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> He is charged with helping Chelsea Manning to hack into a government computer which did happen on US soil. IIRC Manning was in Iraq at this time. Were server
by ianhawes 5y ago
> He is charged with helping Chelsea Manning to hack into a government computer which did happen on US soil.
IIRC Manning was in Iraq at this time. Were servers they accessed in the US? Probably. But that would be a crime Manning committed.
- zepto 5y ago> a crime Manning committed. With Assange as an accomplice.
- tristan957 5y agoThe land that a foreign military base sits on is within the jurisdiction of the US.
- Dah00n 5y agoThat is irrelevant if the hacker isn't at the base or in the US. This here is US law being applied outside the US to someone doing something outside the US while not being a US citizen. There not a single way to twist and turn this where it is lawful to apply it to Assange. It's just another corrupt court bending its knee.
- jjulius 5y ago>IIRC Manning was in Iraq at this time. Were servers they accessed in the US? Probably. Should the military personnel who were responsible for abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib not have been charged with crimes because they weren't in the US?
- boomboomsubban 5y agoI don't think they were tried for crimes in a US court, they faced a court martial.