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Even if you play with a foreign power, does that means they should throw out of the windows their laws and due process? This trial puts the U.S.A. and U.K. in a
by yohannparis 6y ago
Even if you play with a foreign power, does that means they should throw out of the windows their laws and due process? This trial puts the U.S.A. and U.K. in a bad light.
Government plays with fire to gather intelligence every day. But if they are caught by journalism, they will use their political power to muffle it. Seems obvious but unfair.
If you cannot question the activities of your government, therefore it is your government?
- unreal37 6y agoThe answer is "of course, of course." If you convince an American military person to hack into a computer system and leak you files, and conspire with the Russians to release other hacked files to make the American military and political class look bad, you'll be having a bad decade or two. Of course.
- sixQuarks 6y agoWhat is the proof that he “convinced” someone to hack into the military?
- NovemberWhiskey 6y agoI don't want to be glib here, but that would be the subject matter of his trial if/when he finally does get to the US. An extradition hearing is not, and has never been, the place where questions of innocence or guilt are decided.
- cassepipe 6y agoOf course. Of course if you are the wife of a violent man that regularly beats you up and you refuse to prepare dinner tonight, you know you're probably gonna have a bad evening. Of course you are seeing the point I am making here. Of course.
- alasdair_ 6y ago> If you convince an American military person to hack into a computer system and leak you files Manning contacted Assange with files. Assange didn’t need to “convince” her.