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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 156 points 2 months ago

Isn't it great that a man who exposed governmental corruption and war crimes faced a harsher persecution and punishment than the corrupt governments and war criminals themselves?

Democracy™️

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Sounds like they got what they needed from him

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

He pleaded guilty and agreed to delete "secret documents", whatever the hell that would be, as part of the deal

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

How many years would his prison sentence have been if he was extradided the year he fled to the embassy? I feel like he would have been out by now. Wasn't he leaking early Iraq war corruption stuff? That was 20 years ago.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago

He didn't leak, he published.

That's what's so concerning about the case. The USA tried to persecute an Australian citizen working out of the EU for publishing information.

If precedent was set they could kidnap anyone from sovereign countries based on US law

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

He might have been epsteined though

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

IIRC he had some kind of insurance file against that, I think there used to be some encrypted file you could download from Wikileaks and if he died the password would be released.

No idea what it was (if anything, it could have just been a bluff of course) but it seems to have had the desired effect so far.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I mean, I was so sure they wanted to incarcerate him until he commits suicide!

Wow

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

HANDS OFF

ASS

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It's not over yet.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Julian should have never been jailed.

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