- 06 Oct 2021 05:37
#15193486
That whole 'putting lives at risk' thing is a *myth*:
Unthinking Majority wrote:
This would explain why the US stayed in Afghanistan 12 years after even I, an internet nobody, knew the country was inevitably going to fall after the US left.
The Taliban flying around US-bought blackhawk helicopters isn't a disaster for the US when Lockheed Martin has already been paid.
I'm not actually a fan of Assange, I think the right way is to give that stuff to journalists to sift through so they can report the important stuff and keep under wraps the classified stuff that could harm national interests with no benefit to the public. Snowden at least gave it to journalists. Assange just releases everything with no regard. He could be putting the lives of people at risk. Journalists who whistleblow don't go to jail and they keep their sources secret. I think Biden is right to do the legal thing against him.
That whole 'putting lives at risk' thing is a *myth*:
More recently on 12 September 2019, Kevin Gosztola of Shadowproof.com interviewed each of the presidential candidates about their attitudes towards Assange. While some flat out claimed they would drop the charges, such as Senator Bernie Sanders and Marianne Williamson, others such as President Biden, obliquely answered the question, while still indicating their disdain for Assange, again claiming that Assange had put lives at risk. Recall, however, that it was established earlier herein that Assange was not the sole and was indeed the last agent to disseminate the unredacted portions of the diplomatic cables. Undue emphasis on his culpability is problematic, as a result. On top of that, it is important to remember that no evidence of harm done to informants has ever been documented. In the article by Greenwald cited earlier, the former co-founder of The Intercept testifies to this, when he writes:
“Recall that Adm. Michael Mullen and others accused WikiLeaks of having “blood on its hands” as a result of publication of the Afghan War documents, but that turned out to be totally false; as Shane noted today in the NYT: ‘no consequence more serious than dismissal from a job has been reported.’ Even Defense Secretary Robert Gates mocked claims about the damage done by WikiLeaks as “significantly overwrought.”
https://www.laprogressive.com/myth-of-a ... terrorist/