aggiehawg said:
RoscoePColtrane said:
aggiehawg said:
Exactly what would be the charges against Assange? He's not the one hacking and stealing this stuff, he's publishing it. If WaPo and the Times could publish the Pentagon Papers with impunity, then why not Assange?
I betting they are going after conspiring to influence an election, and if they do the discovery will end them. By them I mean the whole Russia scam. The left only look at the short game
Conspiring to influence an election? Couldn't the same be said about Comey, Lynch, McCabe, Strzok and Page? Steele, Halper, Simpson, David Corn, Michael Isikoff?
Now, I am not saying Assange wouldn't have an uphill battle claiming he's just a publisher and should be accorded First Amendment protections, he would have such a battle. Absent such a finding, his refusal to name the sources for the materials he posts would subject him to contempt charges. But until he's actually in the States and ordered to provide that information, I'm not seeing which statutes he has violated. (Not saying it is impossible just that I don't know.)
Sure they could, just like the bogus conspiring to defraud the government garbage the SC was throwing around.
Pompeo has his own bones to make with Assange. Pompeo and Bolton can't wait to try and get their pound of flesh.
I don't think anything is going to happen to him. Lots and lots of smoke but no fire. Couple of years of potbanging and he'll be a distant memory.
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