Julian Assange has been dying in detention for over a decade, now in the horrid and terrible Belmarsh Prison, where access is too often limited.
His crime? Publishing the details (a cockpit video) of how US military were shooting recklessly on Iraqi civilians.
That means, he was publishing what the public needed to know, and getting it from a whistleblower (Chelsea Manning).
Both are heroes to any reasonable thinking people! Just not to fascist governments...
Well, now we have a new case of much information being released (and often little discussed by the media) showing basically that US Officials were lying to us about the War in Ukraine.
They were lying to us about Ukraine winning, about the extent of Russian casualties, involvement of US assets, and many other things.
I'm doubtful of whether the Air National Guardsman of current interest was the origin (but perhaps he could get access to them as a security technician...like Snowden for example...though Snowden was an NSA contractor not military). Otherwise the CIA documents would not have been available to him. They may have come from someone higher up. In any case, what we have is not a security breach of information that needed to be secret. It looks like information the public should have known. It looks like whistleblowing. And it's no wonder therefore that the media focuses on the 'perpetrator of the leak' rather than the damning (to "US Officials") contents.
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