Could Julian Assange Be Classified As A Terrorist?

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Follow the MONEY bet it's Soros

[tombogan03884]

Follow the MONEY bet it's Soros

Russia, any thing to cause embarrassment or damage to the "Main Adversary".

[WatchManUSA]

He can't be a terrorist, I doubt he is a conservative or owns guns.  As to his religious beliefs I can't say.

[TAB]

The guy that gave him the information can be charged under a variety of charges, violating his security clearance, divulging classified information etc, etc. He will not be charged with "treason any more than the Walkers, Aldritch Ames, Jonathan Pollard or Robert Hansonn. As to Assange, he doesn't come under US law since he isn't a citizen, nor did he act on US soil. And I'm not sure he comes under any of the espionage laws since he was not working for another Govt. nor did he transfer the information specifically to another Govt.
About the only thing he is guilty of is receiving stolen property.
He is not a terrorist as he has not engaged in any violent action or advocated violence, who ever mentioned "Diplomatic Trust" is naive and severely uninformed, the whole purpose of diplomacy is to BS other countries into acting the way you want and if there were any "trust" involved countries would not need Intelligence services.
I'm not even convinced this latest release was a bad thing.

tom read my post.  they can charge him, but I doubt they will.

[Timothy]

Manning SHOULD hang!  Whether he does is another matter. 

The damage Assange and his site have initiated may be negligible.  The larger problem is stopping further release of more sensitive information from other sources within the purview of the massive stupidity of our current administration.

Berkley was planning a ceremony to honor the traitor Manning.  Don't know if that actually happened.  Considering we have a communist, socialist, mamby pamby, dipshit Attorney General, I doubt anyone is gonna see any time.

"the only way two people can keep a secret is to SHOOT one of them!"

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[tombogan03884]

tom read my post.  they can charge him, but I doubt they will.

Not to be rude (this time    ) I read your post, it the 1917 act I didn't bother with.
Tim got it right considering what a sieve Congress is.


"the only way two people can keep a secret is to SHOOT one both of them!"
FIFY  

[TAB]

basicly what it says, anyone that gives info/false info to the enemy or has intent to harm the miltary by thier actions,  you can get you the death pentality or up to 30 years in jail.
now there is a bunch more too it and the amendments to it added other things, but thats the important part here.

[tombogan03884]

The last time any one was executed under that act was the German spies landed on Long Island during WWII.

[kmitch200]

The last time any one was executed under that act was the German spies landed on Long Island during WWII.

Tom, you forgot the Rosenbergs in '53.

This from Wikipedia: (consider the source as always)

The New York Times of course wrote:   "The Rosenbergs case still haunts American history, reminding us of the injustice that can be done when a nation gets caught up in hysteria."

The other atomic spies that were caught by the FBI offered confessions and were not executed. Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, who supplied documents to Julius from Los Alamos, served 10 years of his 15 year sentence. Harry Gold, who identified Greenglass, served 15 years in Federal prison as the courier for Greenglass and the British scientist, Klaus Fuchs. Morton Sobell, who was tried with the Rosenbergs, served 17 years and 9 months. In 2008, Sobell admitted he was a spy and confirmed Julius Rosenberg was "in a conspiracy that delivered to the Soviets classified military and industrial information and what the American government described as the secret to the atomic bomb."

Hysteria? They were friigging' SPIES!

[tombogan03884]

Mitch, You are right that I forgot about them, and I should be slapped for it since I'm the one who always mentions that Julius's KGB code name was "liberal".

I've found Wikipedia is usually pretty accurate .