[lbo-talk] McClatchy Newspapers: Tying Assange to Manning won'tbeeasy

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Sat Dec 11 18:47:33 PST 2010


On Dec 11, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:


> Chuck Grimes writes:
>
>> damage to US national security isn't against the law.
>
> Consult a lawyer before you try something like this, but AFAIK the
> Espionage Act of 1917 (which SCOTUS has affirmed does not infringe
> the 1st Ammendment) does probably apply to this kind of thing. In
> this particular case, it will probably be difficult to make the
> charge stick; the best coverage I've seen of this is here:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/03/AR2010120303267.html
>
> But that doesn't mean it isn't illegal, and it certainly doesn't
> mean that people haven't been convicted and imprisoned for violating
> that law.

Speculation about "conviction" is totally beside the point. Extradition and prosecution is the punishment they want: imprisonment for years during pre-trial, trial, retrials, and then (if by mischance an acquittal) imprisonment for life in Guantanamo as an illegal alien suspected of terrorism.

Shane Mage "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64



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