17-09-2019, 08:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 17-09-2019, 08:44 AM by Tom Scully.)
Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:Tom, I did not follow your last post. I seriously do not understand, what you mean. Can we go slow and easy please, I am old and sick and German.
I say three words, that I recognize, and you explain step by step how they are connected in your opinion.
Manafort Muellergate Assange
I will try, Carsten.... I take issue with the premise in the thread's OP and with the notion there is an "offense"..."Muellergate."
The UK government and incidentally, its court, are merely playing a role on behalf of the Barr/Trump Department of (in)-Justice.
in July, 2010, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was indignant.: (I ended my last post quoting Gates in December of the same year.
Quote:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-a...W420100801
Cache of an Aug. 1, 2010 reuters.com report.:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks is at least morally guilty over the release of classified U.S. documents on the Afghan war, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday, as investigators broaden their probe of the leak....
...The leaked documents also threw an uncomfortable spotlight on links between Pakistan's spy agency and insurgents who oppose U.S. troops in neighboring Afghanistan.
Gates said links to insurgents was a concern but he and Mullen voiced support for recent moves by Islamabad and Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence agency....
My core point is that charges filed by Barr/Trump DOJ are a subterfuge. I presented cites indicating everyone from Trump campaign
manager Manafort to Fox News Trump sycophants were brazenly working to assist Assange in leaving the UK but that effort was taken off the table; the appointment of Robert Mueller made such efforts unwise. The initial indictment filed in Dec., 2017, against Assange related to alleged 2010 "crimes" is what these miscreants were reduced to. The actual crimes took place in 2016. The UK will go through the motions, following the US lead. If extradition proceedings are still unconcluded in the UK in late January, 2021, the new presidential administration will drop the indictment, since it cannot be revised per UK extradition laws.
I rely on one source, Dr. Marcy Wheeler, aka emptywheel.net . Since 2005, when I began reading her near realtime research and analysis,
I have not detected duplicity or other insincerity in her presentations.
Background:
Quote:[URL="https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/04/12/the-logistics-of-the-julian-assange-indictment/"]The Logistics of the Julian Assange Indictment | emptywheel
[/URL][URL="https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/04/12/the-logistics-of-the-julian-assange-indictment/"]
[/URL]https://www.emptywheel.net › 2019/04/12 › the-logistics-of-the-julian-assa...
Apr 12, 2019 - The extradition request and indictment have been pending while Vault 7 ... Julian Assange's extradition warrant was dated December 22, 2017.
[URL="https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/06/17/the-congressional-research-services-dated-take-on-julian-assanges-indictment/"]The Congressional Research Service's (Dated) Take on ...
[/URL]https://www.emptywheel.net › 2019/06/17 › the-congressional-research-ser...
Jun 17, 2019 - But it doesn't note that the complaint was obtained on December 21, 2017. ... In 2017, the country made Assange an Ecuadorian citizen. ... occurred years after the events for which Assange was indicted. .... But if the preference is to keep solely to the immediate thrust of emptywheel's post, just tell me.
[URL="https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/04/11/the-assange-indictment-and-the-rule-of-specialty/"]The Assange Indictment and The Rule of Specialty | emptywheel
[/URL]https://www.emptywheel.net › 2019/04/11 › the-assange-indictment-and-th...
Apr 11, 2019 - The Assange Indictment and The Rule of Specialty ..... Buzzfeed reported that the extradition request was submitted Dec 2017. The indictment ...
[URL="https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/04/12/the-dangers-of-the-julian-assange-indictment/"]The Dangers of the Julian Assange Indictment | emptywheel
[/URL]https://www.emptywheel.net › 2019/04/12 › the-dangers-of-the-julian-assa...
Apr 12, 2019 - I was traveling yesterday when Julian Assange was arrested and pretty fried once
This is complicated and much of it is circumstantial, but Assange used both the carrot and the stick on Trump and his associates...
Quote:https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/08/27/re...ical-gain/
REVISITING THE FIRST TIME PRESIDENT TRUMP BLABBED OUT CLASSIFIED INFORMATION FOR POLITICAL GAIN
August 27, 2019/18 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, Cybersecurity, emptywheel, Mueller Probe, WikiLeaks /by emptywheel
OCTOBER 25, 2017
...That means Trump probably made the comments as the FBI was preparing a search of Schulte's apartment, the first step the FBI took that would confirm for Schulte that he was the main suspect in the leak. Trump's comments likely aired during the search, before the moment Schulte left his apartment with two passports while the search was ongoing.[/FONT]CIA had had a bit of advanced warning about the leak. In the lead-up to the leaks (at least by February 3), a lawyer representing Julian Assange, Adam Waldman, was trying to use the Vault 7 files to make a deal with the US government, at first offering to mitigate the damage of the release for some vaguely defined safe passage for Assange. The next day, WikiLeaks first hyped the release, presumably as part of an attempt to apply pressure on the US. Shortly thereafter, Waldman started pitching Mark Warner (who, with Richard Burr, could have granted Assange immunity in conjunction with SSCI's investigation). On February 17, Jim Comey told Warner to stop his negotiations, though Waldman would continue to discuss the issue to David Laufman at DOJ even after the initial release. Weeks later, WikiLeaks released the initial dump of files on March 7.[/FONT]
An early WaPo report on the leak (which Schulte googled for its information about what the CIA knew before WikiLeaks published) claimed that CIA's Internal Security had started conducting its own investigation without alerting FBI to the leak (though obviously Comey knew of it by mid-February). The same report quoted a CIA spox downplaying the impact of a leak it now calls "catastrophic."[/FONT]
By March 13, the day the FBI got its first warrant on Schulte, the FBI had [/FONT]focused on Schulte as the primary target of the investigation. They based that focus on the following evidence, which appears to incorporate information from the CIA's own internal investigation, an assessment of the first document dump, and some FBI interviews with his colleagues in the wake of the first release:[/FONT]...
Peter Janney's uncle was Frank Pace, chairman of General Dynamics who enlisted law partners Roswell Gilpatric and Luce's brother-in-law, Maurice "Tex" Moore, in a trade of 16 percent of Gen. Dyn. stock in exchange for Henry Crown and his Material Service Corp. of Chicago, headed by Byfield's Sherman Hotel group's Pat Hoy. The Crown family and partner Conrad Hilton next benefitted from TFX, at the time, the most costly military contract award in the history of the world. Obama was sponsored by the Crowns and Pritzkers. So was Albert Jenner Peter Janney has preferred to write of an imaginary CIA assassination of his surrogate mother, Mary Meyer, but not a word about his Uncle Frank.