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Julian Assange Charged! Feds Charge WikiLeaks Founder For Revealing U.S. Government Secrets

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Where is Trump at? You know fighting the Deep State.. well he doesn’t seem to give a flip about Assange. He even denied he ever heard of Wikileaks after mentioning it on the campaign trail a metric ton! Free Assange! Wake up Trump!

WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was charged Thursday under the Espionage Act with conspiring to reveal national security secrets in what prosecutors have described as one of the largest compromises of classified information in U.S. history.

Federal prosecutors revealed 18 charges against Assange. They include allegations that he aided and abetted former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning’s efforts to leak classified documents to the anti-secrecy group. Prosecutors alleged that Assange did so with reason to believe that the information would be used to injure the United States or help a foreign country.

“This release made our adversaries stronger and more knowledgeable, and the United States less secure,” said John Demers, assistant attorney general for national security. 

While Assange has argued that he should be immune from prosecution as a journalist, authorities said he was charged for releasing a narrow class of documents that dealt with people who provided the United States with intelligence in war zones. The WikiLeaks databases contain approximately 90,000 Afghanistan war-related significant activity reports, 400,000 Iraq war-related significant activities reports, 800 Guantanamo Bay detainee assessment briefs and 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables, according to prosecutors.

“The department takes seriously the role of journalists in our democracy, and we thank you for it. It is not and never has been the department’s policy to target them for reporting,” Demers said “But Julian Assange is no journalist.”

“Indeed, no responsible actor, journalist or otherwise, would purposely publish the names of individuals he or she knew to be confidential human sources in war zones,” Demers said.

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    • Katherine

      It’s the Art of the Con

      Trump re: his continuous arming of $audia Arabia’s continous bombing of Yemen causing countless babies, children and their families to starve to death.

      Trump’s obvious b-ll sh-t statement regarding the gruesome murder of the Wash post’s journalist, Jamal Khashoggi:

      Trump said he will take the word of the crown prince that he had no knowledge of the butchering of Jamal.

      Yeah, right.

      Or U$ college student Otto Warmbier’s terrible brain injury due to torture and resulting in death.

      The following statement was issued in Hanoi; Trump said that Kim told him he had not been aware of Otto’s treatment and the president said he would “take (Kim) at his word.”

      $ure thing.

      What’s going on will be just a tip of the iceberg.

      God Will not give Trump a pass. (of course unless he turns it all around and fast.)

      We have to realize; Trump is Deep State. Don’t be deceived.

      We will know them by their fruits. Matthew 7:17 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

      Even if they do some good, don’t allow that to deceive us. He just works at a more palatable pace which is easier to swallow than a Hillary, Obama or another Bushie.

      John 18:36 Jesus answered, My Kingdom is not of this world: if My Kingdom were of this world, then would My servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is My Kingdom not from hence.

      • Anonymous

        Proven without a doubt in so many ways from day one, the colossal fraud that we were warned about.
        “I will never lie to you.”

    • Sue Rosenorn

      Assange is a hero. Regardless of how the crooked Deep State want him to be charged. My other hero President Trump needs to step up and clear him of all charges and any wrongdoing since he helped him reveal the evil deed of the Clintons , Obummers and other Demonrats, etc.

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