Re: Interview with Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson Archived Message
Posted by brooks on May 5, 2019, 12:58 pm, in reply to "Interview with Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson"
Great interview. I thought this was interesting, especially in light of the Assange article on the merging of Google with US state power: Hrafnsson: Google took it to court that they were forced by a secret U.S. court to hand over data from me and others on the WikiLeaks team to an investigating U.S. secret court. Google won the right to inform us. So, Sarah Harrison, Joseph Farrell and I were informed in December 2014 that our mails were seized because of a grand jury investigating us in an espionage case. Because Google and the US security state are partners and were in 2014, I wonder if informing Hrafnsson and his colleagues about this was actually a state-sanctioned act of intimidation. re Hrafnsson: I would say this in general terms: If the devil himself offered me truthful information about corruption in the Kingdom of Heaven, I would publish it. That's journalistic duty. that's just unacceptable by the standards of western "journalism" whose votaries see their role in the world more like this: Thomas Friedman: I would say this in general terms: If the devil himself asked me to lie constantly in defense of the worst crimes that ever defiled the earth and suck his cock every night into the bargain in exchange for a prestigious job and a good salary I would do it.
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