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Revealed: US plans to charge Assange

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February 29, 2012

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UNITED STATES prosecutors have drawn up secret charges against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, according to a
confidential email obtained from the private US intelligence company Stratfor.

In an internal email to Stratfor analysts on January 26 last year, the vice-president of intelligence, Fred Burton, responded to a media report concerning US investigations targeting WikiLeaks with the comment: ''We have a sealed indictment on Assange.''

He underlined the sensitivity of the information - apparently obtained from a US government source - with warnings to ''Pls [please] protect'' and ''Not for pub[lication]''.

Mr Burton is well known as an expert on security and counterterrorism with close ties to the US intelligence and law enforcement agencies. He is the former deputy chief of the counter-terrorism division of the US State Department's diplomatic security service.

Stratfor, whose headquarters are in Austin, Texas, provides intelligence and analysis to corporate and government subscribers.

On Monday, WikiLeaks began releasing more than 5 million Stratfor emails which it said showed ''how a private intelligence agency works, and how they target individuals for their corporate and government clients''.

The Herald has secured access to the emails through an investigative partnership with WikiLeaks.

The news that US prosecutors drew up a secret indictment against Mr Assange more than 12 months ago comes as the Australian awaits a British Supreme Court decision on his appeal against extradition to Sweden to be questioned in relation to sexual assault allegations.

Mr Assange, who has not been charged with any offence in Sweden, fears extradition to Stockholm will open the way for his extradition to the US on possible espionage or conspiracy charges in retaliation for WikiLeaks's publication of thousands of leaked US classified military and diplomatic reports.

Last week the US Army Private Bradley Manning was committed to face court martial for 22 alleged offences, including ''aiding the enemy'' by leaking classified government documents to WikiLeaks.

In December the Herald revealed Australian diplomatic cables, declassified under freedom of information, confirmed WikiLeaks was the target of a US Justice Department investigation ''unprecedented both in its scale and nature'' and suggested that media reports that a secret grand jury had been convened in Alexandria, Virginia, were ''likely true''.

The Australian embassy in Washington reported in December 2010 that the Justice Department was pursuing an ''active and vigorous inquiry into whether Julian Assange can be charged under US law, most likely the 1917 Espionage Act''.

In recent answers to written parliamentary questions from the Greens senator Scott Ludlam, the former foreign affairs minister Kevin Rudd indicated Australia had sought confirmation that a secret grand jury inquiry directed against Mr Assange was under way.

Mr Rudd said ''no formal advice'' had been received from US authorities but acknowledged the existence of a ''temporary surrender'' mechanism that could allow Mr Assange to be extradited from Sweden to the US. He added that Swedish officials had said Mr Assange's case would be afforded ''due process''.

The US government has repeatedly declined to confirm or deny any reported details of the WikiLeaks inquiry, beyond the fact that an investigation is being pursued.

The Stratfor emails show that the WikiLeaks publication of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables triggered intense discussion within the ''global intelligence'' company.

In the emails, an Australian Stratfor ''senior watch officer'', Chris Farnham, advocated revoking Mr Assange's Australian citizenship, adding: ''I don't care about the other leaks but the ones he has made that potentially damage Australian interests upset me. If I thought I could switch this dickhead off without getting done I don't think I'd have too much of a problem.''

But Mr Farnham also referred to a conversation with a close family friend who he said knew one of the Swedish women who had made allegations of sexual assault against Mr Assange, and added: ''There is absolutely nothing behind it other than prosecutors that are looking to make a name for themselves.''

While some Stratfor analysts decried what they saw as Mr Assange's ''clear anti-Americanism'', others welcomed the leaks and debated WikiLeaks's longer-term impact on secret diplomacy and intelligence.

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How the fuck does a country indict someone for breaking one of their laws when the person never set foot inside the fucking country? Talk about trumped up bullshit!

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How the fuck does a country indict someone for breaking one of their laws when the person never set foot inside the fucking country? Talk about trumped up bullshit!


It's straight up fascist bullshit. Sweden's "rape" laws are so absolutely outlandish.

Ultimately, the "Ministry of Propaganda" wants to shut down all truthful information.

George Orwell must be spinning in his grave right about now. :banghead:

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How the fuck does a country indict someone for breaking one of their laws when the person never set foot inside the fucking country? Talk about trumped up bullshit!


Well, considering my country (The good ol USA) has hundreds of military bases in dozens upon dozens of foreign countries (far more than the British empire ever had at its climax), it gives the USA a lot of influence over other countries. When the US government, US military, or US corporate/banking elite want their way, they usually get it. It's easy for them to get their way when they have hundreds of thousands of brainwashed tools (aka soldiers) at their behest to threaten the rest of the world with.

Yes, this is fascism, and yes this is imperialism.


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loveablenerd wrote:
How the fuck does a country indict someone for breaking one of their laws when the person never set foot inside the fucking country? Talk about trumped up bullshit!


Well, considering my country (The good ol USA) has hundreds of military bases in dozens upon dozens of foreign countries (far more than the British empire ever had at its climax), it gives the USA a lot of influence over other countries. When the US government, US military, or US corporate/banking elite want their way, they usually get it. It's easy for them to get their way when they have hundreds of thousands of brainwashed tools (aka soldiers) at their behest to threaten the rest of the world with.

Yes, this is fascism, and yes this is imperialism.


Unfortunatly what you say is true. The FDA has often managed to have other coutries ban useful pharmaceuticals that
they deemed to be "harmful" in many other countries as well. America is the new Rome in many ways, that is certain.

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Hopeless_Romantic wrote:
loveablenerd wrote:
How the fuck does a country indict someone for breaking one of their laws when the person never set foot inside the fucking country? Talk about trumped up bullshit!


Well, considering my country (The good ol USA) has hundreds of military bases in dozens upon dozens of foreign countries (far more than the British empire ever had at its climax), it gives the USA a lot of influence over other countries. When the US government, US military, or US corporate/banking elite want their way, they usually get it. It's easy for them to get their way when they have hundreds of thousands of brainwashed tools (aka soldiers) at their behest to threaten the rest of the world with.

Yes, this is fascism, and yes this is imperialism.


Unfortunatly what you say is true. The FDA has often managed to have other coutries ban useful pharmaceuticals that
they deemed to be "harmful" in many other countries as well. America is the new Rome in many ways, that is certain.


The New Rome, the 4th Reich, the whore of babylon, whatever people wish to call it, lol.
It's going to be one hell of a crazy time when this empire comes tumbling down into its own footprint.
But to be perfectly honest, I am leaning toward the position that all of this (wars, economic trouble, etc) is being staged by the power elite.


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oncebitten55 wrote:
Hopeless_Romantic wrote:
loveablenerd wrote:
How the fuck does a country indict someone for breaking one of their laws when the person never set foot inside the fucking country? Talk about trumped up bullshit!


Well, considering my country (The good ol USA) has hundreds of military bases in dozens upon dozens of foreign countries (far more than the British empire ever had at its climax), it gives the USA a lot of influence over other countries. When the US government, US military, or US corporate/banking elite want their way, they usually get it. It's easy for them to get their way when they have hundreds of thousands of brainwashed tools (aka soldiers) at their behest to threaten the rest of the world with.

Yes, this is fascism, and yes this is imperialism.


Unfortunatly what you say is true. The FDA has often managed to have other coutries ban useful pharmaceuticals that
they deemed to be "harmful" in many other countries as well. America is the new Rome in many ways, that is certain.


The New Rome, the 4th Reich, the whore of babylon, whatever people wish to call it, lol.
It's going to be one hell of a crazy time when this empire comes tumbling down into its own footprint.
But to be perfectly honest, I am leaning toward the position that all of this (wars, economic trouble, etc) is being staged by the power elite.


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Hopeless_Romantic wrote:
loveablenerd wrote:
How the fuck does a country indict someone for breaking one of their laws when the person never set foot inside the fucking country? Talk about trumped up bullshit!


Well, considering my country (The good ol USA) has hundreds of military bases in dozens upon dozens of foreign countries (far more than the British empire ever had at its climax), it gives the USA a lot of influence over other countries. When the US government, US military, or US corporate/banking elite want their way, they usually get it. It's easy for them to get their way when they have hundreds of thousands of brainwashed tools (aka soldiers) at their behest to threaten the rest of the world with.

Yes, this is fascism, and yes this is imperialism.


Unfortunatly what you say is true. The FDA has often managed to have other coutries ban useful pharmaceuticals that
they deemed to be "harmful" in many other countries as well. America is the new Rome in many ways, that is certain.


The New Rome, the 4th Reich, the whore of babylon, whatever people wish to call it, lol.
It's going to be one hell of a crazy time when this empire comes tumbling down into its own footprint.
But to be perfectly honest, I am leaning toward the position that all of this (wars, economic trouble, etc) is being staged by the power elite.
It is contolled by the elites, of that
there is no doubt. I can't wsait until it all.comes.crashing.down upon them. Hbopefully a civil war
will ensue and a new nation will emerge and justice will be had.for all of us.
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The only civil war I would ever support would be the one where the masses take out the corrupt at the top of the pyramid.

But even then, war is a last resort. The unreported Icelandic revolution is one that the entire world should follow.

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The only civil war I would ever support would be the one where the masses take out the corrupt at the top of the pyramid.

But even then, war is a last resort. The unreported Icelandic revolution is one that the entire world should follow.


Yeah, I agree about war, but you know how things are here in America.

I wish we could have a peaceful overthrow of banksters, but that's unlikely.

We are simply not Iceland, nor much like many other countries on the planet.

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oncebitten55 wrote:
Hopeless_Romantic wrote:
loveablenerd wrote:
How the fuck does a country indict someone for breaking one of their laws when the person never set foot inside the fucking country? Talk about trumped up bullshit!


Well, considering my country (The good ol USA) has hundreds of military bases in dozens upon dozens of foreign countries (far more than the British empire ever had at its climax), it gives the USA a lot of influence over other countries. When the US government, US military, or US corporate/banking elite want their way, they usually get it. It's easy for them to get their way when they have hundreds of thousands of brainwashed tools (aka soldiers) at their behest to threaten the rest of the world with.

Yes, this is fascism, and yes this is imperialism.


Unfortunatly what you say is true. The FDA has often managed to have other coutries ban useful pharmaceuticals that
they deemed to be "harmful" in many other countries as well. America is the new Rome in many ways, that is certain.


The New Rome, the 4th Reich, the whore of babylon, whatever people wish to call it, lol.
It's going to be one hell of a crazy time when this empire comes tumbling down into its own footprint.
But to be perfectly honest, I am leaning toward the position that all of this (wars, economic trouble, etc) is being staged by the power elite.



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Hopeless_Romantic wrote:
oncebitten55 wrote:
Hopeless_Romantic wrote:
loveablenerd wrote:
How the fuck does a country indict someone for breaking one of their laws when the person never set foot inside the fucking country? Talk about trumped up bullshit!


Well, considering my country (The good ol USA) has hundreds of military bases in dozens upon dozens of foreign countries (far more than the British empire ever had at its climax), it gives the USA a lot of influence over other countries. When the US government, US military, or US corporate/banking elite want their way, they usually get it. It's easy for them to get their way when they have hundreds of thousands of brainwashed tools (aka soldiers) at their behest to threaten the rest of the world with.

Yes, this is fascism, and yes this is imperialism.


Unfortunatly what you say is true. The FDA has often managed to have other coutries ban useful pharmaceuticals that
they deemed to be "harmful" in many other countries as well. America is the new Rome in many ways, that is certain.


The New Rome, the 4th Reich, the whore of babylon, whatever people wish to call it, lol.
It's going to be one hell of a crazy time when this empire comes tumbling down into its own footprint.
But to be perfectly honest, I am leaning toward the position that all of this (wars, economic trouble, etc) is being staged by the power elite.



I'll bet you keep an impressive collection of tin foil hats.


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