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Mises Institute, October 7, 2022\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

Julian Assange and Our Impunity Democracy<\/a><\/h2>\n
by James Bovard<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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On Saturday, protests supporting Julian Assange will occur around the world. In London, Assange supporters will link arms around the parliament building. Protests will also occur outside the Justice Department headquarters in Washington (I\u2019ll be one of the speakers), D.C., and in San Francisco, Tulsa, Denver, and Seattle, as well as in Australia.<\/p>\n

Four years ago, I wrote a USA Today<\/em> column<\/a> calling for Assange to receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom. My piece failed to sway the Trump White House and the Biden administration has taken up the prosecution of one of the most important truth tellers of this century. Assange has been locked away for years in a maximum-security prison in Britain. He is facing extradition to face 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act for disclosing classified information. If the Brits deliver Assange to the U.S. government, he has almost no chance for a fair trial because of how prosecutions are rigged in federal court.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The last four years have revealed why activists like Assange, who has been held for years in a maximum-security British prison, are vital to any hope of making rulers accountable to the citizenry. Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned in 1967, \u201cNothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.\u201d At this point, America is an Impunity Democracy in which government officials pay no price for their abuses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assange was targeted by the U.S. government after his organization, Wikileaks, disclosed tens of thousands of documents and some videos exposing crimes committed by the U.S. military against Afghan and Iraqi civilians. A 2010 Christian Science Monitor<\/em> report on the leak noted that it was \u201cunclear how Americans might react to revelations about apparent indiscriminate killing of Afghan civilians\u201d by American forces. But the Monitor<\/em> headline captured the verdict in Washington: \u201cCongress’s response to WikiLeaks<\/a>: shoot the messenger.\u201d Vice President Joe Biden denounced Assange as a \u201chigh-tech terrorist<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Federal agencies could not prove that any of the information that Wikileaks released was false. At the court martial of former Army Corporal Bradley Manning, who leaked the documents, prosecutors failed to show that any information Wikileaks disclosed had led to the death of a single person<\/a> in Afghanistan or Iraq. That conclusion was re-confirmed by a 2017 investigation by PolitiFact<\/a>. Even Biden admitted in 2010 that \u201cI don’t think there’s any substantive<\/a> damage\u201d from the Wikileaks revelations.\u201d But Assange was guilty of violating the U.S. government\u2019s divine right to blindfold the American people.<\/p>\n

Washington policymakers damned Assange and expanded the role of the U.S. military in the Afghan conflict. Atrocities continued, helping turn the Afghan people against the U.S. military and a Kabul government that was seen as a Washington puppet. When the Afghan military collapsed like a house of cards in 2021, Washington policymakers were stunned at the Taliban\u2019s lightning triumph. But they were shocked simply because they had ignored the truths that Wikileaks revealed.<\/p>\n

When the federal indictment against Assange was announced in 2019, a New York Times<\/em> editorial declared that it was \u201caimed straight at the heart of the First Amendment\u201d and would have a \u201cchilling effect<\/a> on American journalism as it has been practiced for generations.\u201d Unfortunately, Americans and foreigners continue to suffer because of the perennial cover-ups of U.S. foreign interventions.<\/p>\n

After Britain arrested Assange on behalf of the U.S. government in 2019, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) whooped that Assange “is our property<\/a> and we can get the facts and the truth from him.”<\/p>\n

But Manchin had no recommendations on how Americans can \u201cget the facts and the truth\u201d from the federal government. Biden has ramped up U.S. bombings in Somalia: who exactly are we killing? It is a secret. Which Syrian terrorist groups are the U.S. government still bankrolling? It\u2019s a secret. Why is the U.S. continuing to assist Saudi atrocities against Yemeni civilians? It\u2019s a secret.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the biggest and most dangerous secret operation on the horizon right now – the U.S. intervention in the Russia-Ukraine war. Folks can condemn Russia and support Ukraine without believing that Washington policymakers deserve a blank check to potentially drag America into a nuclear war. Are CIA analysts or Pentagon officials issuing warnings about U.S. government actions in this conflict could lead to a spiral that ends in catastrophe? Unfortunately, Americans won\u2019t learn of any such memos until damage has been done. And if a disaster occurs, then we\u2019ll see the same sham that occurred after the Iraq War<\/a> \u2013 some Senate Committee blathering that no one is to blame because everyone in Washington was a victim of \u201cgroup think.\u201d<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors stress that Assange leaked \u201cclassified\u201d information. But federal agencies are creating trillions of pages <\/a>of new \u201cclassified\u2019 secrets each year. Yet, any information which is classified is treated like a political holy relic that cannot be exposed without cursing the nation.<\/p>\n

Pervasive secrecy helps explain the collapse of trust in Washington. Americans today are more likely to believe in witches, ghosts, and astrology than to trust the federal government<\/strong>. Adding Assange\u2019s scalp to the Justice Department\u2019s trophy wall will do nothing to end the mistrust of the political ruling class that has dragged America into so many debacles.<\/p>\n

Assange is guilty of lese-majeste<\/em> – embarrassing the government by exposing their follies, frauds, and crimes. Assange declared years ago, \u201cIf wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.\u201d<\/strong> Dropping the charges against Assange is the best way for the Biden administration to prove it is serious about ending excessive secrecy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Author: James Bovard<\/a><\/div>\n
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James Bovard is the author of ten books, including 2012\u2019s Public Policy Hooligan<\/em>, and 2006\u2019s Attention Deficit Democracy<\/em>. He has written for the New York Times<\/em>, Wall Street Journal<\/em>, Playboy<\/em>, Washington Post<\/em>, and many other publications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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