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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I guess it's not clear to me that he is being prosecuted for the latter, or whether those facts are in the indictment because they are part of the context for the former.
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I’ve not read the thing in detail, but if reports are accurate, Assange’s knowing publication of state secrets Manning stole on his own is one of the alleged criminal acts.
It’s probably intentionally blurry and relies on a lot of conspiracy allegations to avoid collision with the First Amendment (avoidance of which Obama properly weighed in favor of only charging for hacking in the initial indictment).
ETA: I’ll have one in honor of Manning. She’s demonstrating principle every American should applaud. As a trans person, and infamous, the time she does is probably mostly solitary. And they can treat her like shit to break her, all under the guise she needed to be isolated in some hellish old wing of a jail for her own safety.
