Julian Assange Arrested on U.S. Extradition Warrant, London Police Say

[Zippyjuan]

Annnd...under the bus he goes.

This is Trump at his scummiest...you know god damned well he knows exactly who Assange is and when and where and why he was being hauled off.

People only have value to Trump when they can help Trump look good. Trump is all that matters.

 

[AngryCanadian]

Looks like American liberals still wont accpet that Russia never meddled in America's elections and are now attacking/Claiming Russia owned Wikileaks.

Chuck Schumer
Now that Julian Assange has been arrested, I hope he will soon be held to account for his meddling in our elections on behalf of Putin and the Russian government.

The hacker of the DNC Hillary Witch was one of their own. The hacker only gave the info to wikileaks.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

He is charged with "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion", specifically helping manning crack a password; not anything to do with releasing news or being an agent of the press. IF he really did help manning hack into the computers, then he should get time.

Like the Awan brothers?

HOUSE REPORT CONCLUDED PAKISTANIS MADE ‘UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS’ TO CONGRESSIONAL SERVERS

House investigators concluded that Democratic IT aides made unauthorized access to congressional servers in 2016, allegedly accessing the data of members for whom they did not work, logging in as members of Congress themselves, and covering their tracks, according to a presentation summarizing the findings of a four-month internal probe.

Their behavior mirrored a “classic method for insiders to exfiltrate data from an organization,” and they continued even after orders to stop, the briefing materials allege.
...
More: https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/16/...unauthorized-access-to-congressional-servers/

 

[devil21]

How can they convict him of anything if he does not work for any govt.'s ?

A fine question. I have to wonder where exactly the DoJ's jurisdiction over a foreign national that (presumably) didn't engage in any hacking comes from. Wasn't Assange's original charge over a rape allegation? The timing of the arrest sorta looks like a side show distraction when there wasn't much drama coming out of DC lately. Gotta keep the circuses going...

 

[Swordsmyth]

It'll be funny when Trump lets him go. He'll have willingly imprisoned himself for no reason for 7? years.

I hope that is how it ends.

 

[TheCount]

Why are you always such a fucking tool??

Speaking of tools, how about this tool who used to think that actions were more important than words?

I don't care about speeches, I care about actions

I've always said that it is important to judge on actions the administration takes

What a fucking tool.

 

[Zippyjuan]

A fine question. I have to wonder where exactly the DoJ's jurisdiction over a foreign national that (presumably) didn't engage in any hacking comes from. Wasn't Assange's original charge over a rape allegation? The timing of the arrest sorta looks like a side show distraction when there wasn't much drama coming out of DC lately. Gotta keep the circuses going...

One of the victims is considering re-instating her rape charge. The government dropped the charges when Assange entered the Embassy. The current charge in the US is that he assisted Manning in hacking government computers (though more charges may be added later).

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/11/712128612/julian-assange-arrested-in-london

in March 2010, Assange engaged in a conspiracy with Chelsea Manning, a former intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S. Department of Defense computers connected to ... a U.S. government network used for classified documents and communications.

Elisabeth Massi Fritz, the lawyer representing the unnamed woman who accused Assange of rape, told NPR by email that she and her client would do everything they can to get the Swedish police to reopen the investigation.

That case — and fear by Assange that Stockholm might extradite him to the United States if he went to Sweden to address it — prompted him to confine himself in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

His London arrest is for failure to appear in court (he jumped bail and fled to the Argentinian Embassy to escape prosecution). That could lead to a twelve month sentence.

 

[devil21]

Ahh the infamous "conspiracy to" charge. The last refuge of a prosecutor without much evidence.

 

[nikcers]

Julian Assange after arrest: ‘I told you so’

Damn it I already was thinking that while watching your arrest video.

 

[devil21]

So do we now get the key to that big 'dead man's switch' data file that was uploaded years ago in the event of his arrest?

 

[TheCount]

So do we now get the key to that big 'dead man's switch' data file that was uploaded years ago in the event of his arrest?

It's Alex Jones's stash of tranny porn.

 

[Zippyjuan]

So do we now get the key to that big 'dead man's switch' data file that was uploaded years ago in the event of his arrest?

https://heavy.com/news/2019/04/julian-assange-dead-mans-switch-wikileaks-insurance-files/

What Happened to Julian Assange’s Dead Man’s Switch for the WikiLeaks Insurance Files?

Now that Julian Assange has been arrested in London after seven years in exile at the Ecuadorian embassy, many are wondering if anything will happen with the “dead man’s switch” that Assange and WikiLeaks have talked about in the past. Read on for more details about the dead man’s switch, its history, and what we know so far about the insurance files.

Assange is accused of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for agreeing to break a password to a classified U.S. government computer, related to Chelsea Manning’s release of classified data in 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice for the Eastern District of Virginia. The arrest happened shortly after Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno withdrew Assange’s asylum.

Assange now faces extradition to the United States, but his lawyer has vowed to fight extradition, AP reported. When Assange appeared in Westminster Magistrate’s Court, District Judge Michael Snow found him guilty of breaking his bail conditions, saying that Assange was a “narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interests.” Assange’s next court appearance will be May 2 via a prison video-link, where he will face an extradition hearing. Another extradition hearing is scheduled for June 12.

What’s still unclear at this time is what might happen with the dead man’s switch that Assange has talked about in the past. WikiLeaks has released numerous insurance files as a type of “deadman’s switch.” Downloaders get an encryption key, but they need a second one before they can actually unlock the file. The insurance files operate as a type of backup. If anything happens to WikiLeaks, the second key is released, giving everyone access to the file, according to comments WikiLeaks and Assange have made in the past. However, these are typically insurance files to ensure that a pending publication is actually released. It’s unclear how many (if any) are actually related to Julian Assange’s safety or WikiLeaks’ existence in general.

Insurance files have been released by WikiLeaks multiple times. One of those insurance files was released in June 2016:

The June 2016 dead man’s switch was the subject of a lot of speculation in late 2016 when rumors had spread that Julian Assange was no longer alive and people wanted proof of life. A tweet by WikiLeaks in October 2016 revived those rumors, as some mistakenly believed that the following tweet was connected to the dead man’s switch.

However, as Gizmodo reported, the pre-commitment wording above meant the codes provided proof that related documents hadn’t been tampered with. They weren’t actually dead man’s switches, but digital fingerprints of upcoming releases. So if you see a pre-commitment tweet, that is not a dead man’s switch or a means to decrypt an insurance file.

A file that is genuinely a dead man’s switch is typically labeled “insurance” in a WikiLeaks tweet, such as what the June 17, 2016 tweet above shows. These need a second decryption key to open. That decryption key is the dead man’s switch that people are waiting on.

Let’s look at the June 19, 2016 file for more details on how that works. The June 19, 2016 insurance filed was just called “WIKILEAKS INSURANCE” but some wondered at the time if it was a deadman’s switch connected to Hillary Clinton somehow. It’s important to point out that this particular encrypted file was going to be released if WikiLeaks was prevented from releasing planned publications connected to the 2016 election, which they did release.

So it’s unclear how many of the insurance files that WikiLeaks has tweeted before are actually dead man switches in case something happens to Assange or WikiLeaks itself. A story by Wired in 2011 indicated that at least some are insurance files just for this purpose, however. Daniel Domscheit-Berg wrote a book called Inside WikiLeaks, talking about how he and a WikiLeaks programmer had seized their submission system and some documents that were there at the time. In the article, Domscheit-Berg said he didn’t know what was in an encrypted WikiLeaks file that was posted to the site that previous July. The file had been sent to politicians, journalists, and others. According to Wired, WikiLeaks planned to distribute a password for that file if anything “grave” happened to WikiLeaks staff or if anyone tried to take down WikiLeaks. Domscheit-Berg thought this included Assange losing a legal battle, according to Wired.

More at link.

 

[pcosmar]

So do we now get the key to that big 'dead man's switch' data file that was uploaded years ago in the event of his arrest?

I had "blank" files on an old hard drive..

May have to see if any have opened.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Maybe the "dead man" files have already been released. Or maybe it was just a bluff. Maybe those secret 8 gb or whatever files were cat pictures or porn.

https://newspunch.com/julian-assange-dead-mans-switch-wikileaks/

From October, 2016:

Assange Missing, Presumed Dead As WikiLeaks Open Huge Archive

An enormous directory of secret files has been opened to the public on the WikiLeaks website sparking fears Julian Assange’s dead man’s switch has been activated, meaning he is either detained or dead.

The silently released files contain top-secret information from all corners of the globe including hundreds of files relating to the US military, the Kremlin, Israel, Royal families, Scientology, secret societies, multinational corporations, and even a zip file named Steve Jobs HIV.

In a display of grim humor, every file and folder has been timestamped 01.01.1984.

In the past WikiLeaks has made known the existence of a Julian Assange dead man’s switch. Essentially a means of discouraging his assassination, an enormous trove of secrets will be automatically published if Assange is detained or dead.

Unlike usual WikiLeaks releases, the official twitter account has not mentioned the opening of the folder to the public, heightening suspicions it was an automatic release.

Fears about Julian Assange’s safety have been growing since Sunday when the US government leaned on Ecuador to cut the WikiLeak founder’s internet access. The following day an unusual series of cryptic tweets was released by WikiLeaks, prompting fears the dead man’s switch had been activated.

 

[Stratovarious]

Meanwhile , the much bigger threat to America (Hillary) walks free, guilty of Espionage
and probably murder.

 

[CCTelander]

Annnd...under the bus he goes.

This is Trump at his scummiest...you know god damned well he knows exactly who Assange is and when and where and why he was being hauled off.

I'm not even the tiniest bit surprised. And I doubt you are either, thogh there no doubt are a few gullible idiots around for whom this will come as a tremedous shock.

 

[TER]

I'm not even the tiniest bit surprised. And I doubt you are either, thogh there no doubt are a few gullible idiots around for whom this will come as a tremedous shock.

I confess I am a gullible idiot.

I am also very much enjoying the show.

According to a little bird, this was always the plan. Namely, clean up the DOJ, start the formal investigations into the DS and Clinton email/ Russian hoax, and then bring in JA to drop the hammer during testimony and on the record.

Best timeline ever.

God bless POTUS!
God bless Assange!

 

[Superfluous Man]

I'm not even the tiniest bit surprised. And I doubt you are either, thogh there no doubt are a few gullible idiots around for whom this will come as a tremedous shock.

The people you're thinking of won't be shocked, because they don't believe it. They believe that Trump is up to something awesome, where he arrested Assange because he knows he'll be acquitted, and if not, then he'll pardon him, just like when he ordered his ATF to ban bump stocks so that the courts could overturn the ban, and the time he really did make Mexico pay for the wall by renegotiating a trade deal with them, and the time a Congress in 2019 wouldn't appropriate money for his wall so he performed a bona fide magic trick and got a Congress in 1976 to appropriate it.

They actually think this way. Trump and his clerics like Q, and Molyneaux, and Alex Jones have their lemmings so mesmerized and cognitively dissonant that they will say anything to defend him.

And when they do see Trump lie through his teeth, they cheer him on and beam with pride over how he's running circles around his rivals with his marvelous tricks.

To the resident Trump-lemmings here, feel free to prove me wrong and take this opportunity to bash your slime ball hero.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I'm not even the tiniest bit surprised. And I doubt you are either, thogh there no doubt are a few gullible idiots around for whom this will come as a tremedous shock.

No...not at all.

Whatever my slight praise of him when he does the right thing, accidentally or deliberately, does not cover the fact that I think he is pretty much a reprobate of a human being, especially when it comes to bullshit like this. If there is one thing that chaps my ass more than anything else, it is for some asshole to try and tell me "it's raining" when they are clearly pissing on my head.

Sadly, being true, moral, upright and upstanding gets you nowhere in AmeriKa these days...just ask Ron.

 

[donnay]

Gullible idiot Here. Actually, I would like to look at it more like optimistic rather than gullible. Lots of negative nay-bobs who are quite gullible to the fake news too.

I pray our country heals and the truth come to light.