Here is a statement from the horse’s mouth, William Colby, CIA Director from 1973 to 1976 who stated “The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” Assange was in the major media. He was on everybody’s lips.
Assange’s freedom is another big world show to scar people from doing what he was supposed to have done, but I sincerely hope that it has woken more people up to their bullshit games.
In another article, Times of Malta recounts how the US and Assange reached a plea deal: “After more than 13 years in England, including five years spent in prison, Julian Assange pleaded guilty in the Northern Mariana Islands, a far-flung US territory in the Pacific and walked out of court a free man.”
“The timing – and location – of the plea deal seemed to have come out of nowhere.”
There is nothing to see here about the timing, dear Times of Malta. We have the United Kingdom general election scheduled for Thursday, 4 July 2024 and the United States presidential election which is set to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.
TOM continues: “But an agreement between Assange, an Australian citizen who leaked US national security secrets in 2010, and American prosecutors had been moving forward in earnest for months.”
“Assange is also notorious among critics who say the massive disclosures, including troves of unredacted information, endangered US security and intelligence sources.“
“He ‘should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,’ former vice president Mike Pence said on Monday.“
“Representative Thomas Massie countered that ‘his liberation is great news.'”
“In any case, Assange has avoided a potential 175-year sentence under the 1917 Espionage Act. He was instead sentenced to five years and two months in prison – with credit for having already served that same amount of time in Britain.“
“He pleaded guilty to ‘conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified information relating to the national defence of the United States.’“
“Media advocates worry that the plea deal still sets a concerning legal precedent.”
‘The logic of the deal is that Assange will have served five years in prison for activities that journalists engage in every day,’ Jaffer wrote.
Here is what whistleblowers had to say about this deal ‘ploy’:
“The plea deal for Julian Assange that allowed him to walk out of a UK prison ‘raises some serious concerns regarding the effects on the free press and the circumstances surrounding this agreement,’ Andy Vermaut, Editor-in-Chief for Belgian Indegazette told Sputnik.
Details of the plea bargain are yet to be released, but it may require Assange to compromise or ‘give up some basic rights […] such as free speech, mobility, or ongoing monitoring, which can be regarded as concessions that erode the principles of press freedom,’ said the human rights activist.
Andy Vermaut suggested several factors may have fed into Assange’s release:
1. ‘There may be geopolitical factors involved, ‘The US may be trying to prevent further deterioration of diplomatic relations and regain its position as a protector of the freedom of the press,’ speculated the activist.
2. ‘The Biden administration could be using this deal as a strategy to divert attention from other political issues or to woo certain voters before the presidential debate,’ Vermaut said, in a nod at the looming Biden-Trump standoff.
3. The whistleblower’s extended period of detention had elicited concerns from human rights groups, which ‘could have called for his release.‘
If this is a ploy by the Biden administration, it may appeal to liberal voters and those who support civil liberties. But this could be counterproductive if it is perceived as a calculated move rather than a move towards the principle of justice, said the pundit.
If Assange is forced to agree to such things, it might end up ‘paving the way for future journalists and whistleblowers to be prosecuted,’ Vermaut concluded.”
