter by a 489-49 electoral-college margin. The hostages were released just minutes after President Reagan's January 1981 inauguration -- and after 444 days in captivity. Days later, the US government began facilitating the flow of weapons to Iran via Israel. Barnes tells the Times that Connally, who'd been famously wounded in the JFK assassination, invited him on a multi-country Middle East trip in the summer of 1980. He says that it was only after the trip was underway that he realized its purpose: to ask various regional officials to pass on a message to Iran. Here's how Barnes paraphrases the pitch: “‘Look, Ronald Reagan’s going to be elected president and you need to get the word to Iran that they’re going to make a better deal with Reagan than they are Carter,’ “[Connally] said, ‘It would be very smart for you to pass the word to the Iranians to wait until after this general election is over'." Records at the LBJ museum reflect Connally and Barnes leaving Houston on July 18, 1980 and returned Aug. 11 after visiting Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the Times reports. News accounts at the time characterized Conally's trip as "strictly private." Barnes says he next joined Connally in an early-September meeting to brief William J. Casey -- chairman of the Reagan presidential campaign and future CIA director -- about the Middle East trip. He says the session at the Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport spanned three hours. CIA Director William Casey and President Reagan (Getty via The Intercept) “I’ll go to my grave believing that it was the purpose of the trip," Barnes says. "It wasn’t freelancing because Casey was so interested in hearing as soon as we got back to the United States.” He says Casey wanted to know whether “they were going to hold the hostages.” Although previous Congressional investigations debunked the claim of Reagan campaign efforts to interfere in the hostage crisis, a possible Connally role wasn't examined. Barnes doesn't venture to establish that Reagan had knowledge of the undertaking. Barnes identified four living people with whom he'd previously shared his account. The Times says all four confirmed that Barnes had done so years before. In 1991, former Carter national security aide Gary Slick fleshed out the theory of Reagan-crony meddling in the hostage situation, first with a Times essay and then a book, October Surprise. That term first came to prominence via Reagan-Bush campaign warnings that Carter might exploit the crisis by achieving the hostages' release in the final run-up to the election. The term has been attributed to Casey himself. “I just want history to reflect that Carter got a little bit of a bad deal about the hostages,” Barnes tells the Times. “He didn’t have a fighting chance with those hostages still in the embassy in Iran.”
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Cari Matchit
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