Topic: Julian Assange

Use RICO to get to the bottom of Seth Rich’s Murder July 12, 2022 Ron Wright Murder is not generally a federal crime but can be used as an unindicted predicate offense in a RICO action.
Gotterdammerung for Julian Assange? March 29, 2018 Monica Showalter Oh, yeah. It sure looks that way, based on the funny behavior in the Ecuadorean embassy in London and the loopy internal politics of Ecuador back home.
Assange's fence operation finally gets the legal hammer it deserves April 21, 2017 Monica Showalter Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the U.S. was preparing charges against Wikileaker Julian Assange. It couldn't come soon enough.
Fraud in Ecuador? Very likely – and Assange is snickering April 3, 2017 Monica Showalter In a likely case of fraud, Ecuador defied the right voter wave sweeping the continent and chose a leftist.  Julian Assange is a happy WikiLeaker.
Wikileaks CIA Dump Has Some Peculiar Timing March 8, 2017 Monica Showalter Wikileaks released a huge trove of CIA cyber intelligence claiming it the work of a disgruntled insider. The timing is too strange for that.
Assange reveals Podesta’s password was ‘password’ January 4, 2017 Thomas Lifson “A 14-year-old kid could have hacked Podesta that way.”  Not only is it pithy; it relates to things everyone experiences: our personal vulnerabilities to people other than Russian intelligence and the constant hectoring we all receive to change our passwords frequently.
Julian Assange definitively states that Russia was not the source of DNC leaks January 3, 2017 Thomas Lifson The days are over when unsourced, evidence-free assertions from the intelligence community will be accepted at face value.
Intrigue surrounds the Wikileaks ‘October surprise’ for Hillary October 3, 2016 Thomas Lifson If Assange has campaign-killing information on Hillary, how many companies would underwrite a life insurance policy on him?
James Clapper and The Lies of Intelligence January 2, 2014 G. Murphy Donovan Congress can trust Intelligence officers as well as any voter can trust politicians.
Obama admin bungled Snowden extradition June 27, 2013 Thomas Lifson The Obama administration's "smart diplomacy" wasn't able to get the paperwork done properly in extraditing Edward Snowden from Hong Kong.