Re: Assange: mitigation document Archived Message Posted by margo on August 27, 2019, 10:53 am, in reply to "Re: Assange: mitigation document" As you say, Alan, the American authorities now own all that blackmail info directly (if they didn't have most of it before). As Assange's one-time American lawyer Weiner said a couple of years ago, (paraphrased) "The Americans want the photo-op of a manacled Assange being brought off a flight into the US". Journalist Stephania Maurizi explained at her Bergen talk last week that the reason they're so keen on that photo-op is that ... it will work as a domestic deterrent ('encouragez les autres') to warn off four to five-million American security agency staff who have security clearance - and who could potentially turn into hundreds of "Mannings" and "Snowdens". Message Thread: Assange: mitigation document - margo August 26, 2019, 9:51 pm Re: Assange: mitigation document - AlanG August 27, 2019, 10:07 am Re: Assange: mitigation document - margo August 27, 2019, 10:53 am   Searching