11-12-2010, 11:41 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Julian Assange's Lawyers Warn of Imminent US Charges
Legal team for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Washington plans to invoke Espionage Act to indict their client
by Steven Morris
The US may be about to press charges against Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, one of his lawyers said today.
Jennifer Robinson said an indictment of her client under the US's Espionage Act was imminent. She said her team had heard from "several different US lawyers rumours that an indictment was on its way or had happened already, but we don't know".
According to some reports, Washington is seeking to prosecute Assange under the 1917 act, which was used unsuccessfully to try to gag the New York Times when it published the Pentagon Papers in the 1970s.
The only clause I could see in the Act when I checked it a couple of days ago, was the Sedition Act of 1917 (absorbed into the Espionage Act) which, was originally an Act of King George used against Americans in the War of independence.
How noble and telling it would be of the Obama Administration to bring it back to prominence now.
Do I trust the British 'Bullingdon 'pro-American'" government to fight the ball-less extradition agreement that allows the US to demand extradition without providing evidence of the claimed offense?
No.
Do I think the trumped up Swedish "wape" charges may have been used to get Assange into custody so that a "greater" charge of "espionage" takes precedence over the fallacious "wape" accusations?
The possibility has entered my mind.
Do I think a deal might have been hammered out between the Bullingdon grovelment and the Obama mirage-ment... possibly weeks ago?
Well, yes...
Signed,
Worried
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14