Julian Assange Case: Key Witness recruited by US authorities admits He Lied
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Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson admitted to an Icelandic newspaper that he lied about being asked to hack computers in order to get immunity and misrepresented his ties with the Wikileaks founder.
the witness, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, “has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud”. He was recruited by US authorities in order to build a case against Assange, and misled them into believing he was a close associate of the Wikileaks founder. In reality, however, he had only “volunteered on a limited basis to raise money for Wikileaks in 2010 but was found to have used that opportunity to embezzle more than $50,000 from the organisation”, the Icelandic newspaper reports.
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Honestly if America wants Assange we demand Anna Sacoolas in return to face justice. But considering that she already got her sentence and it’s a pitiful one, I would say fuck it, release Assange and give US the middle finger.
Reuters kept asking for the footage they knew the Pentagon had about the deaths of two of their employees, while the Pentagon only lied and stonewalled for years.
The absurd part about all of this is that even if Assange would be released to freedom right now, they still got what they wanted. To destroy a whistle blowers life and send a message to all jounalists to never expose our lies or war crimes.
The “collateral murder” video didn’t just depict a massacre, it also depicted the killing of two Reuters employees by the US military. Something that happened incredibly often in Iraq and Afghanistan, at the hands of US forces regularly explicitley targeting media and press outlets.
With Assange they have proven that they will silence journalists they can’t bomb and kill in war zones, a very powerful chilling example for anybody else who might dare to call out the US.
Proof they were trying to Frame Assange as far back as 2011
Icelandic Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson
According to Mr Jónasson, during this process, he had been informed that the FBI showed up in Reykjavik with the aim of framing Julian Assange.
The U.S. indictment against Assange stems from WikiLeaks’ publication in 2010 and 2011 of hundreds of thousands of U.S. military reports about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as American diplomatic communications. The material was originally leaked to WikiLeaks by former Army analyst Chelsea Manning.
These leaks exposed kidnapping, torture and the murder of civilians and journalists. Mass illegal activitys including spying on all Americans and their allies.
The indictment includes one count of conspiracy to hack a computer to disclose classified information that “could be used to injure” the U.S. According to the indictment, Assange “conspired” with Manning by helping her crack a Defense Department computer password in March 2010 that provided access to a U.S. government network that stored classified information and communications. There is no proof he did.
>Edward Snowden revelations: GCHQ ‘using online viruses and honey traps to discredit targets’ (journalists, whistleblowers, politicians)
>Documents released by the American former CIA employee claim that the agency is at the forefront of efforts to develop “offensive” online techniques, (bot farms)
>Britain’s GCHQ has a covert unit which uses dirty tricks from “honey trap” sexual liaisons to texting anonymous messages to friends and neighbours to discredit targets from hackers to governments, according to the latest leaks from whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The Swedish Authority’s emailed the CPS to drop the case in 2012. The CPS told them. “NO don’t get cold feet”
The Swedish Authority’s Emailed the CPS in 2011 saying they wanted to Interview him in Britain. The CPS said No, don’t interview him in Britain.
The CPS also told the Swedish Authority’s “Don’t think this is just any ordinary extradition case”
After more freedom of information requests were made the CPS deleted all their emails against their own protocol. This only came out because Sweden didn’t delete all theirs.
Swedish CHIEF prosecutor, Eva Finné, assessed the evidence and said no crime was committed. It was picked up later by a lesser prosecutor who went after Assange with their own investigation. Despite this they even wanted to drop the case in 2012/13 as Emails to the CPS show from Swedish authority’s. See below sources.
>**The first allegation against 39-year-old Julian Assange, concerning the more serious charge of rape was dismissed already on Saturday. Finné has now also dismissed suspicions of molestation in this case.**
Eva Finné stressed that this does not mean that she doubts the veracity of the woman’s account.
**”But the content of the interview does not support the contention that a crime has been committed,” Finné said. The preliminary investigation in this case has thus been closed.**
>**On August 21 Swedish chief prosecutor, Eva Finné, assessed the evidence and cancelled the arrest warrant against Assange, saying that she did not doubt the veracity of SW’s account but “the content of the interview does not support the contention that a crime has been committed.”Finné determined that there was no crime committed against SW
As you can see the Chief prosecutor who originally evaluated the case at the beginning said no crime had been committed and even after that the Swedish Authority’s wanted this all dropped as early as 2012.
The CPS/Crown Prosecution Service were the ones telling them “NO Don’t get Cold feet!” and telling them “NOT to question Assange in Britain!.” “They also told them this isn’t just another extradition.” The Emails prove that but conveniently the CPS deleted the rest of the emails when more freedom of information requests were made. See below.
>The Swedish investigator refused to question Assange in the UK for years, **Swedish prosecutors had decided to quietly drop the case against him in 2015. Sweden had kept the decision under wraps for more than two years. They original wanted to drop it in 2013.**
>The newly-released emails show that the Swedish authorities were eager to give up the case four years before they formally abandoned proceedings in 2017 and that the British CPS dissuaded them from doing so.
>Some of the material has surfaced from an information tribunal challenge brought late last year by the Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi.
>**The CPS lawyer handling the case, who has since retired, commented on an article which suggested that Sweden could drop the case in August 2012. He wrote: “Don’t you dare get cold feet!!!”.**
>**At the beginning of the legal battle over Assange in 2011, the CPS advised Swedish prosecutors not to interview him in Britain, but they eventually did.** *the Embassy refused access to Assange’s lawyer for the questioning something he has every right too*
>In another freedom of information request it was shown that the FBI contacted the Swedish prosecutor
>The CPS lawyer also told Ny that year: “It is simply amazing how much work this case is generating. It sometimes seems like an industry. **Please do not think this case is being dealt with as just another extradition.”**
>The CPS has been inconsistent in declaring whether or not the case was live. In dismissing a personal data request by him in April 2013, the CPS wrote that they could not release anything “because of the live matters still pending”.
>But when **explaining the deletion of emails about the case in 2014, after the CPS official who had been corresponding with Ny retired, it was defended on the grounds that: “The case was, therefore, not live when the email account was deleted.”**
You can say what you want about assanges charactor but its clear from all the freedom of information requests he was setup, stitched up and the entire case against him is rigged. The CPS judge use to work for MI5 and has been completly biased throughout the case.
This is about freedom of the press of which has been destroyed over last 15 years The editer of the guardian is on record as saying that they can no longer publish the same articles as they did in the past as they would end up prosercuted with no recourse to defend themselves. The huge leaks of the past can’t happen under current laws.
Press freedom has drasitically dropped across all countries over last 15 years. We might not be as bad as some despot countries but we are gradully getting worse and give it another decade or two and freedom of the press will be nothing more then a memory. It will all be Government approved articles ONLY, whistleblowers placed on “do not interview lists” leaked information all be blocked with newspapers not allowed to report on it and all independant news shunned or called propaganda.
30 news organisations condemn ‘chilling’ police raid on Kansas newspaper
Just look at all the whistleblowers and investigative journalists who have been persecuted over last 15 years with a number of them fearing for their lives.
Not the right to not be deported the right to *challenge* deportation that’s how bad things really are.
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Reddit 2015 – Julian is the bravest journalist
Reddit 2016 : “He needs to be punished for publishing a leak that showed Hillary in a bad light”
I didn’t even realise he was still kicking about here. I thought we’d papped him out way back when he was flinging jobbies around that embassy.
https://thewire.in/rights/julian-assange-case-key-witness-lied
Julian Assange Case: Key Witness recruited by US authorities admits He Lied
—
Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson admitted to an Icelandic newspaper that he lied about being asked to hack computers in order to get immunity and misrepresented his ties with the Wikileaks founder.
the witness, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, “has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud”. He was recruited by US authorities in order to build a case against Assange, and misled them into believing he was a close associate of the Wikileaks founder. In reality, however, he had only “volunteered on a limited basis to raise money for Wikileaks in 2010 but was found to have used that opportunity to embezzle more than $50,000 from the organisation”, the Icelandic newspaper reports.
—-
Honestly if America wants Assange we demand Anna Sacoolas in return to face justice. But considering that she already got her sentence and it’s a pitiful one, I would say fuck it, release Assange and give US the middle finger.
Reuters kept asking for the footage they knew the Pentagon had about the deaths of two of their employees, while the Pentagon only lied and stonewalled for years.
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL05399965/
If it wasn’t for Wikileaks leaking the video the truth about that war crime would never have come out.
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6344FW/
The absurd part about all of this is that even if Assange would be released to freedom right now, they still got what they wanted. To destroy a whistle blowers life and send a message to all jounalists to never expose our lies or war crimes.
The “collateral murder” video didn’t just depict a massacre, it also depicted the killing of two Reuters employees by the US military. Something that happened incredibly often in Iraq and Afghanistan, at the hands of US forces regularly explicitley targeting media and press outlets.
With Assange they have proven that they will silence journalists they can’t bomb and kill in war zones, a very powerful chilling example for anybody else who might dare to call out the US.
https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/the-fbi-tried-to-make-iceland-a-complicit-ally-in-framing-julian-assange,13277
Proof they were trying to Frame Assange as far back as 2011
Icelandic Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson
According to Mr Jónasson, during this process, he had been informed that the FBI showed up in Reykjavik with the aim of framing Julian Assange.
The U.S. indictment against Assange stems from WikiLeaks’ publication in 2010 and 2011 of hundreds of thousands of U.S. military reports about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as American diplomatic communications. The material was originally leaked to WikiLeaks by former Army analyst Chelsea Manning.
These leaks exposed kidnapping, torture and the murder of civilians and journalists. Mass illegal activitys including spying on all Americans and their allies.
The indictment includes one count of conspiracy to hack a computer to disclose classified information that “could be used to injure” the U.S. According to the indictment, Assange “conspired” with Manning by helping her crack a Defense Department computer password in March 2010 that provided access to a U.S. government network that stored classified information and communications. There is no proof he did.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/edward-snowden-revelations-gchq-using-online-viruses-and-honey-traps-to-discredit-targets-9117683.html
>Edward Snowden revelations: GCHQ ‘using online viruses and honey traps to discredit targets’ (journalists, whistleblowers, politicians)
>Documents released by the American former CIA employee claim that the agency is at the forefront of efforts to develop “offensive” online techniques, (bot farms)
>Britain’s GCHQ has a covert unit which uses dirty tricks from “honey trap” sexual liaisons to texting anonymous messages to friends and neighbours to discredit targets from hackers to governments, according to the latest leaks from whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The Swedish Authority’s emailed the CPS to drop the case in 2012. The CPS told them. “NO don’t get cold feet”
The Swedish Authority’s Emailed the CPS in 2011 saying they wanted to Interview him in Britain. The CPS said No, don’t interview him in Britain.
The CPS also told the Swedish Authority’s “Don’t think this is just any ordinary extradition case”
After more freedom of information requests were made the CPS deleted all their emails against their own protocol. This only came out because Sweden didn’t delete all theirs.
Swedish CHIEF prosecutor, Eva Finné, assessed the evidence and said no crime was committed. It was picked up later by a lesser prosecutor who went after Assange with their own investigation. Despite this they even wanted to drop the case in 2012/13 as Emails to the CPS show from Swedish authority’s. See below sources.
https://www.thelocal.se/20100825/28574
>**The first allegation against 39-year-old Julian Assange, concerning the more serious charge of rape was dismissed already on Saturday. Finné has now also dismissed suspicions of molestation in this case.**
Eva Finné stressed that this does not mean that she doubts the veracity of the woman’s account.
**”But the content of the interview does not support the contention that a crime has been committed,” Finné said. The preliminary investigation in this case has thus been closed.**
https://www.businessinsider.com/theres-something-fishy-about-the-swedish-case-against-julian-assange-2012-4?r=US&IR=T
>**On August 21 Swedish chief prosecutor, Eva Finné, assessed the evidence and cancelled the arrest warrant against Assange, saying that she did not doubt the veracity of SW’s account but “the content of the interview does not support the contention that a crime has been committed.”Finné determined that there was no crime committed against SW
As you can see the Chief prosecutor who originally evaluated the case at the beginning said no crime had been committed and even after that the Swedish Authority’s wanted this all dropped as early as 2012.
The CPS/Crown Prosecution Service were the ones telling them “NO Don’t get Cold feet!” and telling them “NOT to question Assange in Britain!.” “They also told them this isn’t just another extradition.” The Emails prove that but conveniently the CPS deleted the rest of the emails when more freedom of information requests were made. See below.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/11/sweden-tried-to-drop-assange-extradition-in-2013-cps-emails-show
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-lawyers-lobbied-swedes-to-press-on-with-assange-extradition-d58tgsndg
>The Swedish investigator refused to question Assange in the UK for years, **Swedish prosecutors had decided to quietly drop the case against him in 2015. Sweden had kept the decision under wraps for more than two years. They original wanted to drop it in 2013.**
>The newly-released emails show that the Swedish authorities were eager to give up the case four years before they formally abandoned proceedings in 2017 and that the British CPS dissuaded them from doing so.
>Some of the material has surfaced from an information tribunal challenge brought late last year by the Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi.
>**The CPS lawyer handling the case, who has since retired, commented on an article which suggested that Sweden could drop the case in August 2012. He wrote: “Don’t you dare get cold feet!!!”.**
>**At the beginning of the legal battle over Assange in 2011, the CPS advised Swedish prosecutors not to interview him in Britain, but they eventually did.** *the Embassy refused access to Assange’s lawyer for the questioning something he has every right too*
>In another freedom of information request it was shown that the FBI contacted the Swedish prosecutor
>The CPS lawyer also told Ny that year: “It is simply amazing how much work this case is generating. It sometimes seems like an industry. **Please do not think this case is being dealt with as just another extradition.”**
>The CPS has been inconsistent in declaring whether or not the case was live. In dismissing a personal data request by him in April 2013, the CPS wrote that they could not release anything “because of the live matters still pending”.
>But when **explaining the deletion of emails about the case in 2014, after the CPS official who had been corresponding with Ny retired, it was defended on the grounds that: “The case was, therefore, not live when the email account was deleted.”**
You can say what you want about assanges charactor but its clear from all the freedom of information requests he was setup, stitched up and the entire case against him is rigged. The CPS judge use to work for MI5 and has been completly biased throughout the case.
This is about freedom of the press of which has been destroyed over last 15 years The editer of the guardian is on record as saying that they can no longer publish the same articles as they did in the past as they would end up prosercuted with no recourse to defend themselves. The huge leaks of the past can’t happen under current laws.
Press freedom has drasitically dropped across all countries over last 15 years. We might not be as bad as some despot countries but we are gradully getting worse and give it another decade or two and freedom of the press will be nothing more then a memory. It will all be Government approved articles ONLY, whistleblowers placed on “do not interview lists” leaked information all be blocked with newspapers not allowed to report on it and all independant news shunned or called propaganda.
https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/19/4638202/uk-officials-destroy-guardian-hard-drives-in-misguided-effort-to-stop
UK officials destroy Guardian hard drives in misguided effort to stop Snowden stories
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/01/edward-snowden-gchq-visit-guardian-destroy-computers
The day GCHQ came to call on the Guardian
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/kansas-newspaper-raid/
30 news organisations condemn ‘chilling’ police raid on Kansas newspaper
Just look at all the whistleblowers and investigative journalists who have been persecuted over last 15 years with a number of them fearing for their lives.
Not the right to not be deported the right to *challenge* deportation that’s how bad things really are.