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Not frame, but find dirt on: >In addition, “A young online activist, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson (known as Siggi), told a closed session of Iceland’s Parliament t
by astazangasta 7y ago
Not frame, but find dirt on:
>In addition, “A young online activist, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson (known as Siggi), told a closed session of Iceland’s Parliament this year that he had been cooperating with United States agents investigating WikiLeaks at the time of the FBI’s visit in 2011,” the New York Times wrote.
>According to former Wikileaks member Birgitta Jonsdottir, who is now a member of Iceland's Parliament, Thordarson had been going back and forth visiting Assange in England, where Assange had been under house arrest at the time, and during that time the FBI tried to get Thordarson to wear a wire. Some fellow activists suggested that Thordarson had worked as a double agent for Assange in this capacity, but ultimately, the US investigators' presence left a mark on the Wikileaks members back in Iceland.
- Veen 7y agoAn alternative way of expressing "find dirt on" is "investigate" which is exactly what the FBI is expected to do.
- swarnie_ 7y agoCompletely ignorant here so forgive me... Isn't the FBI a domestic organisation? Shouldn't this have been NSA/CIA?
- Veen 7y agoThe FBI is primarily a domestic agency, but it can and does investigate abroad. The CIA/NSA are prohibited from acting in the US.
- jacquesm 7y agoI've seen FBI agents investigate cases in other countries. As in: I met a couple of them in passing, they definitely were legit.
- tbyehl 7y agoThat FBI investigates crimes. NSA/CIA do... other things.
- Someone1234 7y agoRight. But the person that posted the link used the term "frame." Thus my question. The FBI conducting an investigation and the FBI "framing" someone aren't comparable accusations, since one is lawful while the other is unlawful. Linking that as proof that the FBI intended to "frame" anyone is a non-starter, it simply doesn't say that.
- astazangasta 7y ago>The FBI conducting an investigation and the FBI "framing" someone aren't comparable accusations, since one is lawful while the other is unlawful. According to the article, the FBI lied to the Icelandic government in order to do its "investigation" (of what crime?), so I'm not sure "lawful" describes this activity.