• randon31415@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    How many years would his prison sentence have been if he was extradided the year he fled to the embassy? I feel like he would have been out by now. Wasn’t he leaking early Iraq war corruption stuff? That was 20 years ago.

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      5 months ago

      He didn’t leak, he published.

      That’s what’s so concerning about the case. The USA tried to persecute an Australian citizen working out of the EU for publishing information.

      If precedent was set they could kidnap anyone from sovereign countries based on US law

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Isn’t it great that a man who exposed governmental corruption and war crimes faced a harsher persecution and punishment than the corrupt governments and war criminals themselves?

    Democracy™️